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PINE'S HORACE 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, contemporary mottled calf gilt, top of spines chipped, Volume 1 front cover detached, Volume 2 front joint cracked, cords intact; some toning and offsetting, scattered minor foxing, endpapers browned. 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.
