Letters concerning Homer The Sleeper in Horace: With Additional Classic Amusements
by PRESCOT (Kenrick):
- Used
- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon..., 1773. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 349 [350 blank], leaf of contemporary notes written on recto only loosely inserted, contemporary calf; fore-margin of penultimate leaf slightly frayed, paste-down end-papers not pasted down, lower front joint cracked, binding a little scored and rubbed, lacks label. Kenrick Prescot (1702 - 1779) was Master of Catherine Hall at Cambridge when he published this book; his poems were published at Cambridge in 1772, and Roger Lonsdale includes "Balsham Bells" in his anthology, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. In this work, Prescot argues that Horace referred not to the great Homer, but to the "Roman Homer," that is, Quintus Ennius. The work was reprinted in 1970. ESTC on-line locates 13 copies (including 5 in Cambridge libraries) in the UK and 5 in North American libraries (University of Western Ontario Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University Libraries, Union Theological Seminary Library, and University of Pennsylvania Libraries).
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3800
- Title
- Letters concerning Homer The Sleeper in Horace: With Additional Classic Amusements
- Author
- PRESCOT (Kenrick):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Printed by J. Archdeacon..., 1773
- Keywords
- classics Homer prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- classics;
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