Description
Featuring a fore-edge painting of a Greek harbor, the fifth edition of Social Life in Greece by J.P. Mahaffy.
Octavo, xv, 457pp. Full blue morocco, school emblem in gilt on front cover. Five raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spine. Marbled endpapers. A vibrant prize binding. Solid text block, lightly sunned spine. Fore-edge painting depicts a Greek military scene with four war ships in the harbor. Three soldiers look upon the scene in the foreground, with various Greek buildings throughout the back. Likely a scene from this book, which covers the Homeric, Lyric, and Attic Ages.
