Details
VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius. Bucolica & Georgica, in Latin, London: John Pine, 1774, 8°, engraved half titles, engraved titles, 68 engraved plates or full-page illustrations, numerous engraved headpieces and initials by Pine (occasional light spotting, offsetting from plates), early 19th-century straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. With 11 other volumes, including another edition of Bucolica, Georgica et Aenaeis (3 vols., Rome, 1763-65). (12)
Provenance
Inscription from Estcourt to front blank, dated summer of 1819 : "This Book was given to me by the Government of Harrow by the Hands of the Earl of Clarendon, after I had spoken the annual Speech to them"; Estcourt bookplate.