The works of Virgil, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the best commentators both ancient and modern, beside a very great number of notes entirely new: for the use of schools, as well as of private gentlemen. A new edition. In two volumes. ...
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3160509
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Former shelfmark: O.3.10-11. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Printed shelfmark label beneath bookplate: Case "P" [in MS.] Shelf "1" [i.e. a Lyme Park book]. Binding: nineteenth-century sprinkled calf; single gilt fillet on board edges; recessed cords; gold-tooled spines (title and vol. no. labels missing), with nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamp [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 BC) Joseph Davidson (d.1753)