Classics from AJ Scruffles

London: The Folio Society, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elegant Folio Society edition of Virgil perplexingly political, metaphorical epic poem. Ostensibly a poetic guide to agriculture, it reflects the Rome's political travails leading up to the ascension of Augutus and the experience gained. With b/w illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. Bound in pleasing canvas cloth. Complete… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Pleasant Everyman edition of Whiston's translation of Josephus's great account of Jewish history from the hellenic ascension in Jerusalem to the Roman Jewish wars. Gilt decoration to spine, With an introduction by Jacob Hart. Previous owner's name to half-title. Very slight sunning to spine. … Read more about this item

London: R. Fellows; F. & J. Rivington; E. Hodgson; G. Lawford etc., 1848. Hardcover. Very Good. Rebound edition of Arnold's unfinished 1838 history of Rome, 'complete' in three volumes. Rebound in rather rustic fashion, blue cloth with labels to spine. Original marbling to page edges. Printed marbled paper to end-papers to match. Contents clean,… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Soft cover. Good. Lord Derby's verse translation. Lacks dust-jacket. Previous owner's name to ffep. Some rubbing and bumping to edges but otherwise tight and clean. Good condition.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Dent's Everyman's Library no. 161 of Virgil's epic with an introduction by J. P. Maine. Lacks dust-jacket. Previous owner's name to ffep. Some rubbing and bumping to edges but otherwise tight and clean. Good condition.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Lacks dust-jacket. Some rubbing and bumping to edges but otherwise tight and clean. Good condition.

Cambridge, Mass: Loeb; Harvard University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A revised version of Shackleton's Bailey's translation of Cicero's first six speeches against Mark Antony following the death of Caesar, Some mild rubbing to DJ. Contents crisp and clean. Very good.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Thorough study of the 4th century BC manuscript containing a commentary on an Orphic poem, from which the author extrapolates cosmological and theological doctrines. With the manuscript text in original greek and english translation. In crisp fine condition,

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Good. Morley's universal library edition of Euripides plays including Hecuba, Rhesus, his Hercules plays, Helen and the Trojan Captives. Fore edge rough cut. Rubbing to label on spine. Mild shelf-wear and bumping to edges. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: Joseph Priestley, 1826. Hardcover. Good. Horace's works with substantial notes and annotations by Doring. Rebound in neat blue cloth. Verse and notes in Latin. Engraved frontisportrait and title page. Slight occasional spotting within. Mild tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good.

New York: Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Good. John Flaxman. Handsome Heritage edition of Pope's verse translation of the Odyssey. With Flaxman's great illustrations. Large 8vo. Blue cloth with blind stamped Greek key to cover and gilt decoration to spine. Small tear to bottom of spine. Toning to spine, mild toning to covers. Contents… Read more about this item

London: J. Fuller, J. Rivington, W. Owen, L. Hawes and T. Longman etc., 1770. Hardcover. Very Good. Eighth edition, revised and correct. 'To which is added a supplement to his commentary on the wars in Gaul. As also commentaries on the Alexandrian, Africa and Spanish Wars by Aulus Hirtius or Oppius etc.' Quarter leather binding… Read more about this item

London: Atlantic Books, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight lean to spine else prim, crisp and clean. Very good+

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Fine. Impressive Folio Society edition of Burckhardt's 1853 study of Constantine and the later Roman empire, from the reforms of Diocletian and the tetrarchy to constantine's ascension and his adoption of christianity, using the text of the updated 1880 edition. With colour images. Complete with slipcase. Some mild shelf-wear… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Gotth. Theoph. Georgi., 1774. Hardcover. Good. The first part of Davis' edition of Maximus of Tyre's Dissertations, essays on various philosophical themes, expanded with notes by Jeremiah Markland and Jakob Reiske. Contains the first 24 pieces with the original ancient greek and latin translation. Full calf with outer dentelles. 8vo. [xxxii] 503pp Rubbing to edges with… Read more about this item

London: William [Gulielmus] Pickering, 1831. Hardcover. Good. Pickering's Diamond Classics edition of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. In the original ancient greek, printed in 'diamond type' - 'the smallest ever printed'. A pioneering series that produced classic texts in a compact form with a tiny yet still legible (to those with good eyesight) typeface and bound in… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fascinating exploration of 5th century BC Athens, often looked at through the eyes of Socrates. Mild shelfwear to DJ. Volume is crisp and clean. Very good/near fine.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1924. Hardcover. Good. Wide ranging series of eleven lectures on tragedy, encompassing Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Shakespeare, Goethe and Victor Hugo. Fore-edge rough cut. Mild foxing to top edge. Contents clean and binding tight. Good+

Antwerp: Christophorum Plantinum (Christophe Plantin), 1584. Hardcover. Good. The extant literary works of Callimachus in the original greek with a translation into Latin by Bonaventura Vulcanius with annotations and index. Together with the bucolic poetry of Moschus of Syracuse and Bion of Smyrna. Callimachus is perhaps best remembered as a librarian in Alexandria performing the first… Read more about this item

London: George Bell & Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Good. The first thorough exploration of the Roman poet Lucretius' atomic theory (that he gleaned from the Greeks) and what this meant for his interpretation of physics, nature and religion. Masson compares Lucretius' atomic materialism to issue of evolution and free-will. 8vo. [xii] 249pp. rubbing to extremities.… Read more about this item