Author: HORACE
Title: Odes and Epodes of Horace
Description: New York, Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators represented. The larger volume consists of facsimile pages, in the same size as the originals, of 39 pages from 23 various volumes of Horace dating from 1482 to 1910. Issued unsigned. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this copy, not numbered, is an apparent overrun and was still in the original 1961 publisher's box containing 5 copies of this title until it was taken out to be cataloged by us. Essentially New in glassines and a slipcase housing both volumes .

Keywords: Limited Editions Club, Poetry, Ancient Rome, Horace, Roman Literature Fine Press Illustrated Books Facsimiles Roman Literature


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