Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, the Rape of Helen, a Comment thereon with Several other Poems and Translations

by Sir Edward Sherburne, trans

$5,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION, first issue. A very good, crisp copy, complete with the etched frontispiece, bound in contemporary sheepskin spine repaired, some surface abrasion, mild wear to extremities . Minor blemishes as follows: light dampstain to leaves B6-7 and gathering G; small, light stains on leaves D1, E, G8. A few other scattered blemishes. Margins of final three gatherings with light soiling. The book was reissued in the same year under the title

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