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Q. Horatii Flacci, quae supersunt, recensuit et notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield. Volume prius, carmina complectens. Volumen posterius, satiras et epistolas complectens. 2 volumes bound in 1
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Horace
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Impensis Kearsley, 1794 Book. Good. Full-Leather. Vol 1 - viii, 186, [8] pages + 2 plates. Vol 2 - [ii], 168, [10] pages + errata slip pasted in at the rear + 2 plates. Also bound in at the rear is an otherwise blank sheet with two printed spine labels. Bound together in old full red morocco with the bookbinder's label of C. Kalthoeber - but now the binding and particularly the spine, is very worn. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of Joseph Seymour Biscoe. There is an ink inscription on one of the front free end papers - E Macdonald 1855 - to Jenny Austin Janry 1875. Plates are lightly browned and spotted and this affects the adjoining pages. Some light browning to other pages also. Occasional pencil notes. Title page of vol 1 is detaching from the text block..
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- Bookseller
- Stephen Rench
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011444
- Title
- Q. Horatii Flacci, quae supersunt, recensuit et notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield. Volume prius, carmina complectens. Volumen posterius, satiras et epistolas complectens. 2 volumes bound in 1
- Author
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Horace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Impensis Kearsley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1794
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Antiquarian;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Stephen Rench
Biblio member since 2012
Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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