Author: G Rostrevor Hamilton
Title: The Latin Portrait: An Anthology
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. First edition. Cloth. An excellent limited edition copy of this charming anthology of translated Latin poems. An edition limited to one thousand and fifty copies for sale in the United Kingdom, and five hundred in the United States. This volume being number nine hundred and sixty of the UK edition. An anthology made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton of twenty one Latin poems, translated into English, with Latin and English text printed side by side. A lovely work including an introduction and works by Catullus, Virgil, and Seneca among others. With original marbled slipcase. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally very smart with only minor shelfwear. Cloth to spine has darkened, gilt still visible. Slipcase in very smart with sight shelfwear and edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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