Buy this book on-line Horace : Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Works in LatinWilliam Pickering, London, 1829
8vo. (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches) full roan diced russia with a double gilt fillet border surrounding a wide roll border made up of urns and foliage; spine with four raised bands with the title on a morocco label, the other compartments decorated with a large gilt urn surrounded by stars and flower heads. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.g. Slight wear to the corners. School prize bookplate from Eton on the front paste down.Latin edition of Horace based principally on the editions of Zeune, Gesner and Bothe. Said to be a sly but never insensitive man, a sometimes aloof lover of independence who was also a devoted friend of the emperor Augustus, of Męcenas, and of Vergil, Horace was an Epicurean in good times and a stoic in adversity. Not in Keynes or in Pickering & Chatto catalogue on the publications of the Press. Just seven copies reported in OCLC: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Northwestern and Loras College. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Horace : Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Works in Latin. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, rare books, atlases, collectables and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |