Works
London: Warren, 1654. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition of the revised translation into English. Ogilby did the 1st English translation of Virgil’s complete works in 1649, an 8vo without plates, but our edition is the folio (sheets 16 5/8” tall) with 100 fantastic engravings. Full morocco, gilt, by Watson, neat repair to the last leaf, else very good, complete with the portrait of Virgil and the double page map (some copies have an added portrait of Ogilby, not this one, so you can say it’s missing something, though we’d say that’s wrong). 23 copies have sold at auction since 1975, many imperfect, most in gloomy condition, but more germane, no complete copy has sold since 2013. These Works include Virgil’s national epic, The Aeneid, that opens with the fall of Troy and ends with the romanticized founding of Rome, but The Aeneid’s real 1st edition in English was in 1553 and before that Caxton did a loosely translated and somewhat abridged edition in 1490. Very good. Item #835
Price:
$2,500.00