The Georgics done into English prose / J.W. Mackail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virgil.

Contributor:

Palmer, Samuel, 1805-1881, illustrator.

Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945, translator.

Thomas B. Mosher (Firm), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Georgica. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Agriculture--Poetry.

Agriculture.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection)

Andreini, Joseph Manuel (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (Mosher 386-386.5)

Bullock, Talbot (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection) (Mosher 387-387.5)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispieces ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : T.B. Mosher, 1899.

Notes:

Title in red and black; ornamental borders in green. Frontispieces are albertype reproductions from Samuel Palmer's series of Virgilian etchings.

"This edition is a faithful reprint of J.W. Mackail's translation of the Georgics (London, 1889), with a prefatory note from his Latin literature (London, 1895). The arguments prefixed to each book are from Dryden's version as finally edited by George Saintsbury (Works of John Dryden, Edinburgh, 1882-93)."

"Four hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed on Van Gelder hand made paper ... and type distributed."

50 copies printed on Japan vellum.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection Mosher 384-385, both volumes in case. Vilain-Wieck Collection Mosher 386-386.5, printed on Japan vellum. Vilain-Wieck Collection Mosher 388: imperfect. Have volume 2 only. In case.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 130

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 107

OCLC:

902921707