Author: [Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Philippe de Prétot, Étienne André, ed.:)
Title: Carmina,
Description: Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: J. Barbou, 1754. 12mo., pp.xxiv, 299, [i] + engraved frontispiece. Colophon reads "Typis viduæ Delatour". Very clean, tissue bound between frontis and title. Recent tan polished calf, spine heavily gilt, gilt borders to boards, marbled edges and endpapers. A few small marks and scratches, very good indeed. Ownership inscription of H.W. Moule to preliminary blank. Étienne André Philippe de Prétot (1710-1787) produced between 1747 and 1755 many editions of Latin classics for the Parisian publisher Antoine-Urbain Coustelier. He based this edition of Horace on the 1728 Parisian edition of Sanadon who, according to Dibdin, 'chiefly followed Bentley and Cunningham, especially the latter.' (Dibdin II, 107). Bound by Henderson and Bissett. Brunet III, 390.

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