"Greek Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil" by J.P. Mahaffy, published by The Religious Tract Society, London, England, 1890. First edition.

Hard boards, maroon cloth, decorations and lettering on spine and front board [some cloth wear, spine cloth damages and repairs: see photos]; large: 8" x 11"; school prize award label inside front cover, endpaper are creased at the hinges, 223 pages, gilt page edges [a little wear] with c.50 illustrations [woodcuts]; some foxing, very good condition.

John Pentland Mahaffy (1839-1919) was an Irish scholar, clergyman, philologist, Egyptologist, musicologist, and professor of ancient History. Mahaffy was born in Switzerland and raised in Germany. He became fluent in several languages. In 1859 he obtained his degree in Classical Studies and his interests immediately turned to ancient Greece. From 1871 he taught ancient History at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1918 he was named Knight of the Great Cross of the British Empire, and later became president of the Royal Academy of Ireland. Finally, at the age of seventy-five, Mahaffy was named rector of Trinity College.

Mahaffy published at least seven important monographs on subjects of ancient Greek history, literature and philosophy, as well as some notable works on Ptolemaic Egypt. He was also the author of a travel account titled Rambles and Studies in Greece (1876). In addition, he made several important contributions to prestigious reviews of the time, among which a fourteen-page article in the June 1889 issue of Murray's Magazine, titled "Mount Athos in 1889."

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