Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]; Laevinius Torrentius [editor]

Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS, CUM ERUDITO LAEUINI TORRENTII COMMENTARIO, NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCEM EDITO

Antuerpiae [Antwerp]: Apud Officina Plantiniana, 1608. small quarto, [20], 839 pages, [44] index; VG; bound in early brown leather, paneled spine with gilt lettering and tooling; moderate wear and rubbing to boards; chipping to head and tail of spine; small bookplate to front pastedown, small piece of paper tipped onto rear pastedown; interior clean; with engraved portraits of Horace and Laevinius Torrentius. NOTE: Shelved in Room G.

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NOTES

Laevinius Torrentius, or in Dutch Lieven van der Beke, was the editor of this 1608 edition, and was appointed the second bishop of Antwerp in 1576.