caliergus

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now the tome which so fascinated Allen was a Theocritus, published at Rome by Caliergus a Theocritus on blue paper, if you please, bound in Longepierre's morocco livery, double with red morocco, and, oh ecstasy! with a copy of Longepierre's version of one Idyll on the flyleaf, signed with the translator's initials, and headed "a Mon Roy."

Andrew Lang - Angling Sketches

Probably it is not even a bargain; it can seldom be cheap to you, if you do not need it, and do not mean to read it. Not that any collector reads all his books. I may have, and indeed do possess, an Aldine Homer and Caliergus his Theocritus; but I prefer to study the authors in a cheap German edition.

Andrew Lang - Letters on Literature