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Oxford at the Clarendon Press / Oxford Univeristy Press, London 1975. Clothbound hardcover with embossed and gilded text along the spine, with a lightly worn dust jacket. Signature and dating on the front flyleaf. (36) 233 pgs. The Latin portion of the text is slightly annotated, all of it is done in a light pencil. Text in English and Latin. The book is in good condition.
Published by Heimeran, München, 1961
Seller: Antiquariat am St. Vith, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Book
Leinen. LC, 212 Seiten. Ln. mit Schutzumschlag. Umschlag gebräunt und mit Einrissen, 1 Ecke geringf. angestoßen, priv. Stempel auf beiden Innendeckeln.
Published by Oxford U. P. London 1975, 1975
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo xxxvi + 233pp., appends., indexes, Neat ownership inscription o/w a nice copy.
Published by Oxford U. P. London 1975, 1975
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo xxxvi + 233pp., appends., indexes, Tiny ownership signature o/w nice copy.
Hardback. Interior clean but for light age-toning. Binding is sound. Bookplate front pastedown and small private library label front free endpaper. No other library marks. 16mo. 156pp. Full calf, decorated in blindstamp. Spine gilt. "Albae Gaecae ann.1688." Text is Latin.
Published by Joannem Baptistam Langlois, Parisiis [ Paris ], 1693
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1st edition thus. Contemporary full calf, G+. tp+[xxii]+288pp, engraved frontis, printers device to the title, binding rubbed & worn at the edges, with a little loss at the head of the spine, upper hinge cracked but firm, old library mark in the lower compartment of the spine, text clean & bright, title & frontis a little grubby, a previous owner has partly copied the frontis on the recto of the sheet in pencil, pages yellowed a little, a good copy. A new translation of Petronius' picaresque novel, which had survived in fragmentary form. This edition, edited by Nodot [ 1650 - 1710 ], contains passages which he claimed had been discoverd in Belgrade during the siege of that city in 1688 ( he describes the discovery in the preface ) but were in fact from his own pen. The 'rediscovered' passages here are printed in italics. Nodot himself was soon exposed as the source of the new material but despite this his passages remained in translations for many years before being fully expurgated. The Satyricon, written around 61AD & first printed in 1664, stands alone in classical literature in that it touches on all matters connected with the everyday luxuries, vices & social manners of the Imperial Age in Rome. The characters are most likely based on real people. Trimalchio, the vulgar & ostentatious millionaire of the Satyricon is the literary model for F Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby - it's original working title was 'Trimalchio's Banquet'. The book contains in chapter 62 an early Werewolf story. Fellini based his film of the same title on the book. Petronius [ 27 - 66 ], Nero's adviser in all matters of luxury and extravagence [ which earned him the title Arbiter Elegantiae ] However Petronius fell foul of his capricious master & was forced to commit suicide. 200 grams.