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The adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia : a romance, being the rise, progress, tryals and happy success of the heroic loves of those two illustrious persons : wherein the following histories are intermix'd, I. The treacherous slave, or, Cruel Step-mother, II. The wandering prelate, III. The fighting priest, IV. The royal adultress : with several other curious events : in two volumes / written originally in Greek by Heliodorus ... in the fourth century of Christianity, who chose to be depriv'd of his bishoprick rather than destroy this book, design'd by him for the promotion of virtuous loves.

Accession number
PML 20999-21000
Creator
Heliodorus, of Emesa.
Published
London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., E. Curll, R. Gosling and J. Hooke ... and J. Browne ... and J. Osborn ..., 1717.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. E.D. Morgan, 1920.
Notes
Translation is anonymous. Dedication, signed by C.G., describes the translator as an unnamed, deceased clergyman (p. x); in "The publisher to the reader" (unsigned)--the translator is referred to as "a late Reverend Divine." (p. xviii).
Part of title transposed.
T.p. of v. 2: The adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia / done from the Greek of Heliodorus : volume II. London : printed for E. Curll, R. Gosling, Jon. Browne and J. Hooke ... and W. Taylor ..., 1717.
Description
2 volumes (advertisements at end of volumes 2) ; 17 cm (12mo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: List of names on front pastedown of vol. 2: Jacquelian, Irwin(?), Carlos, etc.
Provenance
Hannah Anne Pepys and Barbara Pepys (sisters from Impington, Norfolk, distant relatives of Samuel Pepys), signatures in both volumes, 18th-century; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mr. E.D. Morgan, 1920.
Binding
18th-century brown calf; vol. 1 rebacked.
Classification
Book
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