Author: [Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius: (Burman, P. ed.:)
Title: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex editione Petri Burmanni.
Description: Glasguae [Glasgow]: In aedibus academicis, excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1784. 8vo., pp. [iv], 240, 157, [3]. With new pagination and register after signature Gg4 at the end of Book VI of the Ænead. Publisher's catalogue to final leaf. Occasional light spotting, internally very good. Simple contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, very slim boards, edges lightly sprinkled brown. Pencil note, 'edition de Burmann' to front paste-down, illegible ownership inscription in blue pen to ffep. A little greyed but very good. Dibdin omits this 1784 8vo edition, citing only the 1758 12mo and the 1788 folio, which are described as 'very correct and beautiful' and 'printed in a correct and magnificent manner' respectively. ESTC T126176; Gaskell 673; Dibdin II, p.558 (1758 and 1788 eds.); Schweiger II, p.1179.

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