Set Reminder2023-08-17 12:00:002023-08-17 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/firsts-the-library-of-robin-and-kathryn-smiley-21926 We are pleased to announce the sale of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine's co-Publishers and Editors, Robin and Kathryn Smiley's collection of modern firsts of literature, mystery & detective fiction, and western literature.
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PLATO (?427-347 B.C.E.). The Works of?, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles. Translated from the Greek by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor. London: for Thomas Taylor by R. Wilks and sold by E. Jeffery and R.H. Evans, 1804. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF PLATO?S WORK IN ENGLISH. The work was begun by Floyer Sydenham, who translated nine of the dialogues, and finished by Thomas Taylor after Sydenham?s death. Taylor also added a commentary and notes on the existing manuscript and on Plato?s philosophy. Taylor?s edition was immediately important and remains in print today. This edition is uncommon complete in any condition, but especially so uncut in boards. Lowndes 1877.