Rare Virgil, translation Of John Dryden / FRANKLIN LIBRARY THE AENEID 1982

by Virgil (P. Vergili Maronis) ; translation Of John Dryden;

The Aeneid of Virgil; translated by John Dryden. Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1982. Hardbound, 9 inches tall, 425 pages. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with woodcuts by Johann Grüninger. These illustrations originally appeared in a 1529 edition of the Opera Virgiliana. This is from the Franklin Library series, The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers. (Also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books.) This series was published in semi-uniform bindings -- the volumes vary in size and color, but all are in leatherette binding, with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and extensive gilt or silver decorations on front, back, and spine. Note that this series in leatherette did not come with a ribbon place marker and had plain paper decorated endpapers rather than silk or marbled.

425 pages, Hardcover