John Bennett Charles Rolfe (8 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1901 printing. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Front gutter weakened. Scattered underlining and markings.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The covers and spine have moderate wear and there is soiling and small stains to the page edges. There is foxing to the front and back end papers and a couple of names and a date written on the front end page in pencil. The half title page is creased and there are pages with notes and underlining. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Jacket Condition: 'No dust jacket' Condition: 'Very Good++' Notes: In Latin. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Green cloth boards have subtle shelfwear. Spine gilt is moderately worn, but still legible. Previous owner's name in ink to top of front free endpaper. Marginalia in pencil scattered throughout the text, otherwise pages are clean and not bent.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Light inking to a few pages. Former owner's name on inner cover. Foxing to textblock. ; Reprint of the 1934 ed. 463pp+500pp+37pp. Latin text with extensive English notes. ; 1000 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is an introductory work on Horace's Satires, providing historical context and thorough analysis. Thought to be one of the earliest examples of satire as a literary genre, these poems examine the Roman world of the Augustan era. The author explores Horace's life and influences, and analyses the Satires' themes, style, and language. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of literature, and lovers of satire, as it offers a comprehensive examination of Horace's seminal work and places it in its proper historical and literary context. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. [2], xl, 424; li, [1], 406, [4]; original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, in black on upper cover; light soiling; generally very good, sound and clean. Issued in the publisher's College Latin series. First edition of these translations. John Carew Rolfe (1859-1943) was long a professor of Latin, at Cornell, Harvard, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania; and a professor from 1907 to 1908 at the American School of Classical Studies and at the American Academy in Rome from 1923 to 1924. His colleague, Charles Edwin Bennett (1858-1921) became professor of Latin in the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1889, of classical philology at Brown University in 1891, and of Latin at Cornell University in 1892. Mills College check List 2287 (see also Mills 2291 for the Odes and Epodes also published separately).