Author: HORACE.
Title: Q. Horatii Flacci. Quae Supersunt, Recensuit et Notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield.
Description: Londini: Impensis Kearsley, 1794. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 186 [ 187 - 194 notes]; [ii], 168 [169 - 177 notes, 178 blank], engraved title-page and frontispiece in each volume, contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt, morocco titling labels, small circular black morocco numbering labels; engraved plates slightly detached at inner margin, binding a little dried with corners worn and very slight cracking to front joints. Printed by Bensley, Wakefield's edition of Horace was issued both in a large-paper state and a smaller one as above. Dr. Pirages has wittily remarked that Wakefield (1756 - 1801) "never met a text that he didn't want to emend," and his emendations here are no exception.

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