DEMOSTHENES. The three Orations of Demosthenes chiefe Orator among the Grecians, in favour of the Olynthians, a people in Thracia, now called Romania: with those his fower Orations titled expressely & by name against king Philip of Macedonie: most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes... Englished out of the Greeke by Thomas Wylson...[with] Demosthenes lyfe...gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas and others. London: Henrie Denham 1570. Small 4to, 191 x 137mm. (7 1/2 x 5 3/8in.), early nineteenth-century calf gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, some dampstaining affecting upper portions of leaves in quires A-C. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, black letter, title within typographic ornamental border, large woodcut view of Athens (94 x 124mm.) on A3, ornamental woodcut initials, some criblé, with the final blank [Y4]. Pforzheimer 284; STC 6578. "Apart from its political significance, Wilson's translation is notable as the earliest English version of Demosthenes, and attains a high level of scholarship" (DNB). No previous translation into the vernacular or Latin, and no editions in Greek, had yet been printed in England. It was the translator's political intention to stir up English support and obtain an English military intervention on the side of the Protestant rebels in the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain. The work was dedicated to Sir William Cecil. In 1577, Wilson concluded a despatch: "I pray God that I may rather see England invade than be invaded...as Demosthenes persuaded the Athenians rather to war upon Philip in Macedonia than to suffer him to war upon them in his own country"--P.E. Medine, Thomas Wilson (London 1986). Provenance : The Most Honourable the Marquess of Downshire, initial D surmounted by a marquess's coronet gilt-stamped on spine (sale, Sotheby's London, 19 July 1990, lot 393).
DEMOSTHENES. The three Orations of Demosthenes chiefe Orator among the Grecians, in favour of the Olynthians, a people in Thracia, now called Romania: with those his fower Orations titled expressely & by name against king Philip of Macedonie: most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes... Englished out of the Greeke by Thomas Wylson...[with] Demosthenes lyfe...gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas and others. London: Henrie Denham 1570. Small 4to, 191 x 137mm. (7 1/2 x 5 3/8in.), early nineteenth-century calf gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, some dampstaining affecting upper portions of leaves in quires A-C. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, black letter, title within typographic ornamental border, large woodcut view of Athens (94 x 124mm.) on A3, ornamental woodcut initials, some criblé, with the final blank [Y4]. Pforzheimer 284; STC 6578. "Apart from its political significance, Wilson's translation is notable as the earliest English version of Demosthenes, and attains a high level of scholarship" (DNB). No previous translation into the vernacular or Latin, and no editions in Greek, had yet been printed in England. It was the translator's political intention to stir up English support and obtain an English military intervention on the side of the Protestant rebels in the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain. The work was dedicated to Sir William Cecil. In 1577, Wilson concluded a despatch: "I pray God that I may rather see England invade than be invaded...as Demosthenes persuaded the Athenians rather to war upon Philip in Macedonia than to suffer him to war upon them in his own country"--P.E. Medine, Thomas Wilson (London 1986). Provenance : The Most Honourable the Marquess of Downshire, initial D surmounted by a marquess's coronet gilt-stamped on spine (sale, Sotheby's London, 19 July 1990, lot 393).
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