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Horatius Flaccus (Quintus). Opera cu[m] quibusdam Annotat[i]o[n]ib[us], Imaginibusque pulcherrimis, aptisque ad Odaru[m] conce[i]tus & sente[n]tias, Strasborg, Johann Reinhard Gruninger, 12 March 1498, 219 leaves (of 220, without blank LL8 at end), collation: [*]6,A-Z6,AA-II6,KK8-LL7 (lacking final blank LL8 at end), text and commentary printed in triple column, 168 woodcut illustrations from 101 blocks by the Master of the Ulm Terence (many repeated), some light overall toning throughout, extensive contemporary ink marginalia throughout, now faded and in some places not legible, some leaves with repairs mainly to inner margins, but including several small excisions replaced with blank paper, and vertical closed tears (with consequent repairs with clear adhesive tape - main repairs are to signatures A, D4, E6, F1-4, O, P4-5, Q3-6, T-V, VV, FF1-5, and LL1-7), 19th-century half black morocco, gilt-decorated spine, rubbed and some marks, folio (29.3 x 20.5 cm), sold with all faults, not subject to return Hain-Copinger 8898*; GW 13468; BMC I,112; BSB-INK H-370; Goff H-461, BOD-inc H-214. First illustrated edition of the works of Horace, and the first printed in Germany, here edited by Jacobus Locher for the first time from a manuscript source, and with commentary by Nicolaus Perottus. One of the finest illustrated books produced in Germany during the fifteenth century, issued by the Strasbourg printer Johann Gruninger.