The georgics / translated into English verse by John Dryden ; with an introduction by George F. Whicher and illustrations by Bruno Bramanti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virgil, author.

Contributor:

Dryden, John, 1631-1700, translator.

Whicher, George F. (George Frisbie), 1889-1954, writer of introduction.

Bramanti, Bruno, illustrator.

Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977, book designer.

Fortney, Frank D. (Frank David), binder.

Kellogg & Bulkeley, printer.

International Paper Company, papermaker.

Russell-Rutter Company, binder.

Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

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

Standardized Title:

Georgica. English (Dryden)

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Rome--Poetry.

Agriculture.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Didactic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.

Translations into English.

Georgics.

Poetry.

Translations.

Didactic poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xv, 154 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Heritage Press, [1953]

Language Note:

In English: translated from the Latin.

Summary:

As Virgil's epitaph states, he wrote successively of pastoral life, of country things, and of deeds of arms. His final masterpiece, in which he related the legend of the coming of Trojan refugees to Italy, both foretold the glory of imperial Rome and measured the human cost of 'the doubtful doom of man'. He is said to have considered it far from finished at the time of his death. Previously he had perfected and published a different kind of poem, The Georgics, which is loosely comparable to such English poems as James Thomson's The Seasons and William Cowper's The Task. -- Pg. VII.

Notes:

"Based upon the ... edition of ʻThe Georgicsʼ printed by the Officina Bodoni at Verona for the Limited Editions Club. The special contents are copyright, 1953, by the George Macy Companies Inc."--verso of title page.

"The designer is Giovanni Mardersteig. The type: Baskerville. Printer: Kellogg & Bulkeley, Hartford Connecticut. Paper made by International Paper Company. Binding by Frank D. Fortney at the Russell-Rutter Company. -- from the Heritage Club 'Sandglass' Number III;18

In slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has an issue of the magazine of the Heritage Club, 'Sandglass' laid in (number III:18).

OCLC:

1828555