Ancient History

Facsimile reprint of 1908 second edition, numerous illustrations from b&w photographs and line-drawings, critical appendix on the Orphic Tablets, indexes of Latin and Greek passages and of names, xxii & 682 pp, brown boards in d/w, spine of d/w faded, slight dig to rear of d/w (see picture below) slightly denting rear board, otherwise in fine condition, Merlin Press 1980

21.5 x 13.2 cm, 900g, ISBN 0 85036 262 8

See the description (below) from the rear of the dustwrapper.

Reprinted by Forgotten Books in 2012 and available, in paperback only, at £12.00.  However, this 1980 Merlin Press reprint was a proper sewn hardback unlikely to fall apart, which I would have thought was essential in a book of 700 pages which will be kept and undoubtedly referred to many times.