This UNREAD leather limited edition book from The Franklin Mint is in NEAR PERFECT condition with no markings inside or out and no attached bookplates. There is a sort of mild dirtiness to the long and bottom edges of the gold gilt of the text block, as shown. This is extremely slight and superficial, and simply from sitting idle for years. The pages are still mostly still stuck together at the gilt edges because they've never even been separated for the first time after the text block was treated with gold leaf during production.

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Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.

Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. His powers of ridicule were feared and acknowledged by influential contemporaries; Plato singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as slander that contributed to the trial and subsequent condemning to death of Socrates, although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher.