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Q. Horatius Flaccus his Art of poetry   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Horace
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, engraver
Okes, John, active 1627-1644, printer
Benson, John, -1667, bookseller
Crooke, Andrew, -1674, bookseller
Wright, James, former owner
Title
Q. Horatius Flaccus his Art of poetry
Publisher
London : Printed by J. Okes, for John Benson [and Andrew Crooke]
Description
A. Crooke's name supplied from Pforzheimer Catalogue, no. 548
Includes prefatory verse by Sir Edward Herber & Barten Holyday
With an additional title page, engraved, signed "W.M. sculpsit" (i.e. William Marshall), with imprint "London. Printed for John Benson. 1640". Variant 1: this imprint reads "London. Printed for J. Benson and are sold by W. Ley at Paules-Chayne. 1640."
"Ben: Ionson's execration against Vulcan", "The masque of the gypsies", and "Epigrams to severall noble personages in this kingdome" each have special dated title pages
The first leaf and the last leaf are blank; the second leaf is blank but signed and bears an imprimatur on the verso (M. Clay and dated Febr. 21, 1639 [1640?])
Signatures: A-C℗£℗ø D℗£℗ø(D5-(D6-10)+d℗£℗ø) E℗£℗ø(E4( -E5-11)+e℗£℗ø) F-G℗£℗ø (A1 and G12 blank)
D6-10 and E5-11 are cancelled by gatherings d℗£℗ø and e℗£℗ø respectively. Variant 2: cancellanda present
Title page within woodcut border; woodcut initials and head-pieces
Parts of this were formerly also STC 14777a and STC 14765
English short title catalogue
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
Cataloged
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early sheepskin panelled in blind, rebacked in modern brown goatskin. A 20th-century typescript dealer's description is tipped on to the front pastedown. The front and rear endpapers are of printed waste from ESTC S116952 (printed in 1611 by William Stansby for Walter Burre). The second leaf of waste at front is signed "James Wright" and dated 1659. A1 recto (blank) is signed, "James Wright his booke 1659 Ex libris Jacobi Wright". Early marginalia and annotations are present throughout. An early inscription on G12 recto reads, "Randolph, page 64 of his poems hath answered this authors ode to himself p. 135."

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Language English
Publication date 1640
publication_date QS:P577,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
qhoratiusflaccus00hora_3
Notes Check-in note: Some text loss due to tight binding and margins. No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1051737388
Source
Internet Archive identifier: qhoratiusflaccus00hora_3
https://archive.org/download/qhoratiusflaccus00hora_3/qhoratiusflaccus00hora_3.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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