Shelfmark
Ie10.1.02(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Elegy written in a country churchyard. Italian, Latin and English]
Title
Elegia inglese del Signor Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna trasportata in versi latini, e volgari..
Publication, distribution, etc.
In Padova : Presso Giuseppe Comino. Con Licenza de' Superiori., MDCCLXXII. [1772]
Physical description
29, [3] p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Language
Parallel English text and Latin translation in quatrains at top of facing pages with Italian translation in terze rime across the bottom of the pages.
Note
Latin translation by Giovanni Costa; Italian translation by Giuseppe Gennari; translations commissioned by "Kr. Domenico Trant" [i.e. Dominick Trant?].
Note
Date follows place of publication in imprint.; turned Cs in imprint date.
Note
Printer's foreword on p. [5]-6 states that these translations came into his hands some days after the publication of the translation by Melchiorre Cesarotti (ESTC, T71245).
Note
Signatures: A-B⁸.
Note
Woodcut initials and vignettes.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T71246
Provenance
Purchased by Eton in 2011.
Binding
Sewn in 18th century Dutch printed paper wrappers.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's ms. notes and price on front pastedown; first two pages unopened.
Subject
Elegiac poetry, Italian Translations into English Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Poems.
Added entry--name
Comino, Angelo, ? - 1814 bookseller.
Added entry--place
Italy Padua.
Language code
eng ita lat eng
Identifier
B53128