May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Virgil (70-19 BCE) trans. John Dryden (1631-1700)
The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698.

Folio, second edition, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 101 full-paged engraved illustrations; bound in 18th century gilt-decorated tan calf, rubbed, armorial bookplate pasted inside front board with crest and the motto, "Prodesse Quam Conspici," William Fox of Statham Lodge, Cheshire, with shelf number and signature on ffep, 12 1/2 x 8 in.

Wing V-617; ESTC R35230.