THE ROMAN POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE: HORACE AND THE ELEGIAC POETS With a Memoir of the Author by Andrew Lang
by Sellar, W. Y
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Oxford At the Clarendon Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1899. Second Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers foxed. Light chipping to spine ends. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners slightly edgeworn. Ink and pencil underlining and marginalia to some pages. Former owner's name to ffep (A. Merriman). ; 362 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30871
- Title
- THE ROMAN POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE: HORACE AND THE ELEGIAC POETS With a Memoir of the Author by Andrew Lang
- Author
- Sellar, W. Y
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford At the Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Latin Literature, Poetry & Poets, Horace
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Chipping
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- Marginalia
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- Foxed
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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