THE MYTHS OF GREECE & ROME BY H. A. GUERBER 1907 FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED
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[GUERBER, H. A.]. The Myths of Greece and Rome: Their Stories Signification and Origin. London: Published by George G. Harrap & Company, 1907.
First edition. Hardcover. Cloth-bound. Octavo (8°) (220 x 145 x 45 mm.). Pp. xiii, 395. English text. Attractively bound publisher's original gilt decorated cloth. Top edge gilt, other edges rough cut. Half-title present. 64 full-page illustrations including frontispiece. Title-page printed in brown and black with publisher's device. Rear index and glossary in double column. Printed by Ballantyne & Co., Limited. With chapters on: The beginning -- Jupiter -- Juno -- Minerva -- Apollo -- Diana -- Venus -- Mercury -- Mars -- Vulcan -- Neptune -- Pluto -- Bacchus -- Ceres and Proserpina -- Vesta -- Janus -- Somnus and Mors -- Aeolus -- Hercules -- Perseus -- Theseus -- Jason -- The Calydonian hunt -- Oedipus -- Bellerophon -- Minor divinities -- The trojan war -- Ulysses -- Aeneas -- Analysis of myths. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers clean with minor bumping to spine ends. Interior largely very clean with light spotting confined to initial and terminal leaves. Without previous ownership markings.