Clelia, an excellent new romance: the whole work in five parts, dedicated to Mademoiselle de Longueville. The first part. Written in French by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery, governour of Nostredame de la Garde

All titles

• Clelia, an excellent new romance: the whole work in five parts, dedicated to Mademoiselle de Longueville. The first part. Written in French by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery, governour of Nostredame de la Garde
• Clelie. English

People / Organizations

• Madeleine de Scudéry (Author)

Imprint

London : printed and are to be sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel, S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook, and C. Smith, 1678.

Added name

Scud'ery, M. de (George), 1601-1667, attributed name.; Davies, John, 1625-1693, tr.; Havers, G. (George), tr.

Publication year

1678

ESTC No.

R19972

Grub Street ID

77526

Description

[8], 221, [3], 223-328, [6], 217-284, 281-544, 553-736 p., [2] leaves of plates : map, port. ; 2°.

Note

A translation of: Scud'ery, Madeleine de. Clelie

Parts 1-3 translated by John Davies and 4-5 by George Havers

General title page in red and black

The page following p. 328 is numbered 327

Part 1-5 each have separate title pages. Part 1 imprint matches general title page. Parts 2-3 with imprint "for Dorman Newman and Thomas Cockerel. 1678". Part 4 with imprint "for Dorman Newman, and Tho. Cockerill ... 1677." Part 5 with imprint "for Henry Herringman ... 1677." Text is continuous despite pagination

With a frontispiece portrait of the author

Signatures: A-2M]4] 2N]6] 2O-3Z]4] 4B-5A]4.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: with a port. (plate) of the author, [2] leaves of plates; there are two sep. dated t.p.s labeled for the third part, on 2F4r and 2U3r, the first one preceeds the second part, book 2; other sep. dated tps on A2r, U2r, 3E3r and 4F3r respectivel