I Claudius and Claudius the God 2 volume hardcover set by Robert Graves - January 1961

Penguin Books Ltd, 1986, 1986. Paperback. Good. Octavo, softcover, pages age toned else good in white pictorial wraps. 835 pp. A work of historical fiction which recreates the life and times of Emperor Claudius, who lived from 10 BC to AD 41, a time when poisoning, blasphemy, treachery, incest and unnatural vice were commonplace.

London: Penguin Books, 1953. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. pp 395 & 439. Both 1st printings, in one volume. Published in 1953 & 1954.

Hamburg, Leipzig: The Albatross, 1936. Reprints. Two volumes, original yellow covers, 445 pp., 501 pp.. Albatross lists to rear pages. Baskerville type, Bautzen paper mill, Hegner Department of Oscar Brandstetter. Generally both volumes in good condition. A little damp staining to volume one upper edge, volume two spine tail chipped, inner joint cracked. Both otherwise tight and clean. Third impression, Hamburg of I, Claudius, 2nd impression, Leipzig of Claudius the God. The Albatross publishing house had a remarkable history in the 1930s (linked to the popular Tauchnitz editions). These colour-coded paperbacks with their albatross symbol influenced Allen Lane in the design of Penguin Books. The name Albatross was chosen as it was similar in many languages. See "Strange Bird" p. 95.. (Michele K Troy, 2017).

Gardners Books, 1988-07-31. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2000. Full Leather. Fine. Two volume set. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 468pp, 531pp. Uniformly bound into full black leather with gilt medallion design, gilt lettering and foredges. 4 raised bands to spines, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Frontispiece by Richard Sparks in each volume. A few very minor scratches to gilt foredges.

London: Arthur Barker 1934. 8vo. First Editions. Two volumes. 494; 575 pp. Bound in a recent black morocco over black cloth, top edges gilt. Five raised bands with gilt lettering and decorative gilt devices to spine panels. Slight foxing to fore edge. Folding family charts at rear of each volume. Additional folding chart of the Family of the Herods in 'Claudius the God'. Internally clean and fresh. No ownership names. An attractive pair in Near Fine condition. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. First Editions. 1934.

Arthur Barker, London., 1934. First editions. Octavo. Two volumes: pp 494; 575. Folding family tree at the rear of each volume. Recent bindings of three quarter green morocco with raised bands, gilt decorative devices to spines.Top edge of first volume a bit stained. Very good. The bindings are fine.

London: Arthur Barker, 1934. [Historical Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 9cm), pp.494 [2]; pp.[2] 575 [2]. With a folding family tree of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to rear of each volume. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, matching cloth over boards, and top edges gilt. Some light spotting to edges and first / final leaves, otherwise crisp, clean copies in attractive new leather bindings. Arguably the defining piece of Roman historical fiction from the twentieth century, Graves' classic fanciful autobiography of Rome's fourth Emperor builds a tangled web of family feuds and internecine murder from hints provided by Tacitus and Suetonius. The story was dramatised by the BBC in 1976, staring Derek Jacobi, and has since inspired the tone of the acclaimed series 'Rome' (2005-07). Graves was a gifted classicist at Charterhouse and later Oxford, but decided to pursue literature and poetry after he completed… Read More

Arthur Barker. London. 1934. FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.8 inches). Each volume with a folding family tree at the end of the text. Overall a very good bright set. Finely bound in recent full black morocco. Spines with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled borders on boards. Top edges gilt. A fine pair.

London, Arthur Barker, 1934. . First editions, first impressions; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spines gilt, dust-jackets, that of the first title with a number of short tears but entirely unfaded and it is distinctly scarce thus, Claudius the God is also a little frayed but bright albeit with some typical rubbing at the spine, in all a very good set. A really attractive set of the I Claudius books memorably filmed by the BBC and in this condition extremely hard to find.