(52) Library Shelf Books: 'The Yale Shakespeare,' Ancient Greece & Rome

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(lot of 52) Books: many on the subject of literature, poetry, and antiquity, many published by Heritage Press, New York, most with gilt embossed lettering and accompanied by slip cover, highlights include: (40) "The Yale Shakespeare," by William Shakespeare, complete in forty volumes, each with blue fabric binding and gilt embossed lettering, edited by Wilbur L. Cross, Tucker Brooke, and Willard Highly Durham, published under the direction of the Department of English, Yale University Press, copyright 1918, Third Printing 1961, (1) "Introductions to Shakespeare," published by The Folio Society, copyright 1977, 245 pages, (2) "Prometheus Bound," by Aeschylus and "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, copyright 1966, 161 pages, (2) "The Sonnets of Petrarch," in original Italian with translations edited by Thomas G. Bergin, copyright 1966, 369 pages, (1) "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius," translated by Meric Casaubon, copyright 1956, 230 pages, (1) "Metamorphoses," by Ovid, copyright 1961, 519 pages, (1) "The Trial and Death of Socrates," by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, copyright 1963, 274 pages, largest: approx 11.75"h, 8"w, 1.5"d, 48lbs total