Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera by Horace - 1737

London: Iohannes Pine, 1737. First Pine edition, second isssue, with "potest" in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Frontispiece, [14], [265]; frontispiece, [6], 191, [46] pp. With complete engraved list of European subscribers, beginning with Frederick, Prince of Wales. Engraved by Pine throughout with text, plates, portraits, vignettes, and initials. 2 vols. 8vo. Full 20th-century olive-green morocco, gilt-lettered spines. richly gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by ALFRED MATTHEWS. First Pine edition, second isssue, with "potest" in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Frontispiece, [14], [265]; frontispiece, [6], 191, [46] pp. With complete engraved list of European subscribers, beginning with Frederick, Prince of Wales. Engraved by Pine throughout with text, plates, portraits, vignettes, and initials. 2 vols. 8vo. Pine's Horace, in Matthews Binding. The pinnacle of Augustan book illustration, in an elegant binding by Matthews. "Pine's complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved" (Ray). Rothschild 1548; Ray, ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, p. 3; De Ricci- Cohen, pp. 497-8; Brunet III, p. 320. Provenance: William G. Mack (two bookplates); Reverend Stephen Marshall, D.D., Glasgow (gift inscription "from his brother Thomas 10th April, 1815. Malta" on first text page of vol. II); H.D. Lyon (compliment slips laid-in)