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HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus (65-8 B.C.). Opera. Paris: Pierre Didot the elder, 1799. 2° (489 x 345mm). 3 engraved medallions on title, 11 en-têtes after Percier. (Some leaves very browned, some foxing, occasionally severe.) Contemporary diced Russia, probably by Staggemeier and Welcher, sides with gilt and blindstamped borders enclosing a blindstamped geometrical pattern, spine gilt and stamped in compartments (joints cracked, some extremities rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate, perhaps Roxburghe.
LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THIS 'VERY BEAUTIFUL EDITION' (Brunet). Didot's celebrated editions of Horace, Virgil and Racine were described by Edmond Werdet as 'masterpieces which will remain among the most beautiful monuments honouring our nation'. The illustrations complement the neo-classical restraint of Didot's typography with the nicest discrimination, and this edition won the praise of critics as exacting as Brunet and T.F. Dibdin, the latter stating that 'this splendid edition... is, in fact, truly sumptuous and magnificent; and... eclipses all other editions in graphical and typographical beauty'. No.193 of 250 copies signed by Pierre Didot. Brunet III-323; Cohen-de Ricci 499; Dibdin, An Introduction to ... Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, II, p.117; Ray, The French Illustrated Book 71; Werdet, Études bibliographiques sur la famille des Didot, p.20.
LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THIS 'VERY BEAUTIFUL EDITION' (Brunet). Didot's celebrated editions of Horace, Virgil and Racine were described by Edmond Werdet as 'masterpieces which will remain among the most beautiful monuments honouring our nation'. The illustrations complement the neo-classical restraint of Didot's typography with the nicest discrimination, and this edition won the praise of critics as exacting as Brunet and T.F. Dibdin, the latter stating that 'this splendid edition... is, in fact, truly sumptuous and magnificent; and... eclipses all other editions in graphical and typographical beauty'. No.193 of 250 copies signed by Pierre Didot. Brunet III-323; Cohen-de Ricci 499; Dibdin, An Introduction to ... Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, II, p.117; Ray, The French Illustrated Book 71; Werdet, Études bibliographiques sur la famille des Didot, p.20.
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