Virgil. Delille, Jacques
Les Géorgiques de Virgile, Traduction Nouvelle En Vers François, Enrichies de Notes & de Figures, Par M. Delille . .
Paris, Chez C. Bleuet, 1770. Troisieme edition (3rd). Full mottle calf bordered in gilt, five raised bands, morocco lettering piece, five compartments decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 347, [1] pp. Head and tail pieces. Lacking plates. 4to. Latin and French on opposite pages. An excellent translation, which first appeared in 1769, and made Delille (1738-1813) quite famous. The translation when through numerous editions in the following year and thereafter. Brunet IV, 1303 (1st). Mambelli 1275. Bound without the plates, else a very good handsome copy, some offsetting to text, binding rubbed at the extremities.
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