EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, FIRST EARL OF LYTTON [PSEUD. OWEN MEREDITH] SERBSKI PESME; OR, NATIONAL SONGS OF SERVIA. London, Chapman and Hall, 1861. 8vo. 144 pp. ¶ First edition in English of a collection of free versions of Serbian ballads and songs, translated and edited by Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton [1831-1891], English diplomatist and poet. "... no attempt has been made at accurate verbal translation from the original language. They (the poems) cannot, indeed, be called translations in the strictest sense of the word. What they are, let the reader decide." (Introduction, p. ix). "Serbski Pesme" contains the "Battle of Kossovo" and 29 other poems.
Contemporary half morocco, rubbed, top edge gilt.
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