The first Greek translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare, William / Mankakis, Manolis K. (transl.). Ta periphema sonetta tu Saixper, rhythmika metaphrasmena.

€ 2.500,00

Only edition: the first Greek translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The selection includes Sonnets 1, 100, 14, 17, 22, 27, 31, 38, 44, 71, 91, 145, and 149, but also specimens from "Venus and Adonis" and "The Passionate Pilgrim". This copy contains several autograph corrections in ink by the translator, Manolis Mankakis (1891-1918), which correspond to those in the copy in the Library of the Hellenic Parliament in Athens.

Wrappers chipped at the spine and a little stained, with old ink annotations. Very rare: OCLC records only two copies in research libraries (at Princeton and the SUB Hamburg).