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HORACE.
Opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Despres … tomus primus (– secundus). Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, 1797.
Two vols, large 4to; pp. 364; 365–676, bound without the concordance at the end (pp. 677–714); woodcut printer’s device to each title, woodcut head- and tailpieces; occasional light browning, C2 torn without loss, quire T misbound, a very good copy; uncut in a contemporary binding of patterned paper over pasteboard, the sides covered with paper block-printed with a monochrome geometrical pattern in black and overprinted with grey, resulting in a honeycomb pattern of white leaves, marbled paper spines marbled with manuscript paper labels; bindings a little rubbed, endleaves lightly browned, spines somewhat worn; manuscript note to p. 352, contemporary ownership inscription ‘Savoldi’ to inside upper covers.
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Opera, interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Despres … tomus primus (– secundus).
An uncut copy in a patterned paper binding of the respected critical edition of Horace by Louis Desprez (fl. 1675–1691).
Desprez was professor of rhetoric at the University of Paris, and the editor of numerous classical texts, including the satirists Juvenal and Persius. Here, each page is arranged with Horace’s text at the top, followed by a Latin interpretation of the verse, then detailed notes underneath. His edition of Horace was first printed in 1691, as part of the series ‘in usum delphini’ for the education of the Dauphin Louis. As a result, some of the ruder lines have been ignored in the commentary or suppressed – for Epodes VIII and XII, the offending text has been replaced with asterisks. (The Delphine edition of Martial fared much worse, unsurprisingly.)