- Creator:
Janus, Secundus, 1511-1536
- Kisses : being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus / rendered into English verse by Thomas Stanley, 1647.
- Basia. English.
- Published / Created:
Soho : The Nonesuch Press, 30 Gerrard Street, 1923.
- [24] pages ; 28 cm
- Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA8580.B3 E57 1923+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection - Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Books
- Notes:
"Seven hundred and twenty-five copies of this edition of the Basia of Iohannes Secundus (1511-1536) in the translation of Thomas Stanley (1625-1678) have been printed and made in England for the Nonesuch Pess by the Kynoch Pess in October 1923. F.M. Pinx."--Colophon.
Dreyfus, J. History of the Nonesuch Press, 11
BEIN X178 N73 Z923S: No. 130.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 96 of 725. Bookplate: Percy L. Babington. Bound in original orange patterned wrappers.
- Subject Terms:
- Kissing -- Poetry. | Marriage -- Poetry. | Erotic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English. | Private press books -- England -- London. -- Specimens. | Babington, Percy L. -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
- Contributors:
- Stanley, Thomas, 1625–1678 | Kynoch Press | Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975 | Nonesuch Press