The epistles and Art of poetry of Horace translated into English metre

by Andrew Wood

$150 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

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Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1872. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 140, 4 ads ; publisher's terracotta cloth, gilt-stamped spine; bookplate removed, light wear; very good, clean, and sound. This copy inscribed With the translator's compliments on the half-title. Wood 1810-1881 was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh where in 1855 he succeeded Robert Omond as President of the Royal College of Surgeons, a role also previously held by his father William. He

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