Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae ad Pisones, et Augustum: with an English commentary and notes: to which are added critical dissertations. By the Reverend Mr. Hurd. In three volumes. The fourth edition, corrected and enlarged
London: printed for A. Millar; and W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, at Cambridge, 1766. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], xvi, 277, [1]; xix, [1], 247, [1]; [2], 265, [1]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, red and black morocco labels in 2; upper joint slightly cracked on volume II, light worm track in the fore-margins of the preliminaries in volume II (no loss of letterpress); all else very good, sound, and clean. Bookplates of I. Baker Holroyd Esq., and the memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, (1735-1821) "was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was a leading authority on agriculture and commerce and appointed President of the Board of Agriculture in 1803. He is also remembered as the close friend and patron of eminent historian Edward Gibbon, to whom he acted as literary executor and editor" (Wikipedia). Mills College Check List 713; Riedel-Horatiana I-3. Item #70442
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