Miniature Book News, Number 38, September 1979 Page: 5
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HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
Roman lyricist and satirist, lived 65-8 B.C.
* Opera Omnia, Cum novis Argumentis. Sedani, Joannis Jannoni, 1627. 220
pages, 35/1 x 2 inches, red morocco. (Produced with the famous 41/2 point
"diamond" sedani type, perhaps the earliest example of a tiny type-face
created for the purpose of a miniature book).
* Opera. Denuo emendata. Tavrini, typis Bartholomaei Zappatae, 1684. 300
pages, 37/8 x 21/2 inches, bound in vellum.
* Opera omnia. A. Mesnier, Parisiis (Paris), 1828. (The Grolier Club report NO.
70 said: "A true masterpiece of printing is the Horace printed with Henri
Didot's microscopic type." This edition was indeed printed with Didot's clear
and beautiful tiny 21/2 point type, cut by his own hand at age 66.) 229 pages,
27/8 x 17/8 inches, maroon morocco.
* another ed., Londini (London); Treuttel et Wurtz, 1828. 229 pages, 27/8 x 17/
inches, brown cloth boards.
* another ed., Apud A. Sautelet, Paris, 1828. same pp. and size, dark blue
morocco.
* Opera. Impensis Gul. Pickering, London. Printer: C. Corrall, 1820. 185 pages,
Corrall's diamond 41/2 point type, 3% x 1116 inches, blacked diced calf.
* another ed., 1824.
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Edison, Julian I. Miniature Book News, Number 38, September 1979, periodical, September 1979; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9373/m1/5/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.