Op[er]a Q. Horatij Flacci poetae amoenissimi cum quatuor comme[n]tariis: Acronis, Porphyrionis, Anto. Mancinelli, Iodoci Badii Ascensii accurate repositis. Cu[m]q[ue] adnotationibus Matthaei Bonfinis: & Aldi Manutii Romani a philologo recognitis : suisq[ue] locis insertis & ad finem ex integro restitutis, pr?misso a[m]plissimo i[n] universum opus indice Pseudo-Acro, Pomponius Porphyrio, & Antonio Mancinelli [et al.] Classical Literature,Poetry

Folio, 6 p.l., 288 leaves; collating: aa? a-z? A-N?; title printed in red and black within illustrative woodcut border; title vignette of a printer's workshop, woodcut initials; numerous contemporary annotations in ink; 18th-century calf, black morocco label on spine; edges peeling, endpapers renewed, upper hinge cracked, title page soiled, dampstain in the lower margin of the last 10 leaves resulting in a tear on the last leaf (no loss of any letterpress); all else clean and sound. Engraved armorial bookplate of Peter Hardy, Fellow of the Royal Society, and the ownership signature on flyleaf of Franke Parker, Bishop of Cornwall, dated 5 June 1865, plus a memorial bookplate honoring Parker and his gift of this volume to the Bishopric of Cornwall. With the dedicatory letter to François de Rohan, archbishop of Lyon, dated 1519. The fifth and definitive edition of Horace's works, edited, annotated and published by Badius Ascensius, and adopted as a standard text. This, and each of the four previous Badius editions were re-edited and reset, sometime with new or rewritten prefaces, but after this edition it is this precise text and pagination which is reproduced exactly, by Badius in 1529, and others. Dibdin calls this a "splendid and uncommon edition." Adams H-865; Mills College Check List 88; Riedel-Horatiana A-7; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics (4th ed.), II, p. 93.