The Complete Greek Tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles; & Euripides - 2011

London: The Folio Society, 2011. Five volumes in slipcase. Some scuffing and marking to back edge of the brown slipcase (the side opposite the open end), but otherwise a very good clean tight set of hard-cover books. Five volumes, containing all the extant surviving plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, translated and with introductions by various authors. Volume 1 contains the plays by Aeschylus (Oresteia trilogy, The Supplicant Maidens, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound). Volume 2 has the plays by Sophocles (The Theban Plays, Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes). Volume 3 (Euripides) has Rhesus, The Trojan Women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and The Cyclops. Volume 4 (Euripides) has Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, Orestes, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, and Hippolytus. Volume 5 (Euripides) has Alcestis, Ion, Heracles, The Heracleidae, The Phoenician Women, The Supplicant Women, and The Bacchae. A heavy set of books, packaged weight would be over 6 kilos, so a lot of extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. 381pp, 8 colour illustrations (vol 1); 491pp, 8 colour illustrations (vol 2); 358pp, 7 colour illustrations (vol 3); 462pp, 7 colour illustrations (vol 4); 471pp, 8 colour illustrations (vol 5).. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.