Author: PLATO.
Title: [Greek title]. Platonos Dialogoi 5. Recensuit, Notisque illustravit Nath. Forster, A. M. C. C. C. Socius. Edition Tertia.
Description: Oxonii E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Impensis Jac. Fletcher Bibliopolae. 1765. 8vo (in 4s), 204 x 126 mms., pp. [viii], 400 [401 - 420 Index], contemporary calf, red morocco label, spine gilt in compartments (but faded and rubbed); some slight wear to binding, but a very good copy. The scholar Nathaniel Forster (1718 - 1757) was the nephew of Matthew Tindal, author of Christianity as Old as the Creation. He attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and graduated with four degrees: BA (1735), MA (1739), BD (1746), and DD (1750). First published in 1745, his edition of Plato was very popular. The work contains "Erastai," "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and "Phaedo," but the first item is not by Plato. Forster also published the first Hebrew Bible in Britain in1750. In the same year, same year he became Bishop Joseph Butler's domestic chaplain on his translation from Bristol to Durham. Butler, who appointed him executor of his estate and bequeathed £200 to him.

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