The Plays Of Euripides Euripides; Murray, Gilbert (Trans) Literature And Modern Firsts

Translated into English Rhyming Verse by Gilbert Murray, with wood engravings from the Greek Vase paintings by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray. Large folio. (39 cm x 26-1/2cm). [3], half title, ix, 269, [1] colophon; Vol II: [2], 263p, [1] colophon. In the bright russet cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine, publisher's gilt device to upper boards, bevelled boards. Handmade rag paper, untrimmed edges. Both vols numbered 181 of 500 copies issued, label of British Council to front pastedowns. A fabulous Gregynog production, in near fine condition, with some slight fraying around head of spine of vol I, slight rubs to lower board edges, offsetting to front free endpaper, slight bump - barely noticeable - to upper front tip; vol II seems to have had appreciably less use; neither with any foxing, pages bright and clean, a handsome, imposing set. Although not identified in the books, from the library of Aidan Reynolds, Arthur Machen specialist and biographer.