Quintus Horatius Flaccus
by Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus):
- Used
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About This Item
Birminghamiae [Birmingham], Typis Johannis Baskerville , 1770. First Baskerville quarto edition, 4to. pp. [iv], 344 + engraved frontispiece by Benoît Louis Henriquez, and with title-page vignette by Paul Le Grand. According to Gaskell, about half the copies he examined had four additional plates, but these are not present here. 2A1 (divisional title-page) is a cancel, as per Gaskell, and the D in the last line of title page is not damaged; the state does not confer any precedence, and Gaskell suggests that the title-page was set up in duplicate and printed simultaneously. Contemporary calf, gult ruled covers and fully gilt spine, dulled, headcaps and joints partially renewed, corners worn, round Curzon family bookplate on front pastedown. A clipping from a Sothebys catalogue with a 1964 dated Sothebys invoice are loosely inserted (our copy was lot 347 in a sale of 9/6/64, where it sold for £13). Baskervilles quarto Virgil was his first published work, but the quarto Horace marked the beginning of a series of quarto classics, to be followed by Lucretius, Terence, Catullus and Sallust. Pardoe cites sources which describe the Horace as the rarest of the quarto classics, if not the rarest of all Baskervilles editions, and it certainly did not appear in the list of book stock Sarah [Baskerville] was trying to sell in 1775. Gaskell, Baskerville, 39; Pardoe, John Baskerville of Birmingham, p.118 Book
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9333
- Title
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus
- Author
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Birminghamiae [Birmingham], Typis Johannis Baskerville
- Date Published
- 1770
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical & Byzantine Literature & Philosophy;
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- Gilt
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- Quarto
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