THE ORESTEIA. Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Furies

First Easton Collector's Edition, published in advance for subscribers of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. With eleven striking full page illustrations by Michael Ayrton and a colour frontispiece portrait of Aeschylus, based on ancient tradition, by Richard Eichman. 4to, bound in the publisher's original green leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xviii, 177 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

Edizione: fine copy of the first prize winning trilogy in 458 b.c. with introduction by rex warner. "the oresteia, also known as the house of atreus, is the only complete trilogy of greek dramas that has come down to us. these 3 plays relate the melodramatic story - based on greek mythology - of agamemnon, king of mycenae, his wife clytemnestra, their son orestes, and their associates. while agamemnon is away at the trojan war, his wife takes a lover, aegisthus, and conspires with him to slay her husband upon his return. the murder is the subject of the first play, the agamemnon. the second, the libation bearers, relates orestes' vengeance on the lovers; and the final drama, the furies, describes his trial and absolution.