POETICAL TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF HORACE With Original Text and Critical Notes Collected from His Best Latin and French Commentators In Four Volumes.
Printed for A. Millar, 1753. Item #150271
5th edn revised and corrected. 4 vols. 8vo. (8¼ x 5¼ ins). Contemporary full calf, spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting gilt lettered labels, double gilt fillet borders on boards, red sprinkled edges (joints weakened but boards still firm; rather bumped and rubbed at head and tails of spines and corners, and with pitting and marks on boards). Pp. [ii] + xxiii + [1] + 311 + [3] blank [&] [lacking front free endpaper and prelims] + 383 + [1] blank [lacking rear free endpaper] [&] [ii] + 333 + [3] blank [&] [iv] + 313 + [1] publisher's catalogue (inner hinges loosened and endpapers toned at edges; William Castle's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs and his neat inscription in contemporary hand on front free endpapers).
Price: £200.00