The Downfall and Death of King Oedipus. A Drama in Two Parts. Chiefly Taken from the Oedipus Tyrannus and Colonaeus of Sophocles. The Inter Act Choruses are from Potter.
Guilford: Billing and Sons, 1881. Hardcover. A scarce volume with a handsome Robert Anning Bell designed bookplate for Emily Stevens Ladenburg [1865 - 1937]. Emily was the wife of banker Adolph Ladenburg, co-founder in 1876 of the American merchant bank Ladenburg Thalmann. Bound by Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge.
Slim 8vo, 46pp, (1) viii (&) Part II, title "Oedipus at Athens", 45pp. Black 3/4 leather with marbled boards, gilt title at spine. Upper back corner rubbed away. OCLC:17454306, at 9 libraries. Very good overall. Item #26770
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