Title: Mysis et Glaucé, Poëme en trois Chants, traduit du Grec
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. pp. [2], viii, 3-236. Signatures: a4 A-I12 K10 [A1 lacking]. Contemporary dark red morocco gilt, g.e. Crossed notes on front flyleaves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Extremely rare (only one other copy in North America) of this first edition of a love story in prose by the critic and historian Séran de la Tour (c. 1700-1775), claiming to derive from an ancient Greek original, of which an inadequate Italian translation survives in ‘plusieurs Copies’ at the Court of the King of the Two Sicilies at Naples. This French version supposedly relies on a newly-discovered Greek manuscript found in the ruins of Heraclea by Séran’s correspondent. However, the work is certainly by Séran himself, here posing only as its ‘editeur,’ and constitutes a conventional French fabrication, with a fictitious account of its ‘source’ and a false imprint.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See A.-A. Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. Paris, 1875, III, 385; J. Gay &amp; J. Lemonnyer, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'amour. Paris, 1871, II, p. 309; S. Paul Jones, ‘A List of French Prose Fiction from 1700 to 1750.’ New York, 1939, p. 99.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991035521449707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>