HORACE

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HORACE
De Satyra Horatiana Libri duo. Leiden, Elzevier, 1629. In-12 of 1 frontispiece, (16) ff. 239 pp. red morocco, scroll and fillet, compartment drawn with straight and curved fillets embellished in the corners and at the extremities with small dotted irons or filigree fleurons; in the central part, arranged around a four-lobed motif, four gilt dotted sprays enhanced with gilt dots, spine decorated with small gilt dotted irons, scrolls on the edges and inside, gilt edges on marbling (contemporary binding). First of three parts of this attractive Elzevirian edition, published by Daniel Heinsius and decorated with a copper-engraved title-frontispiece. (Willems, no. 314.) An unbound copy, without a tome, as the collector probably wished to own only the text of Horace and not the commentaries by Daniel Hensius. A very fine binding with a "sheaf" decoration, attributable to the workshop of Florimond Badier. A perfect example of these elegant Badier bindings, rare enough that none have appeared for sale since the dispersal of the Raphael Esmerian library nearly fifty years ago. The New York collector owned three comparable bindings. (Esmerian II catalogue, 1972, nos. 20, 21 and 22: three bindings by Badier executed in the 1630s and 1640s on Elzevier impressions.) 17th century handwritten bookplate at foot of frontispiece: De Berlize (?). Some foxing. Reading marks in pencil.
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