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[BINDINGS]. HORACE (65-8 B.C.). The Odes & Epodes of Horace. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1901-1904. LIMITED EDITION.
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[BINDINGS]. HORACE (65-8 B.C.). The Odes & Epodes of Horace. Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1901-1904.
7 volumes in 10, 8vo (225 x 164 mm). Numerous plates. Contemporary tan crushed levant, covers with wide grapevine motif border gilt with green and blue morocco onlays, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in three, the rest with gilt and blue morocco onlay grapevine, turn-ins gilt with gilt grape leaf motif, top edges gilt, others uncut (very slight fading to a few spines, corners very slightly rubbed, a few covers slightly bowed).
LIMITED EDITION, number 32 of 467 copies on handmade paper. A fine collected edition with illustrations after Howard Pyle, W. H. W. Bicknell, James Fagan, and Edmund H. Garrett.