Accession number
PML 130894
Creator
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
Published
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"The Chronicle of the Cid is the main web of the present volume. I have omitted such parts as relate to the general history of Spain but have no reference to Ruydiez, and I have incorporated with it whatever additional circumstances, either of fact or costume, are contained in the Cronica general or the Poema del Cid."--Page xi.
Prose translation combining material from three sources: Chronica del famoso cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador, Poema del Cid, and Romances del Cid; and incorporating other matter from chronicles and ballads; with an appendix including a partial verse translation by John Hookham Frere.
"Printed by William Pople, Old Boswell Court, Strand."--Colophon.
Prose translation combining material from three sources: Chronica del famoso cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador, Poema del Cid, and Romances del Cid; and incorporating other matter from chronicles and ballads; with an appendix including a partial verse translation by John Hookham Frere.
"Printed by William Pople, Old Boswell Court, Strand."--Colophon.
Description
xli, 468 p., [1] leaf of plates : map ; 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signature of Edward Frere, Clydach, on t.p.; appendix has occasional corrections to the text in ink.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Brown calf tooled in gilt.
Classification
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