Description

Small quarto volume bound in pictorial cloth and boldly lettered on spine in sliver. 493 pages. Translated by Robert Fagles. Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 8 additional full page color plates by Grahame Baker. Map end-papers, with an additional suite of three double page maps. Includes extensive after-matter including: translators postscript; genealogies, textual variants from the Oxford Classical text; Notes on the translation; suggestions for further reading; pronouncing glossary. Fourth printing thus (2005). No previous ownership marks. Book is clean, tight and unmarked. Slipcase shows some incidental light toning and several small white marks to closed rear vertical panel. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase.