[6], xv, [1]. 275pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[Together with:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis lysistrata. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1903. [4], xiv, 177pp, [1]. With a half-title.

[And:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis plutus. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1904. [4], xxvi, 182pp. With a half-title.

[And:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis thesmophoriazusae. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1904. [4], xvi, 156pp. With a half-title.

[And:] ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanis ecclesiazusae. Cum prolegomenis et commentariis edidit J. van Leeuwen J. F. Lugduni-Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]. A. W. Sijthoff, 1905. [4], xxii, 160pp. With a half-title.

8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary gilt-ruled half-vellum, red cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces, all edges red. A trifle rubbed, marked, and sunned. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to all FEPs, occasional pencilled annotations, scattered foxing.

A handsomely bound set of five early twentieth-century editions of the plays of Aristophanes, all edited, with extensive commentaries, by Dutch classical scholar Jan van Leeuwen (1850-1924).