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001 $ 04/3628
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng $h grc
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Euripides
240 1 1 $a [Works. $l English. $s Potter.]
245 1 4 $a The Tragedies Of Euripides; Translated By R. Potter. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (II.)
260 # # $a London, $b Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme, Cuthell and Martin, J. Priestley; $b And R. Bliss, And R. Bliss, Jun. $a Oxford. $c 1808.
300 # # $a 2 vols.; $c 209 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Vol. I: [vi], 507 p. - Vol. II: xvii, [i], 499 p.
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text]; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - Preface [1781] - [Text]; [colophon].
508 # # $a The name of the printer, Nathaniel Bliss, is given in both colophons.
520 2 # $a Volume I contains Potter's verse translations of The Bacchæ, Ion, Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Phoenician Virgins, The Supplicants, Hercules, The Heraclidæ; Volume II, Iphigenia in Aulis, Rhesus, The Trojan Dames, Hecuba, Helena, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia in Tauris, Andromache.
561 # # $a 5 March 1810: Purchase agreed on recommendation of John Flaxman (see RA Council Minutes, IV, 199-200). A copy was acquired by 1815 - see Thomas Stothard's MS. 'Catalogue of the RA Library', shelf B.2.5. [RAA MIS/ ST/1]. Sometime after 1821 however this copy went missing (see the RA Secretary's master copy of the 1821 printed catalogue) and was replaced by the present copy purchased for 6s. on 23 January 1840 (see RA Council Minutes, IX, 96).
562 # # $a Imperfect; wants half-title of Vol. II. The divisional title-page of the Bacchae, which should be p. [v] of Vol. I, has been bound in in error before that of the Iphigenia in Aulis in Volume II.

Inscribed in ink on half-title of Volume I, 'Prize book adjudged to John Daintry Decr. 1811 M.M. Preston'.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, brown paper-covered boards, black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Euripides', spines lettered 'R. Potter I. (II.)'.
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek
655 # 0 $a Greek drama - Greece
655 # 0 $a English drama - Translations from Greek - Translations into English - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Bliss $e printer
700 1 # $a Potter $e translator
700 1 # $a Cuthell $e publisher
700 1 # $a Priestley $e publisher
700 1 # $a Bliss $e publisher
700 1 # $a Bliss $e publisher
700 1 # $a Daintry $e previous owner
710 2 # $a Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme $e publisher
710 2 # $a Cuthell and Martin $e publisher
852 8 # $d 1821: J-2-03.