Foulis Press.- Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)

[Opera] Ad Lectiones Probatiores diligenter emendatus et interpunctione nova saepius illustratus, fourth edition, large-paper copy, half-title and dedication leaf, ruled in red throughout, light age yellowing, occasional foxing, mainly to peripheral leaves, title toned, a little staining to gathering T, fine contemporary straight grain morocco, gilt tooled with floral ornaments on spine and elaborate floral motifs, palmettes and scrolls on boards, gilt fillets, a.e.g. spine slightly faded, [Schweiger II, 411; Gaskell 383], 4to, Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow, 1760.

*** An attractive copy of the complete text of Horace's poems. The celebrated brothers Foulis, university printers in Glasgow (1743-76), who have been named "the Elzevirs of Scotland", published an edition of Horace (‘immaculate’ Horace, 1744), which they purposed should be a perfect specimen of typographical accuracy. "The brothers Foulis produced books which showed a new feeling in English printing... The Latin Horace of 1760 is a very well-bred little book..." (Updike, ‘Printing Types’).