Live auction - Lot 1006

Opera omnia, recensuit Filon (...).

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus

€ 300 / 400

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Paris, A. Mesnier, 1828

32mo, 7,5 x 4,5 cm : viii-229 pp.

Black Russia leather signed Ottmann, blind and gilt rules on covers, blindruled borders on flat spine (head & tail faintly rubbed), glossy white paper and gilt fillets on inner covers, glossy endpapers, gilt sides, a.e.g. Good copy.

Edition revised by Auguste Filon, identical to the Sautelet ed. but for the imprint. Printed by "Didot natu minor" (Didot the Younger) in the microscopic type created in 1820 by Henry Didot the Elder, using the polyamatype method invented by him. "In spite of its exceedingly small size Didot's type is of great beauty and amazing clarity" (Bondy). Copy with large margins (!) bound by Charles Ottmann, active Paris c. 1840-1855. Ref. Welsh 3568 (= Mikrobiblion 131). - Bondy p. 91. - Spielmann 201. - Bn-Opale plus. - Not in COPAC.

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Lot 1006

Opera omnia, recensuit Filon (...).

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus

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