Bentley’s Horace Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 51.2 cm Pencilled inscription on pastedown: D

Pencilled inscription on pastedown: D

slight toning

elaborate engraved border

Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver

several joints skilfully renewed

Bentley’s Horace Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 51.2 cm Pencilled inscription on pastedown: DQuintus Horatius Flaccus: [Opera] Ex Recensione & cum Notis atque Emendationibus Ricardi Bentleii. Editio Tertia. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios & Guil. Smith, 1728 Bentleys Horace was first printed in Cambridge in 1711, but the Amsterdam editons laid out with text and notes on the same page and with a revised version of Treturs index are considered superior. This is one of the best editions of the most outstanding achievement