Spartan lessons, or, The praise of valour

Spartan lessons, or, The praise of valour

Praise of valour|Tyrtaei de virtute bellica carminum reliquiae

Glasgow Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis 1759

Greek, Modern (1453-)
Latin

xxvii, [5], 20, [2], [21]-26 [i.e. 30] p. : ports. ; 19 cm. (4to)

L1999F463 1759

(OCoLC)18294651

Edited by James Moor.
Text in English, Greek and Latin.
Signatures: [a]2 b-g2 [pi]2 A-H2.
Leaf H2 bound as half title between 20 and [21]: Tyrtaei de virtute bellica carminum reliquiae.
Dedicated "To the young gentlemen, lately, bred at the University of Glasgow, at present, serving their country, as officers of the Highland Battalions now in America."
Page 30 misnumbered 26.
"Authorities": p. [xxviii].
Errata: p. 20.
Bookplate: Ex libris, J.L. Weir.
Library has another copy (L2015F81): ms. note on front free endpaper: "To Sir Francis Dashwood Baronet, Colonel of the Buckinghamshire Regiment, under his auspices revalling The Spartan spirit and discipline, this small tribute of gratitude, for repeated favours, while under his command, in the constitutional service of the militia, is presented by John Wilkes, 1760"; bound in calf with brown morocco label, fleurons gilt spine.

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