Andria.

£350 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

With Eddie Marsh’s complete translation on the interleaved blanks, totalling 55 pages of manuscript, completed by him as a scholar at Westminster school, at the age of 13. He is already striving for a casual voice in translation, and sometimes achieves it: “It’s a true proverb, which is common among the people, that everyone takes best care of number one. I’ll go home and tell my master I’m afraid that for my sorry news I shall get sorry wages.”

• Year: 1871

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