The.xiii. Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of
Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God,
Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel & vnkil to the Erle of Angus.
Euery buke hauing hys perticular Prologe. _Imprinted at Lond[=o]_ 1553.
=B. L.= 4^o. (8-3/8 × 6). O. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A^2B-Z^8a-z^{8}2a-2b^8;
with one unsigned leaf inserted after X 3. A 1 and 2b 8 wanting (?
blank). Printed by William Copeland.
Sinker 198. BM 1544.
The.xiii. Bookes of Æneidos. The first twelue beeinge the woorke of the
diuine Poet Virgil Maro, and the thirtenth the supplement of Maphæus
Vegius. Translated into English verse to the fyrst thirdpart of the
tenth Booke, by Thomas Phaër Esquire: and the residue finished, and now
the second time newly set forth for the delite of such as are studious
in Poetrie: By Thomas Twyne, Doctor in Physicke. _Imprinted at London by
William How, for Abraham Veale, dwelling in Paules Church yeard, at the
signe of the Lambe._ 1584.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7 × 5-1/4). S. 26.
Collation: four leaves unsigned, A-V^8X^4, unpaged. Wanting X 4 (?
blank). Epistle dedicatory to Robert Sackevill son of Lord
Buckhurst, signed Thomas Twyne, and dated Lewis, Jan. 1, 1584.
Address to the readers, signed. Life of Vergil translated from
Aelius Donatus. Arguments to the thirteen books in verse. General
summary. At the end of Book xii is Phaer's prose conclusion. Each
book is signed and dated by the translator, the work being
concluded on July 6, 1573. The 'seuen first bookes' appeared in
1558, the 'nyne fyrst Bookes' in 1562, the 'whole xii. Bookes' in
1573, the thirteenth book was first added in the edition of 1583,
having been finished by Twyne on Oct. 26 of that year. The present
is the second edition of the completed work.
Sinker 438. BM 1545.