ANTHON, CHARLES - Cicero's Tusculan Disputations with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory

New York, NY: Harper & Bros, 1852. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Leather_Bound. This book has a full leather binding. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. Both front and rear joints / hinges have cracked, but both are still attached via the strings. The leather covers have wear, rubbing, spots of ground-in dirt, and general wear. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There are several different names inked or penciled on the front and rear free pages, and there are several spots of foxing throughout the text. "He produced a large number of classical works for use in colleges and schools, which enjoyed great popularity, although schoolmasters sometimes disliked their use by students, owing to the large amount of assistance and translations contained in the notes. Anthon's books on classical literature commonly included a "classical dictionary". He also wrote A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era, providing a list of all Greek writers in that period, with a summary of their life and works and a bibliography of editions then in use. The overview is still useful today, but outdated. His intention to provide a similar volume for Latin literature was never fulfilled. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .