Sandys, John Edwin — A History of Classical Scholarship

New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1967. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in three volumes, a fine and valuable survey of classical scholarship from the 6th-century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages. Stated Third Impression of the reprint edition from Cambridge University Press of the 1896-1897 true first editions. Bound simply in publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spines. Clean interiors, facsimile printings and trilingual in English, Latin and Greek. Rock-solid of binding, sewn-in headbands, stand easily on the shelf, and with plentiful tables, illustrations and chronologies. Considered still to be the standard work in its field, though the author is involved in something of an infamous episode in which he was accused of plagiarism by poaching from the works of Conrad Bursian but without sufficient attribution. Sandys edited a ton of Greek texts and himself published "An Easter Vacation in Greece (1886); a translation and enlargement (with H. Nettleship) of Oskar Seyffert's A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art (1891); and The Harvard Lectures on the Revival of Learning (1905)" (Wikipedia). The current work, however, is his best-known work of scholarship. Volume I: xiii, 701 pp.; Volume II: xxviii, 498 pp.; Volume III: xiii, 523 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine