August 22, 2007

Item of the Day: The Epistles of Phalaris (1749)

Full Title: The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin. London: Printed for R. Francklin, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCXLIX.
THE
PREFACE.
THERE is no kind of writing, which can boast of more admirers than the epistolary. The letters of the Greeks [...]