Platt Arthur Housman a E (3 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.95x4.96x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Originally published in 1927, this book presents a selection of previously unprinted essays by the classical scholar John Arthur Platt (1860-1925). A variety of figures and subjects are discussed, both classical and otherwise, including Aristophanes, Edward.…