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HORACE QUINTI HORATII FALCCI OPERA CUM NOVO COMMENTARIO AD MODUM JOANNIS BOND
Paris Didot 1855 Hardcover
Approx. 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches in contemporary half dark red morocco signed binding (signed PERREAU). t.e.g. Marbled endpapers. Former collector's bookplate on front free endpaper. Printed in red and black. Faint foxing on front matter. "For a few copies, Didot explains, photography, that marvel of our century, reproduced the very drawings of Mr. Barrias." Includes 7 full-page mounted photographic subjects, 10 chapter head-piece photographic vignettes after drawings by Felix Joseph Barrias, and two maps of Horace's villa on offset double sheets. Slight rubbing to the covers, otherwise a lovely copy of this early example of French photo-illustrated literature. [Mentioned in The Truthful Lens, 179; NYPL Bulletin, Spring 1977, #11.]
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465.00 USD
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FLACCUS, Quintus Horatius. [HORACE] THE WORKS OF QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. ILLUSTRATED CHIEFLY FROM THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT ART
London John Murray 1849 Hardcover
8vo. ( approximately 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches); 194, 490, xiv pp (list of illustrations bound at rear). In old 3/4 calf with marbled boards, marbled edges, and matching marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and ornate gilt decoration; edges rubbed and leather title label lacking. Occasional light spotting to pages. Illustrated with drawings "from the antique" by George Scharf, Jr. and with 7 striking color chromolith plates by Owen Jones (1809-1874) architect and decorative artist and author of "Grammar of Ornament," 1856, was a pioneer in the use of color chromolithography. He was also responsible for the decorative color borders on each page of text. With a "Life" by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman. A very attractive production.
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350.00 USD
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