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Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii
by HORACE. BENTLEY, Richard [editor]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Large quarto. 460 pp. Complete with added engraved title-page dated 1708 and half-title. Engraved printer's device on title-pages and old ink ownership inscription on the first title page. Full Contemporary stained calf, professionally and skillfully rebacked spine with five raised bands, gilt red morocco lettering piece, all edges sprinkled red. Very occasional light spotting. Boards with some edge-wear, Frontispiece slightly darkened. Overall a very attractive, notably clean copy with a bright text. "Probably no other poet's works have been so often copied or printed, and hundreds of versions in every modern language have been made of the least translatable of poets. Certainly Horace far outstrips all competitors when it comes to pocket editions: all over the world, where the libraries or even the smaller collections of personalia of the great have been preserved, a well-worn pocket Horace is very frequently among them. . In 1711 Bentley was fighting against the angry fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, who were petitioning the College Visitor, the Bishop of Ely, to remove him from the Mastership. Bentley wished to enlist the support of the Crown (which appoints the master), and he did it -- by dedicating his edition of Horace to Harley, then Prime Minister. "Bentley (1662-1742) was and remains the greatest of English classical scholars. His reputation was made by his Dissertation on Phalaris, the final crushing blow in the 'Battle of the Books' . His immense learning was combined with an equal control in its deployment. Athough he here restricted himself entirely to criticism of the text, and refrained from comment or explanation, in fact his feeling for Horace is revealed in the seven or eight hundred emendations, many of which have found permanent acceptance. Bold yet sensitive, deeply learned and at the same time understanding, his edition is a compound, as Bentley was himself, of temerity, authority and subtlety" (Printing and the Mind of Man, pp. 106-107). Printing and the Mind of Man 178.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173
- Title
- Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii
- Author
- HORACE. BENTLEY, Richard [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1711
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Greek Classics, Philosophy
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- NEW arrivals for February 2023;
- Size
- Large 8vo.
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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