Verlag: Echo Library, 2007
ISBN 10: 1406847100 ISBN 13: 9781406847109
Zustand: As New. Like New condition. (Classics, Literature, Ancient Classics) A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1870
Anbieter: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
20 vols. bound as 10, 8vo, pp. viii, [ii], 148, [iv], 136, 16 [ads]; [vi], 180, [iv], 180 + folding map; vi, [ii], 204, [iv], 172; vi, [ii], 197, [1], [iv], 180; [viii], 196, [vi], 181, [1]; vii, [iii], 166, [iv], 210, [2]; [vi], 190, [iii]-ix, [i], 203, [1]; [vi], 169. [1], [vi], 155, [1]; vi, 182, [iii]-vi, [ii], 194; [viii], 197, [1], [vi], 170. Original(?) quarter vellum, red cloth boards, red morocco labels, edges red. A touch of spotting. Bindings a little rubbed and soiled, some boards stained, stitching of one volume strained. A series to introduce the great classical authors to English readers and give those ?who have not received a classical education - or in whose case it has been incomplete and fragmentary - a fair acquaintance with the content of their writings, and the leading features of their style.? Each volume gives an overview of its subject with quotations, rather than abridged translations. A popular series, it was offered in various forms through the latter part of the 19th century. This set retains half-titles, the versos of which advertise these 20 works available singly in cloth, or in ten volumes in leather. This example in ten volumes, is not the advertised publisher?s leather binding, which per the half-title leaf should have marbled edges and boards, but does have the same labels as that binding so is plausibly a variant issue.