[ASHENDENE PRESS]. VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera, Buccolica, Georgica, Aeneis. Chelsea, 1910. Large initials in gold, red, and blue and hundreds of paragraph marks in blue and red supplied by Graily Hewitt, printer's mark C. 4to, original vellum, leather ties, minor bowing. LIMITED EDITION, one of 40 copies on paper of a total edition on 48. Hornby 25 ("The reason for the small number of copies printed of this book was the fact that the filling in of the paragraph marks by hand in a larger was thought to be too irksome a task.").

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[ASHENDENE PRESS]. VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera, Buccolica, Georgica, Aeneis. Chelsea, 1910. Large initials in gold, red, and blue and hundreds of paragraph marks in blue and red supplied by Graily Hewitt, printer's mark C. 4to, original vellum, leather ties, minor bowing. LIMITED EDITION, one of 40 copies on paper of a total edition on 48. Hornby 25 ("The reason for the small number of copies printed of this book was the fact that the filling in of the paragraph marks by hand in a larger was thought to be too irksome a task.").

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