Item #39714 The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe. Achilles TATIUS.

The Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe.

New York: Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1923. Hardcover. Translation by William Burton. 4to. Tan cloth spine with paper label and brown paper over boards with paper label. xxxi, 152pp. Very good. Faintest edgewear only. Item #39714

A wonderfully tight and attractive copy of this first modern edition, limited to 494 copies numbered (this #457) and initialed by publisher in red. Burton was the first to translate this 3rd century Romanized Greek romance into English in 1597 -- then (to cite title page) "Reprinted for the first time from a copy now unique printed by Thomas Creede in 1597." Several other English translations followed (in 1638, 1855, 1917, 1989 and 2001) -- but Burton's was the first. Printed on lovely, heavy paper and with a spare front board paper label tipped to rear pastedown. Scarce.

Price: $125.00

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