Euripides The Rationalist; A Study in the History of Art and Religion, A.W. Verrall, 1895

Euripides The Rationalist: A Study in the History of Art and Religion, by A.W. Verrall Litt.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. Signed to first pastedown. His detailed pencil annotations to rear endpapers and a few pencil marks in text. Please see our other listings for related works.

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1895 first edition.

A good cloth hardback with gilt titles and Sphinx design to front cover. Spine slightly skewed, but all soundly bound. Cover rubbed and bumped with some sun fading to top quarter rear of cover.

Ex-library with remains of library labels. Official withdrawn stamp and library reference number to spine. A little cracking to inner front joint. Some spotting to endpapers, but text remains clean and bright throughout. A good reading copy of an uncommon first edition.

Text in English.

ix+ 263pp. 

Weight approximately 610g unpacked.

Dimensions: Approximately 231mm high x 155mm wide x 24mm deep.