The works of Tacitus
Subtitle: With political discourses upon that author
By: by Thomas Gordon, Esq; in five volumes
Contributors: Gordon, Thomas, -1750; Fanssett, Godfrey; Wood, Gordon S.
Edition: The third edition corrected.
Publisher: Printed for T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A Millar, R. Dodsley, J. and J. Rivington, and M. Cooper
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Germanic peoples; History
Work titles: Works
Notes: Pagination: v. 1: xvi, 317, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 288 p.; v. 3: [2], 359, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 356 p.; v. 5: xxiii, [1], 384 p.

Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ (A1 verso blank) B-O¹² P⁴ (-P4) (P3 verso blank); v. 2: [A]1 ([A]1 verso blank) B-N¹²; v. 3: [A]1 ([A]1 verso blank) B-Q¹² (E10, Q12 versos blank); v. 4: [A]1 ([A]1 verso blank) B-P¹² (C1, D9, D10, F11, F12 versos blank) Q¹⁰; v. 5: A-R¹² (A1, A12, B1 versos blank)

Includes index.

Engraved printer's ornament on title pages.

English short title catalogue T96629.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf; all boards fully detached; rear board of v. 5 wanting.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Gordon Wood.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Gorfrey Fanssett, D.D.: armorial bookplate on front pastedowns of vols. 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2. Annals; title: v. 3. History I-IV; title: v. 4. History V. Treatise of Germany. Life of Agricola. Discourses upon Tacitus; title: v. 5. Discourses upon Tacitus. Index.