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Proposals for engraving by subscription, on copper-plates, the works of Horace.

Accession number
PML 65587
Creator
Horace.
Published
[London] : by J. Pine, engraver, Feb. 24 [1731].
Credit line
Gift of A.N.L. Munby, 1974.
Notes
Title from proposal leaf, pasted to front pastedown, dated "Feb. 24, 1730-31", i.e. Feb. 24, 1731.
Prospectus volume for Pine's edition of Horace, 1733, containing 'Proposal', printed list of subscribers, and early proof impressions of book I, pl. 1-67 of Odes.
Text of Horace taken "from the Cambridge edition in 12° publish'd by Dr. Talbot, in 1701. In the manner, and on as good paper, as the specimen annex'd" (from Proposal).
Description
[10], 67, [3] pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Provenance
A.N.L. Munby (1913-1974), booklabel (rear pastedown), donated to: Pierpont Morgan Library, Sept. 1974.
Binding
18th-century English mottled calf over paper boards.
Classification
Department