Translated Prickard (3 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1946. Reprint. xxviii, 128pp. On the Sublime is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century CE. Its author is unknown but is conventionally referred to as Cassius Longinus (c.213-273 AD), a Greek rhetorician and philosophical critic. It is regarded as a classic work on aesthetics and the effects of good writing. The treatise highlights examples of good and bad writing from the previous millennium, focusing particularly on what may lead to the sublime. The present edition has been translated by A.O. Prickard and includes an introduction, appendix and index. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards and light bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with light foxing to the endpapers and some scattered light foxing elsewhere within the book, including some marks on the title-page. A name, address and date (1948) has been written on the front fixed endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oxford at the clarendon Press 1918 First edition hardback mottled green cloth gilt titles to spine xix 336 pp, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. light pencil writing to fep Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.