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Shelfmark

Iaa2.2.55

Author

Uniform title

[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Polyglot]

Title

L'elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna / tradotta dall'inglese in più lingue con varie cose finora inedite.

Publication, distribution, etc.

In Verona : dalla Tipografia Mainardi, M. D. CCC. XVII. [1817]

Physical description

175, [1] p. ; 23 cm

Language

Preliminaries in Italian, followed by original English text of Gray's Elegy and multiple translations by various authors into Italian, Latin, Hebrew, French, German, and Greek, with annotations.

Note

Parallel English/Italian verse texts with translation by Giuseppe Torelli, supported by a Italian prose version below by Domenico Trant; further Italian verse versions by Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giuseppe Gennari, Marco Lastri, Antonio Buttura, Paolo Giuseppe Baraldi (blank verse and prose) and Michel Angelo Castellazzi; French verse versions by Kérivalant and J.L. Grenus; a German verse version by Ludwig Theoboul Kosegarten; Latin verse versions by Giovanni Costa, d'Anstey, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri and (Latin and Hebrew) Giuseppe Venturi; and a Greek verse version by Giosafat Cipriani.

Note

Dedication signed by Alessandro Torri.

Note

Edition limited to 350 copies of which 15 on vellum paper--colophon.

Provenance

19th century inscription on title page, partly rubbed out: J. M[----] Gyll (?).

Provenance

20th century booklabel of D. J. Hall [David J. Hall].

Binding

Later 19th-century half black morocco; black pebble-grained cloth boards; gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands; marbled endpapers; gilt text block edges. Binder's stamp of Zaehnsdorf.

Copy-specific note

Ordinary paper copy.

Copy-specific note

Loosely inserted bookseller's particulars (not this copy).

Subject

Polyglot texts, selections, quotations, etc.

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Zaehnsdorf binder.

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Added entry--place

Italy Verona.

Language code

ita eng lat heb fre ger eng grc eng

Identifier

B46804
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