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HORATIUS Flaccius, Quintus. Satyrarum libri I, satyra V, Rome: excudebat de Romanis, 1816.
2° (423 x 281mm). 18 engraved plates by Pietro Parboni, F. Morel, Antonio Testa after Catel, Riepenhausen, Pomardi, Elizabeth of Devonshire and others. (Very light marginal thumb-soiling.) Half vellum.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. The Duchess of Devonshire distributed 60 copies of this edition to her friends and the remaining 90 copies were destroyed by her command. Graesse III, 359.
2° (423 x 281mm). 18 engraved plates by Pietro Parboni, F. Morel, Antonio Testa after Catel, Riepenhausen, Pomardi, Elizabeth of Devonshire and others. (Very light marginal thumb-soiling.) Half vellum.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. The Duchess of Devonshire distributed 60 copies of this edition to her friends and the remaining 90 copies were destroyed by her command. Graesse III, 359.