The Midnight Court.

The Midnight Court. Newly Translated into English by David Marcus.

Publication details: Dublin: Privately printed for subscribers at the Dolmen Press,1953,

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Stock number: 72279

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Early work from the Press, scarce.The eighteenth-century satirical poem has been translated numerous times; Frank O'Connor's translation a decade earlier had been banned - Seamus Heaney was among the later poets to attempt it.

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144/200 COPIES signed by printer and illustrator beneath the colophon, signed by the translator to the verso of the flyleaf (facing title-page), printed in red and black on Antique paper, title-vignette, headpieces and other lino-cut decorations by Michael Biggs, a smattering of faint spots to top corner of prelims (also to flyleaf), pp. [55], folio, original quarter maroon buckram with boards of patterned paper, backstrip lettered in black and gently knocked at foot, a faint strip of browning at head of upper board, top edge red, edges faintly spotted, faint odour of tobacco smoke, very good

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