The printer is named on the half-title and in the colophon: 'N. Bliss, Printer, (Oxford)'.
The translator's dedication to Mrs. Montagu (1778) is reprinted here.
Summary Note
Potter's translation of Aeschylus's verse dramas was first published in 1777, and with notes in 1778; and the present publication reprints the Preface with the date of 1777 and the dedication with the date of 1778.
The collection consists of verse translations of Prometheus Chain'd; The Supplicants; The Seven Chiefs Against Thebes; Agamemnon; The Choephoræ; The Furies; The Persians. The plays will have provided subjects suitable for history-paintings.
Potter afterwards published translations of Pindar, Euripides and Sophocles.
Provenance
5 March 1810: Purchase agreed on recommendation of John Flaxman (see RA Council Minutes IV, 199-200). Acquired by 1815 - see Thomas Stothard's MS. 'Catalogue of the RA Library', shelf B.2.6. [RAA MIS/ ST/1].
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Tragedies Of Aeschylus', spine lettered '1808'.
Subject
Mythology, Greek
Greeks - Persians - Greece - Salamis - Iran - History - 5th century B.C.
Greek drama - Greek poetry - Greece
Translations from Greek - Translations into English - English drama - 18th century - Great Britain - 19th century