Accession number:
PML 6321.1
Published:
Imprinted at London in Fletestrete : by Thomas Marshe, MDLXVI [1566].
Description:
[190] p. ; 20 cm
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
The first edition of the first English translation of Horace.
First ed. (STC 13805) first issue with the dedication to Lady Bacon on verso of title.
Signatures: a⁴; A-L⁸ M⁴.
The title page verso bears a dedication to Lady Bacon and Lady Cecil. Variant 1: this page blank. Variant 2: with two errata leaves.
PML copy with dedication but without errata leaves.
Binding:
18th/19th-century English gilt-tooled black straight-grained morocco.
Provenance:
Thomas Juxon, signature, 16th century (title page); Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), signature (title page), see Bod-inc provenance index; Thomas Park (1759-1834), signatures, 1792 (Medicinable title page and M4v); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from J.O. Wright, Aug. 1887; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with Irwin collection, 1900.
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