Accession number
PML 152495
Creator
Virgil.
Published
New York : Cheshire House, 1931.
Credit line
Bequest; Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes
"Coincident with the Bimillennium year of Virgil, and the Tercentenary of Dryden's birth, we are publishing this Memorial Edition of The Georgics. ... They were first published in the year 29 B.C."--Publisher's note.
"The present edition ... has been reprinted from the First Folio Edition of Dryden's Collected works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson, in London: 1697. The twenty engravings are reproduced from the originals in the first folio edition."--Publisher's note.
"Of this book, the Georgics of Virgil, translated by Mr. John Dryden, an edition of twelve hundred copies has been designed & printed by Richard Ellis for Cheshire House Publishers, New York, ..."--Colophon.
PML copy: library has no. 960.
"The present edition ... has been reprinted from the First Folio Edition of Dryden's Collected works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson, in London: 1697. The twenty engravings are reproduced from the originals in the first folio edition."--Publisher's note.
"Of this book, the Georgics of Virgil, translated by Mr. John Dryden, an edition of twelve hundred copies has been designed & printed by Richard Ellis for Cheshire House Publishers, New York, ..."--Colophon.
PML copy: library has no. 960.
Description
[6], xiii, 182, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original tan boards, with calf spine.
Classification
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