“This essay on “the Birds” of Aristophanes was read in the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin on the 19th and 26th days of July, 1827, and the contents of it soon became generally known to the literary public in Germany. It was not however published in the Transactions of the Society before the appearance of their volume for 1830.” [Preface].
Binding Note
Brown leather quarter-binding with brown cloth covered boards; spine lettered in gilt, 'Suvern / - / The Birds / Of / Aristophanes'.