8vo. (17 x 11.5 cm). pp.xvi+303. Contemporary full vellum, sides ruled in blue, smooth spine richly decorated in gilt and with green morocco label, marbled endpapers, rubricated edges. Wood-engraved frontispiece of Augustus and numerous engraved vignettes in the letterpress. 2 old ownership inscriptions to flyleaves dated 1868 and 1944 respectively. Some light soiling to vellum, some light spotting to endpapers, contents clean and unmarked, generally a very good copy. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC 8 BC) commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." A charming edition fully Latinised. Seller Inventory # 62144

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Title: [The Works of Horace] Quinti Horatii Flacci ...

Publisher: Londini LondonApud Joannem Murray John Murray .

Publication Date: 1868

Binding: Hardcover

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