[BINDING] Voices of the Past from Assyria and Babylonia

ROBERTON, Henry S.

Edité par George Bell & Sons, London, 1900

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FIRST EDITION, ATTRACTIVE UNSIGNED BINDING. 8vo, pp. [viii], 219, [1], incl. in-text illustrations + b/w fold-out map and plates. Later full navy morocco, lettered and decorated, with vertical ruling, asterisks and squares, in gilt. New cream endpapers, some darkening with binder's glue. Top edge speckled blue, leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Gentle rubbing, a few nicks, edges dusty. Some faint spotting, else, clean and tidy. Very good An attractively bound first edition copy of Henry Roberton's 1900 popularisation "one of the multitude of books" of "the results of specialist investigation into the life and history of these ancient oriental peoples." (Goodspeed, 1901). The American review concludes tartly, and with faintest praise, that "the work, while resting entirely on secondary source, and these ranging from Schrader to Madame Ragozin, with Professor Sayce for middleman, is rather better done that would be expected" and can be "mildly commended" (ibid)! Roberton, with no claim to "high originality," noted in his Preface that "the most novel parts are the attempts to give an exact, if simple, account of the nature of cuneiform writing, and to translate certain of the ancient poetic texts into English Blank verse." George S. Goodspeed (1900) Review, The American Journal of Theology, 5:4, p. 819.

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• Titre: [BINDING] Voices of the Past from Assyria and Babylonia
• Éditeur: George Bell & Sons, London
• Date de parution: 1900
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
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