Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Leather Bound Collector’s Edition of The Oresteia by Aeschylus . Franklin Library, 1980. Newer printing bFranklin Library Limited Edition, 1980. Newer Printing.
Near Fine full leather bound with clean bright boards with strong gilt boards, clean gilt page blocks, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear and strong corners. Silk moire paste downs with no bookplate. Ribbon appears in original position. No marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright.
No dust jacket, as issued.
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies.
The trilogy – consisting of Agamemnon (Ἀγαμέμνων), The Libation Bearers (Χοηφόροι), and The Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες) – also shows how the Greek gods interacted with the characters and influenced their decisions pertaining to events and disputes.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
