Burton, Sir Richard F. - "Outidanos" & Leonard Charles Smithers "Neaniskos"
£340
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Priapeia or the sportive epigrams of divers poets on Priapus: the Latin text now for the first time Englished in verse and prose (the metrical version by "Outidanos") with introduction, notes explanatory and illustrative, and excursus by "Neaniskos". "Cosmopoli" [London], printed by the translators, for Private Subscribers only, [1890]. First edition, 4to., limited to 500 copies, frontispiece, blue morocco gilt extra by George Bayntun, g.e., slipcase, a fine copy