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102. Potter, John.

Vol. I. Archaeologia Graeca, / OR THE / ANTIQUITIES OF
GREECE: / BY / JOHN POTTER, D. D. / LATE ARCHBISHOP

Plate CXIII. From No. 101. Tools (Pl. 73).

OF CANTERBURY. / A NEW EDITION; / WITH / A LIFE OF
THE AUTHOR, / BY ROBERT ANDERSON, M. D. / AND / AN
APPENDIX, / CONTAINING / A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE
GRECIAN STATES, / AND A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES
AND WRITINGS OF THE / MOST CELEBRATED GREEK AUTHORS;
/ BY GEORGE DUNBAR, F. R. S. E. / AND PROFESSOR
OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. / IN TWO
VOLUMES. / VOL. I. / - Antiquam exquirite Matrem - VIRG. / - Vos
exemplaria Graeca / Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. - HORAT. /
EDINBURGH: / PRINTED FOR STIRLING & KENNEY; AND
FOR LONGMAN, HURST, / REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN;
J. NUNN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK, / & JOY; HARDING & CO.;
J. CUTHILL; G. & W. B. WHITTAKER; R. / SCHOLEY; R. SAUNDERS;
HURST, ROBINSON, & CO.; T. & J. ALLMAN; / W. GINGER,
LONDON; WILLIAMS, ETON; AND PARKER, OXFORD. /
1824.

8vo. Engraved folding map; title page (1 leaf); life of Potter ([i]-xii);
table of contents ([viii]-xv); directions for binding plates (unnumbered
p.); text, with 9 engraved plates inserted ([1]-527).

Vol. II. Archaelogia Graeca, / . . . / VOL. II. / -Simili froudescit
virga metallo. - VIRG. / Quis reprehendit nostrum otium, qui in co non
modo nosmetipsos hebescere et languere / nolumus, sed etiam, ut plurimus
prosimus, enitimur? - CIC. / . . .

8vo. Title page (1 leaf); table of contents ([i]-iv [misnumbered `vi']);
text, with 23 engraved plates inserted ([1]-422); [new pagination:] text
of general history (1-112); index (4 leaves); index of Latin words (1
leaf); index of Greek words (6 leaves).

The engravings are by Daniel Lizars (d. 1812), who turned to engraving
after his father's death in order to maintain his brothers and sisters,
and by William Home Lizars (1788-1859), his son and pupil.

John Potter (1674?-1747), born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, was the
son of a linen draper. He was educated first at the local grammar school,
but entered University College, Oxford, at 14. He earned his B.A. in
1692, his M.A. in 1694, his B.D. in 1704, and his D.D. in 1706. He was
ordained in the priesthood in 1699 and pursued a brilliant ecclesiastical
career. He became Regius professor of divinity at Oxford in 1707, bishop
of Oxford in 1715, and archbishop of Canterbury in 1737.

He was the author of many learned works. The Archaeologia Graeca
was a rather early one, Vol. I being issued first in 1697 and its second
volume in 1698. It subsequently went into many editions.

The text, which is concerned mainly with the laws, customs, and
habits of the ancient Greeks, contains a few descriptions of temples and
a few plates of illustrations of them from which architectural information
may be gained.

Ordered by Jefferson for the University in the section on "HistoryCivil-Antient"
of the want list, this set was in the library by 1828, but the
original copies have not survived. The library's present set was the gift
of R. L. Harrison.

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*DF76.P86.1824