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JOHN BREVAL
The Rape of Helen: a mock-opera
London: J. Wilford, 173[7]. 8vo., title in red and black with woodcut vignette of a squirrel (title torn and laid down with some loss of imprint), mid-20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (Eagar Catalogue note; not the copy in the Goldman sale).
FIRST EDITION, published a year before the author's death in 1738. The title page exists in two states, the other having a vignette of a bowl of fruit and flowers. In commenting on the attractions of Juno, Castor remarks to Pollux: "What a swelling chest! what rising hips! and how rarely planted upon her pasterns! there were an hand to rub a man down after a cricket match" (p. 15).
The Rape of Helen: a mock-opera
London: J. Wilford, 173[7]. 8vo., title in red and black with woodcut vignette of a squirrel (title torn and laid down with some loss of imprint), mid-20th-century brown half morocco. Provenance: J.W. Goldman (Eagar Catalogue note; not the copy in the Goldman sale).
FIRST EDITION, published a year before the author's death in 1738. The title page exists in two states, the other having a vignette of a bowl of fruit and flowers. In commenting on the attractions of Juno, Castor remarks to Pollux: "What a swelling chest! what rising hips! and how rarely planted upon her pasterns! there were an hand to rub a man down after a cricket match" (p. 15).
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