A Medicinable Morall That Is The Two Bookes Of Horace His Satyres Englyshed Accordyng To The

by Horace T Drant

$60,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: by Thomas Marshe, 1566. First English language edition. First edition of the first translation of Horace published in English, and the first and only edition of Drant’s translation of the Book of Lamentations. Small quarto 170 x 126 mm , a4 A-L8 M4; 192 pages, unnumbered. The title page verso bears a dedication to Lady Bacon and Lady Cecil; in some copies, this page is blank. Other

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