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(GUARINI (Giovanni Battista)) Il Pastor Fido. The Faithfull Shepheard [translated] (by Richard Fanshawe) with an addition of divers other poems, concluding with a short discourse of the long civill warres of Rome. Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648. 4to. 19th Cent. half calf worn and roughly repaired, front joint breaking; title-page stained, contents embrowned and cut down at fore-edge affecting initial letters of lines in first half, small wormhole through centre of text affecting a few letters. Frontispiece portrait opposite title-page to 1647 edition of Fanshawe’s translation, one other plate.
An unattractive copy of the second edition of Fanshawe’s translation. Wing G 2175
£75.00