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Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera per Johannem Ogilvium edita, et sculpturis aenis adornata

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, and VIRGIL
London,
Thomas Roycroft,
1663
Folio (442 by 274mm). Title printed in black and red, edges rubbed, 448pp, engraved frontispiece by P. Lombart after F. Cleyn, portrait frontispiece of Ogilby by W. Faithorne after Lely, 97 engravings after F. Cleyn with coats of arms inscribed underneath each, of which 37 engraved by Hollar, 24 engraved initials and headpieces, folding engraved map. Eighteenth century red morocco, decorated in blind with gilt fillets, spine in compartments with raised bands, with all edges in gilt.

Collation: 5 ff., A2-Z2, Aa2-Zz2, Aaa2-Kkk2.
18630

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A nice example of the final edition of Ogilby's translation of Virgil, with a grand French provenance: Bibliotheca Lamonia, one of the most important private libraries in France during the Enlightement. The Lamoignon's family was a dynasty of Chancellors of France who protected Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie project from censorship by the Church.

The Bibliotheca Lamonia was compiled over more than a century by the Lamoignon family, from Guillaume de Lamoig...

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Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Lamoignon, vol.1, p. 261 n°2364. NHG Hollar 1344, 1351, 1353, 1355-9, 1360-1393; Pennington, 290-330.

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1. Bibliotheca Lamonia (bookplate)
2. Cecily Mary Savern (bookplate)