Hardback. Quarter-bound, leather spine and corners, marbled boards. Spine, black banding, gilt letters and decoration, bumped, rubbed. Front and backboards, bumped, some shelf-ware. Gilt top edge, handling marks, fore and bottom edge, small amount of foxing, some handling marks. Used very good condition. Flyleafs and half title, some foxing. End flyleafs, some foxing. All pages complete and clean.  Publisher is George Routledge & Sons Limited. Undated, possibly 1890\'s. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as an individual persona with an active role to play in his subject