Book Description

4to., pp. [xxiv] 717, [i], 239, [i], including engraved additional title-page and divisional title for ‘Pars altera’ after p.442. Emendata after p.717 (i.e. 4Y1 verso). Index at rear. Title page in red and black with engraved device, woodcut initials. Gatherings 3M-3O and 3V-3X very toned, occasional light toning otherwise, a few tiny scorchmarks. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt borders, lovely blue paste-patterned edges, very good. With letterpress and manuscript school-prize (to J.J. van Hees, dated 1822) bound at the front.
Dealer Notes
The second edition of Bentley's (in)famous edition of Horace, first printed at Cambridge in 1711, notable for his rash but inspired conjectures and emendations. "The Amsterdam editions of 1713 and 1728 are preferable to the Cambridge one of 1711. The notes and text are in the same page, and they are accompanied by the index of Treter, corrected by Verburgius" (Dibdin 104).
Dibdin (4th edn.) II 101; Schweiger II 406; Bijker Riedel A140; Lowndes 1113: “The best edition.”; Graesse III 354 (note); Brunet III 319 (note).
Author [Horace] Horatius Flaccus, Quintus: (Bentley, Richard, ed.:)
Date 1713.
Publisher Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios Hff.

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