Archaeologia Graeca: or the Antiquities of Greece

Author: Potter, John (1673-1747)Year: 1820Publisher: Stirling & Slade; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown; J Nunn; Baldwin, Craddock & Joy; Lackington, Hughes, Harding Mavor & Jones; J Cuthell; G & W Whittaker; R Scholey; R S Kirby; R Saunders; G Mackie; and T & J AlmanPlace: EdinburghDescription:2 volumes. xv+527+[16 index] pages with fold out frontispiece map and 7 plates; vi+422+[112 A Concise General History of the Early Grecian States]+[23 indices] pages with 23 plates and errata. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with gilt tooling and gilt letter on spine labels over marbled boards with marbled page ends. Originally published in 1697 and 1698.John Potter PC (c. 1674 – 10 October 1747) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737-1747). He was the son of a linen-draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire. At the age of fourteen he entered University College, Oxford, and in 1693 he published notes on Plutarch's De audiendis poetis and Basil's Oratio ad juvenes.