Odes of Victory.

(Shakespeare Head Press.) PINDAR.

Odes of Victory.

The Olympian and Pythian Odes. With an Introduction and a Translation into English Verse by C.J. Billson.

Description: 48/250 NUMBERED COPIES (from an edition of 257 copies), printed in parallel English and Greek texts on Batchelor's handmade paper, wood-engravings by John Farleigh, pp.xxiv, 297, folio, original quarter black cloth with salmon pink boards, the upper board with a wood-engraved vignette by Farleigh, printed label to backstrip, a touch of fading and light dustsoiling to boards, edges untrimmed and a little spotted, top edge slightly dusty, good

Publication Details: Oxford: (Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon) for Basil Blackwell, 1928

Notes: A matching volume, The Nemean and Isthmian Odes, was published a year later.

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