LIBANIUS' AUTOBIOGRAPHY: (Oration 1).

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the editor, A. F. Norman, to Brynmor Jones. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Uncommon in signed or inscribed state.

Inscribed by the editor A. F. Norman in black ink to the front free endpaper "Vice – Cancellario / viro doctissimo atque humanissimo [to a most learned and humane man] / A. F. Norman / 1 / [3] / 65". Professor A. F. Norman [Albert Francis Norman] (1913-2000) joined University College, Hull in 1947, and eventually retired from the Classics chair at the renamed University of Hull in 1978. Among much else, he was the world authority on the fourth century Antioch sophist Libanius. A revised edition of this 1965 Greek/English edition of the Libanius' Orations was issued in 1992 in the Loeb Classical Library. Norman must have known Philip Larkin, but the only Fred Norman mentioned in the poet's correspondence is the American jazz trombonist (1910-1993). Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.