'This is an excellent book; its authors have fulfilled with striking success their aim to produce "a simple introdution for beginners to the processes by which Greek and Latin literature have been preserved". They have dealt with the essentials of this vast subject, and with the rudiments of textual criticism, in five very readable chapters, and their book deserves to be lastingly popular with sixth-formers and undergraduates."
P. E. Easterling in the Journal of Hellenistic Studies
In the second edition of this classic work a section of notes was included, and a new chapter was added which dealt with some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance. For this third edition the authors have responded to the urgent need to take account of the very large number of discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by substantially revising or enlarging certain sections.
P. E. Easterling in the Journal of Hellenistic Studies
In the second edition of this classic work a section of notes was included, and a new chapter was added which dealt with some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance. For this third edition the authors have responded to the urgent need to take account of the very large number of discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by substantially revising or enlarging certain sections.