Author: Horace [65 BC - 27 BC]
Title: QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. From Pickering's Diamond Classic series
Description: Londini [London]: Gul. Pickering, 1821. 1st edition thus (Kelly 1820.2; Keynes, p. 73). Bound in later brown full calf, with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Speckled red edges. Marbled paper eps. [2], 185, [1] pp. Frontis. Engraved title page. Heraldic device to printed t.p. Cut of Francis Bacon to last page. 3-1/4" x 1-3/4". Front joint a bit tender. Spine crown leather pulled. A VG copy. Billed as a "typographical tour de force", Pickering's famous Diamond Classic series was his first major effort in the publishing business, with this title the first book issued in that series, and only the second from Pickering's press.

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