L'Eneide di Virgilio . recata in versi Italiani da Annibal Caro.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3028772.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates . ill.. . fol.. With plates in proof state before the letterpress (one of five copies so issued according to a pencil note in the front of vol. 1). With an added portrait plate of Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1759-1824), daughter of Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry.. Binding: Nineteenth-century gold-tooled stright grain green morocco binding; gold-tooled armorial of Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire; gilded red silk endpapers. A wooden travelling box (in which the two volumes were transported from Italy?) is stored separately at Ickworth.
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Commendatore Annibal Caro (1507 - 1566) Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824)