Published by the Folio Society, London in 2000.
 
The book is in excellent condition bound with gilt-blocked marble, patterned boards, with the slipcase in very good condition, with a small bump to the corner. Translated by James Michie, introduction by Gilbert Highet. Illustrations in brown ink by Richard Shirley Smith.
 
The Eclogues or also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. He took his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus and created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC.