THE ODES, EPODES, AND CARMEN SECULARE OF HORACE. Translated into English Prose, as near the Original as the different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages will allow. With the Latin Text and Order of Construction in the opposite Page, and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical Notes, in English; from the best Commentators both Ancient and Modern; etc. . . . For the Use of Schools as well as of Private Gentlemen.
by Horace
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- Hardcover
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- Scuffing to covers with some loss at spine head, edges and corners rubbed, a few contemporary notes to blank leaves at front and
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London: Printed for Joseph Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside, 1746. Third edition. Hardcover. Scuffing to covers with some loss at spine head, edges and corners rubbed, a few contemporary notes to blank leaves at front and occasional marks to text. Overall a sturdy and presentable copy. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label; small octavo, xxxviii, 335, 256-508 pp. (text continuous despite error in pagination); engraved copperplate frontipiece.
Frontispiece is dated 1747 and presents the publisher's advertisement for 4 volumes of Latin translations: Horace, Virgil, Ovid, and Phaedrus.
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- THE ODES, EPODES, AND CARMEN SECULARE OF HORACE. Translated into English Prose, as near the Original as the different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages will allow. With the Latin Text and Order of Construction in the opposite Page, and Critical, Historical, Geographical, and Classical Notes, in English; from the best Commentators both Ancient and Modern; etc. . . . For the Use of Schools as well as of Private Gentlemen.
- Author
- Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Scuffing to covers with some loss at spine head, edges and corners rubbed, a few contemporary notes to blank leaves at front and
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- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Printed for Joseph Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1746
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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