THUCYDIDES. JOWETT (B), trans. [FORBES (W.H) and E. ABBOTT, rev.]: Thucydides translated into English. To which is added an Essay on Inscriptions and a Note of the Geography of Thucydides. Second Edition, revised. MICHAEL CHERNIAVSKY'S COPY , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1900

2 vols., 8vo., Second and Best Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; original plum cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, backstrips very lightly age-faded (but all gilt bright and wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of first volume, and the trade ticket of Blackwell of Oxford on front paste-downs. Vol. I: Essay on Inscriptions and Books I-III; Vol. II: Books IV-VIII and Historical Index. MICHAEL CHERNIAVSKY'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION (BALLIOL, OCTOBER 1938) ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. IN ADDITION THERE ARE PENCILLED ANNOTATIONS IN THE MARGINS AND ON REAR ENDPAPERS IN HIS NEAT SCHOLARLY HAND. Michael Theodore Cherniavsky (1920-1992) was a renowned and long-serving (1948-1966) master of history at Christ's Hospital School and subsequently Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Ontario from 1967 to 1983. Educated at Westminster, he was appointed Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford during which period he acquired this copy. Jowett's definitive translation, dedicated to Viscount Sherbrooke, was first published in 1881 when the translator was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. This revised edition, begun after Jowett's death in 1893, was prepared by W.H. Forbes and Evelyn Abbot. Scarce in this condition. (Book ref. 19616)  £80.00

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