Tragedies of Euripides (Potter's Euripides) 1781 Quartos 1stEd 2V

Description: Tragedies of Euripides (Potter's Euripides) 1781 Quartos 1stEd 2V Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Description: The Tragedies of Euripides translated by Robert Potter Printed for J. Dodsley, London, 1781-1783. First editions. Contemporary leather covered boards, ribbed spine, spine labels with gilt titles, gilt (faded), spine decorations. Volume 1: xvi, List of Subscribers, (7pp), errata; 687pp, Euripides portrait on Title Page. [Subscribers include Joseph Banks, Lancelot Brown, Lord Palmerston, William Pitt, and Joshua Reynolds]. Volume II: vii, 677pp, frontispiece engraving, Additional Subscribers, errata. The translation is dedicated to Her Grace, the Duchess Dowager of Beaufort, Baroness of Botetourt. Contents: Volume 1: Bacchae. Ion. Alcestis. Medea. Hippolytus. The Phoenician virgins. The supplicants. Hercules. The Heraclidae. Volume 2: Iphigenia in Aulis. Rhesus. The Trojan Dames. Hecuba. Helena. Electra. Orestes. Iphigenia in Tauris. Andromache. Rev. Robert Potter (1721 – 9 August 1804) was an English clergyman of the Church of England, translator, poet and pamphleteer. He established the convention of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for choruses. His 1777 English version of the plays of Aeschylus was the only one available for the next fifty years. Robert Potter died aged 83 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and was buried in Lowestoft churchyard. There is a 1789 etching of a bewigged Potter in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Potter completed versions of the plays of Æschylus (1777), Euripides (1781–83) and Sophocles (1788) that remained in print through the 19th century. Of the three, the Æschylus was best known, as there were no other translations of the author available before the 1820s. His scheme of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for the choruses was widely adopted by other translators. He also published copious poetry, some sermons, and some political pamphlets, targeted, for instance, at the "pretended inspiration of the Methodists" (1758) and at the Poor Laws (1775). It emerges from a letter from Sarah Burney to her sister Frances Burney on August 1, 1779 that Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale and their circle had a poor opinion of Potter's poetic abilities. Potter, on the other hand, developed reservations about Johnson's literary judgement, which he expanded on a few years later. Johnson may have described Potter's poetry as "verbiage", but Horace Walpole was welcoming: "There is a Mr. Potter too, I don't know who, that has published a translation of Aeschylus, and as far as I have looked is a good poet." CONDITION: Ex library volumes with the only markings being small impressed blind stamps on the half-title of Volume 1 and title page of Volume 2. Fair Covers. Very Good Contents. Covers have worn edges and corners, wear and rubbing on spine, and chips at spine ends; leather is split at joints with boards but all boards are attached; leather on boards is rubbed and soiled. The front board of Volume 2 differs from the others in having a gilt decorated border. Volume 1 is missing the front blank endpaper but otherwise both volumes are complete and include the half-title, frontispiece and Title pages. The title pages of both volumes have an impressed bilnd stamp of a public library. 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