Two Essays on "The Clouds" and on "The Geras" of Aristophanes
John Murray, 1836. Octavo, cloth boards with paper-over-cloth backstrip, later printed paper title label to spine, pp 192 plus 4 pp publisher's list (which is trimmed to the edges). Corners bumped and rubbed. Scattered foxing. Silverfish loss in the top corner of p. 129, with no loss of text. Previous owner's bookplate front endpaper, early inscription front free endpaper and early previous owner's signature reverse side. Very good condition.
Analysis of Aristophanes's comedy play "The Clouds" and, separately, a discussion of one of his lost comedies. The first section is a translation of a paper which was read at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1825. Item #105958
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