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The Eclogues of Virgil. With an English Translation and Notes by John Martyn by VIRGIL
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Book desription: London: Robery Jennings, 1813. First Martyn edition with the color plates. Tall octavo (10 3/4 x 7 inches). 270, [1, plant index], [1], [8, book index and errata] pp. Text in Latin & English. Illustrated with thirty-seven hand-colored copper-engraved plates of plants and flowers mentioned in the Eclogues. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some minor restoration to head of spine and usual rubbing to marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of Richard Hall Noble. Overall, a very good copy with the hand-colored botanical plates particularly bright and clean. An attractive printing of Virgil's Eclogues embellished with the striking hand-colored copperplates of the plants referred to in the poems. John Martyn, 1699-1768, was Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. The Dictionary of National Biography notes Martyn's "last great literary undertaking of his life -- an edition with translation and natural history notes, of the works of Virgil. This new edition has an appendix describing the plants mentioned and alluded to in the Eclogues." In addition to this copy is extra-illustrated with twenty-five inserted portraits, sized and mounted.
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