Author: MILLER, Marion Mills (editor)
Title: The Latin Classics: Volume Six -- Oratory, Essays, Letters
Description: New York, Vincent Parke and Company, 1909. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering/rules. x, 424pp. Top edge gilt. Captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece, 2 captioned tissue-guarded plates (one color). Near fine. Volume six (only) from this 15-volume confusingly-numbered "Edition De Luxe," with multi-colored title page giving the set title as "The Classics: Greek & Latin -- The Most Celebrated Works of Hellenic and Roman Literature, Embracing Poetry, Romance, History, Oratory, Science, and Philosophy, Translated into English Prose and Verse by Distinguished Men of Letters, with Critical Appreciations by an International Council of Classical Scholars." Secondary title page gives title as listed here, and while "Volume Six" is noted here and on spine, a tipped-in explanatory leaf on this edition states, "This is Volume Thirteen.." A handsome and sturdy production, tight and lovely, with large sections devoted to Cicero, Quintilian and the Younger Pliny. .

Keywords: Literary Criticism Ancient World


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