Item #59509 Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems. John DRYDEN.
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems.
Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems.

Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with Original Poems.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1713. [Verse Translations] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, an early printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.l; 550 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full speckled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges speckled red. Some minor ink notes to fly-leaf. Top 1.5cm of title page trimmed away, probably due to an ownership. Otherwise a crisp, clean copy internally. Heavy wear to spine, with much gilt rubbed away, including all the titles, with some loss to head-cap. Upper joint split, but holding well. Lighter wear to boards. Good. An early printing of Dryden's last published collection, originally appearing in the year of his death, and issued again in the collected works of 1701. Item #59509

Price: £450.00

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