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PRIVATELY PRINTED NEO-LATIN SHAKESPEARE

[SHAKESPEARE, William]. L[ATHAM], H[enry]. Sertum shaksperianum, subnexis aliquot inferioris notae floribus.

[Oxonii, i.e. Oxford]. [Excudebant T. Combe...E. Pickard Hall, et H. Latham], 1863. First edition.
8vo. xiv, [2], 134pp, [2]. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. A little rubbed to extremities, spine darkened with very short crack at head of upper joint, corners a trifle bumped, text occasionally spotted.
The fifth located copy of the sole edition - privately printed, 'Oblatum Amicis' of barrister, cleric and poet Henry Latham's (1794-1866) curious publication which translates seemingly arbitrarily selected extracts from the plays of Shakespeare's plays into Latin.

COPAC records a single copy (BL); OCLC adds three further (California, Chicago, Victoria).
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref: 27433