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    By P. Virgilii Maronis [Virgil]
    London   T. Bensley
    6.5" by 4.5" 98, (24)pp
    An early nineteenth-century copy of Virgil's Bucolica, illustrated with plates.
    By P. Virgilii Maronis [Virgil]

    1810 Bucolica

    London   T. Bensley
    6.5" by 4.5" 98, (24)pp
    An early nineteenth-century copy of Virgil's Bucolica, illustrated with plates.
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    : 0.5kgs / : FGN11-C-2

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    Illustrated, Leather Binding

    Featuring 24 illustrated plates to the rear of 'plants referred to in the Eclogues'. With the armorial bookplate of Lord Battersea to the front pastedown. The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Greek Bucolica ('on care of cattle', so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocritus' poems, called idylls ('little scenes' or 'vignettes'), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the 'idyllic' landscapes of Theocritus.

    Condition

    In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. Some slight marking to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Some foxing to the endpapers but otherwise very clean throughout.

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