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SOPHOCLES. Electra of Sophocles: Presented to Her Highnesse the Lady Elizabeth;With an Epilogue shewing the Parallell in two Poems, The Return, and The Restauration. By C[hristopher] W[ase]. Engraved portrait of Charles I; lacks the etched portrait of princess elizabeth stuart. [24], 57, [1], [2], 12 pages. 8vo, 162x108 mm, contemporary sheep, worn; marginal dampstaining through much of volume, portrait soiled with small repair in blank outer margin and old signature on verso showing through on recto, dark stain in blank outer margin of leaf after title. The Hague [i. e., London]: for Sam. Brown, 1649
first edition of the first English translation of a Sophoclean play, published after the execution of Charles I, with a dedicatory panegyric to his daughter Princess Elizabeth and two appended poems expressing loyalty to the Stuart house and indignation at her treatment. Wing S4690; not in Hoffmann.
