Horace. The Odes & Epodes of Horace Volume VI. The Bibliophile Society, 1901.

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Condition: Near Fine

Description: #265 of 467 numbered and signed copies. Translated by Clement Lawrence Smith. Fronticepiece etching signed in pencil by Bricknell. Also a pencil signed etching by Edmund H. Garrett. Page edges uncut. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.

Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.).. ODES & EPODES OF HORACE. Latin Text-Edited by Clement Lawrence Smith. With Versions, Paraphrases and Explanatory Notes by Eminent Scholars, Statesmen and Poets. With an Introduction by Archbishop Ireland.. (Printed at the Riverside Press) Issued by the Bibliophile Society for Members Only, Boston: 1901., 1901.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: Six volumes, bound in eight. Horace's text complete, but without the bibliographical volume. Wonderful etched plates and woodcuts by Howard Pyle, W. H. W. Bicknell, and others. Includes extra plates printed on Japan Vellum. Some plates signed in pencil. Square 8vo. Beautifully printed on beautiful paper. Uncut and unopened. Paper boards backed in a simulated vellum. Slightly chipped and soiled at spine, but still an attractive set. This is the first publication of the famed Bibliophile Society. This is set number 369 of an edition limited to only 467 copies. Mills 2296. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W126 Language: eng

Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.

HORACE. Odes and Epodes. , 1901.

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Description: HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901. Seven volumes bound as nine. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. Housed in publisher's original chemises and slipcases. $5000.Limited illustrated edition, one (unnumbered) of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition.Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as "versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets." Each poem is additionally decorated with numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. Volume II, Part II and Volume IV, Part II issued without the limitation page or Pyle title page. Volume VII also without limitation page; marbled boards and endpapers differ from those of the other volumes but spines uniform, as issued. "Bibliophile Society" appears in watermark on the outer margin of each leaf. Minor spotting to a few interior leaves of Volume IV, Part I. A lovely set in fine condition.

Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.