VIRGIL. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH,.
The Aeneid of Virgil.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company , 1906.
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The large paper edition of The Aeneid of Virgil; finely bound in full richly decorated morocco at the Riverside Press
The Riverside Press large paper edition of Virgil's masterpiece, widely considered the finest piece of Latin literature. Quarto, two volumes finely bound in full contemporary black morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt ruling and decorations to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 17 tissue-guarded plates including frontispieces in both colored and uncolored states. One of 650 numbered copies, this is number 22. Translated into English by Christopher Pearse Cranch. In fine condition. A stunning set.
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas's wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned the Aeneid into a compelling founding myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.
The Aeneid of Virgil.
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