FOR YOUNG SCOTS
AESOP, et al. [George STEWART, editor].
Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et Luciani Samosatensis dialogi. Isocratis orationes duae, ad Demonicum et Nicoclem. Cebetis Thebani tabula. Graece & Latine. In usum juventutis Scoticae Graecarum literarum studiosae.
Edinburgh, Tho. Ruddiman for George Stewart, 1723.
8vo, pp. iv, 64; 227, [1]; woodcut head- and tailpieces; Greek and Latin partly on facing pages; a very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, spine neatly restored, corners bumped, later morocco spine label; ownership and gift inscription to front endpaper ‘Georg Perrott’s Book 1755 / December 15th d. data a R. Y.’; modern armorial bookplate of Denis Gibbs.
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Selectiores Aesopi Phrygis fabulae, et Luciani Samosatensis dialogi. Isocratis orationes duae, ad Demonicum et Nicoclem. Cebetis Thebani tabula. Graece & Latine. In usum juventutis Scoticae Graecarum literarum studiosae.
First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish school textbook comprising selections in Greek and Latin from Aesop’s Fables, Lucian’s Dialogues, the orations of Isocrates, and the Tablet of Cebes.
The George Perrott who owned, and gifted, this copy was perhaps the Yorkshire-born lawyer of that name (d. 1806), who became judge of the Court of Exchequer in 1763, pipping Blackstone to the post.
ESTC T83889, recording six copies in the UK and two in the US (UCLA and Virginia).
