Tragical tales, and other poems
1837, Limited Edition. Edinburgh: Printed for Priv. Circulation by Edinburgh Printing Company. Vey good copy in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and red speckled edges. Label mark on spine, spotting throughout, mainly light, but more on preliminaires and title-page, otherwise a fine copy. Item #228004
Provenance; Bookplate from the library of Quenn May College (University of London). Physical conditon; x, 406 p. ; 180 mm x 260 mm. Notes; One of a limted printing of 50 copies; Edinburgh, printed for private circulation, 1837. Ex-academica library, with plates on front end-papers, blind-embossed stamps on title-page, last page and the margins of one or two others. Edited by James Maidment. The tales are taken mainly from Boccaccio and Bandello. Original title: Tragical Tales, translated by Tvrbervile, In time of his troubles, out of sundrie Italians, with the Argument and Lenuoye to eche Tale ... Imprinted at London by Abell Ieffs, dwelling in the Forestreete without Crepelgate at the signe of the Bel. Anno Dom. 1587. Subjects; George Turbervile (1540?-1610?). Poetry. Scottish. 16th-17th-centuries. Genres; Illustrated. Poems - Scotland - 1837.
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