Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £240 |
VIRGIL (17-90 BC). The Works ... Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden. London: Printed for C. Bathurst (and others), 1782. 4 volumes, 8vo (176 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece in vol. one, 17 plates (occasional light spotting and browning, plates offset onto opposite text leaves). Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (lightly rubbed). With 2 other 18th-century works in 3 vols., namely [Tobias Smollett's] The Adventures of Roderick Random ... The Eighth Edition (London, 1770, 2 vols., engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf) and William Robertson's The History of Ancient Greece ... A New Edition (Edinburgh, 1793, folding engraved map, 19th-century calf gilt). (7)