Description

• First Thus [Lefevre, Paris, 1821]; Two volumes, each 11.5 x 7.5cm; V1 – xx, 247 [blank] pages; V2 – [iv], 326, [2 index] pages; contemporary French marbled calf, gilt triple fillets, gilt decorations & titling to spine, boards rubbed, showing through at corners, both volumes in very good condition
• Volumes v & vi from the 45-volume scriptores latini principes [leading Latin writers] series edited by Jean-Augustin Amar du Rivier
• Comprising all the extant works of Virgil as collated by scholars Christian Gottlob Heyne & Richard François Philippe Brunck
• With all twelve books of The Aeneid plus Georgics & Carol le Beau’s Vita Publii Virgilii Maronis – a biography of the great Augustan poet