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FOULIS PRESS -- Publius VERGILIUS Maro (70-19 B.C.). Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. Edited by P.Burmann. Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1778.
2 volumes, 2 (380 x 240mm). Half-titles. Extra-illustrated with 2 leaves. of text, 101 cut-down and mounted plates by W.Hollar and others after F.Cleyn and others, one folding frontispiece and one double-page map of the eastern Mediterranean, all from John Ogilby's edition of Vergil's works. Contemporary ?French green morocco gilt, g.e. (somewhat discoloured, joints weak, lacking front free-endpaper to vol.II). Provenance: Thomas Weld-Blundell (armorial bookplate). Gaskell 639; and four other folio works, in seven volumes, from the Foulis Press (Caius Julius Caesar. De rebus a Caesare gestis commentarii. cum fragmentis, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1750, large-paper copy [Gaskell 139]; Aesychylus. [Tragedies], in Greek, Glasgow: 1795 [Gaskell 699]; Homer. [Works], in Greek, Glasgow: 1756-1758, 4 volumes [Gaskell 319]; Publius Virgilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Glasgow: 1778, 2 volumes in one [Gaskell 639]). (9)
2 volumes, 2 (380 x 240mm). Half-titles. Extra-illustrated with 2 leaves. of text, 101 cut-down and mounted plates by W.Hollar and others after F.Cleyn and others, one folding frontispiece and one double-page map of the eastern Mediterranean, all from John Ogilby's edition of Vergil's works. Contemporary ?French green morocco gilt, g.e. (somewhat discoloured, joints weak, lacking front free-endpaper to vol.II). Provenance: Thomas Weld-Blundell (armorial bookplate). Gaskell 639; and four other folio works, in seven volumes, from the Foulis Press (Caius Julius Caesar. De rebus a Caesare gestis commentarii. cum fragmentis, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1750, large-paper copy [Gaskell 139]; Aesychylus. [Tragedies], in Greek, Glasgow: 1795 [Gaskell 699]; Homer. [Works], in Greek, Glasgow: 1756-1758, 4 volumes [Gaskell 319]; Publius Virgilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Glasgow: 1778, 2 volumes in one [Gaskell 639]). (9)