1721 Dryden Fables Ancient & Modern Homer Ovid Chaucer Boccaccio English Lit

1721 Dryden Fables Ancient & Modern Homer Ovid Chaucer Boccaccio English Lit

John Dryden was a 17^th-century English poet who was known as England’s very first Poet Laureate and would lead England into a literary period that would become known as the Age of Dryden. He also established standard forms of English poetry though his satires, fables, epigrams, poems, and plays.

‘Fables, Ancient and Modern’ is Dryden’s translations of some of the most famous and iconic works of ancient literature. Dryden includes selections from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’, Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Homer’s ‘Iliad’, and even stories from Giovanni Boccaccio, all translated into English verse.

Item number: #21739

Price: $499

DRYDEN, John

Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer: with original poems.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1721.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [58], 345, [3]
  • Engraved frontispiece
• Provenance:
  • Supralibros – FRANGAS NON FLECTES
    • Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, KG PC (1721–1803), known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was an influential British politician from the Leveson-Gower family.
  • Handwritten – Jones, 1759
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; secure
• Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)

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