The Rape of Proserpine, From Claudian. In Three Books. With the story of Sextus and Erichtho, From Lucan's Pharsalia, Book 6. Translated by Mr. Jabez Hughes.
London.
Printed by J. D. and sold by Ferd. Burleigh, 1714.
First edition.
8vo.
xii, 116pp. Recent brown half-morocco, tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers, initial gathering foxed and toned, else internally clean and crisp.
The first edition of a discerning verse translation by Jabez Hughes (1684/5-1731) of Latin poet Claudian's (c.370-c.404) influential unfinished mythological epic De raptu Proserpinae, to which is subjoined the tale of Erichto extracted from the sixth book of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus' (39-65 AD) Pharsalia. A second edition, corrected and enlarged with notes, appeared in 1723.
ESTC records copies at only four locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Oxford, and York), and a further seven in North America.
ESTC records copies at only four locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Oxford, and York), and a further seven in North America.
ESTC T2363.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 15132
