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[TRUSSELL, John]. Raptus I. Helenae. The first rape of faire Hellen. Done into poeme, by I.T. London: Richard Iohnes, 1595.
Small 4° (185 x 135 mm.). Collation: A-E4, including leaf A1, blank except for signature. (Small piece torn from lower blank corner of A4; quire B, 4 leaves, in excellent facsimile on contemporary paper.) Brown crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
FIRST AND ONLY EARLY EDITION, adapted from the Latin version of Thebanus Coluthus. STC 24296 locates only the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia and the present copy. Cf. M.A. Shaaber, The first rape of faire Helen by John Trussell, Shakespeare Quarterly viii no. 4 pp. 407-20 (1957).
Small 4° (185 x 135 mm.). Collation: A-E4, including leaf A1, blank except for signature. (Small piece torn from lower blank corner of A4; quire B, 4 leaves, in excellent facsimile on contemporary paper.) Brown crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
FIRST AND ONLY EARLY EDITION, adapted from the Latin version of Thebanus Coluthus. STC 24296 locates only the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia and the present copy. Cf. M.A. Shaaber, The first rape of faire Helen by John Trussell, Shakespeare Quarterly viii no. 4 pp. 407-20 (1957).