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001 $ 06/3064
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20210923184231.0
041 0 # $a lat
044 # # $a uk
100 0 # $a Horace
245 1 0 $a Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. Vol. I. (II.)
246 3 # $a Opera
260 # # $a Londini: $b Prostant apud Gul. Sandby in vico dicto Fleetstreet. $c MDCCXLIX. $c [1749]
300 # # $a 2 vols.; $c 161 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Vol. I: [4], vi, [4], 156 p., 26 pl. (incl. frontis.) (In the Royal Academy's copy they are bound in in the order 1-5, 8, 6, 7, 9-16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 22, 25, 19, 17, 26, 18.) - Vol. II: [2], 157-396 p., pl. 27-35.
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Frontis. (= pl.1), t.p., dedic.] - Q. Horatii Flacci Vita A Suetonio Tranquillo conscripta - Lectori Benevolo - Horatius Signis, Picturis et Numismatibus Illustratus [i.e. list of plates] - [Text with plates]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - [text with pl.] - Variantes Lectiones - Conjecturae; [colophon].
508 # # $a Twelve plates (6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 21, 24, 27, 31, 34, 35) are signed as engraved by I.S.M(üller); the rest are unsigned.

The two title-page vignettes are signed as engraved by J.S. Müller.

The printer is named in the colophon of Vol. II: 'Typis Jacobi Bettenham. Aug. 10, 1749.'

The edition is dedicated by Gul. Sandby to George Prince of Wales [afterwards King George II].
510 4 # $a ESTC $c N14776
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T46228
520 2 # $a Horace's poems, lyric, satiric or didactic, never provided as much stimulus to visual artists as the narrative poems of Ovid and Vergil; but a number of the Odes engage with heroic themes.

In this edition the first volume contains the Odes, Epodes and Carmen Saeculare; the second, the Satires, Epistles and De Arte Poetica. The last work includes the much quoted expression, 'ut pictura poesis' (poetry is as painting), which has been taken up as the basis of various theories of visual art.

The plates illustrate details in Horace's poems. They are described in the list of plates, 'Horatii Signis ... Illustratus', which also indicates their sources - coins, gems, illustrations in earlier books, etc.
533 # # $n A microfilm version was published in 1989 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
561 # # $a Presented by the architect George Aitchison RA in 1901, together with a companion edition of Virgil (see 'Librarian's Report', RA Annual Report for 1901, p. 41).
563 # # $a 18th-century white vellum; red morocco spine-labels lettered 'Horatii Opera Tom. I (II)', spines lettered 'R.A.'
600 0 4 $a Horace
653 # # $a Social life and customs - Italy - Rome - History
655 # # $a Latin poetry - Italy - 1st century B.C.
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Illustrated books - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Sandby $e bookseller
700 0 # $a George II $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Bettenham $e printer
700 1 # $a Muller $e engraver
700 1 # $a Aitchison, George $e previous owner $e donor