Hymen's praeludia, or, Love's master-piece : being that so-much-admir'd romance, intitled, Cleopatra, In twelve parts / written originally in French, and now elegantly render'd into English, by Robert Loveday ...

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, -1663.

Contributor:

• Loveday, Robert, active 1655, translator.
• J. C. (John Coles), 1623 or 1624- translator.
• J. W. (James Webb), translator.
• Davies, John, 1625-1693, translator.
• Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Cléopatre. English

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.---Fiction.
• Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-.

Genre:

• Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

• Thayer, Samuel, of the Inner Temple (bookplate)
• Haviland (bookplate)
• Haviland, T.A., Mrs. (donor)

Physical Description:

8 volumes : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

• Hymen's praeludia
• Love's master-piece

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by J. Watson ..., MDCCXXXVI [1736]

Notes:

• Anonymous. By Gautier de Costes de la Calprene`de.
• Parts 1-6 were translated by Robert Loveday, pt. 7 by John Coles, pt. 8 by James Webb and pts. 9-12 by John Davies.
• Titlepage to vol.1 in red and black.
• Head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.

Local Notes:

• Culture Class Collection copy has pt. 1, bks. 1-4, pt. 2, bks. 1-4, pt. 3, bk. 1 numbered as bk. 1, pts. 1-9. The remaining parts are numbered normally.
• Culture Class Collection copy of each volume bound in full brown leather; boards gold-tooled with double line fillet borders; five raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; four gold-tooled spine panels; "Cleopatra" stamped in gilt on a black leather label in second spine panel; volume number stamped in gilt on a black leather label in fourth spine panel; cover edges tooled in black; all edges speckled red.
• Culture Class Collection copy of each volume have the armorial bookplate of Haviland on recto of front free endpaper of vol. 1 and on front pastedown of remaining volumes.
• Culture Class Collection copy of vol. 1 has the armorial bookplate of Samuel Thayer of the Inner Temple, Esq. on front pastedown.

Cited in:

ESTC, T123075

OCLC:

23633301