Ethel Mary Steuart Ed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 246pp. Little discoloring to cloth, few minor pencil marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine darkened. Foxing to rear endpapers. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Former owner's name to ffep.; The Annals was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of Cato the Elder in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic, leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in Latin poetry. The Annals became a school text for Roman schoolchildren, eventually supplanted by Virgil's Aeneid. About 600 lines survive.; 0.63 x 6.3 x 4.8 Inches; 246 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ix, 1 leaf, 246 pp. Original cloth. Bookplate on pastedown. Some pencil checks in margins. Else Very Good, without dust jacket.