Publication details: Leiden: Theodore Haak,1737,
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An early eighteenth-century critical edition of the 4th-century BCE poet Musaeus of Athens, translated from Greek into Latin. Musaeus' 343-line epyllion is one of the principal sources for myth of Hero and Leander. This copy owned by the 'Dymock poet' Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938).
FIRST EDITION, extra engraved title showing Hero falling from her tower to join the drowned Leander, numismatic engraving to title page, text in Latin and Greek, woodcut tailpieces; prelims and endleaves a little soiled and a little toned, but overall a crisp copy, pp. [44], 101, [25], 8vo, nineteenth-century full vellum; bowed and a little rubbed with the surface lustre lost; bookplate and ownership inscription of Lascelles Abercrombie, good
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