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Horatius, Quintus Flaccus

A Poetical Translation Of The Works Of Horace

London for A. Miller 1753 With the Original Text, and Critical Notes Collected from his best Latin and French Commentators. By the Rev.d Mr. Philip Francis. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected. 4 volumes. 8vo. xxiii, [i], 311 pp; [1]f, 383pp; [1]f, 333pp; [1], 313, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, the spines divided into six panels, the bands flanked by gilt fillets, lettered in the second panel on a red goatskin label and numbered in the third, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt roll, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Upper joint of vol.1 slightly cracked at the head, upper headcap of vol.2 slightly chipped, a little rubbed, endleaves browned from the turn-ins). In vol.1 the upper corner of leaf B1 in vol.1 has been torn away, with loss of two letters, and there is a closed tear in the front endleaf. A very good copy in a handsome calf binding.

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