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ANACREON (573-495 B. C.). Anacreontis Teii Carmina Graece e Recensione Guiliemi Baxteri… [Anacreon’s Songs of Greece Compiled by William Baxter…] Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Godofredi Mulleri, 1666. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Anacreon. lxxviii, [1]-[328]. Approximately 8 x 4 ½”. Text in Latin and Greek. Bound in contemporary full vellum, ink titles to spine (spine toned, soiled, with library markings, some soiling to boards, bookplate and markings of the Woodbrooke Library on the fp, occasional soiling and foxing in text). Very good. RARE EARLY EDITION OF THIS COMPILATION OF THE POETRY AND SONGS OF ANACREON. Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet, best known for his drinking songs and erotic poetry; he is one of the 9 ancient Greek Lyric Poets.