Author: SOPHOCLES; YOUNG, SIR GEORGE (TRANSLATOR)
Title: The Dramas of Sophocles: Rendered in English Verse, Dramatic & Lyric (Everyman's Library #114)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1920. Hardcover. A 1920 reprint of the 1906 issuance. A compact Everyman's Library edition presenting the dramas of Sophocles. Includes his "Antigone," "Ajax," "Electra," "Oedipus Tyrannus," "Trachiniae," "Philoctetes" and "Oedipus Coloneus," as well as fragments of the lost dramas. Translated into English verse dramatic and lyric by Sir George Young, who has likely supplied the introduction. An entry in Everyman's Library Classical series, edited by Ernest Rhys, EL #114. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed olive cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Loosened front hinge and backstrip have been repaired on this item; and with prior owner's signature to front paste-down and tears to cloth along spine, otherwise a sound copy. ; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xx, 396 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Everyman's Library Editions >>Greek & Roman Classics
Title: The Dramas of Sophocles: Rendered in English Verse, Dramatic & Lyric (Everyman's Library #114)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1920. Hardcover. A 1920 reprint of the 1906 issuance. A compact Everyman's Library edition presenting the dramas of Sophocles. Includes his "Antigone," "Ajax," "Electra," "Oedipus Tyrannus," "Trachiniae," "Philoctetes" and "Oedipus Coloneus," as well as fragments of the lost dramas. Translated into English verse dramatic and lyric by Sir George Young, who has likely supplied the introduction. An entry in Everyman's Library Classical series, edited by Ernest Rhys, EL #114. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed olive cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Loosened front hinge and backstrip have been repaired on this item; and with prior owner's signature to front paste-down and tears to cloth along spine, otherwise a sound copy. ; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xx, 396 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Drama/Theatre; Movies/Tv >>Everyman's Library Editions >>Greek & Roman Classics
Price: US$ 17.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88828
- Book number: 88828