{"product_id":"the-complete-greek-tragedies-aeschylus-sophocles-euripides-folio-society-2011-2","title":"The Complete Greek Tragedies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides. The Complete Greek Tragedies. \u003c\/strong\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, 2011. First and only printing thus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e252 × 176 × 38–42 mm. 5 vols (see below). Type: Centaur. Printed by Engelhardt und Bauer. Bound by Schumacher in full orange-brown buckram blocked in black and gold with design (different for each volume) by Francis Mosley; black endleaves. Orange-brown five-volume slip case decorated and titled (as above). The plates reproduce photographs of oil paintings and marble statues. The five volumes are as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI . . . Aeschylus, the Oresteia, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Agamemnon, the libation bearers, the Eumenindes, the suppliant maidens, translated by Seth G. Benardete, the Persians, translated by Seth G. Benardete, seven against Thebes, translated by David Grene, Prometheus bound, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Ruth Padel. Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [1–2] 3–381 [382–384]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], [39], [101], [145], [187], [233], [279] and [329]).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII . . . Sophocles, the Theban plays, translated by David Grene, Oedipus the king, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, translated by John Moore, the women of Trachis, translated by Michael Jameson, Electra, translated by David Grene, Philoctetes, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Simon Goldhill. Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [1–2] 3–491 [492–496]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], [13], [85], [167], [223], [289], [351] and [423]).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII . . . Euripides I, Rhesus, translated by Richmond Lattimore, the Trojan women, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith, Andromache, translated by John Frederick Nims, Helen, translated by Rich mond Lattimore, the Cyclops, translated by William Arrowsmith, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Lawrence Norfolk. Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [1–2] 3–358 [359–360]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], [1], [49], [107], [181], [237] and [315]).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV . . . Euripides II, Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by Charles R. Walker, Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule, Orestes, translated by William Arrowsmith, Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Witter Bynner, introduced by Richmond Lattimore, Medea, translated by Rex Warner, Hippolytus, translated by David Grene, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Germaine Greer. Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [1–2] 3–462 [463–464]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], [1], [99], [161], [265], [337] and [395]).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV . . . Euripides III, Alcestis, translated by Richmond Lattimore, Ion, translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts, Heracles, translated by William Arrowsmith, the Heracleidae, translated by Ralph Gladstone, the Phoenician women, translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff, the suppliant women, translated by Frank Jones, the Bacchae, translated by William Arrowsmith, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, preface by Peter Stothard. Pp. [i–iv] v–xv [xvi], [1–2] 3–471 [472]: [8] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], [1], [57], [141], [217], [265], [337] and [389]).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn acceptable set, with bindings square and firm, and pages clean and uninscribed, but that is heavily foxed to the closed text block. Housed in a structurally-sound slipcase that is shelf-worn, a tad bumped, and foxed on the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54306534981971,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/The-Complete-Greek-Tragedies-AESCHYLUS-SOPHOCLES-EURIPIDES-Folio-Society_1.webp?v=1784046802","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/the-complete-greek-tragedies-aeschylus-sophocles-euripides-folio-society-2011-2","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}