HORATIUS FLACCUS. Opera. London: John Pine 1733-37. 2 vols., 8vo-sized folio, 221 x 134 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.), mid-eighteenth-century English red morocco, covers gilt with roll-tooled floral border, spines gilt in seven compartments, double black morocco lettering-pieces, board edges and turn-ins gilt, Dutch-gilt floral endpapers, g.e., cloth slipcase, extremities rubbed, joints and inner hinges cracked, lacking the folding letterpress "List of Antiques" in vol. 1, light creasing to many corners, occasional very light spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Post est" around the medallion on p. 108 of vol. II, entirely engraved, frontispiece, numerous vignettes, several full-page illustrations. Ray England, p. 3; Rothschild 1546. | Christie's

Lot 106

106

Property from the Estate of Miss Alice Tully

HORATIUS FLACCUS. Opera. London: John Pine 1733-37. 2 vols., 8vo-sized folio, 221 x 134 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.), mid-eighteenth-century English red morocco, covers gilt with roll-tooled floral border, spines gilt in seven compartments, double black morocco lettering-pieces, board edges and turn-ins gilt, Dutch-gilt floral endpapers, g.e., cloth slipcase, extremities rubbed, joints and inner hinges cracked, lacking the folding letterpress "List of Antiques" in vol. 1, light creasing to many corners, occasional very light spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Post est" around the medallion on p. 108 of vol. II, entirely engraved, frontispiece, numerous vignettes, several full-page illustrations. Ray England, p. 3; Rothschild 1546.

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HORATIUS FLACCUS. Opera. London: John Pine 1733-37. 2 vols., 8vo-sized folio, 221 x 134 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 5/16 in.), mid-eighteenth-century English red morocco, covers gilt with roll-tooled floral border, spines gilt in seven compartments, double black morocco lettering-pieces, board edges and turn-ins gilt, Dutch-gilt floral endpapers, g.e., cloth slipcase, extremities rubbed, joints and inner hinges cracked, lacking the folding letterpress "List of Antiques" in vol. 1, light creasing to many corners, occasional very light spotting. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Post est" around the medallion on p. 108 of vol. II, entirely engraved, frontispiece, numerous vignettes, several full-page illustrations. Ray England, p. 3; Rothschild 1546.

Provenance: Presentation inscription "for Thos. Brodie from J. [Gilroy?] Craig 1849" on front flyleaf -- Alice Tully. (2)