Debita Flacco: echoes of ode and epode

Published by printed at the Chiswick Press for private distribution, London, 1891

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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)

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8vo, pp. [10], 113, [3]; title page printed in red and black; a number of attractive line drawings in the text; original calf-backed green cloth-covered boards, spine stamped in gilt, t.e.g.; light scuffing but generally very good, sound and clean. Edition limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 92. This copy inscribed on the flyleaf "To H. H. Furness / from the writer / June 1, 1891." Also, with a 3-page A.L.S. from Pember presenting this copy to him "My friend Sir Theodore Martin tells me that you are a correspondent of his, that you are a great 'Horatian,' & that a copy of a small privately circulated book of mine which accompanies this note may not prove unacceptable to you. He further says that you have a daughter whom it might interest, as she is a translator of Horace." Also, a second 3-page A.L.S. from Pember thanking Furness for his edition of As You Like it, and for his daughter Caroline's translations from Horace which Furness had enclosed to Pember: "To Miss Furness of Philadelphia, aged 17, on receiving from her a translation of Horace's ode. 'Solvitur acris hyems grata vice veris.' Also laid in, an obituary of Pember from The Athenaeum, April 15, 1911, a 2-page typed note from one "John" at the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to H.H. Furness regarding translating Horace, and two manuscript slips of Horace's verse in Latin, and in English translation. Mills College Check List 2040.…

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Title
Debita Flacco: echoes of ode and epode
Author
Pember, Edward Henry
Publisher
printed at the Chiswick Press for private distribution, London
Publication year
1891
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Classical Literature, Poetry

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