| British Library: | C.99.h.12 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 119 |
| Curwen Press: | D33 |
| British Library: | C.99.h.12 |
| Aberystwyth University, Thomas Parry Library: | Simon 119 |
| Curwen Press: | D33 |
[A]2r
HORATI CARMINUM LIBRI IV [line block in black, grey and yellow] LONDINI : Impensis Petr. Davies 30 Henrietta Street MCMXXVI
[K]7v
This edition of the Odes of Horace is limited to five hundred copies for sale, set by hand in types designed by Rudolf Koch and printed at the Curwen Press. The decorations are reproduced from drawings by Véra Willoughby
[A]2 B-K8; [A] is tipped in.
[4] 1-141 [+3].
Demy 8o: 8¾" × 5¾", uncut, white laid, Ellerslie 12(+4)pt. Koch Kursiv; line blocks, some in three colours; casing, maroon buckram, spine and upper cover gold-blocked with design covering whole area; on spine the letters: ‘Q· HOR· FLACC I CAR MINA’ are incorporated in the design
The first use of Koch Kursiv in England. See Simon 1956 p.44. See also Simon 1973 p.240: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was limited to 500 copies, on Ellerslie mould-made paper; one of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
12/Nov/1926
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Dec/2007
