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SLEEPING BARD; Or Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, by Elis Wyn, Translated from the Cambrian British by George Borrow, The.
by Wynne, Ellis 1671-1734; George Borrow, Translator 1803-81
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About This Item
London: John Murray (James N. Denew, Printer, Great Yarmouth), 1860. Translated by Borrow in 1830. First edition. [c.1703 London as Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (The Visions of the Sleeping Bard)] not 1720 listed in preface. Period rebound in brown half calf over marbled boards; five raised bands with extra leather titles, tooled gilt decoration, matching marbled end papers, t.e.g. 12mo (19.1x11.9cm). pp. [iv] blank, vii, [3] half title and blanks, 128, [4] blank. Very Good. Edgewear with corners and joints rubbed, head chipped, darkened spine with extra leather spine title missing (with clear stamping visible); internally near fine with overall page toning to some pages as two papers were used. Collie & Fraser B.6a, without extra leaf [ix-x] tipped in and no note of copies printed. From the library of Micajah Pratt Clough (1848-1933) with bookplate (Brainerd 66, 1896: 1.75 by 3.25-inches) designed by Edwin Davis French (1851-1906) affixed to front pastedown. [Clough was a shoe manufacturer on Broad Street in Lynn Massachusetts and member of the Lynn Historical Society. This was one of the two bookplates commissioned from French, the other was Brainerd 51 the year before]. As indicated in the London Quarterly Review article of January 1861 and in the preface, Borrow believed parts of the work were more than 'inspired by' Francisco Quevedo's 'Visions or Discourses' [Los Sue–os or Sue–os y discursos ("Dreams and Discourses"), 1627]. Wynne's classic in Welch literature is an allegory of a city is divided into three "magnificent" streets: Pride, Pleasure and Lucre...with a little cross street in the distance representing true religion. Borrow actually completed the translation in 1830, but a certain Welch bookseller residing in Smithfield shrank from publishing it the night before press fearing ruin and prosecution from Sir James Scarlett [1st Baron Abinger 1769-1844]..
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- OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
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- Title
- SLEEPING BARD; Or Visions of the World, Death, and Hell, by Elis Wyn, Translated from the Cambrian British by George Borrow, The.
- Author
- Wynne, Ellis 1671-1734; George Borrow, Translator 1803-81
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Murray (James N. Denew, Printer, Great Yarmouth), 1860.
- Keywords
- Moral allegory, Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Santibanez Villegas 1580-1645
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- Humor & Satire;
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OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
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About OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
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