The Acharnenses of Aristophanes, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, adapted to the use of schools and universities, by T. Mitchell.
by Aristophanes
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1835. PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, pp. xx, [ii], 276. Original grey boards backed in buff cloth, printed paper label to spine. Some light spotting, a dampmark to lower margin. Binding lightly stained and soiled, extremities a touch worn. Armorial bookplate of J.C. Gaisford St Lawrence to front pastedown, flyleaf inscribed ‘With the Editor’s best respects’. A schoolbook edition of the Acharnians, edited by Thomas Mitchell (1783-1845), who had earlier published an important English translation of Aristophanes’s comedies. This copy was presented by Mitchell, probably to Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), dean of Christ Church - Mitchell lived in Oxfordshire - though the bookplate is of Gaisford’s grandson Commander J. C. Gaisford St Lawrence (1862-1932), who had adopted his mother’s surname for reasons of inheritance, she being sole child of the third earl of Howth.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4657
- Title
- The Acharnenses of Aristophanes, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, adapted to the use of schools and universities, by T. Mitchell.
- Author
- Aristophanes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
- Keywords
- Classics Greek Schoolbook Presentation Copy
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