The Complete Works of Horace [Latin]

First edition of Didot's pocket Horace, illustrated with "some of the earliest photographs used in book-illustration" (Williams, p. 19). In the address to the reader, the editor refers to photography as "the marvel of our century" (p. iv). This was the earliest of three photographically illustrated editions of the classics by Didot, the others being Virgil and Anacreon. It includes six photographic reproductions of paintings depicting the localities mentioned by Horace in his works and two engraved maps. There are also eleven photographic prints of drawings by the French painter Félix-Joseph Barrias (1822-1907), Degas's teacher.

Born to a renown family of French printers, Firmin Didot (1764-1836) was "the greatest typographer" show more (Williams, p. 118) of the family, appointed director of the Imprimerie Impériale typefoundry by Napoleon, and inventor of the term "stereotype". This edition of Horace has been described as a typographic milestone, and praised for the clarity of its minuscule types, particularly the one employed in the address to the reader, cast by Laurent & De Berny. The lowercase letters of this type measure less than a millimetre in height.

Brunet III, 325; Rosens 5139. Robert Williams, Pageant of Printing in Picture and Prose, 1938. show less

"your Latin & Greek should be kept up assiduously by reading at spare hours: and, discontinuing the desultory reading of the schools. I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages ... in Latin read Livy, Caesar, Sallust Tacitus, Cicero’s Philosophies, and some of his Orations, in prose; and Virgil, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Horace, Terence & Juvenal for poetry." - Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820

"I read but a single paper, and that hastily. I find Horace & Tacitus so much better writers than the champions of the gazettes, that I lay those down to take up these with great reluctance." - Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 Jun. 1823

"your Latin & Greek should be kept up assiduously by reading at spare hours: and, discontinuing the desultory reading of the schools. I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages ... in Latin read Livy, Caesar, Sallust Tacitus, Cicero’s Philosophies, and some of his Orations, in prose; and Virgil, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Horace, Terence & Juvenal for poetry." - Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820

"I read but a single paper, and that hastily. I find Horace & Tacitus so much better writers than the champions of the gazettes, that I lay those down to take up these with great reluctance." - Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 Jun. 1823

Bindings seriously damaged and pages have water damage, but worthy of rebinding. Some pages were stuck together so there is some damage to some pages when they were separated. Purchased for $40.

Edition: Revised Edition // Descr: 502 p. 19 cm. // Series: Classic Linear Translations Call No. { 874 H78 23 } Contains Both Latin and English Versions. // //

"your Latin & Greek should be kept up assiduously by reading at spare hours: and, discontinuing the desultory reading of the schools. I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages ... in Latin read Livy, Caesar, Sallust Tacitus, Cicero’s Philosophies, and some of his Orations, in prose; and Virgil, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Horace, Terence & Juvenal for poetry." - Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820

"I read but a single paper, and that hastily. I find Horace & Tacitus so much better writers than the champions of the gazettes, that I lay those down to take up these with great reluctance." - Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 Jun. 1823

Oeuvres d'Horace publiées avec une étude biographique et littéraire, une notice sur la métrique et la prosodie dans les Odes et Epodes, des notes critiques, un index des noms propres et des notes explicatives par F. Plessis et P. Lejay