Grattius, Falsicus — (Christopher Wase, trans)

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Description

GratI Falisci Cynegeticon, or, A Poem of Hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase. London: Printed for Charles Adams, 1654
ink, paper and cow

12to (5 5/8 x 3 1/8 in.; 132 x 73 mm). Three-page preliminary poem by Edmund Waller, twenty-four-page preface. Parallel Latin and English text. Contemporary dark calf; slightly rubbed.

Provenance

Bent Juel-Jensen (bookplate). acquisition: Juel-Jensen

Literature

Wing G-1581; Schwerdt I, p. 217

Catalogue Note

First edition in English. Poem written by a contemporary of Virgil and Ovid. Wase's commentary includes chapters on "the styles of hunting different from the English, both antique and forreigne" and "the modern authors who have written upon this subject." The first edition in Latin was published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius, in 1537.