EUPHORMIO'S SATYRICON.
Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Ten wood engravings by Derrick Harris. Pp. [iv]+158, the frontispiece, title page and 7 plates all within decorative red borders, title page vignette, head & tailpiece decorations, cockerel, glossary; impl. 8vo; qr. crimson canvas, spine lettered in gilt, grey handmade papered boards, upper board decorated in red, the boards faintly soiled, fore-corners bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, scattered light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1954. One of 150 numbered copies thus bound (total edition 260). Cock-a-Hoop 196. *An early picaresque novel. John Barclay (1582-1621) was a French-born Scotsman. Although the book was reprinted in Latin twenty times within seventy years, and also translated into French, Dutch and German, this is the first edition in English. Item #162903
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