Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Accedit index variantium lectionum insignioris notae que passim in MSS. occurrunt [Grierson, Constantina?] Classical Literature,Poetry

12mo, pp. [4], 199, [1]; [2], 14, 10; printer's engraved device on title page, title printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments; contemporary red goat, double gilt rules on covers, floral elements in the corners, gilt-paneled spine in 5 compartments, later morocco labels in 2; light rubbing, top quarter inch of front free endpaper cut away, likely to remove a signature, leaf B11 with extensive ink cross-out (not touching text; all else very good, sound, and clean. Engraved armorial bookplate of I. Baker Holroyd Esq. and his ownership signature on the title page dated 1753. John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, (1735-1821) "was an Anglo-Irish politician and soldier. He was a leading authority on agriculture and commerce and appointed President of the Board of Agriculture in 1803. He is also remembered as the close friend and patron of eminent historian Edward Gibbon, to whom he acted as literary executor and editor" (Wikipedia). A variant edition has the title page printed in black only. Likely missing the sectional title page to the Variae Lectiones at the back. The book collates: A2, B-I12, K4; A6 (-A1 sectional title), B4 (-B4 blank), C6 (-C6 blank). George Grierson (ca. 1679-1753) was a Scottish-born printer and publisher in Dublin. He was married to Constantina Grierson (née Crawley; ca. 1705-1732), a poet and classical scholar who is known to have edited editions of Terence, Tacitus, and Virgil, all of which were published by her husband. Is it not unreasonable to expect that she may have had a least a hand in editing this edition of Horace? Mills College Check List 463; not in Riedel-Horatiana. ESTC locates just 4 copies in the U.S.: Berkeley, Cornell, De Paul, and Free Library of Philadelphia.