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HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Opera. 8 plates, including frontispieces, and a profusion of illustrations, head- and tailpieces, and ornamental initials. [30], 264, [2]; [22], 191, [14] pages. Contents entirely engraved throughout by John Pine. 2 volumes. 8vo, 232x149 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt, flat spines with olive morocco lettering pieces, bindings somewhat scuffed, minor spotting on Volume 1 covers; light offsetting from frontispieces onto titles, scattered fingersoiling, contents otherwise generally clean. Stamp of the diplomat Mikhail Alexandrovich Golitsyn (1804–1860) on Volume 1 title; unidentified armorial bookplate with motto Non Ignobile Otium on front pastedowns. London, 1733-37
first pine edition, "the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved" (Ray); first state of page 108 in Volume 2, with "post est" in the numismatic headpiece. Ray, The Art of the Illustrator and the Book in England, page 3.
