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THE EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL
by Martial, translated by James Michie
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394461444
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461441
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1972. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Owen Wood. 1st edition. A Very Good + copy. 8vo., 215 pp. Bound in publishers burgundy cloth with title on spine in sliver gilt. Grey dust jacket with illustration on front cover. Titles in black. Dust jacket is lightly sunned on the spine, but other wise clean and unclipped. Interior of book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Martial stands as the first Epigrammatist, not only of his own, but of every succeeding age. The bent of his genius seems to have lain entirely in this direction. Everything he penned, whether begging a favor, satirizing a fault, writing an inscription, or paying a compliment, was an epigram. The word epigram originally signified, as its etymology implies, nothing more than an inscription. But in the development which it received in the progress of literature, and especially at the hands of Martial, it assumed an entirely new character, and may be de fined as the concentration of satire and pointed invective in a short poem.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24397
- Title
- THE EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL
- Author
- Martial, translated by James Michie
- Illustrator
- Owen Wood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394461444
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461441
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- rome, roman, greek
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Rougemont, North Carolina
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