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 View More...
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... View More...
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... View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 Scott?s 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... View More...
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 Scott?s 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. View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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. View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
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... View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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... View More...
1 corner very lightly bumped. Else book is fine. DJ has a few tears and creasing. ; Xxi, 418pp, nicely illustrated. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 418 pages View More...
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 View More...
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... View More...
Very light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; Compiled by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this study investigates Shakespeare's classicism and demonstrates how he used a variety of classical books to explore such crucial areas of human experience as love, politics, ethics, and history. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare's classicism that will also serve as a useful introduction for students and others approaching the subject for the first time. ; 334 pages View More...
Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has small chip to base of spine. DJ in mylar. ; 160pp, nicely illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 160 pages View More...
Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock and endpages. Tear to cloth at head of spine (2 cm). Corners rounded. Fraying to head of spine. Else VG. ; 480 pages View More...
