Accession number
PML 3091
Creator
Horace.
Published
Philadelphia : Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House., M, DCC, LXXXVI. [1786]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Edited by John Parke, who was responsible for some of the translations and original poems. Includes also translations of classical poets other than Horace, and both original poems and translations by other hands than Parke's. Some of the translations are in fact paraphrases, adapted to the circumstances of American history and dedicated to well-known Americans.
Dedicated to George Washington.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3A⁴ a-b⁴.
Errors in paging: p. 55-99 misnumbered 54-98.
Frontispiece engraved by James Peller Malcolm, after a design by Peter Markoe.
"Carmen seculare. The secular poem, composed at the express command of Augustus."--P [177]-190, with separate title page.
"Translations from the Greek and Latin, with original poems."--P. [191]-319, with separate title page. Translations by David French. Cf. p. xxiv.
"Virginia: a pastoral drama, on the birth-day of an illustrious personage and the return of peace, February 11th, 1784"--P. [321]-344, with separate title page. By John Parke.
"Subscribers."--P. [1]-[16] at end.
Dedicated to George Washington.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3A⁴ a-b⁴.
Errors in paging: p. 55-99 misnumbered 54-98.
Frontispiece engraved by James Peller Malcolm, after a design by Peter Markoe.
"Carmen seculare. The secular poem, composed at the express command of Augustus."--P [177]-190, with separate title page.
"Translations from the Greek and Latin, with original poems."--P. [191]-319, with separate title page. Translations by David French. Cf. p. xxiv.
"Virginia: a pastoral drama, on the birth-day of an illustrious personage and the return of peace, February 11th, 1784"--P. [321]-344, with separate title page. By John Parke.
"Subscribers."--P. [1]-[16] at end.
Description
xli, [1], 334, [16] p., [1] leaf of plates (3 pts. in 4) : ill. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Isaac C. Jones (member of the Library Company of Philadelphia?), inscription: "January 25th 1794. Isaac C. Jones's Book 2s/9d;" unidentified English sale catalogue description, lot 179 (pasted to front fly leaf); Theodore Irwin, price code and inscriptions (rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
3/4 green morocco by William Matthews.
Classification
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