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Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.
by DRYDEN, John
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
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1734 Dryden Fables Ancient & Modern Homer Ovid Chaucer Boccaccio English Lit
John Dryden was a 17th-century English poet who was known as England's very first Poet Laureate and would lead England into a literary period that would become known as the Age of Dryden. He also established standard forms of English poetry though his satires, fables, epigrams, poems, and plays.
'Fables, Ancient and Modern' is Dryden's translations of some of the most famous and iconic works of ancient literature. Dryden includes selections from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', Homer's 'Iliad', and even stories from Giovanni Boccaccio, all translated into English verse.
Item number: #19863
Price: $599
DRYDEN, John
Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head ever-against Catharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [58], 345, [3]
o Engraved frontispiece
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Lord Rivers
o Likely George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1721–1803), an English diplomat and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament during the War of the Austrian Succession, commissioned colonel of the Dorset Militia under the Militia Act 1757, and served as Envoy-extraordinary to the Kingdom of Sardinia at Turin. Motto: ÆQUAM SERVARE MENTEM
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19863
- Title
- Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.
- Author
- DRYDEN, John
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head ever-against Catharine-Street in the Strand
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1734
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1734 Dryden Fables Ancient & Modern Homer Ovid Chaucer Boccaccio English Lit, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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