Price: £375
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1953
Stock Number: 72279
(Dolmen Press.) MERRIMAN (Bryan [Brian])
The Midnight Court.
Newly Translated into English by David Marcus.
Description: 144/200 COPIES signed by printer and illustrator beneath the colophon, signed by the translator to the verso of the flyleaf (facing title-page), printed in red and black on Antique paper, title-vignette, headpieces and other lino-cut decorations by Michael Biggs, a smattering of faint spots to top corner of prelims (also to flyleaf), pp. [55], folio, original quarter maroon buckram with boards of patterned paper, backstrip lettered in black and gently knocked at foot, a faint strip of browning at head of upper board, top edge red, edges faintly spotted, faint odour of tobacco smoke, very goodPublication Details: Dublin: Privately printed for subscribers at the Dolmen Press, 1953
Notes: Early work from the Press, scarce. The eighteenth-century satirical poem has been translated numerous times; Frank O'Connor's translation a decade earlier had been banned - Seamus Heaney was among the later poets to attempt it.
Bibliography: (Miller 8)
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