Lysias & Isocrates (John Gillies trans.):: The Orations of Lysias and Isocrates, Translated from the Greek; With Some Account of Their Lives; And A Discourse on the History, Manners, and Character of the Greeks, from the Conclusions of the Peloponnesian War, to the Battle of Chaeronea. By John Gillies, LL.D

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Lysias & Isocrates (John Gillies trans.): : The Orations of Lysias and Isocrates, Translated from the Greek; With Some Account of Their Lives; And A Discourse on the History, Manners, and Character of the Greeks, from the Conclusions of the Peloponnesian War, to the Battle of Chaeronea. By John Gillies, LL.D

4to. pp. [xxxvi], cxxxv, [i] blank, 498, [ii] errata & blank. First edition, lacks the two portraits. Contemporary calf, some wear, rebacked and corners renewed.

John Gillies (1747-1836) succeeded William Robertson as royal historiographer for Scotland in 1794. The present work was his first substantial publication, and he is best remembered for a hsitory of Greece published in 1786 which ran into numerous editions and was translated into French and German. W. Zachs, The First John Murray (1998), no. 193.

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