20
id.
[i.e. Virgil
]
Lat.
Eng. by Pitt & Wharton.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 18, as above, but omitting
id. and reading
Virgil.
VIRGILIUS MARO,
Publius.
The Works of Virgil, in
Latin and
English. The original Text correctly printed from the most authentic Editions, collated for this Purpose. The Aeneid Translated by
the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, the Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, a Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Æneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Æneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Japis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And, Three Essays on Pastoral, Didactic, and Epic Poetry, by the Editor. In
Four Volumes. Vol. I. [-IV].
London: Printed for
R. Dodsley,
1753.
PA6801 .A2 1753
4 vol. 8vo. 236, 189, 249 and 249 leaves, 2 leaves of
Dodsley’s advertisement at the end of Vol. III and 8 leaves at the end of
Vol. IV,
Latin and
English text on opposite pages, engraved portrait frontispieces by L. P. Boitard in each volume, engraved plates by L. P. Boitard and P. Fourdrinier, engraved folded map by T. Jefferys.
Lowndes V, 2781.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II,768.
Dibdin II, 553.
Christopher Pitt, 1699-1748, English poet and translator, published his translation of the Æneid into heroic couplets in two volumes, quarto,
in 1740.
Joseph Warton, 1722-1800, English poet and critic, in issuing a new edition of Virgil’s works in Latin and English in 1753, reprinted Christopher
Pitt’s translation of the Æneid and himself translated the Eclogues and Georgics.
Edward Holdsworth, 1684-1746, English classical scholar and Latin poet, was the author of a number of dissertations on Virgil’s Georgics and
other poems. These were published in 1768 by Joseph Spence, q.v., a friend of Christopher Pitt.
William Warburton, 1698-1779, Bishop of Gloucester. His Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Æneid was included in several of the editions
of the Works of Virgil, but no separate edition seems to have been issued.
William Whitehead, 1715-1785, poet-laureate of England. His disquisition on the Shield of Æneas was one of his few prose writings.
Francis Atterbury, 1662-1732, Bishop of Rochester.
[4281]
21
id.
[i.e. Virgil
]
Eng. by Dryden.
3. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 7, Virgil by Dryden, 3 v 12mo.
VIRGILIUS MARO,
Publius.
The Works of Virgil: containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis. Translated into
English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. In
Three Volumes . . . The
Seventh Edition.
London: Printed for
J. and R. Tonson and
S. Draper,
m dccxl viii
. [1748.]
PA6807 .A1 D7 1748
3 vol. 12mo. 168, 186 and 168 leaves, separate signatures, continuous pagination, titles printed in red and black, those for
the second and third volumes differ from the first and have the volume number, engraved frontispiece and plates by Fourdrinier. Volume I contains at the beginning the Life of Virgil, and at the end of Volume III is a Postscript to the Reader followed
by Notes and Observations on Virgil’s Works in
English.
Lowndes V, 2780.
This edition not in Macdonald.
At page 60 in the
Life of Virgil in volume I is a reference to Virgil’s Tomb, with an engraved illustration by Fourdrinier, showing the laurel branches. In
this connection, Jefferson in a letter to William Short dated from Paris, September 20, 1788, wrote: “
. . . The dispute about Virgil’s tomb & the laurel seems to be at length settled by the testimony of two travellers, given
separately & without a communication
”
