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HORACE. Opera, cum scholis veteribus castigavit

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HORACE. Opera, cum scholis veteribus castigavit

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
HORACE. Opera, cum scholis veteribus castigavit, et notis illustravit Gulielmus Baxterus. Varias lectiones et observationes addidit Jo. Matthias Gesnerus ; quibus et suas adspersit Jo. Carolus Zeunius . . . Editio nova, priore emendatior. Glasgow: in aedibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell ; Londini : prostant apud G. G & J. Robinson, et T. Payne ; Cantabrigiae, apud W. H. Lunn ; Edinburgi : apud J. Mundell & Soc., 1796Pages xxx, (2, blank), 575, (1, blank), 4to, finely bound by Charles Hering, with his ticket, in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt bordered sides, fully gilt and lettered spine, inside gilt borders with floral device in gilt in corners, the endpaper decoration repeated on the facing flyleaf (front and rear), edges gilt, silk marker : small circular stamp of Milltown Park (not repeated elsewhere) on the title-page, a large and rather attractive copy, with the armorial bookplate of Edward Taylor Massy, Cottesmore. Described by Sandys as “one of the greatest scholars in the eighteenth century” and “one of the foremost leaders of the movement known as the New Humanism”, the editor of this work, Gesner (1691-1761), took as the basis of his text Baxter’s edition of 1725. The present edition contains the additional observations of Zenius. Gesner’s edition was first published, at Leipzig, in 1752. "The [Leipzig] edition . . . and the Glasgow edition, comprehending these additional remarks, may be considered among the most beautiful and popular ones extant of the poet." - Dibdin I. 110. The same setting of type was also imposed on an octavo format. E. T. Massy (b. 1807) inherited the Massy family's substantial estate in Limerick, Ireland, in 1836. In 1839, he bought Cotts from his father-in-law and started building a new house close to the old house. The new house was completed in 1841 and called Cottesmore.ENGLISH PRE 1801; CLASSICS; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;