25. _Early German Virgil._--I should like to know if the following name
is that of a well-known publisher; and whether the book, from which I
take the name, is known? also, whether it is very rare, and of literary
value? "_Gedruckt zu Frankfurt am Main durch David Zöpffeln zum Eisern
Huth, 1559._"
I find this at the end of a curious German translation of Virgil into
verse--short and easy flowing.
There is a summary in verse, and a quaint engraving to every book. Bound
in wood and leather. It has many odd peculiarities too long to mention.
In the Preface, this is said to be the _second_ edition, that the first
was published "many years ago, by a learned man." It must have been
published about the same time as _Bishop Gawain (or Gawin) Douglas's_,
and is something like it.