1969 The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

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Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed

Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding.

A limited edition of this work, being one of two hundred and fifty copies signed by the editor and translator, Raymond Postgate, and one of five hundred copies printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press.

A refined modern English rendering of Aeschylus’s tragic masterpiece. Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC) is often regarded as the father of Greek tragedy, his Agamemnon forming the first part of the Oresteia trilogy.

Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), was a journalist, historian, and founder of The Good Food Guide.

With the bookplate of Dr Richard Luckett, Emeritus Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, who served as Pepys Librarian and Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century Literature for thirty years, noted for his work on the Diary of Samuel Pepys and his distinguished collection of early music and manuscripts.