The odes, epodes, and Carmen Secular of Horace, Translated into English prose . Together with the original Latin from the best editions. Wherein the words of the Latin text are put in their grammatical order; the observations of the most valuable commentators, both antient and modern, represented; and the author's design and beautiful descriptions fully set forth in a key annexed to each ode and poem; with notes both geographical and historical. The whole adapted to the capacities of youth at school, as well as of private gentlemen. By David Watson, M.A. of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrew's. Revised by a gentleman well skilled in this sort of literature at London [i.e., Samuel Patrick]. The second edition
Published by printed for J. Oswald, at the Rose and Crown, near the Mansion-House, London, 1747
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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
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8vo, pp. xxxvi, 463, [13]; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black; contemporary full reversed calf, rebacked, spine in 6 compartments, red leather label in 1, endpapers renewed; some mild dampstaining at the top edge and gutter of the early leaves, splashes in the top spine compartment; all else very good, sound, and clean. Includes an 11-page catalogue of editions of Horace from 1476 to 1738 in the library of James Douglas. Mills College Check List 621; not in Riedel-Horatiana. ESTC locates only 4 copies in North America: Free Library of Philadelphia, Princeton, Delaware, and Texas.
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- Title
- The odes, epodes, and Carmen Secular of Horace, Translated into English prose . Together with the original Latin from the best editions. Wherein the words of the Latin text are put in their grammatical order; the observations of the most valuable commentators, both antient and modern, represented; and the author's design and beautiful descriptions fully set forth in a key annexed to each ode and poem; with notes both geographical and historical. The whole adapted to the capacities of youth at school, as well as of private gentlemen. By David Watson, M.A. of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrew's. Revised by a gentleman well skilled in this sort of literature at London [i.e., Samuel Patrick]. The second edition
- Author
- Watson, David, translator; Samuel Patrick, editor
- Publisher
- printed for J. Oswald, at the Rose and Crown, near the Mansion-House, London
- Publication year
- 1747
- Seller catalogs
- Classical Literature, Poetry
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