Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus

London: John Murray, c. 1854. Edition: A New Edition., Binding: Contemporary full red morocco. Gilt decorative emblem of the University of Toronto on covers. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt rules on all. Gilt text on 2. Gilt dentelles on all edges. All edges gilt. Pasted and free marbled endpapers. , Notes: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC –8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Reverend Henry Hart Milman (1791 –1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic. Milman was responsible for a popular edition of the Life of Horace.
, Size: 8vo (208x143mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with seven engravings and colorful, decorative borders throughout. , Category: Book Literature; Book History; Book Antiquities. A fine example of this work bound in full contemporary gilt morocco. Item #B5373

Edition: A New Edition., Binding: Contemporary full red morocco. Gilt decorative emblem of the University of Toronto on covers. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt rules on all. Gilt text on 2. Gilt dentelles on all edges. All edges gilt. Pasted and free marbled endpapers. , Notes: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC –8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Reverend Henry Hart Milman (1791 –1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic. Milman was responsible for a popular edition of the Life of Horace.
, Size: 8vo (208x143mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with seven engravings and colorful, decorative borders throughout. , Category: Book Literature; Book History; Book Antiquities.

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