John Arthur Platt a E Housman (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xviii, 220pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. The top edge dust soiled, and the cloth a little faded at several margins, and at the backstrip. Some light toning to an unprinted preliminary leaf and to the final text leaf. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. Housman's seven-page preface precedes nine posthumously published essays by the classics scholar, who served at the Professor of Greek at University College London for almost thirty years. The subjects including Edward FitzGerald, Cervantes, and La Rochefoucauld. Quite uncommon.…