Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Works in Latin

London William Pickering, 1829. 8vo. (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches) full roan diced russia with a double gilt fillet border surrounding a wide roll border made up of urns and foliage; spine with four raised bands with the title on a morocco label, the other compartments decorated with a large gilt urn surrounded by stars and flower heads. Board edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles; a.e.g. Slight wear to the corners. School prize bookplate from Eton on the front paste down.Latin edition of Horace based principally on the editions of Zeune, Gesner and Bothe. Said to be a sly but never insensitive man, a sometimes aloof lover of independence who was also a devoted friend of the emperor Augustus, of Mæcenas, and of Vergil, Horace was an Epicurean in good times and a stoic in adversity. Not in Keynes or in Pickering & Chatto catalogue on the publications of the Press. Just seven copies reported in OCLC: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Northwestern and Loras College.  IN A HANDSOME NEOCLASSICAL VICTORIAN BINDING