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Pindar Pythian odes: PB 1928.6

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Pindar Pythian odes

Maker(s)

Author: Pindar
Translator: Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore
Translator: Bowra, Cecil Maurice
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: R. Maclehose & Co., Ltd.
Printer: University Press
Illustrator: A. Alexander & Sons
Designer: Meynell, Francis

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Description

Translated by H.T. Wade-Gery & C.M. Bowra.

Xlv,[1],165,[2]p : ill ; 17cm

Place(s) associated

  • London
  • Glasgow

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1982) by Hall, David J.

Dating

Production date: AD 1928

Note

"This edition consists of 1050 copies ... The text has been printed by R. Maclehose & Co., Ltd., The University Press, Glasgow, the copperplate engravings by A. Alexander & Son, London: the whole under the care of Francis Meynell."--Colophon. Museum has copy no. 1431. Bound in white buckram with bevelled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Page edges untrimmed, top edge gilt.

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 1928.6
Primary reference Number: 98871

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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