Spine lettering faded and rubbed. 3mm missing to cloth along head of spine. 6mm loss of cloth at edges of corners of boards.; ix, [1], 549, [2], [1 (blank)] pages. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt globe motif on front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 132mm. Printed on laid paper. Contents: The Beginning; The Invasion of Hellenic Influence; Comedy; Tragedy and Satire; The Beginnings of History and Oratory; Lucreitus and Catullus; Cicero; Caesar, Sallust, and Varro; The Augustan Age. Virgil; Horace; The Augustan Age. Elegy; Livy and Augustan Prose; The Beginning of Decadence and its Causes; The Claudo-Neronian Age; The Flavian Age; The Reigns of Nerva and Trajan; African Latinity and the End of the National Literature; Index. Series: Short Histories of the Literatures of the World. No. XV. Series editor: Edmund Gosse.