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Hymen's Præludia: or Love's Master-Piece. Being that So-much-Admired Romance, intituled, Cleopatra. In Twelve Parts. Written originally in the French, and now rendred into English, by Robert Loveday

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Hymen's Præludia: or Love's Master-Piece. Being that So-much-Admired Romance, intituled, Cleopatra. In Twelve Parts. Written originally in the French, and now rendred into English, by Robert Loveday

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London: Printed for F. Collins for Thomas Fabian, 1687. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio. pp. [8] 958 [1]. Contemporay calf, Cambridge style binding, nicely rebacked, preserving original spine label. Uncommon edition of this work, well known for its complicated and convoluted publishing history. "Having become proficient in French and Italian under the instruction of another member of the Clinton household, Loveday translated into English the first three parts of La Calprenède's Cléopâtre under the title Hymen's Præludia, or, Love's Master-Piece; these appeared respectively in 1652, 1654, and 1655, and were reprinted many times. Despite the erroneous attribution of other parts of the romance to Loveday's hand in some later editions, it was only with the collaboration of John Coles that part 4 was completed and published in 1656. Loveday [who died in 1656] was an agreeable writer, and his translation is accurate and idiomatic" (ODNB). The Cleopatra of the title is Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Anthony and Cleopatra.

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Title
Hymen's Præludia: or Love's Master-Piece. Being that So-much-Admired Romance, intituled, Cleopatra. In Twelve Parts. Written originally in the French, and now rendred into English, by Robert Loveday
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La Calprenede, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de
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Printed for F. Collins for Thomas Fabian
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London
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1687

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