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LNW 3660 (3965X)
VIRGIL'S AENEID

Dr. Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Selections from the Rare Book Collection

Below are listed books containing works by Virgil printed through 1800. The list is arranged chronologically.

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works. 1492
Title:
Publii Virgilii Maronis opera : cum Servii Mauri Honorati grammatici, Aelii Donati, Christophori Landini, atq[ue] Domitii Calderini Co[m]mentariis.
Published:
Nurnberge : Imp[re]ssa impe[n]sis Anthonii Koberger, Anno Chr[ist]i M.ccccxcii [1492].
Description:
8, CCCXLV, [1] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.).
Notes:
References: Copinger. Supplement, 6070
References: BMC 15th cent., II:436 (IB. 7441)
References: Goff. Third census, V-188
References: Proctor 2081 (types 22, 23 and Greek)
References: Polain 3963
References: Oates 1024.
Leaf [2a]: Christophori landini flore[n]tini in. P. Vergilii interp[re]tat[i]o[n]es poemiu[m] ad Petru[m] Medicu[m] magni Laure[n]ti filiu[m].
Title and imprint from colophon.
Signatures: [*]8 a-h8 i-k6 l10 m-z8 [con]8 [Rex]8 A-N8 O6 P-Q8 R6 S8 (*1, S8, k6v, O5v blank; 1st gathering signed with numerals 2-5 only; e5 lacking numeral; p4 printed piiii).
Printed with commentary 62 lines and head line per page, surrounding the text; capital spaces, with some guide letters; roman and Greek type. Rubricated in red and blue; ornamental initial: leaf 1.
Head lines give names of poems and the book numbers.
"Maronis vita:" preliminary leaves [6]-[8]
Latin marginalia in an early hand.
Library copy quarter bound in contemporary wooden boards and blind tooled pigskin. Clasps partially replaced. Ownership stamp on 2nd leaf.
Subjects, other:
Virgil.
Imprint--Germany--Nuremberg--1492.
Genre/form headings:
Wooden bindings (Binding)--Germany--15th century.
Other author(s), etc.:
Servius, 4th cent. In Vergilii carmina commentarii.
Donatus, Aelius.
Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.
Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513, printer.
PA6801 .A2 1492 Oversize

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works. 1527
Title:
Opera Vergiliana.
Published:
[Lyons : Jacques Mareschal], 1527.
Description:
[8], 161, [6], 262, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
Continuation of title transcription from t.p.: Opera Virgiliana cum decem commentis docte et familiariter exposita, docte q[ui]dem Bucolica, et Georgica a Servio, Donato, Ma[n]cinello & Probo nuper addito; cum adnotationibus Beroaldinis. Aeneis vero ab iisdem praeter Mancinellum & Probum & Augustino datho in eius principio; opusculorum praeterea quaedam ab Domitio Calderino. Familiariter vero omnia tam opera q[uam] opuscula ab Iodoco Badio Ascensio ...
Title pages with large woodcut illustrations, with first title printed in red and black. Approximately 200 woodcuts (1 1/2 x 3 inches) and historiated initials. The Aeneid has separate t.p.
Bound in contemporary vellum. Some staining in text and some marginal annotations by an early hand.
Colophon: Habes, optime lector, P.V.M. diligenti emendatione per Iacobu[m] Mareschal al[ia]s Roland: excusa Lugd. Anno a Virginis partu Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimoseptimo die vero xix, mensis Augusti.
Other author(s), etc.:
Badius, Josse, 1462-1535.
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 7-1458.
Servius, 4th cent.
Donatus, Tiberius Claudius.
Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478.
Beroaldo, Filippo, 1453-1505.
Probus, Marcus Valerius.
Mancinelli, Antonio, 1452-ca. 1505.
Valeriano, Pierio, 1477-1560.
Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.
PA6801 .A2 1527 Oversize

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera. Mauri Servii Honorati grammatici in eadem commentarii / ex antiquis exemplaribus suae intergritati restituti. Index eorum quae a Servio explicantur, ita copiosus ut vel dictionarii instar esse possit. Castigationes & varietates Virgilianae lectionis / per Ioannem Pierium Valerianum.
Published:
Parisiis : Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, xvii Cal. Augusti (16 July) 1532.
Description:
[12], 707, [61], 205 [i.e. 199], [24] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
References: Renouard, 37.12
References: Adams, V-476
References: Davies, H.W. Devices of the early printers 239
Smaller printer's device on t.p. The Castigationes with larger device in first state. Both by Tory. Cf. Davies.
Month from colophon.
"Castigationes & varietates Virgilianae" has special t.p. with date 1529 and separate paging.
Subjects, other:
Imprint--France-Paris--1529-1532.
Genre/form headings:
Printer's devices (Printing)--Estienne--France--Paris--1529-1532.
Woodcuts--France--Paris--1529-1532.
Other author(s), etc.:
Servius, 4th cent.
Valeriano, Pierio, 1477-1560. Castigationes et varietates Virgilianae lectionis.
Estienne, Robert, 1503?-1559, printer.
Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533, artist.
PA6801 .A2 1532 Oversize

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works. 1604.
Title:
L'Opere di Virgilio Mantoano, cioe, la Bucolica, la Georgica, e l'Eneide / commentate in lingua volgare toscana da Giouanni Fabrini ... Carlo Malatesta ... & da Filippo Venuti ; con ordine, che l'espositione volgare dichiara la Latina, & la Latina la volgare ; & e utile tanto a chi in questo poema vuole imparar la lingua Latina, quanto a chi cerca d'apprendere la volgare ...
Published:
In Venetia : Appresso gli Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1604.
Description:
322 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
Latin text of Virgil surrounded by Italian commentary of Fabrini and others.
Cuts: title vignette, initials, head and tail pieces.
Subjects, general:
Virgil--Criticism and interpretation
Other author(s), etc.:
Fabrini, Giovanni, 1516-1580.
Malatesta, Carlo.
Venuti, Filippo, 1531-1587.
PA6825 .F321 1604

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos. The first twelue being the worke of the diuine Poet Virgil Maro, and the thirteenth, the supplement of Maphaus Vegius. Translated into English Verse to the first third part of the tenth Booke, by Thomas Phaer Esquier; and the residue finished, and now newly set forth for the delight of such as are studious in Poetrie: By Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Phisicke.
Published:
London Printed by Thomas Creede, 1607.
Description:
[334] p. 18 1/2cm.
871 V9a.Eph

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera omnia: Bucolica, Georgica, AEneis; Ciris et Culex: cum commentario Frid. Taubmanni. Curante & edente Christiano Taubmanno Frid. f. Additi sunt indices necessarii.
Published:
[Wittenbergae] Apud Zachariam Schurerum, 1618.
Description:
12 p. l., 1064, [80], 72, [24], 147, [30] p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes:
Title vignette (Schurer's device?)
The "Ciris" and the "Culex" each have special t.p.. and separate pagination.
Title page repaired.
Autographed presentation copy, dated Christmas 1928, of Arthur Colby Sprague to Charles Archibald Robertson.
Other author(s), etc.:
Taubmann, Friedrich, 1565?-1613.
Taubmann, Christian, 1597-1651, ed.
PA6801 .A2 1618

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
The XII Aeneids of Virgil, the most renowned Laureat-prince of Latine poets
Published:
[London] N. Alsop, 1632.
Description:
8 p.l., 418 p. 16 cm.
Other author(s), etc.:
Vicars, John, 1580?-1652, tr.
871 V9a.Ev

Author, etc.:
Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.
Title:
Virgilii evangelisantis Christiados libri XIII : in quibus omnia quae de Domino nostro Jesu Christo in utroque Testamento, vel dicta vel praedicta sunt, altisona divina Maronis tuba suavissime decantantur / instante Alexandro Rosaeo.
Published:
Londini : Typis I. Legate, sumptibus R. Thrale, 1638.
Description:
311 p. ; 14 cm.
Notes:
Added engraved t.p.
A cento giving the principal Biblical events from the death of Abel to the ascension of Christ, expressed in Vergilian vocabulary and meter.
Includes index.
Subjects, general:
Bible--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
Centos.
Other author(s), etc.:
Virgil
871 V9.Yro 1638

Author, etc.:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Uniform Title:
Metamorphoses. English
Title:
Ovids Metamorphosis Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay on the translation of Virgil's Aeneis. By G.S.
Published:
London, Printed by J. L. for Andrew Hebb, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bell in St. Pauls churchyard, 1640.
Description:
12 p.l., 303, [18] p. illus., plates. 34 cm.
Notes:
References: STC, 18968
Added t.p., engr.
Dedication signed: George Sandys.
"The first book of Virgil's Aeneis": p. 297-303.
Armorial bookplate of Henry Edward Fox Strangways, Earl of Ilchester.
Subjects, other:
Imprint--England--London--1640.
Genre/form headings:
Bookplates (Provenance)--Ilchester.
Other author(s), etc.:
Sandys, George, 1578-1644.
Legate, John, d. 1658, printer.
Hebb, Andrew, d. 1648, publisher.
Ilchester, Henry Edward Foxtrangways, Earl of, 1847-1905, former owner.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Other title(s):
Metamorphosis.
Essay to the translation of Virgil's Aeneis.
871 O8m.Es 1640 Oversize

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
The works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated by John Ogilby ...
Published:
London, Printed by Thomas Maxey for Andrew Crook ... 1650.
Description:
[4], 420 p. 17 cm.
Notes:
First edition of this translation, London, 1649.
Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Cc8, Dd4 (Aa4 incorrectly signed A4)
Other author(s), etc.:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, tr.
871 v9.Eo

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Aeneis. Liber 2. English. 1656
Title:
The destruction of Troy, an essay upon the second book of Virgils AEneis. Written in the year, 1636.
Published:
London, Printed for H. Moseley, 1656.
Description:
4 p. l., 28 p. 20 cm.
Notes:
First edition.
Translated by Sir John Denham; published also in his Poems and translations, London, 1668.
New quarter morocco.
Mostly uncut.
Wing V624
Other author(s), etc.:
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669, tr.
PA6807.A5 D461 1656

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera in tres tomos divisa, cum integris notis Servii, Philargyrii, nec non J. Pierii variis lectionibus, & selectissimis plerisque commentariis Donati, Probi, Nannii, Sabini, Germani, Cerdae, Taubmanni, & aliorum. Quibus accedunt observationes Jacobi Emmenessii. Cum Indice Erythraei ...
Published:
Lugd. Batavorum, Apud Jacobum Hackium; Amstelodami, Apud Abrahamum Wolfgang, 1680.
Description:
3 v. front., illus., plates. 20 cm.
Notes:
Title vignette (Hackius' device)
General t.p.. in v. 1 only, v. 2-3 have special title-pages.
Edited by J. Emmenessius and P. Maasvicius. The text is that of N. Heinsius' edition, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1676.
Contents:
t. I. Tib. Claudii Donati ... De P. Virgilii Maronis vita. Index Erythraei Virgiliano operi cujuslibet editionis ab Antonio Maria Basso Cremonensi accomodatus. Bucolicon liber. Georgicon liber primus [-quartus].- -t. II. AEneidos liber primus [-sextus].--t. III. AEneidos liber septimus [-duodecimus]
Other author(s), etc.:
Emmenessius, Jacobus, d. 1679, ed.
Maasvicius, Pancratius, 1658-1719, ed.
Eritreo, Niccolo, 16th cent.
Basso, Antonio Maria, 16th cent.
PA6801 .A2 1680

Author, etc.:
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Title:
Miscellany poems. Containing a new translation of Virgills Eclogues, Ovid's Love elegies, Odes of Horace, and other authors; with several original poems. By the most eminent hands. [2 lines from Virgil]
Published:
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-head in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street, 1684.
Description:
4 p.l., 328, 92 p. 18 cm.
Notes:
First edition; for full description cf. Macdonald, 42a i.
Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, 6th ed. augmented, and The medall, 2d ed., have separate title pages dated 1683; Virgil's Eclogues has separate title page dated 1684, and separate pagination.
Other author(s), etc.:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Horace.
Virgil.
PR3412 .A1684

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works
Title:
The works of Virgil : containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and AEneis / translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden, adorn'd with a hundred sculptures.
Edition:
[1st ed.]
Published:
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ... 1697.
Description:
[44], 690 p., [102] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
Signatures: [a]1, A2, *-2*4, 3*-5*2, [dagger]-2 [dagger]2, (+ 1 unsigned leaf after 2[dagger]2, B-G4, [paragraph sign]4, 2[paragraph sign]2, H-T4, U2, (a)-(f)4, 2A- 4F4, 4G2, 4H-4I4, 4K2 + frontispiece and 101 plates.
References: Macdonald 33a; Wing V616.
Other author(s), etc.:
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
871 V9.Edr

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
The works of Virgil : containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aneis. Tr. into English verse ; by Mr. Dryden...
Edition:
Adorn'd with above a hundred sculptures...3th ed.
Published:
London, J. Tonson, 1709.
Description:
3 v. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Notes:
Paged continuously.
"The life of Publius Virgilius Maro" : v. 1, p. 13-72.
Other author(s), etc.:
Dryden, John, 1631-1700. tr.
871 V9.Edr 1709

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
Virgil's AEneis, translated into Scottish verse by the famous Gawin Douglas ...
Edition:
A new ed., wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the defects supply'd, from an excellent manuscript. To which is added a large glossary ... And to the whole is prefix'd an exact account of the author's life and writings ...
Published:
Edinburgh, Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, 1710.
Description:
486, [96] p. 31 cm.
Other author(s), etc.:
Douglas, Gawin, 1474?-1522, tr.
871 V9.aEd Oversize

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, cum integris commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii. Accedunt Scaligeri et Lindenbrogii notae ad Culicem, Cirin, Catalecta. Ad. cod. ms. regium parisiensem recensuit Pancratius Masvicius. Cum indicibus absolutissimis & figuris elegantissimis.
Published:
Leovardiae, excudit Franciscus Halma, 1717.
Description:
2v. illus.,fold.map. 27cm.
Notes:
Title vignette (F. Halma's device).
Added t.p.., engraved.
Paged continuously.
Includes Index Erythraei Virgiliano operi cujuslibet editionis ab Antonio Maria Basso Cremonensi accomodatus.
Other author(s), etc.:
Maasvicius, Pancratius, 1658-1719, ed.
Eritreo, Niccolo, 16th century.
Basso, Antonio Maria, 16th century.
871 V9 1717

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
The works of Virgil, translated into English verse. By the Right Honourable Richard late Earl of Lauderdale ...
Published:
London, Printed for Bernard Lintott ... [1718]
Description:
4 p. l., 32, 396 p. 19 cm.
Notes:
First edition of this translation.
Signatures: A4, a-b8, B-Z8, Aa-Cc8 (Cc-b7-8, advertisements)
Page 18, 2d group of paging, incorrectly numbered 16.
Title within double line border.
Other author(s), etc.:
Lauderdale, Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of, 1653-1695, tr.
871 V9.El

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
Virgil's Husbandry, or An essay on the Georgics: being the first book. Translated into English verse. To which are added the Latin text, and Mr. Dryden's version. With notes critical and rustick.
Published:
London, sold by W. Innys, 1725.
Description:
xv, 50 [15] p. illus. 21 cm.
Notes:
Bound with Pope, Alexander. The Dunciad.
Other author(s), etc.:
Dryden, John, 1631-1700, tr.
871 V9g.Ed 1725

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works. English. Trapp. 1731.
Title:
The works of Virgil / translated into English blank verse, with large explanatory notes, and critical observations, by Joseph Trapp.
Published:
London : Printed for J. Brotherton, J. Hazard [etc.], 1731.
Description:
3 v. : 3 plates ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes:
Plates are by F. Fourdrinier.
Titles in red and black.
Contemporary ownership signature, dated 1743, each volume.
Other author(s), etc.:
Trapp, Joseph, 1679-1747.
PA6807.A1 T6 1731

Title:
The Tryal of skill between 'Squire Walsingham and Mother Osborne : An eclogue, in imitation of Virgil's Palaemon ; to which are added, Horace to Fannius, and an Apology for printing a certain Nobleman's epistle to Dr. S--w--n.
Published:
London : Sold by J. Huggonson ..., 1734.
Description:
25, [1] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Notes:
References: Foxon T474
References: ESTC t051993
Virgil's Eclogue III and Horace 's Ode 8 from Book II in Latin on pages opposite the English imitations.
"On Francis Walsingham (pseudonym of William Arnall ...) and F. Osborne (pseudonym of James Pitt ...). The other poems are satires on John, Lord Hervey ..."--Foxon.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Subjects, general:
Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743.
Arnall, William, 1715?-1741?.
Pitt, James.
Other author(s), etc.:
Virgil. Bucolica, III. 1734.
Horace. Carmina, II:8. 1734.
821.5 T875

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
The works of Virgil: translated into English blank verse. With large explanatory notes, and critical observations. By Joseph Trapp ...
Edition:
The third edition, corrected, and in the notes much enlarged.
Published:
London: Printed for J. Brotherton [etc.] 1735.
Description:
3 v. fronts. 17 cm.
Notes:
This translation first published 1731.
Other author(s), etc.:
Trapp, Joseph, 1679-1747, tr.
871 V9.Et 1735

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
The AEneid of Virgil. Translated by Mr. Pitt.
Published:
London: Printed for T. Dodsley, 1740.
Description:
2 v. 26 cm.
Other author(s), etc.:
Pitt, Christopher, 1699-1748, tr.
871 V9.aEp

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
Antiqvissimi Virgiliani codicis fragmenta et picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana : ad priscas imaginum formas a Petro Sancte Bartholi incisae.
Published:
Romae : ex Chalcographia R.C.A., apud Pedem Marmoreum, 1741.
Description:
xxii, 225 p. : engr. ill. ; 44 cm.
Subjects, general:
Virgil--Illustrations.
Manuscripts, Latin--Facsimiles.
Other author(s), etc.:
Bartoli, Pietro Santi, 1635-1700.
Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Cod. vat. 3225.
Other title(s):
Antiquissimi Virgiliani codicis fragmenta et picturae ex Bibliotheca Vaticana.
871 V9.X 1741

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Uniform Title:
Georgica. Latin and English.
Title:
Publii Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English translation and notes. By John Martyn.
Edition:
2d ed.
Published:
London, Printed by R. Reily for T. Osborne, 1746.
Description:
xvi, [2], 487, 4, 12, 16 p. 7 plates, 3 fold. 22 cm.
Notes:
Latin and English versions with notes in Latin, English or Greek arranged in double columns.
Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.
Other author(s), etc.:
Martyn, John R. C.
Other title(s):
The Georgicks of Virgil.
871 V9g 1746

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Uniform Title:
Works. Italian.
Title:
Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis.
Published:
Birminghamiae, typis Johannis Baskerville, 1757.
Description:
5 p.l., 432 p. 30 x 23 cm.
Notes:
References: Gaskell, P. Baskerville 1
Subjects, other:
Imprint--England--Birmingham--1757.
Genre/form headings:
Cancellation (Printing)--England--Birmingham--1757.
Other author(s), etc.:
Baskerville, John, 1706-1775, printer.
871 V9, 1757

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
L'Eneide di Virgilio del commendatore Annibale Caro ...
Published:
Parigi, Presso la vedova Quillau, 1760.
Description:
2 v. fronts. (ports.) illus., plates. 21 cm.
Other author(s), etc.:
Caro, Annibal, 1507-1566, tr.
Conti, Giusto, ca 1720-ca 1790, ed.
871 V9a.Ic

Author, etc.:
Virgil
Title:
The works of Virgil, in English verse. The Aeneid translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt; the Eclogues and Georgics by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton.
Published:
London J. Dodsley 1790.
Description:
3v. 17cm.
Notes:
Vol.1 t.p. lacking.
"The life of Virgil.":v.1, p.xxxi-lxxii.
Subjects, general:
Virgil
Other author(s), etc.:
Warton, Joseph, 1722-1800, tr.
Pitt, Christopher, 1699-1748, tr.
871 V9.Ew

Author, etc.:
Virgil.
Title:
Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis.
Published:
Parisiis, Excudebam Petrus Didot, natu major anno reip. VI in aedibus Palatinis [1798]
Description:
xxviii, 390 p. front., illus., fold. map. 17 cm.
Other author(s), etc.:
Wilhelm Hausenstein Collection
NUMBER: AKD3392


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