HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus. The Works ... illustrated chiefly from the remains of ancient art. With a life by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman, London: John Murray 1849. 4°, Latin text, chromolithographed additional title and 7 chromolithographed sectional titles to the Books of Poems, the Life of Horace with decorative borders and opening initials in contrasting patterns and colours, monochrome decorations, all after Owen Jones wood-engraved vignettes by Scharf (some browning and spotting, slightly affected by damp), contemporary blue morocco by Duru, 1851, gilt ruled and lettered (lightly rubbed), gilt inner dentelles, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e. Brunet III, 325. Quintus Horatius Flaccus , London: William Pickering, 1824. 16°, engraved portrait frontispiece and one plate, full crushed crimson morocco gilt by Ramage, spine delicately-tooled, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance : Ursula Devereux, bookplate and inscription dated 1920. LARGE PAPER COPY. PINDAR. Carmina , edited by C. G. Heyne, Oxford: M. Bliss, 1808. 2 volumes in one, 16°, text in Greek, contemporary calf, sides with double gilt rule and roll-tool border in blind, flat spine with gilt decoration (long worm trace to one side of spine), marbled endpapers and edges. With 28 other volumes, including several more of small size, all classical texts published in the 19th-century, the majority bound in leather or vellum. (31)
HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus. The Works ... illustrated chiefly from the remains of ancient art. With a life by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman, London: John Murray 1849. 4°, Latin text, chromolithographed additional title and 7 chromolithographed sectional titles to the Books of Poems, the Life of Horace with decorative borders and opening initials in contrasting patterns and colours, monochrome decorations, all after Owen Jones wood-engraved vignettes by Scharf (some browning and spotting, slightly affected by damp), contemporary blue morocco by Duru, 1851, gilt ruled and lettered (lightly rubbed), gilt inner dentelles, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e. Brunet III, 325. Quintus Horatius Flaccus , London: William Pickering, 1824. 16°, engraved portrait frontispiece and one plate, full crushed crimson morocco gilt by Ramage, spine delicately-tooled, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut. Provenance : Ursula Devereux, bookplate and inscription dated 1920. LARGE PAPER COPY. PINDAR. Carmina , edited by C. G. Heyne, Oxford: M. Bliss, 1808. 2 volumes in one, 16°, text in Greek, contemporary calf, sides with double gilt rule and roll-tool border in blind, flat spine with gilt decoration (long worm trace to one side of spine), marbled endpapers and edges. With 28 other volumes, including several more of small size, all classical texts published in the 19th-century, the majority bound in leather or vellum. (31)
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