HORATIUS FLACCUS.

£4,250 · Offered by Sokol Books

An extremely rare early edition of the works of Horace published in England in Latin followed by works by Juvenal and Persius; this edition survives in one other complete copy, at the Bodleian Library; another copy at the Houghton library, Harvard, is described as “Imperfect: a second t.p. is fragmentary; written over with ms. notes; tightly bound, stained and worn, with loss of print.” This edition is only the third edition of Horace in Latin published in England; the first was published 11 years earlier in, though there had been partial English translations of his works from 1565. “In sixteenth-century England too Horace enjoyed increasing respect among the intellectual and literary elite, both for his verse and for his guide to poetry, the Ars Poetica. Some of them had become familiar with Horace’s work through continental editions in Latin, such as Sir Robert Wyatt during his diplomatic missions, others through Thomas Drant’s first translation o the Sermones into English, published in 1556. But for some time there was no single received text of Horace’s corpus in Tudor-Stuart England. .. When editions of Horace’s Poemata Omnia did begin to appear in England in Latin – in the early 1570’s – there was the usual element of competition between printers, with different notes being offered in in different editions. But since in England the poems of Horace were usually combined with the Satires of Juvenal and Persius, and were published unexpurgated, this was

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