VEGA, Ventura de la. — La muerte de César, tragedia.

Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra, 1863. xix, [3], 126p. Bound in full contemporary roan, all edges gilt. Covers decorated to a panel design with blind and gilt fillets; gold-tooled spine. Both covers marked and faded at edges. Very slight discolouration on a few pages. ***** Ventura de la Vega (1807-65) was born in Buenos Aires but left Argentina for Spain in 1818. In Madrid he became a pupil of the poet, Alberto Lista, and later taught literature to Isabella II, having made a reputation at an early age by translations of the Song of Songs (1825) and of the Psalms (1826). His plays reveal the influence of many dramatists, but in particular that of Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Palau 355171.