369 pages indexed and illustrated with black and white plates. Second impression.The book is ex library and suffers from the usual library stamps, limited to the preliminaries and end papers. The front paste down has remnants of what might have been library rules and the back one damaged by the removal of the library pocket. The body of the book is clean, unmarked and solid. "Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA 8 April 1898 - 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954." Wikipedia