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Five scarce volumes containing Greek and Latin classic texts, from infamous figures such as Sophocles, Homer and Catallus. A scarce collection of classical works from the publisher's 'Parnassus Library', a series of texts of Greek and Latin authors, selected by eminent scholars with short English introductions.Five volumes out of an unknown number. Very scarce to find more than one volume together.Uniformly bound in the publisher's original decorative hardcover boards.With a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper of 'Sophocles' and a charming postcard from Sweden tipped in to one of the works.This set includes works from the following names:Q. Horati Flacci (Horace) - 1895. Edited by by Thomas Ethelbert Page, a British classicist and schoolmaster. Includes 'Carminum', 'Epodi', 'Sermonum', 'Epistularum' and 'De Arte Poetica'.Homeri Ilias (Homer's Iliad) 1895. Edited by English banker and classical scholar, Walter Leaf, with a prior list of principal variations.P. Vergili Maronis: Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis (Virgil) 1895. Edited by Thomas Ethelbert Page. Contains Virgil's three famous poems in Latin literature.Catvlli Veronensis: Liber (Catullus) 1896. Edited by Canadian-Irish classical scholar, Arthur Palmer.Sophoclis Tragoediae (Sophocles) 1897. Edited by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Irish classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original decorative boards. Externally, smart. With handling marks and dust toning to the extremities, heaviest to 'Catallus' and 'Sophocles'. With light rubbing and bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, with scattered spotting and offsetting to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper of 'Sophocles'. With previous owner's inscribed notes to the first few leaves of 'Sophocles'. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 919Y41
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