The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the Late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with Occasional Annotations on the Nine Dialogues Translated by Syde…

cxxiii, 544; 657; 600; 614; 720 pp. 4to. Red leather spines with gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards and endpapers. The first English translation of the complete works of Plato. Earlier translations contained only selected dialogues, abridged versions of works, etc., and many early translations of Plato were into Latin rather than English (Taylor notes this, and also mentions the primacy of his translation, in his dedication to Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk). Thomas Taylor was also the first to translate Aristotle's complete works into English. This edition includes introductory information, a biographical sketch of Plato, and Taylor's extensive notes on his translations, and on those of Floyer Sydenham. The complete contents are as follows: General Introduction; Explanation of Certain Terms Peculiar to the Platonic Philosophy; Life of Plato by Olympiodorus; The First Alcibiades; The Republic; Additional Notes on the First Alcibiades, Extracted from the MS. Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue; Additional Notes on the Republic; The Laws; The Epinomis, or the Philosopher; The Timaeus; The Critias, or Atlanticus; Additional Notes on the Timaeus, Extracted from the Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue; The Parmenides; The Sophista; The Phaedrus; The Greater Hippias; The Banquet; Additional Notes on the Parmenides, Extracted from the MS. Commentary of Proclus on That Dialogue, and from the MS. of Damascius Peri Archon; Additional Notes on the Phaedrus, from Proclus on the Theology of Plato; The Theaetetus; The Politicus; The Minos; The Apology of Socrates; The Crito; The Phaedo; The Gorgias; The Philebus; The Second Alcibiades; The Euthyphro; The Meno; The Protagoras; The Theages; The Laches; The Lysis; The Charmides; The Lesser Hippias; The Euthydemus; The Hipparchus; The Rivals; The Menexenus; The Clitopho; The Io; The Cratylus; The Twelve Epistles; Additional Notes on the Cratylus, Extracted from the MS. Scholia of Proclus on That Dialogue.