Author: VIRGIL
Title: The Aeneid of Virgil
Description: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1982. Hardcover. Translation by John Dryden. Illustrations by Johann Grüninger. 8vo. Grey leatherette with gilt spine lettering and extensive decorations. 425pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, grey decorative endpapers. Near fine. Inoffensive abrasion to front pastedown from bookplate removal. Tight and nice copy of what's surely the best known of "Aeneid" translations, English poet/critic/translator John Dryden's justly celebrated translation of 1697. Grüninger's famed woodcuts, first published in 1529, accompany this edition of Italy's national poem about the founding of Rome. .

Keywords: Poetry


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