WRITING DOWN ROME. Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original navy cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed original dustwrapper, which is very lightly faded to the spine and rear panel, and lightly toned to the upper edge of the flaps.

A collection of Latin literature scholar John Henderson's essays on Roman comic and satiric poetry.