Il Pastor Fido: Tragicomedia Pastorale
by Guarini, Battista
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Item Price
$200.00$170.00
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About This Item
Verona: Bortolamio Merlo, 1642. Later . Hardcover. Good+. The Faithful Shepher: A Pastoral Tragicomedy by Guarini (1538-1612). This is a later edition; first edition published Venice in 1590; this play in Italian verse created controversy between the 'Ancients' and 'Moderns' of Italy at the time and was very popular; the play was also the basis for the madrigals by Monteverdi. Approximately 5" tall by 2.75" wide; stiff paper-covered card with overlapping vellum spine; name in ink on inside opposite title page: B O Foster Venice 1900-this may be the B.O. Foster who helped with the translation of the fourteen volume Livy into English in the early 1900's. Good+ (boards bowed, soiled and toned; prev. owner handwrote title on top of spine; edges worn; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; tear to top of vellum on rear board; edges and pages toned; waterstain to top edge of pages from title page to page 16; discoloration, possible waterstain, to corners of pages along spine head; red pencil brackets and lines to margin of pp17, 21, 25, 35, 87; spots and stains to several pages); 240pp.
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- Bookseller
- Page 1 Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14120
- Title
- Il Pastor Fido: Tragicomedia Pastorale
- Author
- Guarini, Battista
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later
- Publisher
- Bortolamio Merlo
- Place of Publication
- Verona
- Date Published
- 1642
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama;
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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