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Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English translation and notes. By John Martyn, F.R.S. ...
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[Georgics. English & Latin. 1741]
Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English translation and notes. By John Martyn, F.R.S. ...
London (Place), printed for the editor, by Richard Reily,, 1741.
xxii, 403, [1], 3, [11] p., [11] hand-col. pl. (2 double-page; 3 maps) ; 27.2 cm. (4º)
The prose translation is set in two columns incorporating the footnotes. The botanist John Martyn was also a keen Latinist, and accompanied his translations of Virgil's 'Bucolicks' (Eclogues) (q.v.) and Georgics with natural history notes. With a list of subscribers and an index. Includes 'Remarks ... by the learned Edward King, ... in a Letter dated from Bromley in Kent, Nov. 20, 1740' (3 pp. after p. 403). ESTC t67044.
Copy Notes Bought with a copy of Martyn's translation of the Eclogues (q.v.) from Thomas Boone for £2 10s., 16 June 1806. (Spiers Box).
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt-tooled spine compartments, red and olive morocco spine-labels. Uniformly bound as vol. 2 in a set with the copy of Martyn's edition of the Eclogues.
Reference Number 1294
Additional Names Thomas Boone; King, Edward; Martyn, John (1699--1768)
[Georgics. English & Latin. 1741]
Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum libri quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English translation and notes. By John Martyn, F.R.S. ...
London (Place), printed for the editor, by Richard Reily,, 1741.
xxii, 403, [1], 3, [11] p., [11] hand-col. pl. (2 double-page; 3 maps) ; 27.2 cm. (4º)
The prose translation is set in two columns incorporating the footnotes. The botanist John Martyn was also a keen Latinist, and accompanied his translations of Virgil's 'Bucolicks' (Eclogues) (q.v.) and Georgics with natural history notes. With a list of subscribers and an index. Includes 'Remarks ... by the learned Edward King, ... in a Letter dated from Bromley in Kent, Nov. 20, 1740' (3 pp. after p. 403). ESTC t67044.
Copy Notes Bought with a copy of Martyn's translation of the Eclogues (q.v.) from Thomas Boone for £2 10s., 16 June 1806. (Spiers Box).
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt-tooled spine compartments, red and olive morocco spine-labels. Uniformly bound as vol. 2 in a set with the copy of Martyn's edition of the Eclogues.
Reference Number 1294
Additional Names Thomas Boone; King, Edward; Martyn, John (1699--1768)