Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life [Slather Classical Lectures Volume Twelve] by Duff, J. Wright - 1936

University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Blue gilt stamped cloth over boards, ix, 205 pages, Index, Notes. Chapters include, Satire Ancient and Modern; Greek Precursors; Lucilius, Creator of the Roman Type; Horace; Menippean Satire; Phaedrus and Persius - Beast Fable and Stoic Homily; Martial - The Epigram as Satire; Juvenal and Other Satirists. This is volume twelve of the Slather Classical Lectures. Bottom corners bumped, spine ends lightly bumped, bumping along front cover fore-edge. In a tan paper dust jacket that is lightly soiled, corners and spine ends bumped, chipped at head of spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 8 oz. Category: Sociology & Culture; Books; Humour. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon… Read More

University of California Press. Used - Good. 1936. First Edition. Cloth, no dj, as issued. 8vo. 205 pp. Bumping and rubbing to boards. Some foxing present. Browning to text block. Internally, very sound. (Subject: Ancient & Classical Studies.)