Odes Epodes by Horace, Signed (9 results)

1faux-titre, 1titre, VIp., 1feuillet, 220p.; 14 vignettes couleurs en bandeaux, frise d'encadrement brun orangé à chaque page. Bon état (quelques pâles rousseurs ou petites taches); en partie non coupé. 1ère édition de la nouvelle traduction en vers, par Ulysse de SEGUIER (1830-19.), des 103 odes du poète latin Horace (65-8 av. J.-C.) suivies de 15 épodes et du "Chant séculaire"; préface signée "A.P."; 14 gravures couleurs de MEAULLE d'après les aquarelles de MEYER. A. Quantin, "Petits chefs-d'oeuvre antiques", In-32 (9,3 x 14,5cm) Broché.

Signed by Illustrator Roger Duvoisin VG /Slipcase.

rigide. Condition: Assez bon. 1 vol. in-8 reliure de l'époque demi-veau caramel, dos lisse estampé à froid, De l'Imprimerie d'Auguste Delalain, Paris, 1829,2 ff., 394 pp. Texte latin avec la traduction française en regard. Fils du prêtre de l'Oratoire défroqué et ancien Jacobin Antoine de Cournand, le traducteur Joseph Cournand fut professeur de de français à Tsarskoié Sélo puis à Saint-Pétersbourg (au lycée impérial Alexandre), et exerça une grande influence sur Dostoïevski. Il s'était rendu en Russie en 1820, avec son frère Antoine (la dédicace imprimée indique d'ailleurs : "A mon frère, Antoine Cournand, chef d'Institution à S.-Pétersbourg") , et ils y épousèrent les deux soeurs Demainville. Joseph Cournand enseigna la littérature moderne ancienne et moderne à l'Académie des Ingénieurs de Saint Pétersbourg, où il eut parmi ses élèves le grand-duc Constantin et le jeune Dostoïvesky auquel il communiqua sa passion pour la littérature française. Etat très satisfaisant (rel. lég. frottée, petit accroc marginal en queue à qq. feuillets, lég. rouss., bon état par ailleurs) Langue: Français.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. W. H. W. Bricknell (illustrator). 1st Edition. #265 of 467 numbered and signed copies. Translated by Clement Lawrence Smith. Fronticepiece etching signed in pencil by Bricknell. Also a pencil signed etching by Edmund H. Garrett. Page edges uncut. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus, one of the deluxe issue of 25 copies of Japanese Vellum, inscribed by the author, an attractive book printed at the Chiswick Press. A very good copy, the covers are stained. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. illustrated (illustrator). Limited Edition. #3 of 467 copies, signed on the prints, engravings of Bicknell, Garrett, Fagan & Pyle. 9 volumes, total numbered I-VII.Uncut pages are clean, snugly bound, all tissues intact.Spines slightly sunned, titling is bright & clean, some bumping at spine ends & corners, all volumes protected in mylar. Signed by Illustrator(s).

meyer (illustrator). Paris Quantin 1883. In-32 VI 204pp. Demi maroquin tabac à coins, dos à nerfs rehaussés d'unfilet perlé, compartiments finement dorés dans les entrenerfs, pièce de titre basane bleu nuit, tête dorée, rel époque (Lancelin). Texte dans un joli encadrement tabac, orné de 14 têtes de chapitres en couleurs dans des médaillons dorés gravées par Méaulle d'après les aquarelles de Meyer. Vicaire II, col 333. Bel exemplaire dans une reliure décorative signée Lancelin, relieur Parisien du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle (Fléty p103).

HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901-04. Eight volumes bound as ten. Octavo, contemporary full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers with Art Nouveau vine designs with red, blue and green morocco onlays, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $6800.Limited illustrated edition, number 377 of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle. Beautifully bound in full Art Nouveau morocco-gilt with morocco onlays.Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as "versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets." Each poem is additionally decorated with numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. "Bibliophile Society" appears in watermark on the outer margin of each leaf. The Pyle-designed frontispiece signed by Pyle is in Volume IV, Part I. With separately published final volume, Volume VIII, of Quotations, often not present (this volume was published in 1904, the rest of the set was issued in 1901). A few boards slightly bowed; a few spine gently toned. A beautifully bound and illustrated set in about-fine condition.

HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901. Seven volumes bound as nine. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. Housed in publisher's original chemises and slipcases. $5000.Limited illustrated edition, one (unnumbered) of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition.Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as "versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets." Each poem is additionally decorated with numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. Volume II, Part II and Volume IV, Part II issued without the limitation page or Pyle title page. Volume VII also without limitation page; marbled boards and endpapers differ from those of the other volumes but spines uniform, as issued. "Bibliophile Society" appears in watermark on the outer margin of each leaf. Minor spotting to a few interior leaves of Volume IV, Part I. A lovely set in fine condition.