THE WORKS OF VIRGIL CONTAINING HIS PASTORAL'S, GEORGICS AND AENEIS, VOLUME I de VIRGIL, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN DRYDEN - 1748

LONDON: F. AND R. TONFON AND S. DRAPER, 1748 RARE, NICE LOOKING DARK LEATHER HARD COVER, DECORATIVE RIBS ALONG SPINE, LIGHT WEAR, SMALL NICK OUT OF TOP SPINE, BACK COVER LOOSE AT THE TOP BUT STILL ATTACHED AND STABLE. PAGES ARE IN GOOD SHAPE, FIRST AND LAST BLANK PAGES GONE, VERY LIGHT FADED WRITING INSIDE FRONT COUPLE PAGES ON EDGE. WONDERFUL OLD BOOK, INTRODUCTION BY DRYDEN, LIFE OF VIRGIL/ MARO. PREFACE TO PASTORALS, VIRGILS GEORGICS. VERY INTERESTING. John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697), which was published by subscription. Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 70 BC – 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.