Fine Books & Manuscripts

[HORACE]. –– PINE, John (1690–1756), engraver. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera… London: John Pine. 1733–37. 2 volumes, 8vo (235 x 146 mm). All text and illustrations engraved by Pine including frontispieces, plates, head– and tail– pieces, in text vignettes, and decorated initials (some offsetting to title from frontispiece). Contemporary tree calf inlaid with a wide red morocco border with gilt fleuron tools, 6 compartments completely filled with red and black morocco spine labels gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins, marbled endpapers (discretely rebacked with original spine laid down). Lacking “List of Antiques” in Vol. II as usual. Provenance: David Anderson (1804 dated gift inscription on preliminary blank to Anderson from David Steuart and a dated ALS to Anderson from Steuart laid into ffep verso pocket). LARGE PAPER COPY, SECOND ISSUE corrected with “Potest” in the Caesar medallion on. p. 108 of Vol. II. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ENGRAVED BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. “The brilliancy of this engraved roman text struck a new note, and thus Pine’s Horace may have had a good deal to do with the taste from more ‘finished’ types which waxed as the century waned.” (Updike II, p. 138). A BRIGHT AND WELL MARGINED SET. Lowndes III, p. 1113; Rothschild 1548. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.