Q. Horatii Flacci, Quae Supersunt, Recensuit et Notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield

Londini: Impensis Kearley, 1794. FIRST WAKEFIELD EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 203 x 125 mms., pp. vii, 185 [187 - 194 notes]; [ii], 168 [169 - 177 notes, 178 blank], engraved frontispiece in each volume, two further engraved plates, one in each volumes, errat slip before text in volume 2, bound in contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt spines (sunned and darkened), all edges gilt; corners worn, front end-papers vandalized, with top margin of marbled end-paper clipped to a depth of 24 mms., and small triangular clipping of second free end-paper, front free marbled end-paper from volume 2 removed, with previous ownership ticket of Edward John Kenney in each volume, and on the verso of the front free end-paper of volume 1, the ownership autograph "R. W. D. Willoughby/ Demy of Magdalen/ d. d./HCFM. Nov. 1895." The same initials appear on the adjacent recto of the following leaf with "Torquay Jan 93" in pencil. Wakefield's edition was reviewed at length, in two parts, in The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, for 1794, with the reviewer making a number of emendations and corrections to Wakefield's textual emendations. Dr. Philip Pirages has wittily remarked that Wakefield (1756 - 1801) "never met a text that he didn't want to emend," and his emendations here are no exception. Dibdin famously described the edition as "A very elegant and correct edition, ornamented with plates; the type is clear and beautiful"(Greek and Latin Classics, 1804, page 204). Dibdin also described the review in The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review as "fastidiously severe.