Les Georgiques de…Traduites en Vers Français, avec Les Notes et Variantes, Suivies du Texte Latin. Par. M. L’Abbé de Lille [Jacques Delille].

[Paris]: L’Imprimerie de La Société Littéraire-Typgraphique, 1784.

Price: $250.00


About the item

1 vols. 8vo. In a very pretty contemporary binding of French tree calf, sides with ornamental borders, spine gilt with leather label, blue endpapers (front flyleaf clipped); very slight rubbing to edges, otherwise a very pretty copy. Bookplate of samuel W. Lambert and Nancy Bookseller label of Bontoux Libraire. Brunet V 1303.

Item #4621

Apparently the third edition of this “Excellente traduction” (Brunet), first published in 1770, then again in 1783 by F.-A. Didot, of which this seems to be a second issue with title-page dated 1784.