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Quinti Horati Flacci Carmina sapphica.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Ashendene 4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horace.
- Standardized Title:
- Carmina Sapphica. Latin (Ashendene Press)
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Laudatory poetry, Latin.
- Genre:
- Private press books.
- Limitation statements.
- Japan vellum.
- Limp bindings.
- Vellum bindings.
- Poems.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 46, [2] pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chelsea : In aedibus St. J. Hornby, MCMIII [1903]
- Notes:
- "Explicit hic liber Quinti Horati [sic] Flacci Carminum sapphicorum quem Officina Ashendiniana maxima cum cura excudebant C.H. St. J. Hornby & Meysey turton. Anno Salutis 1903."--Colophon.
- "Colophon (in red) ... [f]ollowed by printer's mark C [of the Ashendene Press] in black and 'Registrum' in red."--Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press.
- "125 copies printed on Japanese paper and 25 copies on vellum. The initial letters to the Odes ... were filled in by hand by Graily Hewitt ... Issued in a binding of limp vellum, that of the paper copies being white and of the vellum copies green."--Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press.
- Initials colored by hand in gold, red or blue.
- Issued in slip case.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of 125 copies printed on Japanese paper and bound in limp white vellum.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case (damaged) retained.
- Cited in:
- Descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, XVII (page 51)
- OCLC:
- 802322
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