Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione & notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, Cardinalitius Socius ac Rhetor Emeritus, jussu Christianissimi regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini, ac Serenissimorum Principum Burgundiae, Andium & Biturigum. Huic editioni accessere Vita Horatii cum Dacerii Notis, Ejusdem Chronologia Horatiana, & Praesatio De Satira Romana . Editio decima quarta, prioribus longe emendatior

Published by impensis, C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J. F. & C. Rivington, G. Keith, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, E. Johnson, W. Ginger, G. Robinson, R. Baldwin, E. Johnston, W. Goldsmith, W. Stuart, T. Beecroft & T. Pote, Londini, 1776

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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. [20], 619, [125]; title printed in red and black, 19th-century full polished calf, blindstamped rules on covers, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1, edges stained red; title page with tear in lower fore-margin not affecting any letterpress; a good, sound copy. This copy extensively annotated by at least two students in pencil and ink, with virtually every page bearing interlinear translations and annotations in the margins. Two names in ink appear on the title page but remain indecipherable. Inscription in pencil of the front pastedown: "In the days when I wandered flirting with Hannah to who I Horace quoted." At the end of the text is an accomplished pen & ink drawing headed "Finis" and footnoted with "finished August 19th 1859." Mills College Check List 739; not in Riedel-Horatiana.

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Title
Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione & notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, Cardinalitius Socius ac Rhetor Emeritus, jussu Christianissimi regis, in usum Serenissimi Delphini, ac Serenissimorum Principum Burgundiae, Andium & Biturigum. Huic editioni accessere Vita Horatii cum Dacerii Notis, Ejusdem Chronologia Horatiana, & Praesatio De Satira Romana . Editio decima quarta, prioribus longe emendatior
Author
Desprez, Louis
Publisher
impensis, C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, J. F. & C. Rivington, G. Keith, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, E. Johnson, W. Ginger, G. Robinson, R. Baldwin, E. Johnston, W. Goldsmith, W. Stuart, T. Beecroft & T. Pote, Londini
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1776
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