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Lot 77

Sale 5834 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 2, 2023 6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Fine Bindings] Horace The Odes and Epodes of Horace

Boston: Issued by the Bibliophile Society, 1901-04. In 10 volumes (seven parts in nine volumes, plus one volume of A Thousand Horatian Quotations). First and limited edition, printed for members only, #377/467 numbered copies (Vol. II-Part I #230). 8vo. Edited by Clement Lawrence Smith. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and engraved plates in two states, by Howard Pyle, W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan, and Edmund Garrett, with the first state of each plate signed by the artist in pencil, and each with a captioned tissue guard; numerous head- and tail-pieces, and other in-text illustrations, and photographic reproductions in the final volume. Beautifully bound in full brown crushed levant, elaborately tooled in a gilt foliate pattern with red and green onlay, scattered light soiling to boards, scattered rubbing to joints and extremities, spines variously faded; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; matching gilt foliate dentelles; marbled endpapers.

A lovely set of this Arts and Craft-style edition of Horace's works.

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