Simons

2002 · ref. 71243 — E-325: Ashgate Pub Ltd. Very Good. 2002. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Ashgate Aldershot Hants 2002. Ix 178 pages. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Moderatus was an Elizabethan romance probably the first published work of the sixteenth-century Welsh gentleman Robert Parry; it was produced in 1595 by the bookseller publisher and printer Richard Jones. In this volume John Simons offers in modern typography an edition of this now-scarce text with explanatory notes and an extensive introduction that places the work in its historical context. He also presents what biographical information is known about the author of Moderatus and what is known of the book's publication history and discusses such pertinent issues as the travel experience of Elizabethans their knowledge of other languages than English and their experience of translating and translations. Simons demonstrates how works like Moderatus do impel us to look more carefully at the inter-relationships of writers and readers and teach us a good deal about the habits of mind which those readers brought to more familiar texts." ; Non-Canonical Early Modern Popular Texts; 8.8 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 178 pages . Ashgate Pub Ltd hardcover