[VERGILIUS MARO, Publius]; OGILBY, John.
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby.
London: Thomas Warren for the Author, 1654. Wing V610.
Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Lombart after Francis Cleyn, engraved portrait of Ogilby by William Faithorne after Peter Lely, double-page etched map by Wenceslaus Hollar of Aeneas's route from Troy to Ostia and 101 full-page etched and engraved illustrations, of which 42 are signed by Hollar, 29 by Lombart and one each by Faithorne and William Carter after Cleyn's designs (Lombart signed another seven alone; three are signed by Ludwig Richer alone; and 18 are unsigned). Fine etched or engraved initials, headpieces and tailpieces (many repeated), some by Hollar. Royal folio (437 x 300 mm), [8], 586 pages. Splendidly bound in extensively gilt-tooled full "imperial red" Spanish morocco by Nello Nanni (specially marbled endpapers by Iris Nevins) after seventeenth century English designs, spine in nine compartments. Overall very good condition; light dampstaining in upper margins in first third of volume not touching the illustrations; pencilled grid over plate facing page 481.
This edition, Ogilby's masterpiece illustrating his 1649 translation of Virgil, was financed by subscription to the personages whose arms and dedications embellish the full-page plates. Ogilby's creditable mastery over the heroic couplet is set in fair commonplace English, much closer to the words of Virgil than Dryden's. Ogilby's version remained the standard until Dryden's appeared, itself borrowing the "sculptures" of the 1654 edition.
The volume comprises the chief illustrated work of Cleyn (1582-1658), German painter and illustrator who became the chief designer of the Mortlake Tapestry Factory under Charles I and the Commonwealth. Pennington (infra) assessed that just the 42 large plates (all after Cleyn) and map signed by Hollar were executed wholly by him, along with inscriptive parts of 11 others and some mostly signed headpieces and initials. Recent investigations at the Folger Shakespeare Library using microphotography have suggested that Hollar also etched the landscape backgrounds of many of the plates signed by Lombart before Lombart added engraved foregrounds and staffage. See Richard Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 39, 43; Rachel Doggett et al., Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar (Washington, 1996), pp. 35-39.
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The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. Translated, adorn'd with Sculpture, and illustrated with Annotations, by John Ogilby.
London: Thomas Warren for the Author, 1654. Wing V610.
Engraved frontispiece by Pierre Lombart after Francis Cleyn, engraved portrait of Ogilby by William Faithorne after Peter Lely, double-page etched map by Wenceslaus Hollar of Aeneas's route from Troy to Ostia and 101 full-page etched and engraved illustrations, of which 42 are signed by Hollar, 29 by Lombart and one each by Faithorne and William Carter after Cleyn's designs (Lombart signed another seven alone; three are signed by Ludwig Richer alone; and 18 are unsigned). Fine etched or engraved initials, headpieces and tailpieces (many repeated), some by Hollar. Royal folio (437 x 300 mm), [8], 586 pages. Splendidly bound in extensively gilt-tooled full "imperial red" Spanish morocco by Nello Nanni (specially marbled endpapers by Iris Nevins) after seventeenth century English designs, spine in nine compartments. Overall very good condition; light dampstaining in upper margins in first third of volume not touching the illustrations; pencilled grid over plate facing page 481.
This edition, Ogilby's masterpiece illustrating his 1649 translation of Virgil, was financed by subscription to the personages whose arms and dedications embellish the full-page plates. Ogilby's creditable mastery over the heroic couplet is set in fair commonplace English, much closer to the words of Virgil than Dryden's. Ogilby's version remained the standard until Dryden's appeared, itself borrowing the "sculptures" of the 1654 edition.
The volume comprises the chief illustrated work of Cleyn (1582-1658), German painter and illustrator who became the chief designer of the Mortlake Tapestry Factory under Charles I and the Commonwealth. Pennington (infra) assessed that just the 42 large plates (all after Cleyn) and map signed by Hollar were executed wholly by him, along with inscriptive parts of 11 others and some mostly signed headpieces and initials. Recent investigations at the Folger Shakespeare Library using microphotography have suggested that Hollar also etched the landscape backgrounds of many of the plates signed by Lombart before Lombart added engraved foregrounds and staffage. See Richard Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 39, 43; Rachel Doggett et al., Impressions of Wenceslaus Hollar (Washington, 1996), pp. 35-39.
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Price: $5,500
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