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[Barclay.] CORRAL (Gabriel de, translator)

Publication details: Madrid: Iuan Gonçalez,1626,

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Barclay's popular royalist historical allegory, which was admired both for its style and polemic by the likes of Cowper, Cardinal Richelieu, Fenelon and Leibnitz, was originally posthumously published in Paris in Latin in 1621, and following the loss of Ben Johnson's translation (commissioned by James I) due to a fire, was finally published in English in 1625. Further vernacular language versions rapidly followed, including this edition, which Gabriel de Corral translated from the Paris second edition. Corral was himself a highly regarded literary figure and prominent member of the Academia Potica in Madrid, as were Lope de Vega and Anastasio Pantaleon de Ribera, who contributed a prologue to this edition. (DNB; Lowndes 112).Scarce: Worldcat cites 5 copies (British Library, Duke University, Thomas Fisher Library, Universitat Rovira, Eberhard Karls Universitat).

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FIRST EDITION of first Spanish translation, contemporary annotations at upper margin of B4, title with armorial device, laid down, with restoration at top and fore-edge, slightly soiled, first text leaf with restoration at fore-edge, upper corner of final leaf torn with slight loss, 3 leaves with short tears at fore-margin, occasional spots and dampstains, particularly through initial and final gatherings, small pen trials on title and final leaves, crossed-through ownership inscription at upper margin of title, pastedown with armorial bookplate of Feliciano Ramirez de Arelliano, Marquez de la Fuensanta del Valle ff. [6], 288, 4to, nineteenth-century half roan with pebbled boards, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt with gilt compartments, boards marked, edges rubbed, blue speckled edges, marbled endpapers, good

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