The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

by Xenophon

Translated by Edward Bysshe

Cassell and Company, 1905, [First Edition], tissue protected frontispiece, gilt fore edges, green leather bound (suede) softcover

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, previous owners’ inscription on front end paper, age toned end papers (see photographs)

“This translation of Xenophon’s “Memorabilia of Socrates” was first published in 1712 and is here printed from the revised edition of 1722.  Its author was Edward Bysshe, who had produced in 1702 “The Art of English Poetry”, a well-known work that was near its fifth edition when its author published his translation of the “Memorabilia.”

This was a translation that remained in good repute. “