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Virgil's Aeneid ("The Harvard Classics" series)
by VIRGIL; ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: P. F. Collier & Son. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. Virgil's epic Latin poem tells the story of Aeneas, who mythology maintains was the Trojan who became the ancestor of the Romans. Translated into English from the Latin by John Dryden. With introductions and notes, tissue-guarded sepia frontis portrait of Dryden, and another pair of tissue-guarded sepia illustrations. One from a rather scarce version of the series, "The Harvard Classics" as published by P. F. Collier, edited by Charles W. Eliot. --- In dark red buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and Harvard crest, and Charles Eliot's facsimile signature in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling. TEG (top edge gilt), other edges deckled and with dark red ribbed endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked though with slight scratching to cloth.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (4), 432 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86523
- Title
- Virgil's Aeneid ("The Harvard Classics" series)
- Author
- VIRGIL; ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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