Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Free Shipping
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Methuen, London,, 1978
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. Slip-Case. 4to. pp xxvii, 115. Original publisher's quarter navy blue leather over marbled paper boards, lettered gilt on spine. Selected passages of Horace's poems in English and Latin, introd. and notes in English. 500 copies printed on mould-made paper and numbered and signed by Charles Carrington. For 20 years Kipling annotated his Riccardi Press edition of Horace's Odes with his own epigrams and short poems. Bookplate of Hugh (Vercingetorix) Brogan (1936 Ð 2019) British historian and biographer, showing nude youth holding a book. He was Professor of History at University of Essex and wrote biographies of Arthur Ransome and De Tocqueville. About fine in faintly used and faded, very good slip-case. Signedes.