Sicily: Phoenician, Greek & Roman

(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892). Volume 31 in "The Story of the Nations" series. Crown 8vo; original pictorial green cloth, with gilt title to spine and upper cover; pp. xvi + 378 + adverts.; frontis.; full-page illustrations and line drawings in text; maps, incl. 1 folding. Spine darkened, and somewhat frayed at head and tail; cloth a little worn; binding very loose, and archival tape reinforcing to lower hinge; folding map has worked loose, but is present; bookplate of J. Willis Dixon, Hillsborough Hall, to front pastedown; another Dixon's ink stamp to front free endpaper; endpapers and outer leaves rather foxed; some foxing elsewhere. Fair. 'In undertaking "to contribute a short History of Sicily to the series called The Story of the Nations," Mr. Freeman says, in the Preface to his greater work on the same subject, that he did so "on the express ground that Sicily never was the home of any nation, but rather the meeting-place of many." The original suggestion had been that he should write a volume on Norman Sicily. But in view of the necessity of first introducing his readers to the earlier stages of Sicilian history, this suggestion finally ripened into the proposal to write the whole story of Sicily, from the earliest days of the Greek colonisation to the time of Frederick the Second.' .