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- 1834 (Accumulation)
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567, 218 pp; 22 cm x 14 cm
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Date: 1834
Author: Virgil; William Duncan (editor)
Publisher: Edinburgi: Stirling & Kenney
Full title: 'P. Virgilii Maronis Opera: interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruæus ... Juxta ipsius auctoris editionem parisiensem. Huic editioni accessit index accuratissimus, ante editis longe locupletrio. Accessit insuper Clavis metrico-Virgiliana, sive difficultatum præcipuarum in Virgilii versificatione solutio; nunquam antea edita: studio et cura Gulielmi Duncan'.
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- Latin
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Contemporary full brown cover with manuscript title (‘Virgil’) to spine. Some wear to the end of the spine and on the leading edges of the covers. Internally the pages have slight browning to the edges with intermittent background foxing, and occasional marks.
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The text is extensively annotated in both pencil and pen. Includes manuscript signature of ‘Samuel Stephens, Sept. 1st., 1854’. Ink stamp on first leaf: ‘Ex libris bibliothecæ P.P. Capuccinorum Conventus Kilkenniensis’.