Title: Opera Omnia, Recensuit Filon Author: Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Place: Paris Publisher: A. Sautelet Date: 1828 Description: viii, 229 pp. 77x50 mm, finely bound in full red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt on spine and covers, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding stamped C. Hardy on verso of front free endpaper. Printed with Henri Didot’s microscopic 2.5 point type. “One of the typographical wonders and an unsurpassed feat as far as minuteness and beauty of type is concerned” - Spielmann. Welsh 3567; Spielmann 202; Grolier 70; Brunet III 324; Bondy p.91. Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight bumps to corners; fine. Item number: 282283
Title: Opera Omnia, Recensuit Filon Author: Horatius Flaccus, Quintus Place: Paris Publisher: A. Sautelet Date: 1828 Description: viii, 229 pp. 77x50 mm, finely bound in full red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt on spine and covers, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding stamped C. Hardy on verso of front free endpaper. Printed with Henri Didot’s microscopic 2.5 point type. “One of the typographical wonders and an unsurpassed feat as far as minuteness and beauty of type is concerned” - Spielmann. Welsh 3567; Spielmann 202; Grolier 70; Brunet III 324; Bondy p.91. Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight bumps to corners; fine. Item number: 282283
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