An Analysis of the Greek Metres, + An Introduction to the Metres of the Greek Tragedians, + An Introduction to the Principal Greek Tragic and Comic Metres. The 3 Books bound as one.

VII + 70 + 52 + XI + 46 + Baldwin & Cradock lists. 9 x 5.5 inch. This book originally belonged to Melville Portal of Laverstoke whilst at Harrow School in 1834. (He later became an MP, JP, and High Sheriff of Hampshire). It has his name and date neatly on fep as well as book-plate on paste-downs and it remained in the Family Library till it was all sold off in the 1990s. The interior is good and clean with no deliberate markings, just occasional age browning. Still strongly bound with gilt titling to labels (partly missing) to ribbed spine with just an inch of cracking to top of front hinge. Consists of An Analysis of the Greek Metres, for the use of Students at the Universities. 9th Edition c1829 by Rev John Barlow Seale + An Introduction to the Metres of the Greek Tragedians 4th Edition 1826 by Edward Birton. + An Introduction to the Principal Greek Tragic and Comic Metres in Scansion Structure and Ictus by James Tate, 1829, 2nd Edition.