Accession number
PML 251823
Creator
Horace.
Published
Boston : Anne & David Bromer, 1983.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Poems in Latin; introductory essays in English.
Reprint, with new introductory essays, of: Quinti Horati Flacci Carmina Sapphica. Chelsea : In aedibus St. J. Hornby, 1903 (the miniature ed.). Made on the original Ashendene handpress (an Albion press now in the Bridwell Library of Southern Methodist University) using the original plates, now owned by Charles Gould. Due to corrosion and warping of the plates, several pages in this reprint are illegible.
"An edition of 150 copies ... bound faithful to the original by David Bourbeau of the Thistle Bindery"--Prelimimary page [3].
Library's copy is no. 12.
"Printed at the Ashedene Press ... by St. John and Cicely Hornby for the library of Queen Mary's doll house in this merrie month of May of the year mcmxxxiii"--Colophon.
The 1903 miniature ed. was produced in an edition of fewer than 10 copies, the plates being photographically reduced from the text of Hornby's octavo ed. of the same year. Copy 1 was printed for the library of Queen Mary's Doll House. Cf. Prospectus.
Issued in a solander case (17 cm) together with the prospectus ([4] pages) for the reprint. On spine of case: Horace. Carmina Sapphica.
Reprint, with new introductory essays, of: Quinti Horati Flacci Carmina Sapphica. Chelsea : In aedibus St. J. Hornby, 1903 (the miniature ed.). Made on the original Ashendene handpress (an Albion press now in the Bridwell Library of Southern Methodist University) using the original plates, now owned by Charles Gould. Due to corrosion and warping of the plates, several pages in this reprint are illegible.
"An edition of 150 copies ... bound faithful to the original by David Bourbeau of the Thistle Bindery"--Prelimimary page [3].
Library's copy is no. 12.
"Printed at the Ashedene Press ... by St. John and Cicely Hornby for the library of Queen Mary's doll house in this merrie month of May of the year mcmxxxiii"--Colophon.
The 1903 miniature ed. was produced in an edition of fewer than 10 copies, the plates being photographically reduced from the text of Hornby's octavo ed. of the same year. Copy 1 was printed for the library of Queen Mary's Doll House. Cf. Prospectus.
Issued in a solander case (17 cm) together with the prospectus ([4] pages) for the reprint. On spine of case: Horace. Carmina Sapphica.
Description
[20], 46 pages ; 36 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Terracotta morocco stamped in gilt; edges gilded.
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