Palmer (Samuel) An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil, large paper copy, one of 10 copies for presentation from an edition limited to 135, title in red & black, 14 plates by Samuel Palmer, including 5 original etchings in the rare unlettered states (Lister 13-17), captioned facing leaves, final plate browned at lower edge, occasional spotting, original parchment, gilt, uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, folio, 1883.

⁂ A fine copy of this most desirable work which includes the original etchings to illustrate the eclogues with the following opening lines: Ripe apples are our supper...; Untimely lost, and by a cruel death...; Scarce with her rosy fingers had the dawn...; And while the troubled moon shrunk in and set...; and Then, to our goats at milking time return...