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ARISTOPHANES.
A metrical version of the Acharnians the Knights and the Birds,
in the last of which a vein of peculiar humour and character is for the first time detected and developed. [By John Hookham Frere.]
First Edition of Frere's sparkling translations of three of Aristophanes' eleven surviving plays. The book was printed on the government printing press in Malta where Frere had retired for the sake of his wife's health, and published in London the following year.
Quarto, in 3 parts. Contemporary dark green half hard-grain morocco, marbled sides, spine lettered gilt and with gilt ornaments in compartments, top edge gilt. Printed on laid paper with a blueish tinge; pts. 2 and 3 have colophons reading "Malta: Printed at the Government Press 1839". Extremities quite rubbed, three early 20th-century inscriptions on binder's blank, a very good copy.
