The Poems. In English Verse: with the Latin Text Revised, and Classical Notes. Prefixed are Engravings of Catullus, and his Friend Cornelius Nepos.
Published by London: printed for J. Johnson, 1795
- First Edition
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First edition in English of Catullus's complete poems, for which William Blake engraved the two frontispiece portraits of Catullus and Cornelius Nepos. The edition, which presents Latin and English texts in parallel with extensive notes, began the English commentary tradition on Catullus. The technique of stipple engraving employed by Blake for the two frontispieces was "unusual for him in book illustration" and resulted in "a pleasing softness quite different from the effect conveyed by the ordinary line engraving" (Ryskamp, p. 40). The Catullus engraving was reproduced in the 1894 edition of the Carmina by Richard Burton and Leonard Smithers, who identified Blake's illustration as the statue in the Council House of Verona. The anonymous editor John Nott (1751-1825) was a physician and classical scholar. This edition "sealed his reputation as a gifted classicist and poet" (ODNB). In the introduction, he makes no apologies for Catullus's frequent "indecencies", writing that "when an ancient classic is translated, and explained, the work may be considered as forming a link in the chain of history: history should not falsified. we must not in our translation suppress, or even too much gloss them over, through a fastidious regard to delicacy". Nott's commitment to the integrity of the original is uncommon for its day. A generation later, in 1821, George Lamb published a new translation in which Catullus's text is normalized to accommodate the contemporary moral conservatism. The publisher Joseph Johnson issued the works of political and Romantic radicals throughout the 1790s. "The publication of such writers, whose work is marked by heightened emotionalism, provided a fecund publication list for the emergence of Catullus in English" (Stead, p. 27). Bentley 441; Bentley & Nurmi 357; ESTC N12190; Keynes 110; Russell 82; Ryskamp 50. Terry Reksten, The Dunsmuir Saga, 1991; Henry Stead, A Cockney Catullus: The Reception of Catullus in Romantic Britain, 1795-1821, 2015. 2 parts in 1 vol., octavo (213 x 139 mm), pp. xxxvi, 223, [3], [ii], 236, [2]. Errata leaf at rear of each vol.; bound without half-titles. With 2 stipple-engraved portrait frontispieces by Blake after Xaverius Della Rosa. Early 19th-century half calf, spine decorated in gilt and blind, red morocco label, marbled sides rolled in blind, red edges. Ownership inscriptions and previous catalogue descriptions to front endpapers in ink and pencil. Front joint professionally restored, binding rubbed and lightly worn at extremities, pale tide mark to first frontispiece, contents slightly foxed. A very good copy.…
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- Title
- The Poems. In English Verse: with the Latin Text Revised, and Classical Notes. Prefixed are Engravings of Catullus, and his Friend Cornelius Nepos.
- Author
- CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius; BLAKE, William (illus.).
- Publisher
- London: printed for J. Johnson, 1795
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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