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ALCIPHRON. - Alciphron's Epistles; in which are described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece. Now first Translated from the Greek [by William Beloe and Thomas Monroe].
London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Leigh and Sotheby; and R. Faulder, 1791. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 8vo, 213 x 124, pp. [iv], 270, with errata on verso of half-title, contemporary calf; joints cracked (but holding), corners worn, spine slightly dried, top and base of spine chipped. With the armorial bookplate of Hutches Trower on the front paste-down end-paper and in a contemporary hand on the recto of the front free end-paper, transcription of part of the review that appeared in November, 1791, in the Critical Review; and ms notes in a later hand in pencil in the text and on the verso of one of the rear free end-papers. Of the two translators, Beloe is a good deal better known than Monroe, which might account for the preface's being written in the first person singular. Both male and female vanity seem to have attracted Alciphron's gift for satiric hyperbole; one of the courtesans writes to her lover, "Thus, it is a common artifice among coutezans to govern their followers by inspiring them with hopes, and ever deferring their gratification; but with you such conduct would be absurd, for I do not fear your being satiated."
GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 321.75 US$ 344.73 | JP¥ 53645] Booknumber: 7190
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GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 321.75 US$ 344.73 | JP¥ 53645] Booknumber: 7190
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