Classical books : scholarship and publishing in Britain since 1800 / edited by Christopher Stray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stray, Christopher.

University of London. Institute of Classical Studies.

Series:

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 101.

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement ; 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical philology--Publishing--Great Britain--Congresses.

Classical philology.

Classical literature--Publishing--Great Britain--Congresses.

Classical literature.

History publishing--Great Britain--Congresses.

History publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Congresses.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishing.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 187 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of Classical Studies, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : a neglected genre / Christopher Stray

Publishing and printing in Classics : E.H. Barker and the early nineteenth-century book trades / David McKitterick

William Smith and his dictionaries : a study in scarlet and black / Christopher Stray

'Sneaking, foul-mouthed, scurrilous reptiles' : the battle of the grammars, Edinburgh, 1849-50 / Mick Morris

Jebb's Sophocles : an edition and its maker / Christopher Stray

Unvollendetes : the Oxford Plato lexicon / Graham Whitaker

Brevique adnotationes critica

: a preliminary history of the Oxford Classical Texts / Graham Whitaker

The Cambridge Ancient History / P.J. Rhodes

The 'Euripides reds' series : best-laid plans at OUP / John Henderson

A note on Cambridge Greek and Latin classics / Pat Easterling.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781905670154

190567015X

OCLC:

190393133