James rhoades trans (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1954. Reprinted. 319 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Minor sunning to spine.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A English edition of the Georgics of Virgil, translated by James Rhoades. Second edition. The Georgics is a poem in four books, likely published in 29 BC. It is the second major work by the Latin poet Virgil, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. It is a poem that draws on many prior sources and influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. The subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterised by tensions in both theme and purpose. Translated by James Rhoades the schoolmaster, author and translator. In a cloth binding. Externally generally smart, though with some marks and light bumping. Internally, binding tender wih some pages working loose. Pages are quite clean, though with some marginal age-toning. Good. None (illustrator). book.…