Il Pastor Fido Tragicommedia Pastorale del Cavalier Gurarini
by FOULIS PRESS. GUARINI (Battista):
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About This Item
In Glasgua, Della Stampa di Roberto ed Andrea Foulis e si Vendono Appresso Loro, e Giovanni Balfour in Edinburgo, 1763. Small 8vo, 149 x 88 mms., pp. 264, 7 engraved plates by Sebastien Le Clerc (1637 - 1714), contemporary calf, gilt ruled border on cover, spine ornately gilt to a thistle motif, olive morocco label; lower margin of one plate water-stained not affecting plate, joints cracked (but firm), top and bottom of spine chipped, corners worn, but a fair to good copy, with the bookplate of Joseph Knight dated 1863 on the front past-down marbled end-paper, and three autograph inscriptions on the recto of the second front free end-paper, that of Joseph Knight (faint), "George White A. M./ Rector of Huntspill/ Somersetshire/ late Fellow of Balliol/ College Oxford/ 1789," and "[?Scott Nevell]/ 1870." Guarini's Il Pasto Fido was first published in 1590 in Venice. Gaskell 418.
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- John Price Antiquarian Books
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- Title
- Il Pastor Fido Tragicommedia Pastorale del Cavalier Gurarini
- Author
- FOULIS PRESS. GUARINI (Battista):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- In Glasgua, Della Stampa di Roberto ed Andrea Foulis e si Vendono Appresso Loro, e Giovanni Balfour in Edinburgo, 1763
- Keywords
- Drama printing history prose Scottish Enlightenment
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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