My Trench’s has all of the words in Greek characters. It is the fourth printing of the ninth edition (1963). My guess would be that yours is an earlier edition. I once lamented to one of my Greek profs about books that had Greek transliterated, and he said in older books, it was so expensive to set the gree text in the printing press that they only used Greek when it was really important. My copy of Turner’s Grammar of the Greek NT is like this…it is the tail end of Moule’s 4 volume Grammar. I must say I reading transliteration!
BTW…I love your picture…what book are you holding??
Oh…and yes Klewlis…my Aland is the Greek version with all of the nifty footnotes by the Apostolic Fathers in Greek…if you ever need me to look something up for you drop me a line.
I think ancient Athens would have ostracized you because none can compete with your collection - neither in quantity nor quality.
I note that you have a Bohn’s Sophocles (Buckley). I too have the 1891 edition. I bought it many years ago in a used bookstore in Nyack, New York. Whence also a Bohn’s 1888 Aeschylus. Each set me back $3.
Do you think these editions are worth anything among collectors? My copies are in very good condition.
As to library contents, I do boast several hundred philosophical texts…most of which confuse me.
Thanks for the interesting comments, Paul. Yeah certain copies of the Bohn’s library fetch a fair price in good condition. A huge set of them is currently being sold separately in Cambridge from the library of H M Stanley, and each fetches between £25 and £50, but I think the ex libris part is carrying most of the cost.
Since posting the above list I have acquired the following:
Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (8 vols) - 1855 (ex John Peile)
Euripidis - Fabulae (3 vols OCT) - 1937 (ex John Chadwick)
Roby - A Grammar of the Latin Language (2 vols) - 1881 (ex Pat Easterling)
Allen - Notes on Abbreviations in Greek Manuscripts - 1889
Kenney - Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXII - 1996 (from the author)
Gepp - Key to Latin Elegiac Verse - 1879
Vergilii Opera (Indian Paper OCT) - 1905
Tosi - Studi Sulla Tradizione Indiretta dei Classici Graeci - 1988
Muller - Handbuch der Klassischen Alterumswissenschaft - 1920 (ex JE Sandys)
Jacoby - Die Fragmente Der Griechischen Historiker (2 vols) - 1923
Ogilvie & Richmond - Tacitus: Agricola - 1967
Dale - Euripides: Alcestis - 1954
Austin - Quintilian: Book XII - 1948
Bury - Plato: Symposium - 1909
Rohde - Kleine Schriften (2 vols) - 1901
Susemihl - Griechische Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit - 1892 (ex LC Purser)
Schmeisser - A Concordance to the Elegiex of Propertius - 1972
Bonavia-Hunt - Horace the Minstrel - 1954
Cambridge Classical History of Classical Literature vols. 2.2 and 2.3 - 1982
Adcock - Caesar as Man of Letters - 1954 (ex LPW)
Acta Conventus Omnium Gentium Ovidianis Studiis Fovendis - 1976 (ex LPW)
Furneaux - Tacitus: Annals Vol. 2 - 1891
Janko - Homer: Iliad 13-16 - 2003
Barnes ed. - Cambridge Companion to Aristotle - 2002
Brunschwig & Nussbaum edd. - Passions and Perceptions - 2002
Lattimore - Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy - 1964
Stray ed. - The Classical Association: The First Century - 2003
Bowra - From Virgil to Milton - 1944
Smith - English to Latin Dictionary - 1876 (ex LP Wilkinson)
Marsh - The Odes of Horace - 1941
Smith - Gilbert Murray: An Unfinished Biography - 1960
Waddell - The Wandering Scholars - 1934 (ex LPW)
Carey - History of Rome - 1935
Dover - Plato: Symposium - 2002
Hurley - Suetonius: Divus Claudius - 2001
Gaselee - The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse - 1928
Postgate - Translation and Translations - 1922
Garvie - Aeschylus: Choerphori - 2001
Kiefer - Sexual Life in Ancient Rome - 1994
Martial - Epigrams vol 1 (Loeb)
Petronius and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis (Loeb)
Gee - Ovid, Aratus and Augustus - 2002
Seaford - Money and the Early Greek Mind - 2003
And the following Housmania:
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman (3 vols) - 2004
Gow - A. E. Housman: A Sketch - 1936 (ex LPW)
Maas - The letters of A E Housman - 1979
The Cambridge Inaugural 1911 - 1969
The Name and Nature of Poetry - 1933
Marlow - A. E. Housman: Scholar and Poet - 1957 (ex LPW)
Carter - A. E. Housman: Selected Prose - 1964
Incidentally, Bentley, Wilamovitz, Housman, Scaliger, Porson, Madvig, Lachmann, Mommsen (and in twenty years or so, three more names).
yeah, that’s about right these days, probably tending towards three, but it’s a far more undulating frequency - I may not buy any for a few days then, if they turn up, I may buy a dozen. It all depends upon what comes in to the various shops, and the sad thing is that the best things only come when scholars pass away.
The average price on the above books though is very low - I manage to get a fair number free, and very rarely do I pay over say £8 for a book. Therefore of those above the average price would be around £2.50-£3.
2 books per day? How you manage that is your business my friend! Is it possible that you possess more books on Classics than I hold bouncy balls? I have 1017 bouncy balls. Oh whoops there’s a granny 1016.
