Q. Horatii Flacci Epistols ad Pisones, De arte poetica. The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos. Translated from Horace. With notes. By George Colman Colman, George Classical Literature,English Literature,Poetry

4to, pp. [4], ix, [2], 3-40,3-40, [1], lxiii, [1] ; Latin and English on opposite pages. Mills College Check List, 787; Riedel-Horatiana K-18. Bound with: [Lister, Edward Jackson, translator.] The Epitaph of Adonis; translated from the Greek of Bion. By a choirmaster of Magdalen College. Oxford, 1780. 4to, pp. 15, [1]. Inscribed, almost certainly by Lister, at the top of the title page: "Thomae Warton hujus seculi poetarum principe" [i.e., Thomas Warton the prince of poets of this century]. Thomas Warton is the dedicatee, together with his brother Joseph, of Coleman's The Art of Poetry: an Epistle to the Pisos, as above. Thomas Warton. the Younger (1728-1790) was a poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry. He was the brother of the poet and critic Joseph Warton, and son of Thomas Warton the Elder, who was a professor of poetry at Oxford University (1718 26). The 1786 edition of The Epitaph of Adonis notes that the translation is by Edward Jackson Lister and states that "a few copies of The Epitaph of Adonis were printed in 1780 inscribed to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College of which society he was a chorister." Harvard and Yale only in OCLC. ESTC also notes only the Harvard and Yale copies, the first with a mutilated title page, and the second wanting the half-title, present here. Together, 2 volumes in 1, contemporary full calf neatly rebacked and retipped, endpapers renewed.