£150
8vo, pp. viii, 252. Recent binding of quarter brown cloth (using old cloth), plain paper boards, glazed printed paper label to spine. Some spotting. A touch soiled, front endpapers renewed and the rear left without new paper, showing the structure of the rebinding.
Scarce early prose translations of four of the comedies of Aristophanes, the anonymous work of clergyman John Wood Warter (1806-1878), close friend, editor and son-in-law of the poet Robert Southey. It represents only the second appearance in English of The Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps - preceded only by Thomas Mitchell's verse translation of 1820 - and the third of Birds, which had been done anonymously in 1812 and by Henry Cary in 1824. The full 11 surviving comedies wouldn't appear together in English until 1837. Library Hub records 7 copies.
