Author: HORACE.
Title: Quinti Horatii Flacci Carmina. The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace: With Three English Translations and Notes Critical and Explanatory.
Description: Patingham: Printed for the Editor, 1753. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 258 x 202 mms., pp. v [vi blank, vii - viii Index Odarum], 407 [408 Errata], contemporary calf, rather curiously rebacked with a lighter calf overlaying the spine and the corners, with bands more-or-less in art deco style, old label preserved, hinges amateurishly reinforced; ex-library with the bookplate of Queen's College, Oxford and sold note on front paste-down end-paper. A good copy, with the autograph "J. Riland 1753" on the top margin of the title-page and the drop-title. This is possibly John Ryland (1716/17-1798), the friend of Samuel Johnson, who is described as a "good scholar" in the ODNB (the source is Nichol's Literary Anecdotes) entry, but I have not been able to trace any publications attributed to him. ESTC attributes the translation to Bromwich, Francis, and Creech; the latter two are presumably Philip Francis (1708 - 1773) and Thomas Creech (1659 - 1700), but the text attributes various translations to other authors, e. g., Jabez Hughes, William Dunkin, Hugh Hare, William Oldisworth, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, etc. I have not been able to identify "Mr. [John] Bromwich." This is one of the first works cited (under "1753") in W. H. Allnutt's "Notes on the Introduction of Printing-Presses into the Smaller Towns of England and Wales after 1750" (The Library, 1901; pp. 242 - 259). In some copies the Index Odarum is found after the Errata. ESTC T46223 locates copies in BL, Brighton Central, Cambridge, Oxford Harris Manchester, John Rylands (2), and the William Salt Library; Free Library of Philadelphia, NYPL, California Berkeley and Los Angeles in North American. Lowndes 1117. Schweiger II 437.

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