OLYMPIA.
Glasguae (Glasgow), Scotland: R. & A. Foulis, 1754. miniature book (7.8 by 5.0 cm.). original vellum boards, spine gilt-stamped with title and decorations, all edges gilt. (ii), 158 pages. Gaskell 274; Brunet IV, 660; Spielmann 413; Bondy 23-4. Text in Greek. Ex editione Oxoniensi. Between 1754 and 1758, Foulis published miniature versions, four volumes in three, of Pindar's Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, and Isthmia. This volume is the first. Gaskell notes that Volumes III and IV "normally bound up together." Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE
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