Fanshawe (Sir Richard, translator).- Hurtado de Mendoza (Antonio) Querer por solo querer: to love only for love sake: a dramatick romance. Represented at Aranjuez before the King and Queen of Spain, to celebrate the birth-day of that King, by the Meninas, [translated by Sir Richard Fanshawe], first edition, second issue (with cancel title) of the first edition in English, 2 parts in 1, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers foxed, contemporary speckled sheep with partial blind-stamped arms of Gower family to upper cover, rebacked in modern brown calf with gilt horizontal rules, very small piece from leather of lower cover, corners worn, some staining and marking to covers, with good margins, [Wing H3799; ESTC R19129; cf. Pforzheimer 362a], small 4to, Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, at the White-Hart in Little-Britain, 1671.

⁂ Rare copy at auction of the first edition in English of this Spanish court entertainment. Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), English Royalist poet, translator, diplomat and politician. He was an accomplished linguist and was Ambassador to Spain in 1664-1666. Following his death his widow Anne saw this translation through the press.

Provenance: John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694-1754) (engraved armorial bookplates to front pastedown and verso of general title).