The Pastorals of Virgil : with a course of English reading adapted for schools, in which all the proper facilities are given, enabling youtm [sic] to acquire the Latin language, in the shortest period of time. Illustrated by 230 engravings / by Robert John Thornton.

Includes English translations from the Greek pastoral poets, imitated by Virgil, and also modern translations of several Eclogues.
Paged continuously.
"Stereotyped and printed by D. Cock and Co. 75, Dean Street, Soho, London."--Colophon, v. 2.
Illustrated with wood engravings by Blake, Nesbit, Clennell, Branston, Bewick, [John?] Thompson, W. Hughes, M. Byfield, and others, after designs by Blake, Thurston, Craig, Cruikshank, Varley, and others.
First edition to contain the Blake engravings.
The woodcuts illustrating Ambrose Philips' Imitation of Eclogue I (v. 1, p. 13-18) are by William Blake.
Blake plates at v. 1, facing p. 3, 4 (+ 2 following leaves of plates), 13-18, 21; v. 2, facing p. 229, 360.
Three of Blake's images were not engraved by him. See Bentley