Bentley’s Horace Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 51.2 cm several joints skilfully renewed

several joints skilfully renewed

elaborate engraved border

Howgego does record that a revised version was issued by Laurie in 1841

[ix] + 43 leaves of plates (40 folding) engraved by Benjamin Baker

Pencilled inscription on pastedown: D

Bentley’s Horace Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 51.2 cm several joints skilfully renewedQuintus Horatius Flaccus: [Opera] Ex Recensione & cum Notis atque Emendationibus Ricardi Bentleii. Editio Tertia. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios & Guil. Smith, 1728 Bentleys Horace was first printed in Cambridge in 1711, but the Amsterdam editons laid out with text and notes on the same page and with a revised version of Treturs index are considered superior. This is one of the best editions of the most outstanding achievement