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Number: L200	Series No.: L200 ISBN: 0140442200 6 Title: CHRONICLES Author: Jean Froissart Translated: selected and edited from Old French by Geoffrey Brereton Cover illustration: from Chronicles of Froissart Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1968 Pages: 496pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L201	Series No.: L201 ISBN: 0140442201 4 Title: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Translated: from French with an introduction by Maurice Cranston Cover illustration: shows an allegorical painting in honour of Rousseau by N. H. Jeaurat de Bertry Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: March 1968 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L202	Series No.: L202 ISBN: 0140442202 2 Title: THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF PERU Author: Augustin de Zárate Translated: from Spanish by J. M. Cohen Cover illustration: shows sixteenth century map in the Bibliothéque du Ministère des Armées Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: February 1968 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L203	Series No.: L203 ISBN: 0140442203 0 Title: ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE Translated: from Chinese by Cyril Birch Edited: by Donald Keene Cover illustration: shows Emperor Wu Ti of the Han Dynasty visiting a man of letters to seek his opinion Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: October 1967 Pages: 488pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L204	Series No.: L204 ISBN: 0140442204 9 Title: FOUR COMEDIES: 'THE VENETIAN TWINS'; 'THE ARTFUL WIDOW'; 'MIRANDOLINA'; 'THE SUPERIOR RESIDENCE' Author: Carlo Goldoni Translated: from Italian with an introduction by Frederick Davies Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'Cavadenti' by Pietro Longhi Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: June 1968 Pages: 336pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L205	Series No.: L205 ISBN: 0140442205 7 Title: COUSIN PONS: PART TWO OF 'POOR RELATIONS' Author: Honoré de Balzac Translated: from French with an introduction by Herbert J. Hunt Cover illustration: shows 'The Print Collector' by Daumier Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: August 1968 Pages: 336pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L206	Series No.: L206 ISBN: 0140442206 5 Title: DISCOURSE ON METHOD AND THE MEDIATIONS Author: René Descartes Translated: from French with an introduction by F. E. Sutcliffe Cover illustration: shows portrait of Descartes by Frans Hals Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: July 1968 Pages: 188pp. Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd Price:
Number: L207	Series No.: L207 ISBN: 0140442207 3 Title: TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS and THE ANTI-CHRIST or How to Philosophize with a Hammer Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Translated: from German with an introduction and commentary by Reginald John Hollingdale Cover illustration: shows 'The Isle of the Dead' by Arnold Böcklin Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: November 1968 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L208	Series No.: L208 ISBN: 0140442208 1 Title: THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY Author: Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius Translated: from Latin by Victor Ernets Watts Cover illustration: shows the title-page from a thirteenth-century edition of The Consolation Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: February 1969 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L209	Series No.: L209 ISBN: 0140442209 X Title: THE ODES OF PINDAR Author: Pindar Translated: from Greek with an introduction by Cecil Maurice Bowra Cover illustration: shows a Greek vase depicting two athletes, British Museum Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: May 1969 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L210	Series No.: L210 ISBN: 0140442210 3 Title: LETTERS FROM A STOIC: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Translated: from Latin with an introduction by Robin Campbell Cover illustration: shows a bust of Seneca, Staatliche Museen, Berlin Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1969 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L211	Series No.: L211 ISBN: 0140442211 1 Title: TWO SPANISH PICARESQUE NOVELS: LAZARILLO DE TORMES (Anon) and THE SWINDLER (El Buścon) by de Quevedo Author: Francisco de Quevedo Translated: from Spanish by Michael Alpert Cover illustration: shows detail from 'The Drunkards' by Velazquez, in Prado, Madrid Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: January 1969 Pages: 214pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price:
Number: L212	Series No.: L212 ISBN: 0140442212 X Title: THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA Author: Alexander Olivier Exquemelin Translated: from Dutch by Alexis Brown Introduction: by Jack Beeching Cover illustration: 'Battle At Sea' by Jan Peeters Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: May 1969 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L213	Series No.: L213 ISBN: 0140442213 8 Title: TWO LIVES OF CHARLEMAGNE Author: Einhard and Notker the Stammerer Translated: from Latin and with an introduction by Lewis Thorpe Cover illustration: shows ninth century bronze equestrian statue of Charlemagne, in the Louvre Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1969 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd Price:
Number: L214	Series No.: L214 ISBN: 0140442214 6 Title: SELECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated: from Latin and with an introduction by Michael Grant Cover illustration: shows a detail from a bust of Cicero, Capital Museum, Rome; photograph by C. Marker Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: August 1969 Pages: 336pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L215	Series No.: L215 ISBN: 0140442215 4 Title: THE ALEXIAD OF ANNA COMNENA Author: Anna Comnena (Komnene) Translated: from Greek and with an introduction by E. R. A. Sewter Cover illustration: showas a portrait of Alexias I from a Greek manuscript Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: October 1969 Pages: 560pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L216	Series No.: L216 ISBN: 0140442216 2 Title: LA VITA NUOVA Author: Dante Alighieri (Durante di Alighiero) Translated: from Italian by Barbara Reynolds Cover illustration: shows the poet crowned by his Lady from an Illuminated Manuscript Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: May 1969 Pages: 128pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L217	Series No.: L217 ISBN: 0140442217 0 Title: THE FOUR VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: being his own log-book, letters and dispatches with connecting narrative drawn from the Life of the Admiral by his son Hernando Colon and other contemporary historians Author: Christopher Columbus Translated: and edited [from MSS] from Spanish and with an introduction by J. M. Cohen Cover illustration: shows a view of Genoa at the time of Christopher Columbus Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: September 1969 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Richard Clay and Co Ltd Price:
Number: L218	Series No.: L218 ISBN: 0140442218 9 Title: LAXDAELA SAGA Author: Translated: from Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson Cover illustration: shows a medieval Icelandic wood carving in pine Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: August 1969 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L219	Series No.: L219 ISBN: 0140442219 7 Title: FIVE GERMAN TRAGEDIES - Lessing: EMILIA GALOTTI; Schiller: MARY STUART; Goethe: EGMONT; Kleist: PENTHESILEA; Grillparzer: MEDEA Translated: from German by F. J. Lampart Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'Roman Charity' by Gottlieb Schick Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: November 1969 Pages: 510pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L220	Series No.: L220 ISBN: 014044220 0 Title: THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL Author: Anonymous Translated: from Old French and with an introduction by Pauline Maud Matarasso Cover illustration: shows a detail from L'Apparition du St Graal Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: November 1969 Pages: 304pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L221	Series No.: L221 ISBN: 014044221 9 Title: CHARACTERS Author: Jean de La Brutère Translated: from French with an introduction by Jean Stewart Cover illustration: shows 'Le Carnaval Perpétuel', a seventeenth century engraving by Lagniet Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: January 1970 Pages: 320pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price:
Number: L222	Series No.: L222 ISBN: 014044222 7 Title: THE LAWS Author: Plato Translated: from Greek by Trevor J. Saunders Cover illustration: shows reverse of a silver coin from Sicyon Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1970 Pages: 560pp. Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd Price:
Number: L223	Series No.: L223 ISBN: 014044223 5 Title: GREEK POLITICAL ORATORY Translated: and selected from Greek and with an introduction by Amy Nagorski W. Saunders Cover illustration: shows statue of Demosthenes from the Vatican Museum Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: January 1970 Pages: 272pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L224	Series No.: L224 ISBN: 014044224 3 Title: HOME OF THE GENTRY Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Translated: from Russian by Richard Freeborn Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'Flight of the Crows' by Alexei K. Savrasov Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: June 1970 Pages: 208pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L225	Series No.: L225 ISBN: 014044225 1 Title: GUIDE TO GREECE Vol. 1 - CENTRAL GREECE Author: Pausanias Translated: with an introduction by Peter Levi Illustrated: with drawings from Greek coins by John Newberry Maps and plans: by Jeffrey Lacey Cover illustration: shows a photograph of the tholus temple at Delphi Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 586pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L226	Series No.: L226 ISBN: 014044226 X Title: GUIDE TO GREECE Vol. 2 - SOUTHERN GREECE Author: Pausanias Translated: with an introduction by Peter Levi Illustrated: with drawings from Greek coins by John Newberry Maps and plans: by Jeffrey Lacey Cover illustration: shows a photograph of a view of the Greek island Ithaka Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 560pp. Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd Price: £2.50
Number: L227	Series No.: L227 ISBN: 014044227 8 Title: ESSAYS AND APHORISMS Author: Arthur Schopenheuer Translated: from German with an introduction by R. J. Hollingdale Cover illustration: shows a portrait portrait of Schopenhauer by Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1970 Pages: 240pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L228	Series No.: L228 ISBN: 014044228 6 Title: MENCIUS Author: Menicus Translated: from Chinese by D. C. Lau Cover illustration: shows Lohan and Attendant in the manner of Wu Tao Tzu Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: October 1970 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L229	Series No.: L229 ISBN: 014044229 4 Title: MEMOIRS OF SOCRATES AND THE SYMPOSIUM - THE DINNER PARTY Author: Xenophon of Athens Translated: from Greek by Hugh Tredennick Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'The Death of Socrates' by Jacques Louis David Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: June 1970 Pages: 288pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L230	Series No.: L230 ISBN: 014044230 8 Title: THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN and THE TALE OF TRISTAN'S MADNESS Author: Beroul Translated: from Old French (Norman) by Alan S. Fedrick Cover illustration: shows illumination from a fifteenth century French manuscript Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1970 Pages: 176pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L231	Series No.: L231 ISBN: 014044231 6 Title: L'ASSOMMOIR Author: Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola Translated: from French with an introduction by L. W. Tancock Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'L'Absinthe' by Adgar Degas Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: September 1970 Pages: 432pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L232	Series No.: L232 ISBN: 014044232 4 Title: A HARLOT HIGH AND LOW (Splendeurs Et Miseres Des Courtisanes) Author: Honoré de Balzac Translated: from French with an introduction by Rayner Heppenstall Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'Kleptomaniac' by Théodore Géricault Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: December 1970 Pages: 560pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L233	Series No.: L233 ISBN: 014044233 2 Title: ITALIAN JOURNEY, 1786 - 1788 Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated: from German by Wystan Hugh Auden and Elizabeth Mayer Cover illustration: shows a detail from 'Goethe in the Compagna' by Wilhelm Tischbein Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1970 Pages: 508pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L234	Series No.: L234 ISBN: 014044234 0 Title: LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Author: Lucius Flavius Philostratus Translated: from Greek by Christopher P. James Edited: by G. W. Bowersock Cover illustration: Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: January 1970 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L235	Series No.: L235 ISBN: 014044235 9 Title: MORAL ESSAYS Author: Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus) Translated: from Greek with an intorduction by Rex Warner Edited: with notes by D. A Russell Cover illustration: Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: June 1971 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L236	Series No.: L236 ISBN: 014044236 7 Title: THE PILLOW BOOK OF SEI SHŌNAGON Author: Sei Shōnagon Translated: from Japanese by Ivan Morris Cover illustration: shows a detail from a Genji Scroll Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: September 1971 Pages: 416pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L237	Series No.: L237 ISBN: 014044237 5 Title: THE BLACK SHEEP Author: Honoré de Balzac Translated: from French by Donald Adamson Cover illustration: shows portrait of an Artist in his Studio by Théodore Géricault Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 382pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L238	Series No.: L238 ISBN: 014044238 0 Title: HRAFNKEL'S SAGA AND OTHER STORIES Translated: from Icelandic by Hermann Pálsson Cover illustration: showing detail from St Olaf, the Norwegian King, suffering martyrdom in the battle of Stiklestad, 1030 Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1971 Pages: 144pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L239	Series No.: L239 ISBN: 014044239 7 Title: TROILUS AND CRISEYDE Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Translated: from Middle English by Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill Cover illustration: shows Geoffrey Chaucer reading Troilus and Criseyde to King Richard II and his court Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1971 Pages: 368pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L240	Series No.: L240 ISBN: 014044240 5 Title: PRAISE OF FOLLY and LETTER TO MARTIN DORP, 1515 Author: Desiderius Erasmus Translated: from Latin by Betty Radice Introduction: and notes by A. H. T. Levi Cover illustration: shows portrait of Erasmus by Quentin Metsijs Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: January 1971 Pages: 266pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L241	Series No.: L241 ISBN: 014044241 3 Title: THE AGRICOLA AND GERMANIA Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus Translated: from Latin by H. Mattingly and S. A. Handford Cover illustration: shows relief on a gravestone Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: February 1971 [printed date: 1970] Pages: 176pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L242	Series No.: L242 ISBN: 014044242 1 Title: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated: from German by R. J. Hollingdale Cover illustration: shows 'Meadows near Greifswald' by Caspar David Friedrich Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 304pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L243	Series No.: L243 ISBN: 014044243 X Title: SELECTED SHORT STORIES Author: Guy de Maupassant Translated: from French with an intoruction by Roger Colet Cover illustration: shows 'After the Bath' by Edgar Degas Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: April 1971 Pages: 368pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L244	Series No.: L244 ISBN: 014044244 8 Title: ON THE GOOD LIFE Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Translated: from Latin with an introduction by Michael Grant Cover illustration: Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: September 1971 Pages: 384pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L245	Series No.: L245 ISBN: 014044245 6 Title: THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE : CLEANNESS : ST. ERKENWALD Translated: from Middle English with an introduction by Brian Stone Cover illustration: shows a miniature from a French thirteenth century Old Testament Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 264pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L246	Series No.: L246 ISBN: 014044246 4 Title: THE LAST POETS OF IMPERIAL ROME Translated: from Latin by Harold Isbell Cover illustration: shows a fresco depicting a poet and an actor Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 302pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L247	Series No.: L247 ISBN: 014044247 2 Title: A CELTIC MISCELLANY Translated: from Celtic by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson Cover illustration: shows an illumination from the Book of Durrow Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 382pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L248	Series No.: L248 ISBN: 014044228 0 Title: EXEMPLARY STORIES Author: Miguel de Cervantes Translated: from Spanish by C. A. Jones Cover illustration: shows 'Woman Frying Eggs' by Velazquez Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1972 Pages: 256pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L249	Series No.: L249 ISBN: 014044249 9 Title: POEMS OF HEAVEN AND HELL FROM MESOPOTAMIA Translated: by N. Saunders Cover illustration: Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: June 1971 Pages: 192pp. Printer: Price:
Number: L250	Series No.: L250 ISBN: 014044250 2 Title: THE JEWISH POETS OF SPAIN Translated: by David Goldstein Cover illustration: shows medieval Spanish Haggadah illustrating The Passover Feast Series Editors: Betty Radice and Robert Baldick Date Published: 1971 Pages: 224pp. Printer: Price:

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