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A translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, by Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, bound in full vellum, with a preface and introduction
A translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, by Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, bound in full vellum, with a preface and introduction
A translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, by Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, bound in full vellum, with a preface and introduction

'Unto this desolate and unpeopled realm / This Scythian desert, earth's extremity / Now we are come.'


AESCHYLUS; LORD CARNARVON, Henry Howard Molyneux (translator).

Prometheus Bound. Translated from Aeschylus.

London, John Murray, 1892.

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Prometheus Bound.

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A charming English translation of the last of Aeschylus' surviving plays, which explores the ultimate cost of rebellion and the struggle between fate and free will. Before his translation of Prometheus Bound, Lord Carnarvon published his version of The Agamemnon in 1879.

8vo (200 x 135mm); rough-cut pages, a clean copy; bound in full vellum, ruled in gilt, gilt titles, gilt top edge, inner-dentelles, marbled endpapers, very good; [xviii], [1], 69pp.

Stock code 121558

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A translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, by Henry Howard Molyneux, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, bound in full vellum, with a preface and introduction

Prometheus Bound.

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