Heritage Press edition of Virgil's Eclogues, or Bucolics, illustrated by artist and costume designer Marcel Vertes.
Written by Publius Vergilius "Virgil" Maro. Illustrated by Vertes. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley. Deluxe edition, 1960. Heritage Press, New York.
Virgil, one of Rome's greatest poets, was born in 70 b.c. in the area of Mantua, historic center of Lombardy in northern Italy. Virgil is remembered for the Eclogues (or Bucolics), a series of ten poems about pastoral life, the Georgics, and the Aeneid, the great epic poem. The Heritage Press edition of the Eclogues was translated in the 19th C by Charles Stuart Calverley.
Eclogue I
MELIBCEUS
Stretched in the shadow of the broad beech, thou
Rehearsest, Tityrus, on the slender pipe
They woodland music. We our fatherland
Are leaving, we must shun the fields we love:
While, Tityrus, thou, at ease amid the shade,
Bidd'st answering woods call Amaryllis "fair"
The book is beautifully illustrated by Marcel Vertes (1895 - 1961), a Hungarian-born artist famous as a graphic artist, muralist, and costume designer (winner of two Academy Awards for Moulin Rouge).
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Condition*: Very Good/Good. Without dust jacket, as issued. The oyster white slipcase is moisture stained at the tale of the spine and sunned along the front edges, and the bottom panel is separating. The top right corner of the cover board is soiled and there is mild shelf wear. Includes Heritage Press Sandglass newsletter that accompanied the book.
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