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Hymen's praeludia, or, Love's master-piece : being that so-much-admired romance, intituled Cleopatra : in twelve parts / written originally in the French [by Seigneur de Gaultier de Costa La Calprenède] ; and now elegantly rendred into English, by Robert Loveday.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection Folio PQ1805.L3 C63 1687
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.
- Standardized Title:
- Cléopatre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C--Fiction.
- Cleopatra.
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mendenhall, John C. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 958 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 31 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Love's master-piece
- Place of Publication:
- London, Eng. : Printed by F. Collins for Thomas Fabian, 1687.
- Notes:
- Parts 1-6 were translated by Loveday, part 7 by John Cole, part 8 by James Webb, and parts 9-12 by John Davies.
- Cf. Wing L 124; Esdaile, A.J.K. Tales, p. 193.
- T.p. in red and black.
- Advertisements: p. [1] at end.
- Translation of: Cléopâtre.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R39109
- Mish, C.C. Engl. prose fiction, 48
- Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) III, 121
- OCLC:
- 187437226
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