10 vol. 12mo. printer’s woodcut device on the title-pages, engraved frontispiece by and after B. Picart, with a medallion portrait of Horace; the
Latin text of each work, with the
French prose translation on the opposite pages, followed in each case by the Remarques on the work concerned.
Graesse III, 366.
Ebert 10191.
Quérard IV, 136.
André Dacier, 1651-1722, French scholar, Keeper of the books in the King’s library, perpetual secretary and treasurer in the French Academy
and member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, published his first edition of Horace from 1681 to 1700.
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Horace
Eng. by Francis.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 146, no. 3, as above.
HORATIUS FLACCUS,
Quintus.
A Poetical Translation of the Works of Horace: with the Original Text, and Critical Notes collected from his best
Latin and
French Commentators. By the Rev
d Mr. Philip Francis, Rector of Skeyton in Norfolk. In
Four Volumes [Vol. II, III, The
Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Vol. IV. The
Third Edition]
London: Printed for
A. Millar, at Buchanan’s Head, opposite to Katharine-Street, in the Strand.
m. dcc. l.
[1750.]
4 vol. 12mo. 136, 156, 140 and 138 leaves; general title in Vol. I only. Vol. II has the title for the Odes, Epodes and Carmen
Seculare, Vol. III for the Satires, Vol. IV, with imprint dated
M. DCC. XLIX, for the Epistles and Art of Poetry, publisher’s advertisements at
the end of Vol. I, II, IV,
English and
Latin text on opposite pages, engraved plate by Grignon in Vol. III.
This edition not in Lowndes and in Graesse.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 317.
Philip Francis, 1708?-1773, Irish miscellaneous writer. The first edition of this translation was published in Durham in 1742. For a play
by him, see no. 4551.
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The same
Eng. by The most Eminent hands.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 146, no. 4. Horace, Eng. by the most eminent hands, 12mo.
HORATIUS FLACCUS,
Quintus.
The Odes and Satires of Horace, That have been done into
English by the most Eminent Hands, viz. Lord Rochester, Lord Roscommon, Mr. Cowley, Mr. Otway, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Prior, Mr. Maynwaring, And several others. With his Art of Poetry, By My Lord Roscommon.
London: Printed for
A. Bell in
Cornhill,
T. Varnam and
F. Osborn in Lombard Street,
F. Brown, without Temple-bar, and
F. Baker in Pater-noster-row.
mdccxv
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PA6395 .A2 1715
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 100 leaves.
Lowndes II, 1116.
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, 765.
Graesse III, 363 (with date 1712).
United States Check List no. 444.
John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680, English poet.
Wentworth Dillon, Fourth Earl of Roscommon, 1633?-1685, Irish poet, first printed his translation of Horace’s
Ars Poetica
in 1680.
Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667, English poet.
Thomas Otway, 1652-1685, English dramatist and poet.
Matthew Prior, 1664-1721, English poet and diplomat.
Arthur Maynwaring, 1668-1712, English poet and auditor of the imprests.
Translators whose names do not appear on the title-page include Mr. Horneck, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Glanvill, Thomas Yalden, W. Duncomb, Mr. Duke, Mr. Norris, J. Hughs, William Walsh, Mr. Stepney, Dr. Pope, the late Duke of Buckingham, Sir William Temple, Mr. Manning, Mr. Stafford and others.
An edition of this book was published by Tonson in the same year (Census 445), which may have been the one in Jefferson’s
library; the date and place of printing is all the information available.
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