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The Georgics of Virgil / translated into English verse by John Dryden.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection Folio PA6807.G4 D7 1931
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PA6807.G4 D7 1931
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Virgil.
- Standardized Title:
- Georgica. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Penn Provenance:
- Singer, Edgar A., Jr. (RBC copy)
- Singer, Richard B. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Mendenhall, John C. (bookplate) (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, xiii, 182 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 37 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cheshire House, 1931.
- Notes:
- A memorial edition published coincident with the bimillennium year of Virgil and the tercentenary of Dryden's birth.
- "Reprinted from the first folio edition of Dryden's Collected works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson, in London: 1697. The twenty engravings are reproduced from the originals in the first folio edition."
- "Of this book, the Georgics of Virgil, translated by Mr. John Dryden, an edition of twelve hundred copies has been designed & printed by Richard Ellis for Cheshire House Publishers, New York."
- Local Notes:
- Copy 1 is copy no. 713.
- Copy 2 (Singer-Mendenhall copy) is copy no. 790.
- OCLC:
- 187419667
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