[Virgil / Vergil] Publius Vergilius Maro / John Conington / Henry Nettleship.

P. Vergili Maronis Opera – The Works of Virgil, with a commentary by John Conington. Volume I: Containing the Eclogues and Georgics / Volume II: Containing the first six books of the Aeneid / Volume III: Containing the last six books of the Aeneid. Volume I and II in Fourth Edition, revised, with corrected orthography and additional Notes and Essays. Volume III: Third Edition, Revised.

Three Volumes (complete set). London, Whittaker & Co., Ava Maria Lane. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1881 – 1884. Octavo. Volume I: CXV, [1], 448 pages / Volume II: LXVIII, 570 pages / Volume III: X, 541 pages. Hardcover / All three Volumes in Uniformly bound in stunning 19th century prize-bindings in beautiful full tan calf bearing the Arms of Monmouth Grammar School [with their Motto “Serve and Obey”]. Marbled paper-covered pastedowns and endpapers. All edges marbled. Inscription and embossed stamp of Monmouth – Grammar School to endpaper. Dedicated by Headmaster C.M.Roberts to former pupil W.A.Lamb in July 1889. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and only minor signs of foxing.

The Conington – Nettleship translation is the most respected of the Vergil Translations and the fourth edition, the most sought after version of it.

John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 till his death.

In 1852 Conington began, in conjunction with Goldwin Smith, a complete edition of Virgil with a commentary, of which the first volume appeared in 1858, the second in 1864, and the third soon after his death. Goldwin Smith was compelled to withdraw from the work at an early stage, and in the last volume his place was taken by Henry Nettleship.

• Keywords: Aeneid · Altphilologie · Catalogue Ten – International Literature · Classical Literature – Rare · Classical Philology · Classics · Prize Binding · Prize Bindings · Vergil · Virgil
• Language: Latin
• Inventory Number: 31341AB

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