Item #2309108 The Aeneid of Virgil (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World). Virgil, James Rhoades, Publius Virgilus Maro.

The Aeneid of Virgil (The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1973. Cleyn, Franz; Hollar, Wenceslaus; Faithorne, William; Lambart, Pierre. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2309108

Publisher's Notes from the Editors insert laid in. Two tiny blemishes to gilt on fore edge.

Part of The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World, originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. 407 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations with purple accents, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Virgil's epic poem, which remained unfinished upon his death, presented here in the verse translation of James Rhoades, and illustrated with engravings after Franz Cleyn by Wenceslaus Hollar, William Faithorne, and Pierre Lambart.

Price: $75.00