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EARLY TURIN EDITION. In Latin. 18mo (in 12s and 6s), pp. 300, incl. woodcut printer's device to title-page, plus one woodcut header to 'Vita Horatii'. Collation: A-R12/6. Limp vellum, overlapping edges, hand-written title "Horatii" in thick sepia ink to spine. Soiled, creased and scored, a few cracks, wear to corners and edges, ink inscription to front board (possibly "D. Clark"). Edges browned, small burn mark to top edge. POI in sepia ink to verso of front vellum wrapper and repeated in Latin on verso of first(?) blank, which is now pasted to front wrapper forming its endpaper, "1684" inscribed in sepia ink to title page, small burn mark to printed date, some dog-earring and nicking to edges, ink stains throughout, occasional toning and faint spotting, PO repeated again in English to rear vellum fore-edge flap: "William Nairne Clarke Linnkeith, Blairgowrie, Perthshire". Else, internally clean and bright. Good+ We have been unable to trace any copies in institutions via JiscLHD or WorldCat; no USTC nor SBN/ IT numbers assigned. A rare C17th pocket-sized edition of Horace's Works (newly amended), issued by Turin-based Bartholomeo Zappata, with C19th Scottish provenance: the POI declaims (in Latin), "William Nairne Clark's book Linnkeith, Blairgowrie, June 29 1883 ". William Nairne Clark (born 1863) was the third son and child (of eleven) of David Clark/e (1804-1881) and Ann Henderson Goodlet of Rattray, Perthshire. Linnkeith House in Blairgowrie (and Rattray) was designed and built by Glasgow architect John Honeyman in 1862 for Clark/e. The large family apparently lived in some style: Linnkeith was a 2-storey, 4-bay, L-plan gabled house with Tudor detail on Balmoral Road, overlooking the River Ericht; its single storey south wing housed the billiard room, while the garden boasted a planetarium. It's unclear what happened to our avid inscriber, but two of his brothers would emigrate to Australia, like William's namesake and likely distant paternal relative, William Nairne Clark (1804 1854), the public notary and publisher, birder and survivor of the first duel recorded in Western Australia, who was born in neighbouring Coupar Angus. Our William Nairne Clark would have been 20 when he inscribed his name and address, over and over, in this wee Horace.
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