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1909 A Literary History of Rome : J. Wight Duff : Ancient Literature : Leather
1909 A Literary History of Rome : J. Wight Duff : Ancient Literature : Leather
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A Literary History of Rome
from the origins to the Close of the Golden Age
By J. Wight Duff
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1909. First Edition. Full calf school prize binding with marble endpapers and marble to all page edges, pp xvi, 695, [i]. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
CONDITION
In very good clean condition throughout. The calf binding remains in good condition with just a couple of marks to the rear board. Boards firly attached and inner joints sound, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a very good copy.
John Wight Duff, FBA (1866–1944) was a Scottish classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics at Armstrong College, Durham from 1898 to 1933.
Duff was appointed an assistant professor of Greek at the University of Aberdeen in 1891, and then moved to Durham College of Science (later reformed as Armstrong College, Durham) in 1893 to be Professor of Classics and English. Five years later, the chair was split and he was appointed Professor of Classics, serving until he retired in 1933. During this period, he edited Samuel Johnson's Lives of Milton and Addison (1900) and produced a collection of Lord Byron's poetry (1904). He authored A Literary History of Rome in 1909 and produced an updated edition the next year; this was followed by Writers of Rome (1923) and A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age (1927). He was also Vice-Principal of Armstrong College in 1918, and from 1921 to 1924 and then again from 1926 to 1933.
Duff received an honorary DLitt degree from Durham University in 1910, and received DLitt degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen in 1911, the former in recognition of his Literary History of Rome (1909). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1930.
from the origins to the Close of the Golden Age
By J. Wight Duff
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1909. First Edition. Full calf school prize binding with marble endpapers and marble to all page edges, pp xvi, 695, [i]. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
CONDITION
In very good clean condition throughout. The calf binding remains in good condition with just a couple of marks to the rear board. Boards firly attached and inner joints sound, all contents present and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a very good copy.
John Wight Duff, FBA (1866–1944) was a Scottish classicist and academic. He was Professor of Classics at Armstrong College, Durham from 1898 to 1933.
Duff was appointed an assistant professor of Greek at the University of Aberdeen in 1891, and then moved to Durham College of Science (later reformed as Armstrong College, Durham) in 1893 to be Professor of Classics and English. Five years later, the chair was split and he was appointed Professor of Classics, serving until he retired in 1933. During this period, he edited Samuel Johnson's Lives of Milton and Addison (1900) and produced a collection of Lord Byron's poetry (1904). He authored A Literary History of Rome in 1909 and produced an updated edition the next year; this was followed by Writers of Rome (1923) and A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age (1927). He was also Vice-Principal of Armstrong College in 1918, and from 1921 to 1924 and then again from 1926 to 1933.
Duff received an honorary DLitt degree from Durham University in 1910, and received DLitt degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen in 1911, the former in recognition of his Literary History of Rome (1909). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1930.
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