Progressive Exercises on the Composition of Greek Iambic Verse, with a treatise on the Dramatic Tragical Metrical Systems, The Iambic Metre, and An Outline of Attic Prosody

Some marginalia. Some foxing. Some leaves unopened.; Fifth edition. vi, [2], 123, [1 (advertisements)] pages. Contemporary green cloth boards with printed paper title label on front board. Page dimensions: 190 x 107mm. "This little Work was originally intended for privated distribution among the Pupils of the King's School, Canterbury; but as several Gentleman engaged in tuition thought it adapted to more extensive circulation, it is now offered to the Public." - from the Advertisements to the First Edition. "In this Second Edition, advantage has been taken of the kind suggestions communicated to the Publisher from variouso quarters, by Gentlement who have used the work in preparing Students for the Universities." - from the Advertisement to the Second Edition. "This little Work is now for the third time presented to the Public, with anxious endeavours to make it better merit the kind reception with which it has been honoured. A short account of the Trochaic and Anapaesitc Systems of Tragedy is now added to the Introduction" - from the Advertisement to the Third Edition. "In this Fifth Edition the passags proposed in the Classical Tripos for translation into Greek Iambics are continued from 1839 to the present year'.…