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The Works of Virgil

1697ref. 1008True first edition of Dryden's celebrated verse translation of Virgil — the standard English Virgil for over a century Alexander Pope's acknowledged direct model for his Homer 'the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language' and one of the masterpieces of late-Stuart English literary publishing. The work made Dryden £1400 — an enormous sum for a single literary project in the 1690s — and established the model of subscription publishing that would dominate eighteenth-century English book production. Folio ordinary paper copy not the rare Large Paper issue measuring 14 x 9.5 inches 36 x 24 cm. Title printed in red and black with the motto 'Sequiturque Patrem non passibus Æquis' Aeneid II 'he follows his father with unequal steps'. Complete with all 101 engraved plates as called for: engraved allegorical frontispiece by Michael Vander Gucht engraved title page and 99 numbered plates Complete with all 101 engraved plates as called for: engraved frontispiece by Michael Vander Gucht engraved title page and 99 numbered plates illustrating the Pastorals Georgics and Aeneid. Title printed in red and black; complete subscribers' list bound in preliminaries; complete text including Knightly Chetwood's 'Life of Virgil' William Walsh's preface to the Pastorals and Joseph Addison's preface to the Georgics Addison's first major published prose. Condition issues: 1 A small hole in the centre of the title page eliminating one letter within the word 'ÆNEIS' which now reads 'ÆN_IS'; the red-and-black imprint the Vander Gucht engraved frontispiece on the facing leaf and all surrounding text are unaffected. 2 Ragged wear to the outer edge of the title page. 3 Significant ink offsetting throughout the text particularly on the leaves facing each plate — a common condition issue with this book because of the heavy ink load on the engraved plates pressed against text leaves before complete drying. 4 Mild to moderate foxing throughout. 5 Occasional wear to page edges and corners. Despite these condition factors the volume is sound and entirely functional the plates themselves are clean and present strong impressions and the textblock is tight in the new binding. A working copy of a famously difficult-to-find-complete folio rather than a presentation copy. Jacob Tonson hardcover

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DRYDEN John DU FRESNOY Charles AlphonseABAA

De Arte Graphica The Art of Painting. ISSUED WITH: A Short Account of Painters

1695ref. 564891695. First Edition. DRYDEN John DU FRESNOY Charles Alphonse. De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting. ISSUED WITH: GRAHAM Richard. A Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters both Ancient and Modern. London: W. Rogers 1695. Two volumes in one. Thick square octavo 19th-century three-quarter tan calf black and green morocco spine labels marbled boards endpapers and edges. $2200.First translation into English prose by Dryden of Du FresnoyÕs Latin poem on the practice of art prefaced by DrydenÕs famous Parallel of Poetry and Painting with engraved allegorical frontispiece by Henry Cooke issued together with Richard GrahamÕs biographical chronology of painters.Du Fresnoy is remembered now almost entirely as a writer rather than a painter. While his few paintings are at best reminiscent of Carraci and Titian Òhe was a great master of the rules history and theory of his professionÓ Chalmers. His Latin poem De Arte Graphica written during his 24-year Italian sojourn is well-regarded as a critical treatise on the practice of the art with general advice to students. It embodies his observations on the art of painting in sound precepts according to the standards of his time. First published in Latin by his friend Pierre Mignard in 1656 De Arte Graphica was translated into English prose by Dryden prefaced by his famous Parallel of Poetry and Painting: ÒExpression and all that belongs to words is that in a poem which coloring is in a picture. The colors well chosen in their proper places together with the lights and shadows which belong to them lighten the design and make it pleasing to the eye. The words the expressions the tropes and figures the versification and all other elegancies of soundÉ perform exactly the same office both in dramatic and epic poetry.Ó Issued with this edition was the first appearance of Richard GrahamÕs biographical chronology of famous artists from Ardices the Corinthian to John Riley court painter to Charles II under a separate title page. ÒGraham was an acquaintance of Vertue the engraver and supplied him with some of the information worked up by Horace Walpole into his Anecdotes of Painting 1762Ó DNB. MacDonald 139a. Wing D2458. Interior near-fine with only faint foxing to first and last few leaves. Corners rubbed. A near-fine copy. hardcover books

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De Arte Graphica The Art of Painting. ISSUED WITH: A Short Account of Painters

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(VELLUM PRINTING). (ESSEX HOUSE PRESS). DRYDEN, JOHNABAA

ALEXANDER'S FEAST OR THE POWER OF MUSIC

1904ref. ST20796London: Essex House Press 1904. No. 1 OF 140 COPIES all on vellum. 195 x 131 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/8". 1 p.l. frontispiece 3-11 2 pp. Original stiff vellum over thin boards front cover with embossed rose design. In custom-made linen clamshell box with red morocco label on spine. Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece and final tailpiece both by Reginald Savage hand-painted initials in burnished gold red blue or green. Printed in black and red. Front pastedown with red morocco bookplate of William Andrews Clark Jr.; front endleaves with evidence of bookplate and inscription removal. Tomkinson p. 76; Ransom p. 268; Franklin p. 200. A VERY FINE COPY clean bright and free of the splaying that very frequently afflicts the boards of this work. This is a most appealing example of the luxurious hand-crafted volumes produced under the auspices of the Essex House Press with our copy coming from the library of a noted Dryden collector. The book is the 11th from the Essex House series of 14 "Great Poems in the English Language" a group of lovely little works all printed on vellum and with delightful colored illustrations and historiated initials. Generally considered to be the best example in English of the choric hymn the present work is set at a feast given by Alexander the Great who finds himself entranced by the poet and lyrist Timotheus. The great leader is lost in reveries of exploits and victory he sighs and cries over battles lost and warriors slain and he finds inspiration for new conquests. Our printer C. R. Ashbee founded the Essex House Press in 1898 by purchasing the presses and other production equipment though not the type formerly owned by the Kelmscott Press which had shut down at the death of William Morris. Ashbee printed books for 12 years with vellum ink and paper identical to that used by Kelmscott in an effort to carry on the tradition Morris had established. But the Essex House Press because it was conceived of and continued as part of a larger enterprise involving various artisans at work in a group of workshops at Ashbee's Guild of Handicrafts located at Essex House in London's Mile End Road always had its own special identity a fact which Cave reflects when he calls it the "Arts and Crafts press 'par excellence.'" The illustrator here Reginald Savage fl. 1886-1904 is deemed by Houfe "a talented and imaginative designer and woodcut artist" and Houfe notes that he was also commended by his fellow illustrator Walter Crane 1845-1915 for his "weird designs." Former owner William Andrews Clark Jr. 1877-1934 put together one of the most distinguished collections of English and French literature of his day. He had strong holdings in many areas but especially in Shakespeare and the other Elizabethans in Dryden in Oscar Wilde and in the French drama. After a fire in his home in 1923 Clark constructed a separate fireproof building to house his collection; in 1926 this library building with its distinguished collection was deeded to the University of California and now serves as a prominent center for literary research. Essex House Press unknown books

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ALEXANDER'S FEAST OR THE POWER OF MUSIC

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The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals Georgics and Aeneis Complete

1698ref. 52732London: Printed for Jacob Tonson 1698. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 2 690pp. 102 plates incl. frontispiece. Later green leather binding extensive decorative gilt decor framing the covers gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine. Gilt edges and dentelles. Frontispiece engraving. Title page printed in red and black with black double framing. Dedicated to Hugh Lord Clifford. Engravings by W. Hollar after Francis Cleyn's artwork. This second edition was published one year after the first emphazising the popularity of this important book It was conceived created and circulated by John Dryden and the publisher Jacob Tonson. Illustrated with one hundred and one full page copperplate engravings. With postscript to the reader and notes and observations on Virgil's works in English at rear. Front joint of binding repaired and reinforced Light scuffing and rubbing in center gilt framing. Lightly starting at inside front cover. Light offsetting from title page to frontispiece. Light sporadic damp-staining in block. Small circular sticker on inside back cover. Born in Cisalpine Gaul Virgil Publius Vergillius Maro 70-19 BCE published his first collection of poems Eclogues around 38 BCE and the Georgics in 29 BCE. Both titles illustrating the greatness of the Roman Empire were widely read due to "the technical perfection of his verse" Oxford Companion to Classical Literature after Virgil had become part of the poetic circle around Maecena giving Virgil accress to Octavian the future emperor Augustus. Musing the idyllic life of shepards in northern Italy in the Pastorals meditating on the nature of agriculture in the Georgics and in his great epic the Aneid following in the tradition of Homer. While the Pastorals were still likened to the poetry of other poets the Georgics were considered unprecedented. The inscriptions on Virgils tombstone "cesini pascua rura duces" I sang of farms fields and heroes captures the scope of these three works. Dryden's translation triggered a surge in popularity of the works of Virgil among English speaking people. Printed for Jacob Tonson hardcover books

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Dryden (Transl)Biblio.com

The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals Georgics and Aeneis Complete

Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller · Estados UnidosUS$ 2.750,00≈ € 2.456,89

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