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Image for A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

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Price: $60.00

Publisher: P. F. Collier: 1900

Seller ID: 2302557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front hinge of volumes two and four broken, minor general wear. 1900 Hard Cover. Brown boards. Eight volume set, part three of a larger set of 32 volumes. Notable speeches include Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death, Gettysburg Address, abolition, military, political, Presidential, etc.
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Image for Prosperi Alpini Marosticensis Philosophi, Medici, & in Gymnasio Patavino Simplicium Medicamentorum Professoris Ordinarii, atque Horti Medici Praefecti, de Medicina Methodica Libri Tredecim. In quibus medendi Ars Methodica vocata olim maxime celebris, quae hac aetate non sine magno Studiosorum medicinae & dedecore, & damno plane desiisse visa est, denuo restituitur, atque in Medicorum commodum quadantenus ad medicinam Dogmaticam conformatur. Opus novum, e quo Studiosi praeter sectae Methodicae placita a celeberrimis Medicis tradita, etiam praxim Methodicam exactissimam ad medendum nanciscentur. Editio Secunda.

Prosperi Alpini Marosticensis Philosophi, Medici, & in Gymnasio Patavino Simplicium Medicamentorum Professoris Ordinarii, atque Horti Medici Praefecti, de Medicina Methodica Libri Tredecim. In quibus medendi Ars Methodica vocata olim maxime celebris, quae hac aetate non sine magno Studiosorum medicinae & dedecore, & damno plane desiisse visa est, denuo restituitur, atque in Medicorum commodum quadantenus ad medicinam Dogmaticam conformatur. Opus novum, e quo Studiosi praeter sectae Methodicae placita a celeberrimis Medicis tradita, etiam praxim Methodicam exactissimam ad medendum nanciscentur. Editio Secunda.

By: Alpini, Prosperi [Alpinus, Prospero]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden], Boutesteiniana: 1719

Seller ID: 2305474

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Minor loss from corners, small paper remnant on spine head. 1719 Full-Leather. [xxiv], 765, [37] pp. Full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles, gilt tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A medical work by the Venetian physician and botanist whose descriptions of coffee and banana plants are the earliest written records in European literature. Prospero Alpinus oversaw the botanical garden at Padua, and wrote the first significant history of Egyptian medicine (see Garrison-Morton 6468). This work advocates the Methodic School of medicine of ancient Greece and ...
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Politics & Poetics (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2285623

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together w...
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The Art of Ancient Greece and Rome: From the Rise of Greece to the Fall of Rome

By: Becatti, Giovanni

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 2297705

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket and endpapers faintly toned. Jacket edges bumped. 1967 Large Hardcover. 441 pp. By a series of cross-sections of Classical civilization at different times, he clarifies the many currents and connections throughout the ancient world during its lengthy history, and expands the theme of Classical art as a unifying force. Greece and Greek influences, East and West; Etruscan and Italic; Rome and Roman influences, East and West--the whole world of Western art is displayed in his text and illustrations, making a vast yet unified picture of the Classical style. ...The work of major sculptors an...
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 2276970

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the characters of ancient European mythology. - Wikipedia
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1930

Seller ID: 2291646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1930s printing of Toledano G014.1. Very good in fair jacket. Small dealer plate on rear endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with large chip from top edge of rear panel and minor loss elsewhere. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1] 778 pp. 8vo. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting...
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The Satyricon of Petronius

By: Burnaby, William; Bagnani, Gilbert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1964

Seller ID: 2298273

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. A couple smudges on slipcase board. 1964 Large Hardcover. xxii, 246 pp. Includes Sandglass and slipcase. The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica,[1] is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as prosimetrum); serious and comic el...
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Some Aspects of the Greek Genius

By: Butcher, S.H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 2305177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition. Spine edges lightly rubbed, spine lightly toned, minor pencil marginalia on contents page only. 1916 Hard Cover. vii, 324, 4 pp. Green cloth boards. Deckled edge. An analysis of the thought of Ancient Greece and its influence on contemporary philosophy, political thought, and literature. CONTENTS: What We Owe to Greece; The Greek Idea of the State; Sophocles; The Melancholy of the Greeks; The Written and the Spoken Word; The Unity of Learning; The Dawn of Romanticism in Greek Poetry.
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The Battle for Gaul: A New Illustrated Translation

By: Caesar, Julius; Wiseman, Anne and Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher: 1980

Seller ID: 2303558

ISBN: 0879233060

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1980 Hard Cover. 208 pp. New translation with color plates and illustrations. Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence. These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of hi...
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The Poems of Catullus

By: Catullus; Gregory, Horace

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1956

Seller ID: 2201835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers and pages heavily toned. 1956 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 184 pp. Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets.
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Demosthenes with English Notes, Part I. -- De Corona [On the Crown]

By: Demosthenes; Holmes, Arthur

Price: $10.00

Publisher: John Allyn, Publisher: 1872

Seller ID: 2199449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Free endpapers removed, pencil notes in text. 1872 Hard Cover. xxviii, 195 pp. Original Greek text, with English notes, of 'De Corona' (On the Crown), the most famous judicial oration by the ancient Greek statesman and orator, originally delivered in 330 B.C.
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Greek Plays in Modern Translation

By: Fitts, Dudley; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Dial Press: 1947

Seller ID: 2266818

ISBN: 0803732236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth printing. No jacket, spine faintly toned. 1947 Hard Cover. xiv, 596 pp. CONTENTS: Aeschyles: Agamemnon; Sophocles: Electra; Aeschyles: Eumenides; Euripides: The Trojan Woman; Euripides: Medea; Euripides: Hippolytus; Euripides: Alcestis; Sophocles: King Oedipus; Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus; Sophocles: Antigone; Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound; Appendix: Commentaries; Index of Proper Names.
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Lucius Annaeus Florus. Cui subjungitur Lucii Ampelii Liber Memorialis

By: Florus, Lucius Annaeus [Florus, Publius Annius]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts: 1715

Seller ID: 2135233

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss from spine head & foot, ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. [viii], 141, [2] pp. Full calf, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian.
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The Children's Odyssey, with an Introductory Chapter on Greek Myths

By: Gale, Agnes Cook

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Public-School Publshing: 1914

Seller ID: 2294786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket. Binding has been repaired. Boards lightly soiled, a few light spots on page ridges, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1914 Hard Cover. 267 pp. Illustrated by half tone cuts taken from photographs by Karl Schwier. CONTENTS: Odysseus and Penelope; Odysseus Plows the Seashore; Odysseus at Troy; The Wooden Horse; Odysseus Visits the Lotus Eaters; The Great Polyphemus; Aeolus and the Bag of Winds; The Man-Eaters; Circe and the Swine; The Shadow Land; The Sirens; The Dangerous Channel; The Sun-God's Cattle; Calypso and the Raft; The Sea-Bird's Gift; Nausicaa's Washing; At the Palace ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. with Notes, A New Edition, to which is added A Complete Index of the Whole Work. Complete in Five Volumes.

By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, H.H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 2300912

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spines faded, minor abrasions to spine labels, ink names on front endpaper of first volume. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in five volumes. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles and top edge. Gibbon's complete work, with notes by Rev. Milman, plus a general index. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II ...
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Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (Hellenistic Culture and Society Book 11)

By: Green, Peter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2200328

ISBN: 0520071654

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. xxxvii, 617 pp. 8vo. Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civ...
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The Sophists

By: Guthrie, W.K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2305280

ISBN: 0521096669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Two stickers on rear wrapper, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1977 Trade Paperback. ix, 345 pp. The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, ...
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The Novel in Antiquity

By: Hagg, Tomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1991

Seller ID: 2271919

ISBN: 0520076389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, ink name and date on first blank, very faint smell of smoke. 1991 Trade Paperback. xii, 264 pp. Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.
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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1863

Seller ID: 2304632

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Civil War era reprint. Needs recasing, otherwise a nice copy. Ink note on front free endpaper. 1863 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 256 pp. With engravings by Baker from designs by Billings. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales.--Wikipedia
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The Persian Wars (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 255)

By: Herodotus; Rawlinson, George; Godolphin, F.R.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1942

Seller ID: 2305554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips to edges. Pencil underlining. 1942 Hard Cover. xxii, 714 pp. Translated by George Rawlinson, with an introduction by F.R.B. Godolphin. ...Herodotus' account of the struggle between Greece and Persia. Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time ...
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Holland, Tom

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2305486

ISBN: 1400078970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine base very lightly rubbed. 2005 Trade Paperback. xi, 408 pp. A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Hollands enthralling account tells the story of Caesars generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary ...
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey; and The Lesser Homerica, in Two Volumes (Bollingen Series XLI [41])

By: Homer; Chapman, George; Nicoll, Allardyce

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Pantheon Books: 1956

Seller ID: 2290336

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Edges lightly foxed, slipcase a bit soiled with a split beginning along top seam, single leaf in volume 2 loose (pp. xv/xvi) - this appears to be a case of the printer improperly inserting a gathering. 1956 Hard Cover. xxi, [1], 740, [4]; xv, [1], 653, [1] pp. The George Chapman translations of Homer's Iliad, Odyssey, and lesser-known works, together in one edition, edited, with introductions, textual notes, commentaries, and glossaries, by Allardyce Nicoll. Includes frontispieces reproduced from the title pages of the Chapman editions. Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet,...
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The Iliad, in Contemporary Verse

By: Homer; Fitzgerald, Robert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2265092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 664 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Translated into contemporary verse by Robert Fitzgerald, with illustrations by W.T. Mars.
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The Iliad of Homer Books I-VI [1-6], with an Introduction and Notes [with] Vocabulary to the First Six Books of Homer's Iliad

By: Homer; Keep, Robert P.; Thurber, Samuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Allyn and Bacon / Norwood Press: 1883

Seller ID: 2266443

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Some ink and pencil marks in text and margins, front free endpaper removed, front hinge starting. 1883 Hard Cover. xlii, 322, 159, [3] pp. 8vo. This edition a fold-out frontispiece facsimile of a page from Codex Venetus, the original Greek text of the first six books of Homer's Iliad, and an introduction and notes by Robert P. Keep. Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the ...
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The Iliad

By: Homer; Merrill, Rodney

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The University of Michigan Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2272420

ISBN: 0472116177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2007 Hard Cover. viii, 464 pp. Verse translation, with an introduction on singing The Iliad, bibliography, and map. In 2002, the University of Michigan Press published Rodney Merrill's translation of Homer's Odyssey, an interpretation of the classic that was unique in employing the meter of Homer's original. Praising Merrill's translation of the Odyssey, Gregory Nagy of Harvard wrote, Merrill's fine ear for the sound of ancient Greek makes the experience of reading his Homer the nearest thing in English to actually hearing Homer. The translator's English renders mos...
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The Goatherd and the Shepherdess: A Tale From Ancient Greece

By: Hort, Lenny

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers: 1995

Seller ID: 2272170

ISBN: 0803713525

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges very lightly bumped. 1995 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. As three friends tend their flocks on a Greek island, Daphnis and Dorco vie for the affections of Chloe.
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A Pocket Classical Dictionary for Ready Reference

By: Ireland, Frederick G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1883

Seller ID: 2280083

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1883 Small Hard Cover. iii, 144 pp. A dictionary for classical studies. NOTE: The Roman spelling of proper names has been adopted as being more commonly used in school and college text-books. The Greek names of divinities, however, have been retained as conveying an essentially different idea from the Roman names usually employed. The dates in parentheses immediately following the names are those of the birth and death. When but one date is given it is that of the probable floruit. The era (B.C. or A.D.) has been appended wherever there could be any doubt.
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume I of VI [1 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 2290162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxvii, 382 pp. Volume I of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged...
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume IV of VI [4 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 2290163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. Volume IV of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged 46, w...
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume V of VI [5 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 2290164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head lightly rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Volume V of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged 46, wa...
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