The Plays... Translated into English Rhyming Verse by Gilbert Murray. With wood-engravings from the Greek Vase Paintings by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray. [2 vols bound as one]

Bookseller Notes

'Its simplicity makes it a book for the connoisseur of typography. The narrow pages which carry the short lines of Murray's translation are tightly set in Bembo and the beautiful Fairbank italic is used for stage directions.' (Hutchins, 1976, p.28)[with:] 1955 receipt from the Press to the original owner, Captain Vickerman, and two letters from E. Powell of the Press informing the original owner that the book is available and highlighting the limitation number error in Dr. Thomas Jones' bibliography. The letter states that there were 35 specially bound copies, not 25 as stated by Jones; the last 16 were near completion when George Fisher retired, and were finished off at the National Library of Wales by Fisher's assistant, Ewart Bowen. This copy is one of those completed by Bowen: 'It differs from the rest in that the panel of gold lines is not so heavy as the original, but is, in my opinion, rather nicer looking.'