Author: SHAKESPEARE. PARR (Wolstenholme):
Title: The Story of the Moor of Venice. Translated from the Italian. With Two Essays of Shakespeare, and Preliminary Observations.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies..., 1795. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 91 [92 blank], including half-title, disbound. With the contemporary autograph "J Hall/ Barlow" on the top margin of the half-title. The Story of the Moor of Venice is translated from the Hecatommithi of Giambattista Giraldi. Parr's two essays are on Coriolanus and, of course, Othello. This was Parr's first publication, and he published two further translations in the 1820s.

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