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The Speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the Law of succession to Property at Athens with a Prefatory Discourse notes critical and Historical and a commentary by William Jones Barrister at Law , Fellow of the University College Oxford printed by J Nichols for E and C Dilly in the Poultry 1779, 1st Edition.
28 x 22cm book in a full leather binding with original boards and a replacement spine with gilt lines creating faux panels and a label with gilt lettering. Internal hinge strengthened, name in pencil to end paper of WHD Rouse
Title page + vii + xxxix + 204pp + 1pp corrections + 11 copper plates (one folding) as called for.
Some odd age marks and a few single word notes in pencil to the first few pages. A scarce item
Isaeus (Greek: Ἰσαῖος Isaios; fl. early 4th century BC) was one of the ten Attic orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metic logographer (speechwriter) for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, although Isaeus was more given to employing sophistry.
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a Welsh philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. He is known for being one of the earliest scholars to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages, albeit not the first. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784.
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