1910 The Greek Heroes

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and many black-and-white in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of Greek hero myths, including: The Argonauts, The Prowess of Hercules, The Heraclidae, The Story of Perseus, and The Story of Theseus. Translated with additions from the original German of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, a Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration.