The lyric works of Horace - ECU Libraries Catalog

The lyric works of Horace / translated into English verse: ; to which are added, a number of original poems. By a native of America. ; [Two lines of Latin quotation].

Author/creator	Horace
Format	Book and Microform
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]
Description	xli, 1 unnumbered page, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)
Subject(s)	Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry. Latin literature. United States--History --Poetry.

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Other author/creator	Parke, John, 1754-1789, editor.
Other author/creator	Washington, George, 1732-1799 dedicatee.
Other author/creator	French, David, 1700-1742, translator.
Other author/creator	Markoe, Peter, 1752?-1792, illustrator.
Other author/creator	Malcolm, James Peller, 1767-1815, engraver.
Included Work	Horace. Carmen saeculare.
Included Work	Parke, John, 1754-1789. Virginia: a pastoral drama.
Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19717 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19717. ^A478749
General note	Edited by John Parke, who was responsible for some of the translations and original poems. Includes also translations of classical poets other than Horace, and both original poems and translations by other hands than Parke's. Some of the translations are in fact paraphrases, adapted to the circumstances of American history and dedicated to well-known Americans.
General note	Dedicated to George Washington.
General note	Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3A⁴ a-b⁴.
General note	Errors in paging: p. 55-99 misnumbered 54-98.
General note	Frontispiece engraved by James Peller Malcolm, after a design by Peter Markoe.
General note	"Carmen seculare. The secular poem, composed at the express command of Augustus."--p [177]-190, with separate title page.
General note	"Translations from the Greek and Latin, with original poems."--p. [191]-319, with separate title page. Translations by David French. Cf. p. xxiv.
General note	"Virginia: a pastoral drama, on the birth-day of an illustrious personage and the return of peace, February 11th, 1784."--p. [321]-344, with separate title page. By John Parke.
General note	"Subscribers."--p. [334-350].
References	Evans 19717
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 303
Reproduction note	Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19717).
Genre/form	Poems 1786.
Genre/form	Subscribers' lists.

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