VIRGILE

First edition of the French translation by Marcel Pagnol, one of 32 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Cover illustrated with a woodcut by Aristide Maillol.
Slight traces of sunning to head and to foot of spine, nice copy.

Very rare first edition of this collection which brings together translations that had appeared separately before: The Georgics, translated by Richard Le Blanc (1554), The Eclogues, translated by Clément Marot (for the first) and by Richard Le Blanc (for the nine others) in 1555, and The Aeneid by Louis Des Mazures (first complete edition in 1560). This edition includes the verse translation, printed in roman type facing the Latin text printed in italics.
Manuscript ownership inscription on the title page.
Contemporary full calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt typographical motifs and blind fillets, covers decorated with...

Fine minuscule typographic edition, with commentary distributed around the text. Text within a red frame. Engraved title, with Renaissance-style border.
Edition illustrated with 27 albumen photographs mounted as vignettes at chapter heads, when the albumen photographic process had just been invented in 1850. One of the first books illustrated with photographs.
Binding in full black morocco signed by Lortic on the pastedown, 1871. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 tools. Boards hot-stamped with a rich central roundel and corner tools; blind-ruled frame. Wide decorative gilt board-edges. Edges gilt. Light rubbing to upper joint at head (with a tiny floating piece), at foot...

First edition, on current paper, the French translation and verse established by Marcel Pagnol.
Signed autograph of Marcel Pagnol: "To my dear PAPOUCHKA Dr. Samoil, wholeheartedly ..."
illustrated cover of a wood Aristide Maillol.
Back slightly insolated not serious, full copy of an errata sheet.

First edition of L. Vischi's adaptation with no mention of deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Virgilio in Italian to the symbolist poet André-Ferdinand Hérold.