On Principles and Methods in Latin Syntax

Tipped in presentation slip from the author to noted scholar Basil L. Gildersleeve. Later owned by Richard A. Macksey. Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt lettered and decorated. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Some page ruffling. Owner's name on front end page. xi, 232 p., 23 cm. Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve was a celebrated classical scholar and unrepentant Confederate apologist. Gildersleeve's education at Princeton, which he considered "almost a Southern college," shaped his defense of the South during and after the Civil War. An author of numerous works, and founding editor of the American Journal of Philology, he has been credited with contributions to the syntax of Greek and Latin, and the history of Greek literature. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. …