The Oresteian Trilogy, [including volume 1] Agamemnon [and volume 2] The Libation Bearers and the Furies (the Choephori & the Eumenides).

£750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Fine. Vol. 1 with bookplate of Clarence B. Hanson Jr. Original prospectuses for both volumes loosely tipped in. Finely printed by Dorothy and Lewis Allen in California with attractive page decorations taken from Greek sources and running headings in Solemnis and Libra types, with the body set in Menhart Unciala. A wonderful edition of Aeschylus’ tragic trilogy, beginning with the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and ending with the pacification of the Furies.

• Binding: Hardcover

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