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JONES, A.H.M., Athenian Democracy. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1957. 198p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. errata leaflet inbound. Some erasable pencil lines and underlinings from TR. ‘This is a collection of five papers on the Athenian democracy at its zenith. Four of them have already been published. (…) The fifth, ‘How did the Athenian Democracy work’, and an appendix on the citizen population of Athens during the Peloponnesian wa are now published for the first time. (…) These papers are not all easy of access and they provide (…) a systematic and coherent treatment of a single and important theme. Students of ancient history will, I am certain, be grateful for the book (…). Its two great merits are the clarity with which its conclusions are presented and the wealth and appositeness of the references to the ancient evidence, both literary and epigraphic, on which they are based. That is not to say that the conclusions will all carry equal conviction. (…) While it is an immense service to have built into a coherent structure the scattered evidence for the economic and social background of Athenian history during this period, there is a danger that this very coherence may blind the unwary reader to the slender foundations on which the structure sometimes rests. (…) There is a most serviceable index of passages cited.’ (A.R.W. HARRISON in The Classical Review (New Series), 1959, pp60-62). From the library of the late Prof. Dr. Tony Reekmans. € 17.50 (Antiquarian)