Holford-Strevens, Leofranc — Aulus Gellius

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1989. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover of a biography of the Latin author Aulus Gellius, whose Attic Nights and other works so enriched the ancient Greek world. Little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First American Edition, having been published first the year prior. From the publisher blurb, "In this, the most comprehensive study of Gellius in any language, Dr Holford-Strevens examines his life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading, his scholarly interests, and his literary parentage, paying due attention to the text, sense, and content of individual passages, and to the use made of him by later writers in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and more recent times. It covers many subject areas such as language, literature, history, law, rhetoric, medicine; light is shed on a wide range of problems in Greek as well as Latin authors, either in the main text or in the succinct but wide-ranging footnotes." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii [1], 2-284 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,