Publii Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum Libri Sex: The Fasti Of Ovid Frazer, James George, Ed., Trans. Ancient Greece And Rome

Extremely scarce in the trade in this state and condition, there being no additional copies available on-line currently, and none looking this fine. Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1929, complete in five volumes. Texts in English (right-side or page recto) and Latin (left-side or page verso). Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, clean, if lightly toned interiors, with moderate rubbing to extremities and a bit of scuffing to spine heads and feet. Gold-leaf cameo of Ovid stamped to each front cover, gilt lettering to spines and with gilt-stamped Grecian urn to each spine. The set is handsomely produced, bound in a deep gree cloth over boards, and looks great on the shelf. Printed for Macmillan and Company by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, Scotland, as per usual. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations throughout, and bearing all the signs of classical scholarship and deep research. Sir James George Frazer (1 January 1854 ? 7 May 1941), well known to virtually all anthropologists and ethnologists, was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist, mentor to several generations of early British and other European ethnographers, was also well known for influencing the early stages of Modernist studies of legend, mythology, comparative religion and folklore. Well educated and born to Katherine Brown and Daniel F. Frazer, educated at Springfield Academy and Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh. His Wikipedia entry mentions studies at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he wrote a celebrated thesis, "The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory," and remained tightly connected to the Classics all his life. ) and remained a Classics Fellow all his life, dying in 1941 within hours of the death of his wife. Volume I: xxxi, 1-357 pp.; Volume II: frontis matter, 1-512 pp.; Volume III: frontis matter, 1-421; Volume IV: frontis matter, 1-353 pp.; Volume V: frontis matter, 1-212 pp. plus a lengthy range of fold-out maps and architectural plans, prnted on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.