GULIELMI SHAKESPEARE CARMINA QUAE SONNETS NUNCUPANTUR. Latine Reddita ab Alvredo Thoma Barton Edenda Curavit Joannes Harrower.

Bookseller Notes

A notable translation, rendering the Sonnets of Shakespeare into Latin hexameters and elegiac couplets, constituting the major published work of the classical scholar A.T. Barton of Pembroke College, Oxford - who died the year before his ambition to bring Shakespeare's work to a much smaller audience was realised in print. The vellum binding was restricted to the subscribers, who numbered just under seventy, and a photogravure portrait was laid in - though not present here it has offset slightly to the verso of the flyleaf, providing a ghostly apparition of the translator.