Myres, John L.; Dorothea Gray, ed. — Homer and His Critics

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, slight bumping to spine head and foot, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Bumping to spine head and foot. Edited by Dorothea Gray, and augmented with eight plates in black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper, depicting two dozen illustrations. Bilingual in Greek and English. The Table of Contents shows: Homeric criticism: the means and the end; Homer and his Critics in Antiquity; From the Geste de Troie to Bentley; Poet and Painter; Friederich August Wolf; Gladstone's View of Homer; The Epic of the Spade: Henrich Schliemann, The Homeric World; Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff; John Linton Myres; the Last Decade. Complete also with a fine biography of the author and of his illustrious career. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [2], 1-302 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine