Luis de Camoens.
[London: Humphrey Moseley, 1655.]
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into verse at bottom, losing a line, large tear repaired, backed with archival tissue.
An illustration of a bust of Portugal's greatest poet Luís Vaz de Camões (c.1525-80), wearing armour, ruff and laurel crown, his left eye closed. The portrait has been reversed, as his right eye was blind. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem: Written in the Portingall Language by Luis de Camoens; and Now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw Esq'. The missing line of verse should read '(so did I, Her) Beasts cannot browze on Bayes.'.
[Ref: 67858] £380.00
Engraving. Sheet 245 x 150mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed into image on three sides, into verse at bottom, losing a line, large tear repaired, backed with archival tissue.
An illustration of a bust of Portugal's greatest poet Luís Vaz de Camões (c.1525-80), wearing armour, ruff and laurel crown, his left eye closed. The portrait has been reversed, as his right eye was blind. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem: Written in the Portingall Language by Luis de Camoens; and Now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw Esq'. The missing line of verse should read '(so did I, Her) Beasts cannot browze on Bayes.'.
[Ref: 67858] £380.00