A Companion to School Classics

xx, 380pp. Bound in full red leather, with 5 raised bands on spine; black and white tissue-guarded frontispiece and some tables. Gilded design and title on spine, gilded school emblem (South Shields High School) on front. Boards rubbed at edges and joints; couple of black stains on verso. Corners rubbed and rounded. Edge and inner gilded dentelles. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Presentation label on front free endpaper. Very small bookseller's stamp on verso of front free endpaper. Light foxing to prelim pages. Gutter slightly strained at front, but still tight. 12mo. Includes sections on The Greek Alphabet, The Latin Alphabet, Books and their Publication, History of Classical Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, Critical Apparatus, Ancient Greece and Rome, Roman Drama etc.