Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada [by Ginés Pérez de Hita], and the Twelve Peers of France,

Rodd (Thomas, translator)

Ancient Ballads from the Civil Wars of Granada [by Ginés Pérez de Hita], and the Twelve Peers of France,

Dedicated, by Permission, to the Right Honourable Lady Georgiana Cavendish [...]

Description: FIRST EDITION, prelims and endleaves lightly foxed, but otherwise very clear; pp. vi, 199, [1, ads], 8vo; a very good copy untrimmed in original blue paper-backed boards; paper lost at back, lower board holding;

Publication Details: London: Printed by J. Bonsor [...] For the author, and sold by Vernor and Hood [...] 1801

Notes: An unsophisticated copy of this book of these ballads, by turns romantic and bellicose, translated from the Spanish by bookseller and antiquarian Thomas Rodd (1763-1822).The ballads are lifted from two Spanish authors. The first is the Spanish Golden Age poet, novelist and historian Ginés Pérez de Hita (c. 1544-1619). He is best known for one of the earliest historical novels, Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes, which was also translated by Rodd and published in 1803. Both the novel and the present ballads are likely informed by Pérez de Hita's personal experience in the...moreAn unsophisticated copy of this book of these ballads, by turns romantic and bellicose, translated from the Spanish by bookseller and antiquarian Thomas Rodd (1763-1822).The ballads are lifted from two Spanish authors. The first is the Spanish Golden Age poet, novelist and historian Ginés Pérez de Hita (c. 1544-1619). He is best known for one of the earliest historical novels, Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrajes, which was also translated by Rodd and published in 1803. Both the novel and the present ballads are likely informed by Pérez de Hita's personal experience in the the campaign against the 'Moriscos' in the Alpujarra in 1560. Also included are excerpts from Damián López de Tortajada's Los doce pares de Francia (Twelve Peers of France), legends surrounding the Twelve Paladins of Charlemagne. The volume is prefixed with an original verse dedicated to Georgiana Howard, the Countess of Carlisle (1783-1858) eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The errata page is headed with the somewhat imperious injunction that no-one is to attempt to set the ballads to music 'as they are already in the hands of an eminent composer [...]'. HIDE

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Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1801

Stock Number: 70257

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