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226 + pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

1969. Hardback. One volume from the 'Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking' series. Fine in fine quarter leather bindings, highly decorated gilt titles to spine, and elaborate gilt decoration to front cover. Covers showing very light shelfwear. Decorated end papers. Lightly toned, a little spotting to edges, text and illustrations crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Black leather over boards with raised bands, gilt stamped decoration and titling, gilt-edged pages, silk moire endpapers and attached satin bookmark; A Collector's Edition from the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series; publishing date refers to copyright of contents therein. Light scuff marks on fore edge of book block, little wear otherwise, appears unread.

As new condition boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover design with gold spine decoration and lettering and includes a traditional four hubbed spine. Also includes gold page edges on all three sides. Illustrated with black-and-white woodcuts. "The illustrations which appear in this volume of the Aeneid are reproduced from a rare edition of the Opera Virgiliana, published in 1529 in Lyons by Jean Crespin with woodcuts by Johann Gruninger. We are grateful to the Princeton University Library, the Junius S. Morgan Collection of Virgil, for the use of its valuable book." - from the copyright page. "The Aenied is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas's wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or national epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy. The Aeneid is widely regarded as Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works of Latin literature."