Tan calf spine with red title plate, gilt banding and title. Brown marbled boards.

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A lovely volume (containing plays and poems) written by Henry Charlton to entertain his aristocratic friends with an afternoon soiree exploring themes from the classical world, such as Pausanias, a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League’s combined land forces, he won a pivotal victory against the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Plataea.

Henry Charlton (1786/7-1866) must have come late to education, as he only went up to Oxford in 1815, at the age of 28, but after that he became an upmarket vicar.