Accession number:
PML 21052
Published:
London, Printed for the editor, by Richard Reily, in Little-Britain, 1741.
Description:
403, [1], 3, [10] p. ; 30 cm
Notes:
"Remarks ... by the learned Edward King ... in a letter dated from Bromley in Kent, Nov. 20, 1740": 3 p. after p. 403.
English translation in footnotes.
Errata: p. [1] (3rd count).
List of subscribers: p. xix-xxii.
Plates, possibly by Jacob van Huysum and Elisha Kirb are unnumbered and unsigned; 7 are engraved and colored, 6 mezzotinted in color, but touched up. Cf. Hunt cat.
Binding:
Crushed green levant tooled in gold on back and sides by Roger Payne whose name is stamped in the lowest panel.
Variant Title:
Georgicks of Virgil
Provenance:
From the libraries of Sir Henry Fitz-Herbert (d. 1805) and H. Buxton Forman (sale N.T. Mar. 1920.)
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