1797 HUGE FOLIO Dryden Fables 1st ed Homer Chaucer Boccaccio Diana Beauclerc ART

1797 HUGE FOLIO Dryden Fables 1^st ed Homer Chaucer Boccaccio Diana Beauclerc ART

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.

This particular 1797 edition is an enormous folio! And the size alone is not the only appeal – this edition contains engravings from the artwork of Diana Beauclerc. These 9 full-page illustrations are highly coveted works of art and make this folio one of the most desirable editions of Dryden’s ‘Fables’.

Item number: #24970

Price: $950

DRYDEN, John

The fables of John Dryden

London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Edwards, 1797. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [2], xviii, 241, [1]
  • 9 plates + several vignette engravings
• Provenance: Bookplate – G.C. Bainbridge
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~14.75in X 10.75in (37cm x 27.5cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons as high as $2500

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