HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus (68-8 B.C.). [ Opera .] Paris: Presse Didot the Elder, at his Louvre Press, 1799. Large 2° (480 x 340mm). Three interlinked medallion vignettes on title, 11 engraved headpieces, Firmin Didot's type on wove paper (some scattered foxing, one or two quires slightly darkened). Bound by Bradel l'A'îné (with his ticket) in contemporary French crimson straight-grained morocco, gilt frame on sides made up of rules, palmette rolls and sunbursts, WITH LARGE ROYAL ARMS OF LOUIS XVIII (with collar of Saint-Esprit) (Olivier 2497 fer 6) superimposed at centre of both covers, within fancy oval, spine gilt in seven compartments between double raised bands, with delicate pattern of pointillé lines, curlicues and small stars, roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, blue moiré silk liners with roll-tooled borders (a smaller version of the palmette roll on the covers), g.e. (minor abrasions to lower cover). SUPERB BRADEL BINDING ON A MASTERPIECE OF NEO-CLASSICAL TYPOGRAPHY. Number 92 of 250 copies, this is one of 100 copies on papier vélin , numbered and signed by Didot at the end of the preface. 'In France the typographic event of the close of the century was the appearance of Pierre Didot's éditions du Louvre of Horace and Virgil' (Updike). The type has a classical, incised quality that is enhanced by the striking headpieces designed by the architect Charles Percier one of the leading exponents of the Empire style. Bradel's ticket in this volume calls him Relieur de la Bibliothèque Nationale , suggesting that the book was originally bound during the Consulate, before the establishment of the Bibliothèque Impériale (or the return to the title of Bibliothèque Royale at the Restoration). The royal arms, superimposed in morocco of a slightly different grain, must have been added for Louis XVIII (or his household); one may guess at the former presence of Napoleonic arms on the covers. Cf the Jeudwine copy (sold Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 29 November 1984, lot 265), which also had the arms of Louis XVIII superimposed (as well as Napoleonic bees on the spine). Cohen-de Ricci 499; Ray French , 71; Gruel, Manuel de L'Amateur de Reliures , vol 1, pp.61-63.
HORATIUS Flaccus, Quintus (68-8 B.C.). [ Opera .] Paris: Presse Didot the Elder, at his Louvre Press, 1799. Large 2° (480 x 340mm). Three interlinked medallion vignettes on title, 11 engraved headpieces, Firmin Didot's type on wove paper (some scattered foxing, one or two quires slightly darkened). Bound by Bradel l'A'îné (with his ticket) in contemporary French crimson straight-grained morocco, gilt frame on sides made up of rules, palmette rolls and sunbursts, WITH LARGE ROYAL ARMS OF LOUIS XVIII (with collar of Saint-Esprit) (Olivier 2497 fer 6) superimposed at centre of both covers, within fancy oval, spine gilt in seven compartments between double raised bands, with delicate pattern of pointillé lines, curlicues and small stars, roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, blue moiré silk liners with roll-tooled borders (a smaller version of the palmette roll on the covers), g.e. (minor abrasions to lower cover). SUPERB BRADEL BINDING ON A MASTERPIECE OF NEO-CLASSICAL TYPOGRAPHY. Number 92 of 250 copies, this is one of 100 copies on papier vélin , numbered and signed by Didot at the end of the preface. 'In France the typographic event of the close of the century was the appearance of Pierre Didot's éditions du Louvre of Horace and Virgil' (Updike). The type has a classical, incised quality that is enhanced by the striking headpieces designed by the architect Charles Percier one of the leading exponents of the Empire style. Bradel's ticket in this volume calls him Relieur de la Bibliothèque Nationale , suggesting that the book was originally bound during the Consulate, before the establishment of the Bibliothèque Impériale (or the return to the title of Bibliothèque Royale at the Restoration). The royal arms, superimposed in morocco of a slightly different grain, must have been added for Louis XVIII (or his household); one may guess at the former presence of Napoleonic arms on the covers. Cf the Jeudwine copy (sold Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 29 November 1984, lot 265), which also had the arms of Louis XVIII superimposed (as well as Napoleonic bees on the spine). Cohen-de Ricci 499; Ray French , 71; Gruel, Manuel de L'Amateur de Reliures , vol 1, pp.61-63.
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