Accession number
PML 49276-77
Creator
Virgil.
Published
Portland, Me. : T. B. Mosher, 1899.
Notes
Title in red and black: ornamental borders in green. Frontispieces are albertype reproductions from Samuel Palmer's series of Virgilian etchings.
"This edition is a faithful reprint of J.W. Mackail's translation of the Georgics (London, 1889), with a prefatory note from his Latin Literature (London, 1895). The arguments prefixed to each book are from Dryden's version as finally edited by George Saintsbury (Works of John Dryden, Edinburgh, 1882-93)"
"Four hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand made paper ... and type distributed."
"This edition is a faithful reprint of J.W. Mackail's translation of the Georgics (London, 1889), with a prefatory note from his Latin Literature (London, 1895). The arguments prefixed to each book are from Dryden's version as finally edited by George Saintsbury (Works of John Dryden, Edinburgh, 1882-93)"
"Four hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand made paper ... and type distributed."
Description
2 v. : ill. ; 16 x 9 cm.
Binding
Bound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in full dark green levant, gold tooled line, cream moire doublures and flyleaves, top gold edge.
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