[BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890), translator]. CATULLUS, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton? and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. London: Printed for the Translators? For Private Subscribers Only, 1894. 8vo. With frontispiece portrait of Catullus. [xxiv], 1-313, [3, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher?s vellum backstrip over plain boards, spine stamped in gilt (rebacked preserving the original spine, spine heavily toned and worn, boards worn, soiled, endleaves toned and foxed, first few leaves and frontispiece foxed, later ball-point pen ownership signature on title-page and short notation on verso of p. 313). Good. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES OF THE SMALL-PAPER EDITION. An excellent translation of the poetry and prose of the ancient Roman soldier and poet, Catullus. With the bookplate of Philip Bertram Murray Allan (1884-1973), lepidopterist, writer and publisher (he wrote under the pseudonym ?O. M. H.? - or Old Moth Hunter).