Bound in original blue cloth with gilt, red and black blind embossed decoration to front and spine. 205pp. Prof. ills. with b/w aquatints by Dodie Masterman. In very good condition. Inside clean and tight. No inscriptions or other marks. Though written in bare dramatic form, La Celestina is certainly a novel. "The first European novel and one of the greatest." Written in 15th Century, a story of doomed lovers.

FOLIO SOCIETY publications Fernando De Rojas, The Spanish Bawd, Tragi-Comedy, Calisto and Melibea, La Celestina, J.M.Cohen, dramatic form, 15th Century, doomed lovers