CLASSICS
AESCHYLUS: Aeschyli Prometheus
Vinctus ad Fidem Manuscriptorum emendavit Notas et Glossarium
adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield. Editio Septima.
London: B. Fellowes, 1839.
8vo, pp. x:(1):228, contemporary half calf, marbled boards; lacking
lettering piece, base of spine chipped. Two contemporary signatures
on endpaper, one being of Rev. W.G. Cookesley, Eton College.
Interleaved throughout, contemporary pencil & ink annotations.
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8924
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AESCHYLUS: The Tragedies of Aeschylus. Re-edited with
an English Commentary by F. A. Paley.
London: Whittaker, 1855.
8vo, pp.xxxvi:604, contemporary full burgundy calf, spine gilt with
lettering piece; spine now faded to tan, gilt dulled.
Strongly bound.
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ARISTOPHANES: The Plutus, from the text
of Dindorf. With Critical and Explanatory Remarks by Henry Parker
Cookesley.
London: Richard Priestly, 1834.
8vo, pp.116:74, contemporary half calf with double maroon lettering
pieces, marbled boads. The text with pencil annotations. Armorial
bookplate. Strip cut from head of front free endpaper.
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BURN, A.R.
and
WALLBANK, F.W.
and
HORNBLOWER, SIMON: The Greek World.
The Lyric Age c.750-510 BC.
The Persian Wars c.5460478 BC.
The Classical Age 479-323 BC.
The Hellenistic Age 336-146 BC.
Four Volume Set.
London: The Folio
Society, 2002.
Four volume set. Colour
and black & white plates.
Large 8vo (10 x 7 inches wide), original terracotta cloth
pictorially blocked in black & white all contained in a single
slip-case; a fine set in
a very good slip-case.
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ERASMUS (Desiderus): Des.
Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia, Cum notis selectis Variorum. Addite
Indice novo, Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Amstelodami : Ex Typographia Blaviana. 1693.
Engraved title. 8vo (8½ x 5 inches), pages: (10):784:(20,
index), 20th Century quarter vellum with burgundy lettering piece.
Some uneven fading to the plain boards but a crisp copy in a
handsome binding in excellent condition. From the library of
Winifred Merton with her neat book label on front pastedown. Small
neat signature on front free endpaper.
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EURIPIDES: The Hecuba, from the Text, and with a Translation
of the Notes, Preface, and Supplement, of Porson; Critical and
Explanatory Remarks.....by the Rev. J. R. Major.
Fourth Edition.
Bound with The Medea of
Euripides.
London: Longman, 1836.
Two volumes bound in one. The second work, The Medea, also with the
translation of Porson and Remarks by Major, published 1837. 8vo, pp.
viii:196:xv:(1):176, contemporary half mottled tan calf, spine gilt
extra with crimson lettering piece; a little rubbed. Armorial
bookplate and signature on endpapers. Pencil annotations.
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EURIPIDES: The Tragedies
of Euripides. Translated by R. Potter. Two volumes (complete).
London: for J. Mawman (& others), 1814.
Two volumes. 8vo (8½ x 5¼ inches), pages 507 & 499,
contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards. Early re-backing
in tan calf lettered in gilt, inner hinges reinforced with cloth at
the time of re-backing. Endpapers foxed.
Strongly bound. With armorial bookplates of Robert Needham
Cust.
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EURIPIDES: The Plays of Euripides.
Andromache.
Edited
with Introduction and Commentary by P.T. Stevens.
Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press, 1971.
First edition. 8vo,
pp.vii:255, original cloth in dustwrapper;
dustwrapper has been covered in self-adhesive plastic film
that has also, unfortunately, been adhered to the edges of the
binding and part of the endpapers;
with an ink name
to front free-endpaper;
internally excellent.
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EURIPIDES: The Plays of Euripides.
Helen.
Edited with Introduction and Commentary by
A.M. Dale.
Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press, 1967.
First edition. 8vo,
pp.xxxiv:179, original cloth in dustwrapper;
dustwrapper has been covered in self-adhesive plastic film
that has also, unfortunately, been adhered to the edges of the
binding and part of the endpapers;
with an ink name to front free-endpaper;
internally excellent.
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EURIPIDES: Fabulae. In three volumes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.
Three volumes. Vol. 2 published 1937, vol. 3 published 1943. Edited
by Gilbert Murray. 8vo, uniform blue cloth; signatures on two front
free endpapers. Very
good. In the series
'Oxford Classical Texts'.
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FLAVIUS ARRIANUS:
Arrian's Cynegeticus or the Book of the Chase by Xenophon of Athens
the Second Flavius Arrianus of Nicomedia.
Translated and Illustrated by Denison B.
Hull.
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1957.
Illustrations. 8vo, pp.46, original cloth blocked in gilt in
dustwrapper; generally very good except for slight discolouration on
pastedowns. Poorly printed.
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London: Rivington, 1827.
Two volumes bound in one. 8vo, pp.li:408:502:(1,
advertisement), contemporary half tan calf with lettering piece;
one inch split at head of joints, corners scuffed, some foxing.
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London: The Medici Society, 1936.
Reprint Popular Edition. Coloured plates. Large 8vo, pp.x:331,
original green cloth; a very good copy in worn & torn d.w.
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HORACE:
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Ad Opera Ad optimorum Exemplarium fidem
recensita. Accesserunt Variae Lectiones, quae in Libris MSS. &
Eruditorum Commentariis notatu digniores occurrunt.
Cambridge: Typis Academicis, London: Jacob Tonson, 1699.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved head and tail pieces. 4to,
pp.(7):479, contemporary full panelled calf; lacing lettering
piece,, spine rubbed, upper joint cracked (board held on cords),
headband chipped, corners rubbed, some scuffing. Title-page foxed,
other occasional light scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate. Good
margins.
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LLOYD-JONES, HUGH: Blood for the Ghosts.
Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries.
London: Duckworth, 1982.
Second impression. Tall
8vo, pp.312, softcover;
binding extremely rubbed (with some small patches of surface loss)
along all edges, lower corner of front cover and spine creased;
internally, very good.
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London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925.
Limited numbered edition. Coloured plates and illustrations in the
text. Tall 8vo, pp. xxxiv:216, original blue cloth blocked in gilt;
a very good copy.
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Price: £35.00
London: Black and Armstrong, 1840.
8vo, pp.323, contemporary grained binders cloth; binding
marked. Text foxed. With the series title-page
"Bibliotheca Graeca" and the Plato works title "Platonis Opera Omnia".
The volume here offered being Volume 2, Section 1 of the "Works" of
Plato but complete in itself and with its own title-page.
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PRUDENZIO
AURELIO: Aureli Prudenti Clementis V. C. Opera: Ex
postrema, doct: virorum, recensione.
Amsterdam: Apud Guiliel. Ianss. Cæsium, 1625.
Engraved title. 24mo (4¾
x 2¼
inches), pp.261-pages. Full contemporary calf; hinges cracked,
corners very rubbed, binding generally rubbed, endpapers soiled and
marked, some browning. Rather tightly bound on inner margins.
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SOPHOCLES: Sophoclis que exstant omnia - cum veterum
grammaticorum scholiis - Tragoedias VII.
London: R. Priestly, 1819.
Volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3). Blank inner margin of title of
Volume 1 defective, several leaves lacking at end of Volume 2. Early
name stamps to titles. Very attractively bound in full contemporary
tan calf, sides ruled in blind and gilt, spines gilt in compartments
with lettering and numbering pieces. A handsome contemporary
binding in very good condition.
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SOPHOCLES: Sophoclis
Tragoediae Superstites. Recensuit et Brevi Annotatione Instruxit.
London: Longman, 1846.
8vo, pp. (6):497, contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt. Lacking
lettering piece; binding rubbed but very sound and not unattractive.
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London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1906.
Ninth edition.
Profusely illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.vi:716, original
green cloth gilt, no dustwrapper; binding headbands and corners
bumped and rubbed, and with general edge-rubbing and scuff-marks;
page edges browned; internally, some foxing and with slight movement
to hinges, but still quite firm, bookplate adhered to front
paste-down.
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TACITUS: The Annals of
Tacitus.
Volume 1, Books 1-6.
Edited by Henry Furneaux.
Oxford: At the Clarendon
Press, 1978.
Reprint of the second edition. Tall 8vo, pp.691, original cloth in
dustwrapper; dustwrapper has been covered in self-adhesive plastic
film that has also, unfortunately, been adhered to the edges of the
binding and part of the endpapers but very good; internally, with an
ink name to front free-endpaper, else excellent.
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TERENTII (TERENCE): Publii Terenti Afri Comoediae Sex
ad Fidem Editionis Zeunianae Accurate Recensitae.
London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825.
Engraved frontispiece and title
8vo (7 x 4¼
inches), 351-pages. 19th Century half vellum, marbled boards; very
good. Name crossed out in ink on front free-endpaper.
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TILLY, BERTHA: Varro The
Farmer.
A Selection from the Res Rusticae.
London: University
Tutorial Press, 1973.
First edition. Black &
white plates. Tall 8vo,
pp.viii:362, original cloth in dustwrapper;
binding very good;
dustwrapper slightly rubbed along outer edges;
internally excellent.
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VERGIL,
P. VERGILI MARONIS: P. Vergili Maronis
Bucolica
Georgica
Aeneis. Edited by T.E. Page.
London: Macmillan, 1895.
Part of the Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts series.
Small 8vo (7 x 4½ inches), pages: xxii:376,
original full vellum boards pictorially blocked in brown. Some
marking, margins age-toned, endpapers foxed. Signature on front free
endpaper. Blindstamp on title, "Presentation Copy".
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London: William Tegg, 1847.
Small 8vo, pp.vii:(1):428, contemporary half tan calf; lacking
lettering piece.
Contemporary signature on upper margin of title and first leaf,
armorial bookplate. Contemporary engraving of Virgil's tomb pasted
to front fly. Some foxing.
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WARNER, JOHN: Metronariston: or A New Pleasure
Recommended, in a Dissertation upon a part of Greek and Latin
Prosody.
London: for J. Johnson, 1797.
First edition. Engraved portrait. 8vo, pp.xii:(1,
errata):120, contemporary full tan calf with lettering piece;
rubbed, title toned. The original printed price at base of title
page crossed out in ink at an early date. Anonymous.
Quote Item No. 10182
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