Author: VIRGIL.
Title: Publii Virgilii Maonis Bucolica et Georgica, ex Antiquis Monimentis Illustrata cura, Studio, et Sumptibus Henrici Justice, Armiger, Rufforthii Toparchae.
Description: [Netherlands; Hague.] [Place of publication not identified] [1757]. Small folio, 234 x 144 mms., pp. [xvi], 14 138, engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 other engraved plates, and 24 vignettes by Marco Pitteri, text engraved, 19th century half plum morocco, marbled boards (rubbed), gilt title on spine; with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on the front paste-down end-paper and the autograph and date, "C S Huntly/ Oxford 1928" on the recto of the front free end-paper OCLC supplies this information:Reissue of vol. I of the original edition, Hagae Comitum, ca. 1753-ca. 1767, with a printed title instead of the engraved one./ Engraved text, with 24 vignettes and 9 plates by Marco Pitteri. AND: "Signatures: pi1, 2pi1, a-f² g1, A-E² F1 G-L² M1 N-U² V² W² X-Kk² Ll1./ Engraved throughout, with ill., head and tail-pieces, and historiated initials by G.M. Pitteri after Fidance and C.F. de La Traverse./ A preliminary issue of v. 1 of his ed. of the Works, 1757-1765; with letterpress t.p. and "Praefatio" ([16] p. at front); the t.p. is on wove paper, the text on laid paper with vertical chainlines./ Includes a life of Virgil by Charles Le Beau." The earlier edition edition was published at the expense of Henry Justice (1697?-1763), according to Harvard and other online cataloguing information, in The Hague from 1757-1765. The latter date in fact appears in vol. 5 on p. 3, at the end of the dedication by Henry's son William to the Empress Catherine of Russia. Cohen-de Ricci, however, lists the publication date range as 1753-1767.

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