The Poems of Bacchylides: From a Papyrus in the British Museum

Bacchylides, Frederic G. Kenyon, British Museum

Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum : Sold at the Museum, London, 1897

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Daniel Coit Gilman.] English and Ancient Greek text. Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription on copyright page. Note on Gilman on front end page. Some pages uncut. liii, 246 pages ; 23 cm.

"Daniel Coit Gilman spent nearly 50 years in academia, from assistant librarian at his alma mater Yale in 1856 to founding president of today's Carnegie Institution for Science in 1901, with a stint as president of an emerging University of California in between. But, of course, he is best known for being president of Johns Hopkins University, a role he assumed at the school's founding in 1876 and left in 1901. He died in 1908, and in May 1915 the university in his honor formally inaugurated Gilman Hall, the first academic building on the new Homewood campus. Hopkins' success as scholastic upstart can largely be attributed to Gilman's pioneering ideas, motivational oratory, and dogged recruiting." Johns Hopkins University