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CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, WORKS OF ART, ANTIQUITIES AND RELICS AT PRESENT EXHIBITED IN SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE With 61 Illustrations

By: (Trustees and Guardians Of Shakespeare's Birthplace)

Price: $9.00 USD

Publisher: Stratford-upon-avon, Printed for the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace: 1910

Seller ID: 9778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers have been removed and institution plate to inner cover. Light foxing passim. Corners edgeworn. Light rubbing in places. ; 134 pages
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THE ENGLISH ROAD TO ROME

By: Barefoot, Brian

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Images: 1993

Seller ID: 22332

ISBN: 1897817088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

DJ in mylar. ; 255pp. The stories of some of the British men and women who visited Rome: the 5th century heretic Pelagius; the only English Pope - Adrian IV, Inigo Jones, Robert Adam, Joshua Reynolds, John Keats and Edward Lear amongst others. ; 255 pages
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BOSWELL'S LONDON JOURNAL 1762-1763 Now First Published from the Original Manuscript Prepared for the Press, with Introduction and Notes by F. A. Pottle.

By: Boswell, James; Frederick A. Pottle (Ed. ) & Christopher Morley (Preface )

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: London, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1950

Seller ID: 33964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Small tears to head of spine. Lower corners a bit edgeworn. ; The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; 370 pages
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DAS RMISCHE BRITANNIEN Spuren Seiner Geschichte

By: Brodersen, Kai

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1998

Seller ID: 20982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 260pp, illustrated.; 260 pages
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AGRICOLA AND ROMAN BRITAIN

By: Burn, Andrew Robert

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: English Universities Press: 1953

Seller ID: 32399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Part of spine painted black. ; Teach Yourself History; 182 pages
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VIRGIL IN A CULTURAL TRADITION Essays to Celebrate the Bimillennium

By: Cardwell, Richard A. & Janet Hamilton (Eds. )

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Nottingham: 1986

Seller ID: 12048

ISBN: 0900572663

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Small crease to front wrap and spine. Light scuffing to wraps. Small bump to bottom corner of book with light crease. ; Contents: Michael Winterbottom: Mankind and other Animals: The Georgics; W. Liebeschuetz: Cycle of Growth and Decay in Lucretius and Virgil; Niall Rudd: Idea of Empire in the Aeneid; Akbar Khan: Marriage Motifs in the Aeneid; Peter Walsh: Virgil and Medieval Epic; Peter Armour: Dante's Virgil; Brian Tate: Lusiads of Camoens and the Legacy of Virgil; Dorothy Gabe Coleman: Some Echoes of Virgil in France; J. Norton-Smith: Milton's Use of Virgilian Imagery; Elizabeth Watson-Macp...
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VIRGIL IN A CULTURAL TRADITION Essays to Celebrate the Bimillennium

By: Cardwell, Richard A. & Janet Hamilton (Eds. )

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Nottingham: 1986

Seller ID: 12328

ISBN: 0900572663

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Faint crease to front wrap. Light scuffing to wraps. Small bump to bottom corner of book with light creasing to a few pages. Light soiling to rear wrap. Light sunning to spine. ; Contents: Michael Winterbottom: Mankind and other Animals: The Georgics; W. Liebeschuetz: Cycle of Growth and Decay in Lucretius and Virgil; Niall Rudd: Idea of Empire in the Aeneid; Akbar Khan: Marriage Motifs in the Aeneid; Peter Walsh: Virgil and Medieval Epic; Peter Armour: Dante's Virgil; Brian Tate: Lusiads of Camoens and the Legacy of Virgil; Dorothy Gabe Coleman: Some Echoes of Virgil in France; J. Norton-Smit...
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VIRGIL IN A CULTURAL TRADITION Essays to Celebrate the Bimillennium

By: Cardwell, Richard A. & Janet Hamilton (Eds. )

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University of Nottingham: 1986

Seller ID: 12411

ISBN: 0900572663

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Faint crease to rear wrap. Light scuffing to wraps. Light sunning to spine. A few corrections done in black pen to table of contents and a couple of pages. ; Contents: Michael Winterbottom: Mankind and other Animals: The Georgics; W. Liebeschuetz: Cycle of Growth and Decay in Lucretius and Virgil; Niall Rudd: Idea of Empire in the Aeneid; Akbar Khan: Marriage Motifs in the Aeneid; Peter Walsh: Virgil and Medieval Epic; Peter Armour: Dante's Virgil; Brian Tate: Lusiads of Camoens and the Legacy of Virgil; Dorothy Gabe Coleman: Some Echoes of Virgil in France; J. Norton-Smith: Milton's Use of Vi...
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY TO THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

By: Carlsen, Hanne

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: B. Stougaard Jensen: 1985

Seller ID: 19337

ISBN: 8788648060

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Some rubbing to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Anglica Et Americana 21; 164 pages
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THOMAS MAY: MAN OF LETTERS, 1595-1650 A Thesis

By: Chester, Allan Griffith

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania: 1932

Seller ID: 19349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Original wraps appear to have been mounted on boards. Red cloth spine. ; 204 pages
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THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH DRAMA An Annotated List of Plays Including Translations from Other Languages from the Beginnings to 1931. a Survey of Recent Major Plays (1968) by Isaiah Sheffer.

By: Coleman, Edward D. (Complied by) & Isaiah Sheffer

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: NY, New York Public Library & Ktav Publishing House: 1968

Seller ID: 20062

ISBN: 1199496502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine a bit sunned and dulled. Light shelfwear. ; xiii+212pp..; 212 pages
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THE ROMAN TOWN AND VILLA AT GREAT CASTERTON RUTLAND Second Interim Report for the Years 1951-1953 by Members of the Summer Schools in Romano-British Archaeology Held At Great Casterton, 1951-3

By: Corder, Philip (Ed. )

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Nottingham, University of Nottingham: 1954

Seller ID: 20156

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Small stain on rear wrap. Some rubbing and discolorations to wraps. Creasing to corners of wraps. ; 47pp+13pp of b+w plates. ; 60 pages
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JUVENAL AND JOHNSON: SATIRES AND IMITATIONS D. Iunius Juvenalis Saturae III Et X. Samuel Johnson: London and the Vanity of Human Wishes

By: Cross III, William Redmond

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Groton School Press: 1976

Seller ID: 28055

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled wraps. Minor creasing to wraps with 1 tiny tear. ; Limited edition: no. 104 of 125 copies. Johnson's work on the left with Juvenal's work in Latin on the right. ; 59 pages
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BIOGRAPHY PAST AND PRESENT Selections and Critical Essays

By: Davenport, William H. & Ben Siegel (Eds. )

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1965

Seller ID: 19503

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

A couple of institution stamps. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Creasing to spine with a bit of chipping. Some edgewear to wraps. ; 472 pages
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MEDIEVALISM, MULTILINGUALISM, AND CHAUCER

By: Davidson, Mary Catherine

Price: $67.00 USD

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2010

Seller ID: 10116

ISBN: 0230602975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light bumping to spine ends else fine. ; New Middle Ages; 224 pages; Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scotts Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the ...
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MEDIEVALISM, MULTILINGUALISM, AND CHAUCER

By: Davidson, Mary Catherine

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2010

Seller ID: 10129

ISBN: 0230602975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Corners are bumped. ; New Middle Ages; 224 pages; Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer examines multilingual identity in the writing of Gower, Langland, and Chaucer. Mary Catherine Davidson traces monolingual habits of inquiry to nineteenth-century attitudes toward French, which had first influenced popular constructions of medieval English in such historical novels as Walter Scotts Ivanhoe. In re-reading medieval traditions in the origins of English from Geoffrey of Monmouth, this book describes how multilingual practices reflected attitudes toward English in the age of Chaucer.
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THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE

By: Drabble, Margaret (Ed. )

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 19497

ISBN: 0198661304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has a bit of edgewear with light creasing. ; 1155 pages
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SOUTHERN ENGLAND: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE The Prehistoric and Roman Remains

By: Dyer, James

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1973

Seller ID: 21527

ISBN: 0571103170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

First few pages bit creased with slight rubbing to spine. ; Xxxiii, 380pp, profusely illustrated. ; 380 pages
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SWEET VIOLENCE The Idea of the Tragic

By: Eagleton, Terry

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Blackwell Publishers: 2003

Seller ID: 26829

ISBN: 0631233601

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

2 Small stains to base of textblock. Else minor shelfwear. ; Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology, and th...
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THE COLLECTED EWART, 1933 - 1980 Poems by Gavin Ewart

By: Ewart, Gavin

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1982

Seller ID: 21018

ISBN: 0091410010

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

1 tiny tear to rear wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 412pp.; 412 pages
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SAMUEL BUTLER AND THE ODYSSEY

By: Farrington, Benjamin

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 1929

Seller ID: 32170

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light foxing. Scholar's name to ffep (E. A. Thompson). Gift inscription from author to Thompson: "With the compliments of the author". Light edgewear to boards. ; 95 pages; Signed by Author
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ANCIENT MYTH IN MODERN POETRY

By: Feder, Lillian

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1977

Seller ID: 19328

ISBN: 0691013365

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light edgewear to wraps. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 432 pages
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BRITANNIA A History of Roman Britain

By: Frere, Sheppard

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1987

Seller ID: 21559

ISBN: 0710212151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor edgewear with light creasing. ; Xvi, 423pp, 32pls. ; 423 pages
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THE EDUCATED IMAGINATION

By: Frye, Northrop

Price: $5.00 USD

Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: 1969

Seller ID: 13290

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

About 5 pages with light pencil marginalia. Some staining to edges of wraps. General shelfwear. ; Contents: The Motive for Metaphor, The Singing School, Giants in Time, The Keys to Dreamland, Verticals of Adam and The Vocation of Eloquence. ; CBC Massey Lectures Series; 68 pages
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SOME UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID GARRICK With Illustrations. [Letters of David Garrick]

By: Garrick, David; George Pierce Baker (Ed. )

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1907

Seller ID: 20055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Spine a bit browned (spine label browned) and discolored, ffep loose but present. Rear hinge cracked. A bit of chipping to foreedges of a few pages with a bit of loss. ; Number 205 of an edition of 430, designed by Bruce Rogers. Xiv+140pp + 30pls. ; 140 pages
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THE POETS ON THE CLASSICS An Anthology of English Poets' Writings on the Classical Poets and Dramatists from Chaucer to the Present

By: Gillespie, Stuart

Price: $36.00 USD

Publisher: Routledge: 1988

Seller ID: 19343

ISBN: 0415003288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small chips and light edgewear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; A collection of poetic English writing on the classics, providing a first-hand guide to the relations between classical literature and the English poetic tradition. It contains over two hundred entries, ranging from the Middle Ages to today. ; 256 pages
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ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE CLASSICS

By: Gordon, G. S. (Collected by)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: NY, Russell & Russell Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 22821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light foxing. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Reprint of the 1912 ed. Contents: Tragedy, by Gilbert Murray; Platonism, by J. A. Stewart; Theophrastus, by G. S. Gordon; Greek romances, by J. S. Phillimore; Ciceronianism, by A. C. Clark; Vergil, by H. W. Garrod; Ovid, by S. G. Owen; Satura, by R. J. E. Tiddy; Senecan tragedy, by A. D. Godley. Collected by G. S. Gordon. ; 252 pages; "A collection of nine lectures delivered in Oxford ... In the winter of 1911-12." --Pref.
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WESTMINSTER (Pilgrimage Pamphlets, No. 2)

By: Goulder, Laurance

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: London, Guild of Our Lady of Ransom: 1967

Seller ID: 21417

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Ink date to titlepage. Some scattered foxing. ; A Roman Catholic look at Westminster Abbey, with the "Daily Prayer" to convert England printed on the rear inside cover. ; 101 pages
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JOHNSON'S SERMONS A Study

By: Gray, James

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Clarendon Press: 1972

Seller ID: 20808

ISBN: 0198120338

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and traces of removed pocket to inner cover. Stamps to top of textblock and on dedicatory page are deleted with black marker. ; X, 263pp, 4pls. ; 263 pages
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SOME INSCRIPTIONS FROM ROMAN BRITAIN

By: Greenstock, Mark Cotterill

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: London, London Assoc. of Classical Teachers: 1971

Seller ID: 29579

ISBN: 0903625067

Binding: Plastic comb binding

Condition: Very Good

Minor shelfwear. Minor creasing to card covers. Plastic comb binding. ; 2nd ed. C. 120pp. 245 Latin inscriptions with translation and commentary. ; London Association of Classical Teachers (LACTOR) No. 4; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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THE JOHNS HOPKINS GUIDE TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

By: Groden, Michael & Martin Kreiswirth (Eds. )

Price: $47.00 USD

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 13192

ISBN: 0801845602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light dustsoiling to top of textblock else book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear else fine. ; Postmodernism. Feminism. Bakhtin. New Historicism. Kristeva. Hermeneutics. Cultural Studies. Said. Deconstruction. Semiotics. Over the past generation, literary theory and criticism have become the focus of intellectual activity in the humanities and social sciences--often sparking interest and debate beyond university classrooms in discussions of "political correctness," multiculturalism, and educational reform. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is a major new reference boo...
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THE JOHNS HOPKINS GUIDE TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

By: Groden, Michael & Martin Kreiswirth (Eds. )

Price: $47.00 USD

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 17931

ISBN: 0801845602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light bump to top of textblock. DJ spine is a bit sunned with minor discoloration. Small tear to upper edge of DJ (1/2 cm). Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Postmodernism. Feminism. Bakhtin. New Historicism. Kristeva. Hermeneutics. Cultural Studies. Said. Deconstruction. Semiotics. Over the past generation, literary theory and criticism have become the focus of intellectual activity in the humanities and social sciences--often sparking interest and debate beyond university classrooms in discussions of "political correctness," multiculturalism, and educational reform. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literar...
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A SMALLHOLDING ON PARNASSUS

By: Haley, Sir William

Price: $9.00 USD

Publisher: Published for the National Book League By the Cambridge University Press: 1954

Seller ID: 18378

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wraps are a bit browned and with faint soiling. Minor shelfwear. ; Discusses the threat to the printed word. ; Twelfth Annual Lecture of the National Book League; 23 pages
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BRITISH CLASSICS OUTSIDE ENGLAND The Academy and Beyond

By: Hallett, Judith P. & Christopher Stray (Ed. )

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Baylor University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 13328

ISBN: 160258012X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Stamp to foreedges of pages "review copy". 1 corner bumped. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; The essays in this informative book explore the impact of British classics--the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages--beyond the borders of England itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialized scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation. Not only did British classics permeate England; they brought English values to Scotland, Wales, and America as well. Far into th...
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EARLY BRITAIN

By: Hawkes, Jacquetta

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Bracken Books, London: 1987

Seller ID: 13561

ISBN: 1851701206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear. ; With 8 plates in colour and 26 illustrations in black and white. ; Britain in Pictures. The British People in Pictures; 48 pages
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THE ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS A Documentary Chrestomathy. Selected, Introduced and Annotated

By: Herrmann, Frank

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 16743

ISBN: 0393086569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. Old price has been crossed out in pen to DJ flap. DJ has some tears (a few crudely repaired with cellotape) , chipping and a few scratches. DJ laminate lifting in places. ; 461 pages
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THE ENGLISH AS COLLECTORS A Documentary Chrestomathy. Selected, Introduced and Annotated

By: Herrmann, Frank

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 16788

ISBN: 0393086569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. Former owner's small bookplate to front inner cover. DJ has few tears, chipping and a few scratches. DJ laminate lifting in places. ; 461 pages
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ZOOLOGIE DER TRAGDIE Von Menschen Und Tieren Bei Shakespeare

By: Hfele, Andreas

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Heidelberg, Universittsverlag Winter: 2003

Seller ID: 20606

ISBN: 3825315320

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Schriften Der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse Der Heidelberger Akademie Der Wissenschaften Band 30; 37 pages
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THE PRINTING AND PROOF-READING OF THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE [2 VOLUME SET] Volume I & II

By: Hinman, Charlton

Price: $250.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press: 1963

Seller ID: 30684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light foxing to textblocks. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). Very light wear to books. DJs are price-clipped. Light edgewear to djs with minor chipping ; 507pp + 560pp; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; Vol. 1/2/2020; 1067 pages
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EXCAVATIONS AT MELBOURNE STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, 1971-76

By: Holdsworth, Philip

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: London, Council for British Archaeology for the Southampton Archaeological Research Committee: 1980

Seller ID: 22652

ISBN: 0900312823

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine sunned and discolored. Else fine. ; Southampton Archaeological Research Committee Report I; CBA Research Report 33; 4to - over 9" - 12" tall; 140 pages
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ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE INVASIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR

By: Holmes, T. Rice

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Clarendon Press: 1907

Seller ID: 18251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Former owner's book label to front inner cover and name to ffep and blindstamp to titlepage (Michael A. Richardson). Other name has been deleted with permanent marker (with bleed-through to obverse). Spine a bit sunned and discolored. Lower Corners a bit bumped. Inner hinges have cracked but have been crudely repaired in places with cellotape (which has now yellowed). A few small tears to cloth at spine ends. Chipping to foreedges of a couple of pages. 1 map repaired with cellotape. ; Xvi, 763pp, 44 illustrations, 3 folding maps. ; 763 pages
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ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE INVASIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR

By: Holmes, T. Rice

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Clarendon Press: 1907

Seller ID: 31704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Front inner hinge reinforced with cellotape. From the library of G. P. Goold. ; Xvi, 763pp, 44 illustrations, 3 folding maps. ; 763 pages
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CAESAR IN BRITAIN C. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico Commentarii Quartus (Xx-Xxxviii) Et Quintus

By: Holmes, T. Rice (with George G. Loane)

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press / Humphrey Milford: 1931

Seller ID: 12862

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff wrappers. Wraps have some edgewear with loose threads. Spine is sunned. ; Latin Text with English vocabulary and commentary
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A. E. HOUSMAN: MORE POEMS

By: Housman, A. E.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1936

Seller ID: 26724

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. DJ is a bit tattered with chipping, tears and browning and some loss to upper edge. ; 73 pages
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SAPPHO Through English Poetry

By: Jay, Peter & Caroline Lewis (Eds. )

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: London, Anvil Press Poetry: 2001

Seller ID: 21154

ISBN: 085646273X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint creasing through pages. Creasing to wraps. ; 2nd printing. Traces Sappho's reception in English literature; Poetica 27; 144 pages
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LATIN INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship, 1945-1979

By: Kallendorf, Craig

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Garland Publishing: 1982

Seller ID: 19490

ISBN: 0824092619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. ; Garland reference library of the humanities; 141 pages
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THE ECHOING WOODS Bucolic and Pastoral from Theocritus to Wordsworth

By: Kegel-Brinkgreve, E.

Price: $110.00 USD

Publisher: J. C. Gieben: 1990

Seller ID: 25631

ISBN: 9050630502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ spine a bit sunned with discoloration. DJ has 1 tiny chip. ; For the first time since more than ninety years a survey is offered of bucolic and pastoral, extending from the classical mainspring of the genre to the English 18th cen-tury. The emphasis is on the genre itself, the role of imitation in constituting and maintaining its identity, and on the Renaissance extension from bucolic to the wider and more diffuse phenomenon of pastoral. Therefore the seminal role of Theocritus, Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, Sannazaro, Tasso, and in England Spenser and Sidney is highlighted by mean...
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MYTHOLOGY AND MISOGYNY The Social Discourse of Nineteenth Century British Classical-Subject Painting

By: Kestner, Joseph A.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press: 1989

Seller ID: 22071

ISBN: 0299115305

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

1 corner very lightly bumped. Else book is fine. DJ has a few tears and creasing. ; Xxi, 418pp, nicely illustrated. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 418 pages
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SCOTLAND: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE From Earliest Times to the 12th Century A. D.

By: MacKie, Euan Wallace

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Park Ridge, Noyes Press: 1975

Seller ID: 22670

ISBN: 0815550340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Underlining in red ink to about 10 or so pages. Else very minor shelfwear. DJ spine sunned. DJ has light edgewear but now in mylar; 309pp, illustrated.; Archaeological Guides; 309 pages
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MILTON AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANCIENT EPIC

By: Martindale, Charles

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press: 2002

Seller ID: 19335

ISBN: 1853996505

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. ; Milton has long been recognised as being among English poets most indebted to ancient literature, but the range and depth of that debt have rarely been explored. Here Martindale examines the use Milton made of other ancient poets, notably Homer, Ovid and Lucan, and finds some surprising elements in the style of "Paradise Lost" - Horace for example. He is primarily concerned with Milton's attitude to the classics and the questions that raises as to his methods. Renaissance views of classical poets and eighteenth-century commentar...
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Category: English Studies