Shelfmark
Kp.3.16
Author
Uniform title
[Works. 1869]
Title
Q. Horatii Flacci Opera / illustrated from antique gems by C.W. King ... ; the text revised, with an introduction, by H.A.J. Munro ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Bell & Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden, 1869.
Physical description
xxxiv, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
Texts in Latin, introduction in English.
Provenance
Presentation copy from the editor H.A.J. Munro to William Johnson Cory, with inscription: "Guilielmo Johnson qui Lucretili suo Horatianam artem unice repraesentaverit H.A.J.M. d.d. l.m. Devonianum saepe Lucretilem mutet Sabino Faunus et incolam hortetur antiqui saporis mella novis reparare curis."
Provenance
Ms. note on endpaper: "This book was found in a second-hand book-shop in Hampstead & given on 18 Apr 1926 by Cuthbert Wrangham KS to his late tutor Hubert Brinton, who was a master at Eton from Jan 1887 to Dec 1924."
Provenance
Eton College Library booklabel with note recording gift by Mr H. Brinton, October 1931.
Binding
19th century grained goatskin binding; border of gilt triple fillets with semicircular corner on innermost fillet; gilt-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt text block edges.
Copy-specific note
ALS from Munro to Cory [as Johnson] dated Trinity College 4 Nov. 1871 tipped in at end, praising his "little book" [presumably the Key to Lucretilis, published in 1871] and praising "the best & most Horatian Sapphics & Alcaics, which I am acquainted with, that have been written since Horace ceased to write". Also tipped in at end a printed leaf paginated 369-370, containing two "Rhymes after Horace" signed "Ofellus" i.e. two of four poems by Cory published pseudonymously in Macmillan's Magazine, Aug. 1888 and Sep. 1889. See introductory note to Cory's Rhymes after Horace, Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982.
Subject
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892 Rhymes after Horace.
Subject
Latin poetry.
Added entry--name
Munro, H. A. J., 1819 - 1885 (Hugh Andrew Johnstone),
Added entry--name
King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818 - 1888 (Charles William),
Added entry--name
Munro, H. A. J., 1819 - 1885 correspondent.
Added entry--name
Cory, William Johnson, 1823 - 1892 former owner.
Added entry--name
Brinton, Hubert former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bell and Daldy publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lateng
Identifier
B45557