Morshead e d a translator (8 Ergebnisse)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Includes sandglass. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Michael Ayrton (illustrator).
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Verlag: MacMillan and Co., Limited 1908
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The two volumes constitute a complete translation of Aeschylus. Blue cloth, gold seal on front, gold lettering . Tiny name stamp on flyleaf. Very nice copies xvii, 2i6 pp; xxxiv, 185 pp plus publisher's list. Publisher's insert included about other volumes in this series.
Verlag: Heritage, New York 1961
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The Aaeschylus Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies
E. D. A. Morshead (translator);Rex Warner (Introduction);Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
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Zustand: Very Good. 1961. First Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a good copyAn imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy?s Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western ca…non. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York. Though many of Macy?s other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
The Aaeschylus Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies
E. D. A. Morshead (translator);Rex Warner (Introduction);Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
Verlag: The Heritage Press 1961
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Zustand: Very Good. 1961. First Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a good copyAn imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy's Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western ca…non. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York. Though many of Macy's other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. . . . .
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London 1921
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First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Translated into English verse by E.D.A Morshead. Ownership signature…to the front free endpaper. Aeschylus (c. 525â"456 BCE) is widely regarded as the father of Western tragedy and the first of the three great Athenian dramatists whose work survived antiquity â" the others being Sophocles and Euripides â" and his innovations in theatrical form were so fundamental that Aristotle credited him with transforming drama itself by introducing the second actor, thereby enabling genuine dialogue and conflict rather than the exchange between a single actor and the chorus that had characterized the form before him. Of the estimated seventy to ninety plays Aeschylus composed across his long career, only seven survive in complete form, among them four works of particular consequence: The Suppliant Maidens, widely considered the earliest surviving Greek tragedy, presents the fifty daughters of Danaus fleeing forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins and seeking asylum in Argos, raising enduring questions about the rights of suppliants, the obligations of rulers, and the competing claims of divine and human law. The Persians (472 BCE), the only surviving Greek tragedy drawn from contemporary history rather than myth, dramatizes the aftermath of the Greek victory at Salamis as witnessed from the Persian court â" a work of extraordinary imaginative sympathy that transforms military triumph into meditation on the catastrophic consequences of hubris and imperial overreach. The Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) completes an earlier trilogy on the House of Oedipus, tracing the fratricidal war between Eteocles and Polynices with a stark dramatic power that anticipates Sophocles' later treatments of the same material. Prometheus Bound, presenting the Titan Prometheus chained to his rock as a figure of defiant intellectual heroism, suffering divine punishment for having given humanity fire and the arts of civilization, and engaging Zeus himself in a contest of wills whose terms have echoed through Western literature from Milton to Shelley and beyond.
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Aeschylus; Morshead, E. D. A. [Translator]; Warner, Rex [Introduction]; Ayrton, Michael [Illustrator]
Verlag: The Limited Editions Club, New York 1961
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Hardcover. Limited Edition #713/1500. Quarto, 177 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good red cloth slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter red leather and brown cloth boards. Brown label with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing at head and tail of spine. Small stain on front free endpaper. Signed by Ayrto…n and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1409718. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
