Chronicle of the Cid

by Robert Southey

$425 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. First Edition. First edition in English, the first prose version in any language of the great Spanish realist epic, recounting the heroic life of El Cid Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, 1040-1099 . 4to 261 x 213mm , pp. 2 , ii , 10 , iii -xli, 1 , map, 468. Rebound in old marbled wrappers matching the page edges. No half title, else complete with fly-titles, errata and

• Binding: Wrappers

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