IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS OF GREEKS AND ROMANS.
London: Edward Moxon, 1853.
First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Item #51889
Octavo. Original embossed green cloth, gilt stamped title on spine. Light general wear with rubbing and fraying to spine ends. ownership blind stamp. Light scattered foxing.
As Landor wrote later, "When I was younger..among the chief pleasures of my life, and among the commonest of my occupations was the bringing before me such heroes and heroines of antiquity, such poets and sages, such of the prosperous and unfortunate as most interested me ... Engaging them in conversations best suited to their characters..."-h.van thal.
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