The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO). B.C. 60? Roman architect and writer.

DE ARCHITECTURA. Tr. R. Castell, 1730, and W. Newton, 1771-91.

The only ancient treatise on the subject of architecture that has come down to us. Highly esteemed as a text book.

VOITURE, VINCENT DE. b. 1598, d. 1648. French poet and wit.

SELECT LETTERS OF VOITURE. The first translated by Mr. Dryden and the rest by Mr. Dennis, 1696.

HISTORY OF ALEIDALIS AND ZELIDE ... Tr. 1678.

WORKS OF M. VOITURE. Tr. ... Mr. Dryden, Mr. Dennis, Dr. Drake, 1736.

LETTERS OF AFFAIRES, LOVE AND COURTSHIP. Englished by J. D(avies), 1657.

FAMILIAR AND COURTLY LETTERS ... made English by Mr. Dryden, etc. With twelve Select Epistles, out of Aristænetus ... 1700.