Lucans Pharsalia: or the civill Warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the
great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole tenne Bookes, Englished by Thomas
May, Esquire. The second Edition, corrected, and the Annotations
inlarged by the Author. _London, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for Thomas
Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard._
1631.
8^o. (5-5/8 × 3-1/2). Z. 9. 1.
Collation: a^8, with engraved titlepage inserted after a 1,
A-S^8T^2, unpaged. Engraved titlepage, signed Fridericus Hulsius,
with explanatory verses opposite, followed by regular titlepage.
Epistle dedicatory to William, Earl of Devonshire, signed by the
translator. Life of Lucan. Commendatory verses from Ben. Ionson and
I. Vaughan. Annotations at the end of each of the ten books. Books
i-iii appeared in 1626; the complete work, of which the present is
the second edition, in 1627. An earlier translation by Sir Arthur
Gorges had appeared in 1614, and Marlowe's translation of Book i.
as early as 1600.