GOOD CONDITION

 

This sale is for a VICTORIAN hardback edition entitled “Stories from Virgil,” by the Rev. Alfred J. Church, and with 24 colour illustrations from the designs of Italian artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835).

 

It was published by Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, of Fleet Street, London, in MDCCCLXXIX (1879) and is the fifth thousand.

 

The contents include:

 

·       The Horse of Wood

·       The Sack of Troy

·       Aeneas and Anchises

·       Polydorus

·       Delos

·       Crete

·       The Harpies

·       King Helenus

·       The Cyclops

·       The Shipwreck

·       Carthage

·       Dido

·       The Love and Death of Dido

·       The Funeral Games of Anchises

·       The Burning of the Ships

·       The Voyage to Italy

·       The Sibyl

·       The Dwellings of the Dead

·       King Latinus

·       The Wrath of Juno

·       The Gathering of the Chiefs

·       King Evander

·       The Arms of Aeneas

·       Nisus and Euryalus

·       The Battle at the Camp

·       The Battle on the Shore

·       The Council

·       The Battle at the City

·       The Broken Treaty

·       The Death of Turnus

 

The book measures 7/75 inches x 5.5 inches and has 266 pages + 24 colour plates.

 

The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear and is a little grubby/blemished to the original decorative cloth hardback cover.  The binding is good with no loose or missing pages (lining papers cracked at the hinges inside the boards) and no missing plates (the plate facing page 8 had come loose but has an old fixing – looks tacked in with something similar to a postage stamp).  There are previous owner 1879 and 1919 inscriptions at the front, a blind embossed private owner’s stamp, a little foxing near the covers and no other ink or pencil markings in the book.

 

A wonderfully illustrated VICTORIAN edition.

 

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