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Title: Pastor Fido di Giambatista Guarini [text in Italian throughout]. EARLY LIMITED EDITION
Description: Dulau, London,, 1800. 2 vols., in 1, 8vo., attractively bound in contemporary full calf, very neatly rebacked, old backstrip elaborately tooled and ruled in gilt laid down, original leather label lettered in gilt, gilt doublures, speckled edges, boards age-marked, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES.With the eighteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Margaret Maskelyne on front paste-down, and her holograph signature dated 1802 on title of each book. It is possible that this Margaret Maskelyne is the mother (1786-1858) of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, noted mineralogist and politician.A VERY EARLY FORMALLY LIMITED EDITION OF GUARINI'S GREAT PASTORAL TRAGICOMEDY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1590.

Keywords: literature, italian literature, pastoral poetry, g. guarini, literature, pastor, fido, di, giambatista, guarini, text, italian, throughout

Price: EUR 184.00 = appr. US$ 199.98 Seller: Island Books
- Book number: 8064

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