Robert Translator Southey (17 results)

Hard cover. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). xxxiv, 196 p. illus., col. plates. 30 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. A translated blend of three sources: Chronica del famoso cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador, Poema del Cid, and Romances del Cid. Introduction by V.S. Pritchett. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Geometric designs on cover, which is darkened on spine. Book is clean, tight and unmarked. No slipcase. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sussan, Rene Ben (illustrator). The Book Is Bound In An Orange And Off White Patterned Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering Within A Brown Field On The Spine. The Spine Has Darkened With Age. The Orange Slip Case Is Good Pluss With Some Fading And Two Small Through Spots At The Opening.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). VERY GOOD HARDCOVER WITH SLIPCASE.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked hardcover in slipcase. Sandglass newsletter included but does not lay flat.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. red cloth hardcover, no date, reprint edition, lettering on spine faded, fore-edge has foxing spots, damp stains on upper corners of pastedowns, foxing spots on endpapers, 313 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing thus. No jacket as published. With slipcase. Light rubbing/bumping to edges of boards. Small bit of soiling and pen mark to spine. Previous owner's name and acquisition date in ink on reverse of front board, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Slipcase has some wear, scuffing and a few small (1-2inch) partial splits.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). Fine printing by the Heritage Press. With introduction by W.S. Pritchett. Illustrations in color with decorations in b/w. Pages clean and bright. Bold design to covers, front and back nice & clear, with fading to spine panel. Sturdy slipcase with wear at one corner and fading at borders.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Heritage Press hardcover with slipcase. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussen. Both slipcase and book fine inside and out.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. From the Spanish by Robert Southey. Green cloth Hardcover, Not ex. library. 313 pages, plus 7 pages of adverts. Light wear to boards. Endpapers are tanned, worn title on spine. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book appears unread because the pages are still conjoined, as they would be when first printed and bound. Book.

hardback, 8vo, 313pp, pages browning, text otherwise clean and binding sound, decorated blue cloth, covers rubbed and soiled, Good condition,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. New York: Heritage Press (1958). Hardcover with slipcase. In fine condition. Some tanning to spine. An otherwise clean, tight copy. Slipcase has some shelfware and fading. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). Introduction by V. S. Pritchett. Collector's edition. "Notes from the Archives" laid in. Quarto, fully bound in dark green leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 196 pages. Very Good+. Translated from Spanish by Robert Southey and with an introduction by J. S Pritchett and illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan. VG+ book with some sunning on spine and a few spots on the fore edge. Original sandglass laid in. VG+ slipcase with some general wear.

Hardcover. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in full two-color patterned cloth. With an introduction by V.S. Pritchett. Printed in two colors on Magnani paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen. A beautiful edition of the Cid with line drawings at the beginning of each book and brightly colored full-page illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Very mild rubbing to the top of the leather label on the spine which is a little sunned. About Fine in a Fine slipcase with some sunning.

Hardcover. Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator). Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in full two-color patterned cloth. With an introduction by V.S. Pritchett. Printed in two colors on Magnani paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen. A beautiful edition of the Cid with line drawings at the beginning of each book and brightly colored full-page illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Copy #120 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Touch of sunning to the spine. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase with some sunning.

First Edition. First edition in English, the first prose version in any language of the great Spanish realist epic, recounting the heroic life of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, 1040-1099). 4to (261 x 213mm), pp. [2], [ii], [10], [iii]-xli, [1], map, 468. Rebound in old marbled wrappers matching the page edges. No half title, else complete with fly-titles, errata and advertisements, all notes, and the engraved map of Spain and Portugal. Interior clean but for a light damp stain to the margin of the map. Very good. A thorough rendering, describing the 11th-century deeds of the actual Castilian warrior known as El Cid during the period of the Reconquista that took back northern Spain from the Moors. Its source was the medieval saga Poema del Cid(Cantar del Mio Cid), written around 1140 as a metrical history by an unknown poet (the Homer of Spain), with the earliest surviving manuscript dating from 1207, preserved at Vivar, first published by Tomás Sánchez in 1779. This is the prose version, acclaimed around the world and not amalgamated or fully realized in a previous edition in any language. Southey drew partly from the 1552 Spanish Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Compeador (based on a 13th-century manuscript), partly from the 1604 La Cronica General de España, partly from Corneille's 1637 French play Le Cid, and from other sources besides. Southey was 34 when he published this, already established as one of the Lake Poets but not yet Poet Laureate (that came in 1813). He had spent years teaching himself Spanish and Portuguese specifically to translate their medieval epics, driven by the conviction that England needed access to the heroic literature of the Iberian peninsula. He was right. The Chronicle became the standard English version and remained so for over a century, introducing El Cid to readers who knew him only vaguely as the subject of Corneille's drama or as a footnote in histories of the Reconquista. El Cid himself was a mercenary who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers, a pragmatist in an era being retroactively simplified into a clash of civilizations. The medieval chronicles turned him into a paragon of Christian knighthood; Southey's translation preserves that mythology while letting enough historical detail through to complicate it. The result is a portrait of medieval Spain that is both more romantic and more real than anything available to English readers before 1808.