P. VIRGILII MARONIS OPERA Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Edidit Perpetua et Aliorum et sua Adnotatione Illustravit Dissertationem de Virgilii Vita et Carminibus Atque Indicem Rerum Locupletissimum Adiecit Albertus Forbiger Pars 1: Bucolica Et Georgica Atque Dissertationem De Virgilii Vita Et Carminibus Continens Pars. II: Aeneidos L. I-VI. Continens; Pars. III: Aeneidos L. VII-XII. Carmina Minora.; Ed. Altera Aucta Et Plane Immutata [Third Edition – Full Leather Binding]

Lipsiae: Sumptum Fecit et Venumdat I. C. Hinrichs., Third Edition, 1852. Complete in three volumes. Full leather bindings with worn and rubbed spines, gilt titles to red and green labels, looks to have been a Repton School prize and then part of the Repton School Library with a stamp to the title pages. Structurally sound with polished calf boards and the school crest in gilt to the front boards, gilt edges to the boards, text blocks tight, pages tanned with some foxing, marbled page edges, school prize plate to the front. Pagination: Vol I – xxviii, 504pp. Vol II – 659pp. Vol III – 688pp. Provenance: school prize plate for J. E. Sandys to the front. Approximately 8 ¾ inches (22.5cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine – good condition – structurally sound, gilt titles to a red and green labels, rubbed and worn with some loss to the gilt work. Joints – good condition – sound, rubbed and worn. Corners – good condition – bumped and worn. Boards – good condition – polished calf leather with gilt crest to the front boards. Page edges – good condition – top edge darkened, all marbled. Binding – good condition – rubbed and worn, sound, attractive. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – sound. Paste downs – good condition – marbled paper, prize plate to all volumes. End papers – good condition – marbled end papers, subsequently tanned and foxed. Title – good condition – tanned. Pages – good condition – tanned and foxed. See photos.…