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VIRGIL. The works of virgil, translated by john dryden.

London. Printed for Scott and Webster, [s.d., c. 1840]
12mo. 476pp. With an engraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed and marked. Near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting.
A compact edition of the works of Classical Roman poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE), in their definitive eighteenth-century translation by poet John Dryden, and featuring a biography of Virgil by English critic and politician William Walsh (1662-1708).
£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 32934