Q. Horacio Flacco poeta lyrico latino. Sus obras con la declaracion magistral en lengua castellana Villar de Biedma, Juan Classical Literature,Poetry

Folio, 10 p.l., 330, [8] leaves; collating: ? ? A? B-4M? 4N 4T-4V?; text in Latin and Spanish; the prelims slightly misbound but all leaves present; printer's woodcut device on title page and verso of last leaf; large heraldic woodcut on verso of Francisco González de Heredia, to whom the work is dedicated; woodcut initials and ornaments; first 2 leaves remargined, the following 17 leaves with some restoration to the fore-margins, the terminal leaf also remargined; final 6 leaves with worming in the bottom margins, fortunately with no loss of letterpress; 18th-century full speckled calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in one; faults aside, a very good, sound and clean copy. The first Spanish edition of Horace, translated by Juan Villar de Biedma. OCLC contains this note: "The Obras contain major portions of the original Latin texts, together with a prose translation running interpretive commentary of . all the known works of Horace. It is not entirely impossible that 'Villen de Biedma' is a pseudonym of Diego Lopez, whose first translation with commentaries in the manner of Biedma, appeared the following year . "; cf. T.S. Beardsley, Hispano-Classical translations (Pittsburgh, 1970), p. 64." Adams H-949; BM-STC Spanish, 44; Mills Library Check List 255; Riedel-Horatiana A-63; Palau 116030.