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Thucydides; Hammond; Martin (trans.)
The Peloponnesian War.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of Publication: 2023
Stock Code: 12520
Signed limited edition, this being copy 291 of 750. Quarto, pp. lxxvi 655. Signed by Katherine Harloe (author of the introduction), and illustrator Nick Hayes to tipped-in gilt lettered limitation leaf. Publisher’s brick red vellum with gilt title to spine and gilt and black blocked design of two warriors to front board. Woodcut style colour frontispiece, with eight double page illustrations, one for each ‘book’ or chapter; five maps. Brick red end-papers with gilt helmet motif pattern. Top edge gilt, black ribbon place-mark ribbon. Publisher’s prospectus and order form for this title loosely inserted. Housed in a burgundy slipcase with a gilt and black blocked design of a cornucopia bearing fruit, lined with brick red paper with gilt helmet motif pattern which matches endpapers. Near fine copy in a near fine slipcase; minor white scuffs and tiny indentation to underside of slipcase. Thucydides’ “The Peloponnesian War” tells of the war in the 5th century BC between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies. Written by Thucydides during the war, he based the work on his own eyewitness accounts and other primary sources. Critics regard the history as a reliable and neutral account of the war which changed the ancient Greek world. This edition is translated by Martin Hammond, and was first published by Oxford University Press in 2009. Strikingly illustrated by Nick Hayes with an introduction by Katherine Harloe and P. J. Rhodes. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £450.00