First edition. Octavo. Bound by Fazakerley in half vellum over marbled paper boards, gilt rules to covers. Three brown morocco title labels lettered gilt. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy, boards slightly rubbed.
 
PROVENANCE: Samuel Ashton Thompson-Yates (1843-1903), inscribed for him by the author in 1897 to first blank. Autograph letter from the author addressed to him tipped in to rear. Also with his bookplate to front pastedown; bookplate of Hugh Bright to front pastedown also.
 
An attractive volume on Classical Education, with fine book collecting heritage.
 
Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates was the grandson of Joseph Brook Yates (1780-1855) who, in 1812, was one of the founders of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. On his death, Joseph Brook Yates left his book collection to grandsons Samuel Ashton Thompson Yates, and Henry Yates Thompson (1836-1903).
 
Both went on to be great book collectors in their own right, with Yates Thompson amassing one of the finest collections of medieval manuscripts of the twentieth century, and Thompson Yates founding the library at The Thompson Yates medical laboratory at Liverpool University.
 
Their respective collections then passed to Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), and this set bears the bookplate of his son Hugh Bright.