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The Frogs, a Comedy. Translated from the Greek of Aristophanes, by C[harles] Dunster, A.M …

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First edition in English, and the only separately published translation of The Frogs in the eighteenth century. ‘It is … somewhat surprising that in an age so studious of ancient literature as the present, and which so much abounds in translations of the Greek and Latin classics, we have versions of only two of [Aristophanes’] comedies’ (Preface).

ESTC T40259.

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