Author: Thucydides: (Shilleto, Richard, ed.:)
Title: Thucydidis I & II [History of the Peloponnesian War Books I & II], with Collation of the Two Cambridge MSS and the Aldine and Juntine Editions.
Description: Cambridge; London: Deighton, Bell and Co.; Bell and Daldy, 1872, 1880. 2 vols. pp. x, [ii], 182; [v], 182-343, [I]. Text in Greek, prefatory material and notes in English. Occasional pencilled annotations. Contemporary maroon cloth, gilt titles to spines, blind tooled borders to boards, yellow endpapers. Spines sunned, endcaps a little frayed, still good. Ownership inscription of H.W. Moule dated 1946 to ffep, with interesting letters on bibliographical matters addressed to him from A.C. Moule loosely inserted. Richard Shilleto (1809-1876) spent most of his career working in Cambridge as a private tutor in Classics. He was much sought after as a classical 'coach' and was regarded in his day as one of the greatest Greek scholars in England, though he published little. He also produced a popular edition of Demosthenes' De Falsa Legatione (1844) and a pamphlet, Thucydides or Grote? (1851).

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