The Loves of Mirtil, Son of Adonis; A Pastoral.
London.
[s.n.], 1770.
First edition.
8vo.
[2], iv, [4], 139pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and title, and five further engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Ink inscription to recto of FFEP; 'Mary Kelly, Easter 1957', some spotting to plates.
An English translation of the anonymous Les amours de Mirtil (Constantinople [i.e. Paris], 1761).
Scarce in the British Isles, with ESTC locating copies at Brighton, BL, and Oxford, and 13 further copies worldwide.
Scarce in the British Isles, with ESTC locating copies at Brighton, BL, and Oxford, and 13 further copies worldwide.
ESTC T118871.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 13930
