Item Description: | Translated from the Anacreontea, a loosely organized corpus of poems by imitators of Anacreon. Spine title: Three odes of Anacreon. "Limited to one hundred copies ... of which nos. 1-25 are for presentation and nos. 26-100 are for sale"--Colophon. "The text here followed is that of the 1765 edition of Ambrose Philips' poems published by J. & R. Tonson [under title: Pastorals, epistles, odes, and other original poems : with translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho]"--P. [3]. |