The Ion of Euripides, with a Translation into English Verse, A.W. Verrall, 1890

The Ion of Euripides, with a Translation into English Verse by A.W. Verralll Litt.D., of Lincoln's Inn Barrister-in-Law Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College Cambridge.

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

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1890 first edition.

A good brown cloth hardback with gilt titles and armorial design to front cover. Spine slightly skewed. Cover rubbed and bumped..

A little cracking to inner rear joint. Some spotting to blank endpapers, but text remains clean and bright throughout. There is some showthrough to webbing at joints between gatherings, so binding a little fragile. A good reading copy of an uncommon first edition.

Text in English, with some Greek.

lxii + 131pp. 

Weight approximately 454g unpacked.

Dimensions: Approximately 226mm high x 150mm wide x 18mm deep.