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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: Longman and Co. 1831, First Edition. 4 pages of the Parliamentary Pocket Companion for 1834 bound in at the front end, 2 pages of adverts, xvi, 514pp, [2], 170pp, [2pp] of adverts. A "Collection from the Writers of Ancient Greece" [Preface], including Herodotus, Xenophon, Isocrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Lysias, Thucydides, Longinus, Homer, etec, etc. Preface, Contents, Adverts, 514 pages of Greek text, Abbreviation of Names in the Notes, 170 pages of Notes in English and more adverts. Bound in half dark red morocco.A Very Scarce Volume. Untrimmed page edges. Approximately 9 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, 5 raised bands dividing 6 compartments, 4 of which have a gilt design. Joints good condition. Corners good condition. Boards good condition half dark read morocco/marbled with blind tooled dividing lines. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, all untrimmed and foxed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition. End papers good condition original internal end papers are tanned and foxed. Title good condition lightly tanned and foxed. Pages good condition untrimmed, bound in at the front of the volume are 4 pages of The Parliamentary Pocket Companion which are all tanned and foxed, text in Greek, Notes in English to the rear, pages are tanned with some foxing throughout. Binding good condition sound. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1831 Binding: Hardback.