The Works Of Virgil [Miniature, 1827]
$175
By John Dryden [translator]
Beautiful silk-woven miniature edition
In stock
Description
- Two books bound as one volume
- Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1827]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page], xv, [blank], 217, [6 Publisher’s ads], 228 pages, blank leaf; salmon silk-woven boards, spine top bumped, edges rubbed, spine faded, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
- Part of the Jones’ Diamond Poets series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
- Includes Pastorals & The Aeneid