English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical SurveyFoster, Finley Melville Kendall
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English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey
Foster, Finley Melville Kendall
Greek literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Of the sources of this list I have little to say. The list of translations
published in England was gathered largely from the following books: Miss
Palmer’s bibliography of classical books published before 1640, _The
Stationers’ Register_, _The Term Catalogues_, _The British Museum
Catalogue of Printed Books_, _The London Catalogue_, _The English
Catalogue_, Watt’s _Bibliotheca Britannica_, Lowndes’ _Bibliographer’s
Manual of English Literature_, Moss’s _Classical Bibliography_,
Engelmann’s _Bibliotheca Scriptorum_, and the book lists published in the
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, and _The Edinburgh Review_.
The list of American translations has been gathered from Evans’ _American
Bibliography_, Roorbach’s _Bibliotheca Americana_, _The American
Catalogue_, and _The Publisher’s Weekly_. In two respects the American
section is not so complete as might be desired. In a number of cases it is
impossible to give the exact date of publication. Roorbach’s _Bibliotheca_
dates as many as possible and so do the first volumes of the _American
Catalogue_. Leypoldt in the preface to the first volume of the latter
publication regrets his inability to obtain from many of the publishers
the dates of their own publications. In all such cases I have given the
dates covered by each volume in which the translations occur. By this
means nearly all of them can be located within two or three years of the
exact date. The other defect I have found in dealing with American
bibliography is in the lack of differentiation between importations and
reprints. For this reason it is impossible to determine whether a given
English translation was reprinted in America or imported and sold by
certain publishers. So far as possible I have listed the American reprints
of English translations immediately after the original publication or
after the English reprints of it. By this arrangement all the available
facts concerning each translation are presented in one place.
A word, perhaps, is necessary in the way of definition of translation. In
this list I have aimed to include only such works as profess to be English
renderings of Greek writings. In some cases, chiefly before 1700, the
English translation was made from a French, Italian, or Latin version of
the Greek original. So far as possible, such instances have been noted. I
have not included adaptations, paraphrases, and the like; nor have I
attempted to record solitary translations of excerpts from Greek
literature. A book of translations in the literal sense of the word has
been my basis for entering a title in the following list.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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