Quinti Horatii Flacci opera.

Description

Main Author

Horace.

Language(s)

English

Published

Londini: Prostant apud Gul. Sandby in vico dicto Fleetstreet. 1749.

Note

Another edition of the same firm and of the same year is of smaller size and printed in smaller type; its plates are of inferior quality. cf. Schweiger, Handbuch d. class. bibliogr. II, 1 (1832) p. 410; Renouard, Cat. II, p. 262.
In this copy Lib. III Ode II (p. 68) has heading "Ad amicos"; its first line reads "Angustam, amici ..."; in another copy in L. C. the heading "Ad amicos" is omitted and the first line reads "Angustam, amice ... "
"Q. Horatii Flacci vita a Suetonio Tranquillo conscripta": p. -iv.
List of plates "Horatius signis, picturis et numismatibus illustratus": 4 p. (last page blank) between p. vi and p. <1>
Engraved dedication to George, prince of Wales, with his portrait: p. [iii]
Frontispiece: Fragmentum picturae veteris in pariete factae, Romae anno MDCCXXXVII ... repertum.
Title vignette, engraved (portrait): Horativs. Ex num: in thes: Christinæ reg: aug:
Paged continuously; vol. I.: 2 p. l., -vi, [2], iv, 166 p.; vol. II.: 1 p. l., <167>-353 p.

Physical Description

2 v. 35 pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.

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