Price: £5,000
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1631
Stock Number: 64457
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, title within border of woodcut ornaments, probably washed, paper repairs to to first 15 and last few leaves, occasionally a few others, mostly marginal but with the occasional loss of a letter or two, or folio number, cut a bit close in places, ff. [viii], 140, small 8vo, resewn (a bit tightly), and recased in old (?18th-century) sprinkled calf, red lettering piece on spine, rebacked, preserving most of the original spine
Publication Details: Madrid: Imprenta del Reyno, 1631
Notes: Very rare first edition of Ribera's late satirical novel, Ribera's most extensive prose work, with commendatory verses by Lope de Vega (who also provided the Censura) and Juan Pérez de Montalbán. USTC records a dozen copies, of which 4 are in the BNE, and only 4 outside the Iberian peninsula (no shelf mark given for the the Hispanic Society's copy, the only one in the US). No copy in RBH. Some copies are dated 1632: the Licence is dated November 1631. A modern edition is by Edward Nagy, New York, 1963.In the progression from the world as a labyrinth (Góngora, et al) to the world as a stag...more
Bibliography: (Moreno Garbayo, 816; Palau 89645; USTC 5006263)
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