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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 ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection FC6 L1146 Eg736h v.1-8
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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, 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
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