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VERGILIUS Maro, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Paris: Pierre Didot the Elder, at his Louvre Press, 1798.
Large 2 (485 x 345 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 22 engraved plates (occasional spotting). Contemporary French red calf backed boards, double gilt fillet and gilt dentelle on both covers, spine elaborately gilt, contemporary marbled endpapers (slightly bumped).
A MASTERPIECE OF NEO-CLASSICAL TYPOGRAPHY. Number 143 of an edition limited to 250 copies, all numbered and signed by Didot on the verso of the half-title. "In France the typographic event of the close of the century was the appearance of Didot's ditions du Louvre of Horace and Virgil" (Updike).
Large 2 (485 x 345 mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece and 22 engraved plates (occasional spotting). Contemporary French red calf backed boards, double gilt fillet and gilt dentelle on both covers, spine elaborately gilt, contemporary marbled endpapers (slightly bumped).
A MASTERPIECE OF NEO-CLASSICAL TYPOGRAPHY. Number 143 of an edition limited to 250 copies, all numbered and signed by Didot on the verso of the half-title. "In France the typographic event of the close of the century was the appearance of Didot's ditions du Louvre of Horace and Virgil" (Updike).