Author: [Diamond Classics] [Horace] Horatius, Flaccus Quintus:

Title: (Opera).

Publication: Londini [London]: impensis Guil. Pickering,31 Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1820.

Description: First edition thus. 48mo., (82 x 45 mm), pp. [ii], 185, [i] + engraved portrait frontispiece, added engraved title-page. Final page with small portrait of Francis Bacon and motto 'Advancement of Learning', bound without the errata leaf. Occasional very light toning, a little offsetting to t.p.. Dark brown textured skiver, raised bands and gilt title to spine, a.e.g., dark green endpapers. Spine a little rubbed, very good. Initials F.R. to preliminary blank.

'Probably the second book published by Pickering' (Keynes), this first edition of Horace, exquisitely printed in diamond type by C. Corrall, became a bibliographical landmark as the first issue in the 'Diamond Classics', the series dedicated to George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), renowned bibliophile.

Bibliography: Keynes, 73

Reference Number: [54122]

Price: £250

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