Pastor Fido di Giambatista Guarini [text in Italian throughout]
GUARINI, Cavalier
250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Dulau London, 1800
Stock code: 8064
Price: £84.00
2 vols., in 1, 8vo., text in Italian; attractively bound in contemporary full calf, very neatly rebacked, old backstrip elaborately tooled and ruled in gilt laid down, original leather label lettered in gilt, gilt doublures, speckled edges, boards age-marked, a remarkably crisp, clean copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. With the eighteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Margaret Maskelyne on front paste-down, and her holograph signature dated 1802 on title of each book. It is possible that this Margaret Maskelyne is the mother (1786-1858) of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, noted mineralogist and politician. A VERY EARLY FORMALLY LIMITED EDITION OF GUARINI'S GREAT PASTORAL TRAGICOMEDY, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1590.