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| Against Women: A Satire
Translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1953. Narrow octavo (the pages 226 x 114 mm in quarto quires, overall 230 x 120 mm). No. 59 of 100 copies bound in lizard with an extra plate, of the whole edition of 350 copies. 11 color engravings and color-engraved title by John Petts. Contemporary Indian lizard skin, upper cover with gilt decoration representing entwined heads on chained serpentine staves, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, its gilt stamp "S & S, London" on lower front pastedown. Collates [2 ll.], 1 l. (plate verso), 1 l. (title recto, colophon verso), pp. 5-25, 1 p. (plate), [3 ll.]. Printed by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press on heavy hand-made paper. Bookplate of Cornelius J. Hauck on front pastedown. Fine. A translation of the Welsh satiric poem Araith ddichan ir gwragedd, considered by the translator to have been composed most probably some time between 1530 and 1540. As the translator remarks in the Introduction, "The poem attacks women as we curse the things we most love, as a mother calls her little son a rogue. We know the trouble women give us but can reason and example ever bring us to leave them alone?" Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (1893-1967), by bequest to The Cincinnati
Museum Center (deaccessioned 2006). |