The Philogical Museum: First Volume

Condition: moderate wear to cover at edges and spine, light tanning of interior, tan spots on endpapers, library sticker on front pastedown half-leather binding, marbled cover, endpapers and page edges "Edited by Julius Hare, important fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge, and Connop Thirlwall, author of History of Greece (1835-1844), this significant journal contains articles on Greek, English, German and Latin languages as well as on the history and chronology of the ancient world. The Philological Museum, which was the standard-bearer of the German Altertumswissenschaft that dominated European classical scholarship in the nineteenth century, had two bases in England—the Cambridge Etymological Society (1830-1832) and the reformist grouping within the Established Church commonly known as the Liberal Anglicans.".