Translated by Tom Griffith (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. 376 pages; 5 x 8 ".

Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good ++. 734 pages. Black background covers. Light wear to covers' corners & spine-ends. Page-edges lightly yellowed otherwise covers and contents very clean & very tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback in blue cloth boards, in Fine condition. Dust wrapper also in Fine condition, pp223, colour wood engravings by Peter Forster. A superb example of the bookmaker's and translator's art, this new edition of Plato's "Symposium" exhibits aesthetic, literary, and intellectual excellences rarely found together in a single volume.Tom Griffith's translation of this foundation work of Western culture is unsurpassed for the balance it achieves between readability and fidelity to Plato's Greek. For felicity of phrasing, freshness, care to match the sense of the Greek rather than its wording, and for its idiomatic rendering of the spoken word, it has no peer. Originally published in a limited edition with facing Greek and colour wood engravings, Griffith's translation is here presented in reduced format that retains the aesthetic quality of the original version at an affordable price.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A clean and tight copy. Dust Jacket in a new Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Plato. Symposium. Translated by Tom Griffith; engraved by Peter Forster. Collins Harvill, London, 1989. Hardcover with jacket. Condition: fine/fine. Cover and jacket show nearly no wear. Octavo; pp. 139. Blue cloth binding; silver lettering on spine. Parallel translation: Greek text on verso, English on recto. *** A beautifully designed and crafted volume. Liberally illustrated with original engravings of Classical architectural features and evocative of an ancient Symposium, printed in blue/gray. Both Greek and English texts set in elegant typefaces.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "First published 2000". No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Fine hardback in fine, unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Thus. Type: Book pp xxl, 66 No DJ, slip case as issued as near fine condition. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. No markings or inscriptions. Looks barely used. Engravings by Peter Forster. Text in Greek, and English translation on the facing pages. Peter Forster (illustrator).

Condition: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original chocolate and cream cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, primrose end papers. 4to 11'' x 7''. Contains [xxi] 66 printed pages of text with colour illustrated plates throughout. Fine condition book in near Fine condition cream open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. GREECE (Ancient Greek).…