Anstice, Joseph Selections from the choric poetry of the Greek dramatic writers London 1832
Anstice, Joseph. Selections from the choric poetry of the Greek dramatic writers. Translated into English verse. London: B. Fellowes, 1832. (2), 246 pp. 8vo, original green moirŽ cloth, printed paper label (spine just a trifle rubbed). First edition. Poetical translations, with annotations, of the choruses from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by a promising young classics professor at Oxford. Anstice was 24 when this book appeared, and he died four years later. A nice copy in original condition; contemporary signature on the front flyleaf of T. Legh Claughton. Jackson, p. 570; CBEL (3) IV, 225.
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