BLACKWOOD'S ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS VELLUM BOUND IN 8 VOLUMES

[COLLINS, Rev. Lucas, M.A. (edited by)]. Ancient Classics for English Readers. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1878-1882.

Reprints. Sixteen volumes bound in eight. Vellum-bound. Hardcovers. Octavos (175 x 115 mm). English text. Handsomely bound in quarter vellum over red buckram, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, all page edges dyed red. Each part with separate title-page and pagination. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Reginald Bousfield Gillett to the front pastedown of each volume. The titles are: Iliad and Odyssey; Hesiod, Theognis and the Greek Anthology; Aeschylus and Sophocles; Euripides and Aristophanes; Ovid, Catullus, Tibulus and Propertius; Juvenal, Plautus and Terence; Lucretius and Pindar; Virgil and Horace. Condition: VERY GOOD. All bindings tight and secure with the hinges intact. Covers largely clean with a couple of the boards with slight splash marks. Interiors very well-preserved with light foxing to endpapers.