THE WORKS OF QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS [HORACE] 1762 LEATHER BINDING
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[HORACE]. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Joannis Baskverville, MDCCLXII [1762].
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (160 x 90 x 20 mm.). Pp. [8], 300. Latin text. Bound in handsome contemporary full calf. Spine gilt in compartments. Engraved frontispiece of Virgil and pupils [after Picart engraved by Duflos]. Britannia copperplate vignette to title-page. Chapter 1: Carminum Libri Quatuor; chapter 2: Epodon Liber; chapter 3: Sermonum Libri Duo; chapter 4: Epistolarum Libri Duo & Ars Poetica. Condition: GOOD. Collated complete. Binding secure with minor repair to upper joint and bumping to edges. Interior with some light scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
Notes: First Baskerville edition, by the eponymous type designer and printer to Cambridge University (1706-75). Scarce. Gaskell, pp 40-42.