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Hard cover, 8vo, in full speckled calf binding double ruled at margins, and with remains of gilt tooled dashes to board edges. Spine has five raised bands accented with double ruling in blind. [2], [32], 320, [16 index] pp. Prelims include engraved title page frontispiece by John Sturt opposite second title page. Also includes notice of the book's expurgation (ad usum Delphini) ; Preface, Life of Horace and his writings; a brief chronology of the history of Rome. Content includes "Odes", "Epodes", "Satires", and "Epistles", and "Ars Poetica." Text in Latin.**CONDITION: Very Good (Minus) Antiquarian Condition, with small loss of calf to foot of spine, continuing for about a 1/2 inch along rear joint. Edge wear to bottom edge of boards. Minor rubbing at tips. Gilt decoration worn in places. Inside, front pastedown has come unglued and is loosely attached. Four or five former owners's names are present in old ink to pastedown, the ffep., fly leaves and title page, with one signature dated 1706. One assumes this volume was perhaps used in a school by a succession of students. One instance of an unknown spillage and resultant stain near gutter affects several pages. Other small occasional ink stains. Rear endpaper or flyleaf not present. Overall, though, this is a sound, useable volume with the patina offering much vintage appeal. ** QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS (65 BC - 8 BC), better known as just "Horace", was a Roman lyric poet. He is perhaps best known for his "Odes" (23 BC and 13 BC), in which he adapted an ancient Greek style of lyric poetry to Roman culture and values. Among the most famous quotes from the Odes are: "carpe diem", and "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." This annotated edition contains a brief chronology of Roman history, and works by Horace including the "Odes", "Epodes", "Satires", "Epistles", and "Ars Poetica" and Index. **London Bookseller and Publisher ABELIS SWALLE [or, Abelum, Abel Swalle, or Swayle] (active 1678-1699) was located at the sign of the Unicorn in the active bookselling quarter of seventeenth century London near the west-end cemetery of St. Paul's churchyard. Others located in the immediate vicinity included the artist and engraver JOHN STURT (1658-1730), who produced the illustrated title page here. Swalle subsequently produced a number of other titles in English, and other British editions of Horace in English appeared as early as 1644, according to D. Wing. However, this volume was probably meant for students studying the original Latin. Rare. REFS: ESTC/NA: R3778. Wing, Vol. 2 (Martino Edition) No. H2780, p. 206. OCLC 17430286. All names CERL Thesaurus. (AMJ and AJ)
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