Grattius. Cynegeticon. Or, a Poem of Hunting, translated by Christopher Wase, first edition in English, woodcut initials and decorations, occasional browning, ink notes in an early hand to endpaper, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, rubbed, [Schwerdt I, p. 217; Wing G1582], 12mo, for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot neare St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1654. ⁂ Christopher Wase (1627-90), of King's College, Cambridge, was a scholar, translator and headmaster who served as a soldier on the continent during the early Interregnum and later became Printer to the University of Oxford. In 1654 he dedicated his translation of the Cynegeticon of Faliscus Gratius to his pupil Lord Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke.
Grattius. Cynegeticon. Or, a Poem of Hunting, translated by Christopher Wase, first edition in English, woodcut initials and decorations, occasional browning, ink notes in an early hand to endpaper, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, retaining original backstrip, rubbed, [Schwerdt I, p. 217; Wing G1582], 12mo, for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot neare St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1654. ⁂ Christopher Wase (1627-90), of King's College, Cambridge, was a scholar, translator and headmaster who served as a soldier on the continent during the early Interregnum and later became Printer to the University of Oxford. In 1654 he dedicated his translation of the Cynegeticon of Faliscus Gratius to his pupil Lord Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke.
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