Alex Souter Trans (3 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has slightly bumped corners, modest cover wear. Gilt lettering on the spine is complete. Book.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (22 x 13.5). pp. xx+496. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Some light rubbing to corners and edges, small ink-stain to front board, front inner hinge cracked; contents clean and fresh. Tertullian's Apologeticus (c. 197 AD) is Tertullian's defence of Christianity addressed to the provincial governors of the Roman Empire. Written during an era of intense persecution, it uses sharp legal reasoning and classical rhetoric to argue against the unjust criminalisation of Christians. This edition, published posthumously in 1917 following John E. B. Mayor's death in 1910, represents the culmination of decades of lectures delivered by Mayor as Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge, comprising an extensively annotated analysis of Oehler's text accompanied by a translation by Alexander Souter. Mayor was an early advocate of vegetarianism, presiding over the Vegetarian Society from 1884 to 1910.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine has chipping and a few small tears to cloth. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Lower corners a bit bumped. Light foxing. Writing in pencil to rear endpaper.; 496 pages.