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CATULLUS; BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (translator).

The Carmina...

Now first completely Englyshed into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton ... the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes...by Leonard C. Smithers.

Stock Code
104738
London, [Leonard Smithers] printed for the translators... for private subscribers, 1894
£150

Sir Richard Burton's translation of the Carmina of Catullus, featuring the same frontispiece by Blake as used in the first attempted English translation of 1795. Bookseller and publisher Smithers worked on the prose sections, keen to follow up on the success of their edition of Arabian Nights (1885-88).

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Description

First Burton edition, one of 1,000 small paper copies; 8vo; engraved frontispiece by William Blake, title-page printed in red & black with device, browning to free endpapers; publisher's parchment-backed boards, somewhat rubbed and marked, spine browned, uncut.

Bibliography

Penzer pp.156/7.

Stock ID:104738

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