L i t e r a t u r e 16 Sumptuously Bound And Illustrated Set Of Horace’s Odes And Epodes, With Etchings Pencil-Signed By Howard Pyle And Others 13. HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston, 1901-04. Eight volumes bound as ten. Octavo, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, with red morocco floral onlays. $6800. Limited illustrated edition, one of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double-suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition. Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as “versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets.” Each poem is additionally decoratedwith numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. Volume II, Part II and Volume IV, Part II issued without the limitation page or Pyle title page. Volume VII also without limitation page. A splendid illustrated set, beautifully bound and in fine condition. LITERATURE “The Play’s The Thing”: Superb Type-Facsimile Of Shakespeare’s First Folio, Beautifully Bound And Illustrated 14. SHAKESPEARE, William. The National Shakespeare. A Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623. Illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton. London, 1888-89. Three volumes. Large folio, original full dark green morocco gilt. $4200. First edition, “special” issue, of this handsome illustrated type-facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio in three large volumes: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. The fabled First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in 1623. This “Special Edition” type-facsimile is beautifully printed on handmade paper, bound in publisher’s full morocco and illustrated with “India-proof impressions” of 20 splendid photo-engraved plates by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, who was “immensely successful” as not only a painter but also a sculptor and poet (Houfe, 253). Each volume with frontispiece reproducing a known portrait of Shakespeare; “Histories” volume also contains a view of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Prospectus bound into “Comedies” volume. Jaggard, 551. Fine condition.
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