Shelfmark
Kp.4.41
Additional shelfmark
Kp.4.42 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Rhymes after Horace : six verse translations / William Johnson Cory.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Edinburgh : Privately printed at the Tragara Press, MCMLXXXII. [1982]
Physical description
[20] p. ; 25 cm.
Note
"These six poems were published pseudonymously ... under the name Ofella [in 1888 and 1889]"--"Note," p. [5].
Note
"Edition limited to one hundred & fifteen copies hand-set in Stephenson Blake Perpetua type and printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press"--colophon.
Note
Sewn as single quire in publisher's printed cornflower blue card covers with fore-edge flaps.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Phyllis I-II (Odes ii. 4, iv. 11) -- Licymnia (Odes ii. 12) -- Asterie (Odes iii. 7) -- Neaera (Epode xv) -- Achilles (Epode xiii).
Citation/references note
Halliwell, S. A bibliography of the Tragara Press, 2005, A84
Citation/references note
Carter, J. Hand-list of the printed works of William Johnson, afterwards Cory (Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society ; 1, 1949), p. 86
Provenance
[Copy 1] Bookplate of Eton College Library with note: "d.d. P.L.S. [i.e. Patrick Strong] in piam memoriam WJC nec-non JWC [i.e. William Johnson Cory and John Carter].
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Copy no. 40.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Copy no. 77. Loosely inserted ALS from Alan Anderson on stationery of the Tragara Press, dated 10 May 1982,to Michael Meredith.
Subject
Subject
Laudatory poetry, Latin Translations into English.
Added entry--name
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892 translator.
Added entry--name
Anderson, Alan printer.
Added entry--name
Strong, Patrick, b.1931 - ? donor.
Added entry--name
Tragara Press. publisher.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B45535