Author: Lang, Andrew
Title: Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Inscribed by Lang
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Rendered Into English prose with an Introductory Essay by A. Lang, M.S. Lately Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. Not the first edition but the second edition under this title. A volume in Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series". Presentation copy, inscribed by Lang on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Lady Napier with the translator's compliments." Covers lightly marked and worn, but in good condition. With a slip containing a copy of the inscription tipped to the front pastedown. Bookplate of Maurice Baring. Portions of this work were published in a rare privately printed pamphlet of 1879 with the title, Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus; the first edition under this title appeared in 1880. See Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography, p. 241 and NCBEL III, 1441. .
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Title: Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Inscribed by Lang
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Rendered Into English prose with an Introductory Essay by A. Lang, M.S. Lately Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. 12mo, original pictorial cloth. Not the first edition but the second edition under this title. A volume in Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series". Presentation copy, inscribed by Lang on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Lady Napier with the translator's compliments." Covers lightly marked and worn, but in good condition. With a slip containing a copy of the inscription tipped to the front pastedown. Bookplate of Maurice Baring. Portions of this work were published in a rare privately printed pamphlet of 1879 with the title, Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus; the first edition under this title appeared in 1880. See Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography, p. 241 and NCBEL III, 1441. .
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- Book number: 33986
- Book number: 33986
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