Q. Horatii Flacci poëmata. Ex antiquis Codd. & certis observationibus emendavit, variasque scriptorum & Impressorum lectiones adjecit Alexander Cuningamius
Hagae Comitum: apud Thomam Jonsonium, 1721. 8vo, pp. [8], 309, [1]; wanting the final blank; engraved vignette title page printed in red and black; engraved frontispiece after Picart; factotum initials; early 20th-century brown morocco, heavy gilt rules on covers, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, a.e.g.; lightly rubbed, spine a little sunned, *3v and *4r stained at the top from old insert, occasional light spotting, else a very good, sound and reasonably clean copy. Memorial bookplate of Caroline Furness Jayne. The first Cunningham edition, jointly published by Vaillant and Prevost in London, and in a much less common edition by the expatriate British bookseller Thomas Johnson at the Hague. Mills College Check List 466; Riedel-Horatiana A-149. OCLC locates 7 copies, only Case Western and Oklahoma in the U.S. Item #70447
Price: $500.00
