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Auction Closed
November 29, 03:25 PM GTNN
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Publius Vergilius Maro
The Georgicks [Bucolicks] of Virgil, with an English translation and notes by John Martyn. London: Richard Reily, 1741–1749
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (285 x 225mm.), Georgics: list of subscribers, 12 coloured plates including a double-page world map, and 5 botanical plates printed in colours and finished by hand; Bucolics: engraved frontispiece, printed title in red and black, 2 hand-coloured maps, one folding, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf, joints cracking
The plates exhibit a very early example of colour printing, likely executed by Jacob van Huysum and Elisha Kirkall, who worked on Martyn’s Historia, although they are unsigned.
LITERATURE:
Hunt, 519
PROVENANCE:
Samuel James Waring, 1st Baron Waring (1860–1940), British industrialist and Chairman of the furniture store Waring and Gillow, of Foots Cray Place, a Palladian house with magnificent garden in Kent, based on the Villa Capra near Vicenza, bookplate
Hunt, 519
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