Coutts, Francis. King Solomon’s Song of Songs. Adapted and directed by the Englishman Francis Coutts, rendered metrically into English verse as a dramatic work. Reprinting by “Ekklisiastikos Faros”. Transl. Alexandros Kasdaglis. Alexandria, Patriarchal Press, 1932

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King Solomon’s Song of Songs. Adapted and directed by the Englishman Francis Coutts, rendered metrically into English verse as a dramatic work

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Coutts, Francis
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1932
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25 x 16 cm; 56 p., motto and bound card on the front cover: “Doreitai/ Offert par/ Presented by Alexandre S. Casdagli. Maison Zizinia. Bacos Ramleh, Alexandrie (Égypte)”. P. [1] title page and bookplate CPC, p. [2] printed note about the absence of the iota subscript from the range of typographical characters, p. 3-6 “Preamble”, p. 24 colophon.


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Song of songs [Solomon]
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This is a reprinting of “Ekklisiastikos Faros”.


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Kουτς, Φραγκίσκος. Σολομώντος βασιλέως Άσμα Aσμάτων. Kατά διασκευήν και σκηνοθεσίαν υπό του Άγγλου Φραγκίσκου Kουτς εμμέτρως Aγγλιστί δραματοποιηθέν. Aνατύπωσις εκ του «Eκκλησιαστικού Φάρου». Transl. Aλέξανδρος Kάσδαγλης. Eν Aλεξανδρεία, Eκ του Πατριαρχικού Tυπογραφείου, 1932 [King Solomon’s Song of Songs. Adapted and directed by the Englishman Francis Coutts, rendered metrically into English verse as a dramatic work]. Book, GR-OF CA CL.3.161, Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Library. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.03.2026. https://doi.org/10.26256/3.161.

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