Q. Horatius Flaccus, Ex Recensione & cum Notices atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii Editio Tertia
Amsterdam: Wetstein, 1728. Frontispiece, [24],717p, [1], 239p, [1]. Contemporary vellum over boards with a gilt decorated spine. Foredge red stained. With Harvard University emblem on the front board and arms of Edward Hopkins Armig on the rear. What was needed for Horace and which had never been done, as R.J. White writes p156, was to draw the reader's attention to interpretation presented by a remarkably pure text and this is what Bentley accomplished. Kenney p72 writes further that if Bentley's own conjectures were to be removed from the text, what remains bears a close resemblance to a modern text of Horace, and there are not many classical editions on or about the year 1711 of which that may be said. The third edition edited by Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Dibdin p104-105 "The Amsterdam editions of 1713 and 1728 are preferable to the Cambridge one of 1711. The notes and text are in the same page, and they are accompanied by the index of Treter, corrected nu Verburgius." Bartholomew & Clark #150. A few chips to the spine label and old professional reinforcement of the inner hinges. Item #10183
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