ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Literature from before the Renaissance, medieval or earlier.
Includes Classical Greece and Rome, and the Near East and Far East.
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LATIN TEXTS AND GUIDES
GREEK TEXTS AND GUIDES
AESCHYLUS (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series) Aeschylus II
The Suppliant Maidens / The Persians / Seven Against Thebes / Prometheus Bound
VG- discoloured edges of wrappers. $10 B/B University Chicago Press 1991 second edition, softcover, vii 180pp. Greek drama. ISBN 0226307948 [Item# 324 ANCLT]
AESOP translated S A HANDFORD
Fables of Aesop
Ancient Greek didactic literature.
ISBN 0140440437
hellenismos, greece, myth
VG paperback with name to first page.
$7 A/A
Penguin Classics 1973 paperback, xx 228pp, illustrated by Brian Robb.
[PB1674 ]
ANDERSON J J (editor) Patience Old and Middle English Texts series
VG VG sunend DW, neat rubber name stamp to fep, some minor age browning $10 B/A Manchester University Press 1969 first edition hard cover, viii 112pp + frontis. ISBN 0719003350 [# 1349 ancient literature]
APULEIUS retold by W H D Rouse The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius including the Tale of Cupid and Psyche.
G ex-library with stamps, rubbed joints, and a patch of the lower board cloth trimmed away. $4 C/B John Murray 1940 first thus edition, 16mo cloth, xi 116pp, illustrated with cuts by Kupfer-Sachs. [Item# 331 ANCLT]
APULEIUS translated by Robert Graves The Transformations of Lucius Apuleius otherwise known as The Golden Ass.
G+ taped head of spine, some wear and mild surface soiling, aged paper stock, name to fep, sewn sheets in printed wrapper. $5 C/B Penguin 1951 third printing paperback, 298pp. [Item# 332 ANCLT]
ARISTOPHANES The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs
Penguin Classics
VG minor foxing to closed edges $7 A/B Penguin paperback ISBN 0140441522 [#2090 ancient lit]
ARISTOPHANES translated Patric Dickinson Aristophanes Plays; 1
Acharnians / Knights / Clouds / Wasps / Peace.
VG- rubbed, soiled wraps. $10 C/C Oxford University Press 1970 softcover, xi 274pp. Greek drama. ISBN 0192810545 [Item# 327 ANCLT]
BLISS AJ editor Sir Orfeo
second edition
VG sunned spine, small notation at head of contents page, name stamp to fep $20 B/B Oxford University 1966 paper wrappers, lx 79pp, includes comparison of the extent manuscripts. [# 1346 medieval literature]
CHAUCER edited by BREWER D S The Parlement of Foulys
Nelson's Medieval and Renaissance Library
VG VG name stamp to fep $20 C/B Nelson 1964 hard cover, 168pp. [# 1344 medieval literature]
CHAUCER Geoffrey (Edited By Richard Morris) The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
The Aldine Edition of the British Poets
vols 1-5 (of 6) VG- hardbacks with backstrips lightly sunned, minor rubbing, closed edges dusty to tops, foxed to fore edges and end papers, vol 1 & 4 slight discolouration to fore edge of upper boards, vol 5 has mild watermark to tail of spine and onto foot of lower board $75 D/D vol 1= George Bell and Sons 1891 vol 2,3,4 & 5 = 1893, 12mo uniformly bound in red cloth with darker red spines, gilt titled, vol 1 has frontis. with tissue guard, xv 365 +375 + vi, 370 +369 + 361pp Some sections unopened, nice smaller hand sized collection. Vol 1 has many notes and a memoir by Sir Harris Nicholas, as well as the Glossary for all six volumes. [#2025 medieval literature]
EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott The Bacchae and other plays
VG names to inside cover $7 A/A Penguin Classics 1982 paperback, 249pp. ISBN 0140440445 [PB# 367 anclt]
EURIPIDES translated by Gilbert Murray The Alcestis of Euripides
VG $7 B/B Allen & Unwin 1922 cloth, 12mo, xvi 82pp. Greek drama. [Item# 323 ANCLT]
EURIPIDES translated Gilbert Murray The Bacchae
VG- $4 A/A Allen & Unwin 1957 paperback, 90pp. Greek drama. [Item# 329 ANCLT]
EURIPIDES The Bacchae and other plays
Penguin first edition
VG- rubbed spine ends, small split at tail, light scattered foxing to wrappers $8 A/A Penguin [L44] 1954 first edition paperback, 234pp+ adverts. A new translation by Philip Vellacott. Ion / The Women of Troy / Helen / The Bacchae [PB# 605 ancient literature]
EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott Alcestis and other plays
Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis
VG names to first page $10 A/A Penguin Classics L31 1953 first thus sewn paperback, 165pp. [PB# 945 ancient literature]
EURIPIDES translated by Philip Vellacott Alcestis and other plays
Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis
VG small bookseller stamps to first page and rear inside wrapper $7 A/A Penguin Classics L31 1959 sewn paperback, 165pp. [PB# 946 ancient literature]
GORDON E V editor Pearl
MS. Cotton Nero A. x, f. 37.
VG VG DW sunned, closed top edge foxed, name stamp to fep $10 C/B Oxford University 1966 hard cover, 167pp [# 1345 medieval literature]
HOMER translated by Rieu The Iliad
VG $8 C/B Penguin 1956 paperback (perfect bound) 469pp + adverts [PB# 355 anc lit]
HOMER The Iliad
translated by E V Rieu
G+ lacks fep, handling soiling $6 Penguin 1950 first edition paperback, sewn binding, xxii 469pp + adverts. Penguin L14 [PB#1331 ancient literature]
LANGLAND William Piers the Ploughman
translated into modern English by J F Goodridge
VG small mark to cover $7 A/B Penguin Classics [L87] 1960 first reprint paperback, 366pp [PB# 856 medieval literature]
Sir Thomas MALORY and Arthurian material.
[OVID] BARKER E Phillips
The Lover's Manual of Ovid
A ribald translation into rhymed couplets of Ovid's Lover's Manual.
Illustrated by A R Thomson.
book plate, classical literature, erotica
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket.
Bookplate for Hughan by Nan Oxley to paste down. Top edge dusted blue. Jacket generally complete and tidy but some foxing to fold in flaps and chipped along top edge of upper panel, spine browned and lower panel foxed, the front cover art is quite tidy though.
$35 C/C
Basil Blackwell 1931 First Edition, 158pp which include full page line drawings by A R Thomson.
[#5657 ]
PEARSALL D A (editor) The Floure and the Leafe, and, The Assembly of Ladies
Medieval and Renaissance Library
VG VG minor wear to DW fore edge fold, neat rubber name stamp to fep $15 C/B Nelson 1962 first edition hard cover, viii 191pp. [# 1350 ancient literature]
PETRONIUS translated Paul Dinnage The Satyricon of Petronius
VG- in G price clipped DW chipped and rubbed to edges and corners but generally intact, large chip to tail of spine. $20 C/B Spearman & Calder 1953 first thus cloth, 162pp. Translation of BCE Roman satire on an opulent Roman feast. [ANCLT 2]
PETRONIUS translated Paul Dinnage The Satyricon
unexpurgated
G+ aged paper, rubbed wraps. $5 C/A Panther 1964 paperback, 189pp. [Item# 330 ANCLT]
PLAUTUS translated E F Watling
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
The Pot of Gold/ The Prisoners/ The Brothers Menaechmus/ The Swaggering Soldier/ Pseudolus.
ISBN0140441492
latin, roman, comic, literature, Penguin classics
VG paperback
$8 A/B
Penguin 1987, 268pp.
[PB1649 / #328 ]
POGGIO ( Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini ) The Facetiae
translated by Bernhardt J Hurwood
VG+ near fine $10 A/B Tandem [T178] 1968 first thus edition paperback, 219pp. First complete and unexpurgated English translation. Ribald Renaissance classic. [PB# 846 literature medieval renaissance]
SISAM Kenneth (editor)
Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose
Includes a vocabulary by J RR Tolkien
ISBN0198710933
medieval, european, history, literature
VG softback, name to first page, sunned spine
$15 C/B
Oxford University Press 1975, xlvii 460pp.
[#4431 ]
VG softback, minor edge staining, inscription to inside front cover, sunned spine
$15 C/B
Oxford University Press 1978, xlvii 460pp.
[#5395 ]
SOPHOCLES translated by E F Watling The Theban Plays
King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
VG $6 A/A Penguin (L3)1956 sewn paperback, 168pp. [PB# 366 anclt]
SOPHOCLES translated E F Watling
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The Theban Plays (King Oedipus / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone) |
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G- covers worn with edge tears, pages creased, bottom corner chipped, foxed wraps. $3 A/A [Item# 337 ANCLT] Penguin 1947 first edition, sewn paperback, 185pp. Greek drama. Penguin first edition.
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SOPHOCLES (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series)
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Sophocles II (Ajax / The Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes) |
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VG
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$10 B/B [Item# 325 ANCLT]
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University Chicago Press 1969 softcover, 254pp. Greek drama. SIBN 0226307867
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SOPHOCLES (The Complete Greek Tragedy Series)
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Sophocles II (Ajax / The Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes) |
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VG sunned spine
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$10 B/B [Item# 326 ANCLT]
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University Chicago Press 1969 softcover, 254pp. Greek drama. SIBN 0226307867
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VIRGIL trsl C Day Lewis The Aeneid
World's Classics
VG $8 A/B Oxford 1986 paperback, xxvii 450pp. [PB# 876 ancient literature]
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