Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 1033
  • 1033

[Ashendene Press] — Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • [Ashendene Press] — Quintus Horatius Flaccus
  • Carmina Alcaica. Chelsea, London: The Ashendene Press, 1903
  • Ink and cow
8vo (7 1/8 x 5 in.; 181 x 125 mm). One of the twenty-five copies printed on vellum, of an edition of 175 copies, printed in Subiaco type in black and with some red, opening initial capital in gold, other initial capitals in alternating red and blue by Graily Hewitt. Original publisher's vellum lettered in gilt on spine.

Perfect condition.

Provenance

John Charrington (bookplate) — Lloyd Kenyon (bookplate)

Literature

Hornby XV