An English version of the Eclogues of Virgil.
By: By Samuel Palmer.  With illustrations by the author.
Contributors: Palmer, Samuel, 1805-1881, illus. and tr.; Palmer, A. H. b. 1853, ed. and illus.
Publisher: Seeley & company
Published: 1883
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Pastoral poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.; Country life -- Poetry.
Genres: Translations into English.; Poetry.
Notes: Title in red and black.
"Of this large-paper edition only one hundred and thirty-five copies have been printed; ten of which are for presentation and twenty-five for America ... This copy is no. 111."
Editor's preface signed: A. H. Palmer.
Of the etchings which illustrate each eclogue, only one was finished by the translator; the others, left in an incomplete state at his death, were finished by his son (the editor of this work) with the aid of "a series of touched proofs with memoranda intended by him for his own use in completing the etchings."  cf. Pref.
"[The translator] did not claim for this work any merit as a literal or even as a free translation.  I have called it a 'paraphrase', but perhaps more correctly, it has been compared in musical phrase to 'a meditation upon Virgil's air'."--Pref.
"Some observations on the country and on rural poetry": p. [1]-14.