Author: Yorke, Philip and Charles.
Title: LETTRES ATHÉNIENNES, ou Correspondance d’un Agent du Roi de Perse, a Athènes, Pendant la Guerre du Péloponèse; Traduites de l’anglais by Alexandre-Louis Villeterque.
Description: Paris, Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire ..., 1803. 4 vols. in 2. Half titles present. Folding map, 12 engraved plates. Stain to prelims and text upto pp.20. Several index leaves and half title to vol. 2. with marginal loss, light browning, tightly rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered labels to lightly faded and spotted spines. ¶ The Athenian Letters was a collaborative work of Ancient Greek history and geography, published by a circle of authors around Charles Yorke and Philip Yorke, and taking the form of commentary in letter form on Thucidydes. It had a "considerable vogue". Others involved, anonymously, were Thomas Birch, Henry Coventry, John Green, Samuel Salter, Catherine Talbot, Daniel Wray, George Henry Rooke, John Heaton, John Lawry, and William Heberden. The authorship was for a long time a well-guarded secret. A one-volume edition in 1781 ran to 100 copies, the first edition having been only 10, and later editions and the above French translation followed.

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