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Aeneid

Aeneid

London: The Folio Society, [1993]

Illustrated by CLEYN, Francis

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Aeneid by Virgil. Translated by John Dryden. London: The Folio Society, [1993].

With 72 illustrations by Francis Cleyn engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar &c, and an introduction by Peter Levi. 252 × 178 × 42 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–iv] v–xx [xxi–xxii], 1–417 [418–420]: [70] leaves of ‘plates’. Type: Caslon with Ehrhardt for display. Typeset by Gloucester Typesetting, printed and bound by the Bath Press. Quarter dark green binding, green cloth boards with an engraving in black; pale green endleaves with a map by Denys Baker in dark green. Green slip case.

The ‘plates’, and two other illustrations included in the pagination, reproduce the etched and engraved plates by Pierre Lambert and Wenceslaus Hollar, after drawings by Francis Cleyn, which had originally appeared in John Ogilby’s translation of 1654. The same plates were reprinted for the first edition of Dryden’s translation, published by Jacob Tonson in 1697. The frontispiece was engraved by Michiel Van der Gucht for Ton son’s edition. 

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Near-fine book with pages tightly bound and free of any inscriptions. In a shelf-worn and lightly bumped slipcase with discolouration to one panel.

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