Price: £80
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1943
Stock Number: 72198
Waddell (Helen)
Lament for Damon.
Translated from the 'Epitaphium Damonis' of John Milton.
Description: FIRST EDITION, two manuscript corrections by Waddell to her 'Note' preceding text, pp. 12, foolscap 8vo, original sewn self wrappers, light soiling to covers, goodPublication Details: Privately Printed, 1943
Notes: Inscribed by the translator to the front cover: 'For Margaret[?] Green, from Helen Waddell, Dec. 12 1944'. The translation from Milton's Latin is dedicated to the memory of her nephew, George Frederick Waddell Martin, who had died in the ongoing War the year before, 'And of the men, his brothers-in-arms, who died young'. In Waddell's excellent translation, Milton's expression of grief retains its power three centuries on.
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