Essay on "The Birds" of Aristophanes / by J. W. Süvern ; translated by W. R. Hamilton, F.R.S.

Johann Wilhelm Süvern

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Record number

12/4156

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Imprint

London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, MDCCCXXXV

Physical Description

viii, 170 pages ; 20 cm.

General Note

“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'.

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