first edition Contemporary calf, rebacked to style
1684 · London:
by [Dryden, John, translator].
London: Printed by M. Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, 1684 First edition of Dryden's translation. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Octavo. Old ink signature on title-page, some light browning. A very good copy. "The break in signatures and pagination is evidently the result of division of copy between two compositors as may be seen by the variation in typography. The second compositor began his portion with the third alphabet. His pagination was intended to correspond but was off by ten for it begins with 721, not 731" (Pforzheimer). A translation of Jesuit historian Louis Maimbourg's (1610-1686) Historie de la Ligue. Dryden also contributed a dedication and a postscript.
(Inventory #: 7595)