Periès Adolphe (1 results)

8vo, pp. [4], 100; mounted albumen portrait frontispiece; Latin and English on facing pages; contemporary full morocco, gilt-paneled spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; spine slightly sunned, light rubbing, all else very good, sound, and clean. Bookplate of John T. Montgomery. Memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. Tipped to the front pastedown is a manuscript note of presentation: "To John T. Montgomery, Esq, from his friend, A. Peries." In a copy of Philippe de Prétot's Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina, nitori suo restituta, Paris, 1746 (also in this collection), is a note by Horace H. Furness concerning Mr. Peries: "Mr. A. Périès seems to have been the owner of this book, as evidenced by the two manuscript translations inserted, and by the bookplate, on whose motto his name appears ("aperies"). He was a fine classical scholar, with a dainty gift of versification, as shown by a little volume of translations published "by himself, for himself," at Philadelphia, in 1861. The author's name is not given (the work is "by an idler"), but has been ascertained from a copy containing his photograph and an autograph inscription to his friend John T. Montgomery." Nearly half the poems are translations from Horace. Not in Mills College Check List or Riedel-Horatiana. Michigan, N.Y. Public, Huntington, Princeton, Penn, Library Company, Harvard, Maryland, Brown and Virginia in OCLC.