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The works of Virgil : containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Virgil
Other Authors: Dryden, John, 1631-1700, Cleyn, Franz, 1590?-1658, Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judges-Head in Fleetstreet, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, MDCXCVII. [1697]
Subjects:
Aeneas > (Legendary character) > Poetry.
Pastoral poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
Didactic poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
Epic poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
Country life > Poetry.
Agriculture > Poetry.
Description
Item Description:Title page in red and black.
Title page is a cancel, reissued from 690 page edition (Wing V616A).
In verse.
Frontispiece plate signed by Michael vander Gucht. Most plates engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar or Pierre Lombart, from drawings by Franz Cleyn.
With commendatory verses by Henry Grahme, H. St. John, Ja. Wright & George Granville.
Dedications to Hugh Lord Clifford, Philip Earl of Chesterfield and John Lord Marquess of Normanby.
With a list of subscribers.
500 Each illustration contains a dedication to some contemporary public figure.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:44 unnumbered pages, 48 pages, 12 unnumbered pages, 49-147, 49 unnumbered pages, 201-640 pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Place of Publication:England -- London.