University of Virginia Library

RICHARD HURD'S EDITIONS OF HORACE

• I. 1749 (ESTC ID: To46134). First Edition.
• Q. HORATIIFLACCI / ARS POETICA. [red] / EPISTOLA ad PISONES. With an English / COMMENTARY [red] / AND / NOTES. [red] /

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  LONDON, [red] / Printed by W. Bowyer, / And sold by R. Dodley in Pall-mall, and / M. Cooper in Paternoster-Row. / MDCCXLIX. [red]
• Collation: 8: a8 B-K8 L2 = 82 leaves = 164 pages.
• Contents: Page i title, ii blank, iii-xv Introduction, xvi blank, 1 2-32 Ars Poetica, 33 special title "Notes on the Art of Poetry," 34 blank, 35 Preface, 36 blank, 37-148 text. Page 57 misnumbered 75.
• Press figures: 25-1, 50-1, 77-1, 91-1, 98-1, 121-3, 132-4, 143-3.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Bowyer Ledgers #3556: 480 copies on demy and 20 copies on royal paper (26 May 49).
• Date of publication: Saturday, May 27, 1749 (London Evening-Post). On Tuesday, May 23, the same newspaper advertised that "Next Thursday will be publish'd" the Ars Poetica, but the "This Day is publish'd" advertisement did not appear until Saturday, May 27. The book also was advertised on Friday, June 2, 1749, in the General Advertiser. N.B. These are strange advertisements, for they list no author, price, format, or bindings. In its review, the Monthly Review (see note 3, below) lists the price of the book as 3s. William Warburton wrote to Richard Hurd on June 1, 1749, saying, "I received the favour of your edition of Horace's Art of Poetry: for which I beg leave to make my best acknowledgments" (Letters, 1).
• Illustrations: Page 1 has an engraving of the Muses, signed "F. Hayman inv. & del.", "C. Grignion Sculp." (see Figure 1).
• Copies: Regular (demy) paper copies: *Bodleian Library 2 copies: Godw. Pamph. 2094 (10) and Vet. A4e. 497 (2); Brown (ex libris Charles Townsend) PA 6393 E6 1749 Foster Collection [I thank the Coordinator of Readers' Services, Jean Rainwater, for describing this copy for me]; *Hartlebury Castle Lf6 (1); *Harvard (Houghton) *78-1291; Indiana (Lilly) PA 6393 E6H9 1749 [I thank the Head of Public Services, Joel Silver, for describing this copy for me]; *Jesus College, Cambridge H.14.68 (1); Northwestern 871 H5 Ohu [I thank the Curator of Special Collections, R. Russell Maylone, for describing this copy for me]; *Princeton PTT 2865 .311 .249; *Yale Gnh6 B749. Royal paper copies: *British Library 76.e.4; Free Library of Philadelphia 1749M629 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Karen Lightner, for describing this copy for me]; *Hartlebury Castle Lf10(1). (See note 2, below.)
• Notes: 1. The watermark of the royal paper, seen clearly only in the Hartlebury Castle copy which although trimmed measures 22.0 x 13.0 cm., is a fleur-de-lis over a shield with the Strasbourg bend, over LVG. For a sketch of this watermark, see Edward Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (1950, repr. 1981), no. 106—hereafter cited as "Heawood"; also see W. A. Churchill, Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc., in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and their Interconnection (1935, repr. 1965), no. 434. The three elements of this watermark are also reproduced in Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972), 68—hereafter cited as "Gaskell." LVG are the initials of Lubertus van Gerrevink, the owner of the Egmond mill near Hoef in North Holland. He had his initials registered as a trademark in paper in 1726 (see Churchill, p. 40). [When I see this paper used in a book, I am apt to think of it as "Large & Very Good" paper.] The regular paper copies have no visible watermark. 2. The British Library copy is bound in full white vellum with the remains of a gilt morocco label on the spine. Both covers are gilt-stamped with the seal of King George the Third. All edges are cut, but the page measures 20.6 x 12.7 cm. The copy in the Free Library of Philadelphia is 21.2 cm. tall. Both of these copies show the edge of a star or sun as watermark, so this may be a variant (or quite different) paper used for large copies. In any case, enough of some watermark may be seen in the margins to classify these two—very hesitantly—as trimmed royal paper copies.

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  3. This volume was reviewed very favorably in the Monthly Review: "The ingenious author of this commentary and notes, has with great judgment and accuracy cleared the sense, ascertained the scope and purpose, and pointed out the connexion of the several parts of this celebrated epistle" (Monthly Review 1 [Aug. 1749], 277). This is the opening sentence of the fine review written by Dr. William Rose (1719?-86); for confirmation of his authorship, see Benjamin Christie Nangle, The Monthly Review First Series 1749-1789 Indexes of Contributors and Articles (1934), #2052—hereafter cited as "Nangle."
• II. 1751 (ESTC ID: To46141). First Edition. One Horatian Epistle and one dissertation.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLA [red] / AD / AUGUSTUM. / With an English / Commentary and Notes. [red] / To which is added, / A DISCOURSE / CONCERNING / POETICAL IMITATION. [red] / [rule] / By the AUTHOR of the Commentary, &c. / on the Epistle to the Pisos. / [rule] / LONDON, [red] / Printed for W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge. / And sold by R. Dodsley in Pall-mall; J. Beecroft in Lom-/bard Street; and M. Cooper in Paternoster-Row. / [rule] / M DCC LI. [red]
• Collation: 8°: A2 B-O8 = 106 leaves = 212 pages.
• Contents: Page i title, ii blank, iii-iv Advertisement, 1 2-27 text, 28 blank, 29 special title "Notes on the Epistle to Augustus," 30 Advertisement, 31-106 text, 107 special title "A Discourse on Poetical Imitation," 108 blank, 109-207 text, 208 blank.
• Press figures: 11-5, 22-1, 36-1, 50-1, 66-1, 112-4, 123-3 or none, 144-1, 160-1 or none, 173-4, 192-1 or none, 204-3.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Bowyer Ledgers #3684: 500 copies on demy and 26 copies on royal paper (16 May 51).
• Date of publication: Tuesday, May 21, 1751 (General Evening Post). In its issue of Saturday, May 18, 1751 the same newspaper advertised that "Next Tuesday will be published" the Epistola ad Augustum, and accordingly the "This Day was published" notice appeared in the issue of Tuesday, May 21. N.B. Once again this advertisement seems strange, for it lists no author's name, price, format, or bindings.
• Illustrations: Page 1 has an engraving of the head of Augustus, signed "WS" (see Figure 2).
• Copies: Regular (demy) paper copies: * Bodleian Library 3 copies: Vet. A4e. 497(1), Godw. Pamph. 2095(4), and Montagu 257; *British Library 11355.ff.4; Chicago PA 6393 .E75H9 1751 Rare [I thank the Rare Books Coordinator, Willard J. Pugh, for describing this copy for me]; *Cornell; *Hartlebury Castle Lf6(2); *Harvard (Houghton) *78-1292; *Jesus College, Cambridge A/G.9.30; McMaster B14650 [I thank the Archives Cataloguer, Renu Barrett, for describing this copy for me]; Northwestern Horace H961 1751 [I thank the Curator of Special Collections, R. Russell Maylone, for describing this copy for me]; *Princeton 2865 .331 .251; *Yale Gnh6 ea751; *D. D. Eddy. Royal paper copies: *Hartlebury Castle Lf10(2).
• Note: The watermark of the royal paper, seen clearly only in the Hartlebury Castle copy which although trimmed measures 22.0 x 13.0 cm., is a fleur-de-lis over a shield with the Strasbourg bend, over LVG (see Heawood 106). This is the same large paper used in Hurd's 1749 Ars Poetica, and the two works are bound together in the volume at Richard Hurd's library at Hartlebury Castle. The regular paper copies have no visible watermark.

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• III. 1753 (ESTC ID: T150243). The two Horatian Epistles and two dissertations.
• Volume I. Edition title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLAE / AD / PISONES, / ET / AUGUSTUM: / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which are added / TWO DISSERTATIONS: / THE ONE, / On the Provinces of the several Species / of Dramatic Poetry; / THE OTHER, / ON POETICAL IMITATION. / [rule] / IN TWO VOLUMES. / [rule] / The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. / [rule] / LONDON: / Printed for W. Thurlbourne, at Cambridge; / and sold by R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall; / J. Beecroft, in Lombard-street; and / M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row. / [rule] / MDCCLIII.
• Volume I. Volume title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / ARS POETICA, / EPISTOLA ad PISONES: / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which is added / A Dissertation concerning the Provinces / of the several Species of the Drama. / [rule] / VOL. I. / [rule] / LONDON: / Printed for W. Thurlbourne at Cambridge; / And sold by R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall; / J. Beacroft, [sic] in Lombard-street, and / M. Cooper, in Pater-noster-Row. / [rule] / MDCCLIII.
• Collation: 8°: π4 A-S8 T4 = 152 leaves = 304 pages.
• Contents: π1r edition title page, π1v blank, π2r volume title page, π2v blank, π3r Dedication to Sir Edward Littleton, π3v blank, π4r "VOL. I," π4v blank, pages iii-xvi Introduction, 1 2-34 text of Ars Poetica, 35 section title, 36 blank, 37 Preface to the Notes, 38 blank, 39-216 Notes of the Art of Poetry, 217 section title, 218 blank, 219 Contents, 220 blank, 221-280 A Dissertation on the several Provinces of the Drama, 281 Errata, 282 blank. Page 272 misnumbered 472. In two copies (British Library and Emmanuel College, Cambridge), page 16 is misnumbered 6.
• Press figures: ix-3, 12-1, 15-3, 29-1, 48-2, 60-3, 72-4, 84-1, 110-2, 127-1, 141-4, 161-4, 177-4, 180-4, 210-3, 214-5 or none, 242-1, 246-1, 273-4.
• Volume II. Title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLA / AD / AUGUSTUM. / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which is added / A DISCOURSE / CONCERNING / POETICAL IMITATION. / [rule] / VOL. II. / [double rule] / [short rule] / M.DCC.LIII.
• Collation: 8°: a8 A-Q8 = 136 leaves = 272 pages.
• Contents: Page i title, ii blank, iii iv-xv Dedication to William Warburton, dated 29 March 1753, xvi blank, 1 2-27 text of Epistola ad Augustum, 28 blank, 29 section title, 30 Advertisement, 31-113 Notes on the Epistle to Augustus, 114 blank, 115 section title, 116 blank, 117-231 A Discourse on Poetical Imitation, 232 blank, 233-253 Index to the Two Volumes, 254 blank, 255 Errata, 256 blank. Page 121 is misnumbered 112. In the British Library copy, page 73 is misnumbered 7.
• Press figures: None.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Bowyer Ledgers #3800: 730 copies on crown and 20 copies on medium royal paper (29 Mar. 53)

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• Date of publication: Presumably it was published shortly after printing was completed on March 29. In April, 1753 William Warburton wrote to Richard Hurd saying, "I received this evening your most kind present of the Commentary on Horace" (Letters, 133). In its review, the Monthly Review (see note 4, below) lists the price of these two volumes as 7s. 2d.
• Illustrations: In Vol. I, page 1 has an engraving of the Muses, signed F. Hayman inv. & del., C. Grignion Sculp. In Vol. II, page 1 has an engraving of the head of Augustus, signed WS. These are the same plates used in the 1749 and 1751 editions.
• Copies: Regular (crown) paper copies: *Bodleian Library 2 copies: Godw. subt. 280-281 and Vet. A5f. 1652-3 (lacking leaves π1 and π4 in Vol. I); Brown PA 6393 E4 1753 Foster Collection [I thank the Coordinator of Readers' Services, Jean Rainwater, for describing this copy for me]; *Cambridge University Library 2 copies: 7706.d.93,94 (lacking leaves π1 and π4 in Vol. I) and Ely.d.696 (Vol. II only present); Chicago 2 copies: PA 6393 .E2 1753 Rare (c. 1, Vol. I only present; c. 2, Vol. I lacks dedication leaf) [I thank the Rare Books Coordinator, Willard J. Pugh, for describing these copies for me]; Free Library of Philadelphia 1753M653 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Karen Lightner, for describing this copy for me]; *Harvard (Widener) Lh8 565; *Princeton 2865 .331 .253; *Yale Gnh6 B753. Royal paper copies: *British Library 11385.f.17 (lacks leaf π4 in Vol. I); *Emmanuel College, Cambridge 328.4.64-65.

• Notes: 1. The watermark of the royal paper is a crowned shield containing a fleur-delis, over LVG (see Heawood 1743; Gaskell, 68, Fig. 29). The regular paper copies have no visible watermark.

  2. The two royal paper copies are exceedingly handsome. Both volumes of the British Library copy are bound in full straight-grain red morocco and have all edges gilt. Both front and rear covers have gilt supra libros with the front covers adding the motto "Deus alit me" and the script initials "TW." This copy belonged to the Rev. Theodore Williams, who died in 1826 and whose library was sold at auction on April 5 and 23, 1827.

  The second copy is much more significant because it was the gift of Richard Hurd to one of his colleagues at Emmanuel College. The first volume contains the note "The Gift of ye Author (in Sheets) to H. Hubbard Eman. Coll. (Binding 2 Vols. 3s 6d)." This was Henry Hubbard (1708-78), who had been a Fellow of Emmanuel College since 1732; for an accurate, brief account of him, see John Venn (1834-1923). Alumni Cantabrigienses . . ., 10 v. (1922-54) Part I, Vol. II, p. 422. When Richard Hurd matriculated at Emmanuel in 1735, "he was happy in receiving the countenance, and in being permitted to attend the Lectures, of that excellent Tutor, Mr. Henry Hubbard, although he had been admitted under another person"; see Hurd's own list "Some occurrences in my Life" as printed in The Correspondence of Richard Hurd & William Mason, ed. E. H. Pearce and L. Whibley (1932) xxvi—hereafter cited as "Hurd-Mason Correspondence."

  3. It is probably not wise to make generalizations based on the few copies thus far examined. However, all of the regular paper copies examined have horizontal chain lines throughout both volumes, and both of the royal paper copies examined have vertical chain lines throughout both volumes. If this holds true as more copies are seen, it will be an easy way to differentiate between regular and royal paper copies, even in closely trimmed volumes.

  Of course, there are also differences in thickness of the two papers. In the royal paper copy in the British Library, for example, the sheets of Vol. I measure 2.7 cm. thick; while in the regular paper copy in Cambridge University Library, the sheets of Vol. I measure 1.9 cm. thick. In comparing the same copies of Vol. II, the British Library copy measures 2.2 cm. versus 1.7 cm. in the Cambridge copy. Such comparisons are made with due diffidence, for an unpressed book in sheets bulks much, much larger than a copy of the same book which has been heavily pressed during several rebindings.

  4. Dr. William Rose (1719?-86) again wrote a long and highly laudatory review

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  article in the Monthly Review 9 (July 1753), 11-33; see Nangle, #2055.

  5. Two printers were involved in printing this edition. According to his ledgers (B544, P1094), William Bowyer printed only Vol. I. Thurlbourne had the second volume composed and printed at Cambridge University Press; in the Cambridge University Library Archives, see Cambridge University Press Minutes Book (Min. VI. 1*, p. 88), listing as copies "730 & 20 Fine." Volume I has all the usual Bowyer press figures; Volume II has none. For a discussion of this edition, see below under the heading "Shared Printing."

• IV. 1757 (ESTC ID: T149881). The two Horatian Epistles and three dissertations.
• Volume I. Edition title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLAE / AD / PISONES, / ET / AUGUSTUM: / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which are added, / TWO DISSERTATIONS; / The one, on the Provinces of the Drama: / The other, on Poetical Imitation: / AND / ALETTER to Mr. MASON. / [rule] / In TWO VOLUMES. / [rule] / The third edition, Corrected and Enlarged. / [rule] / CAMBRIDGE, / Printed for W. THURLBOURN & J. WOODYER; and / sold by R. DODSLEY in Pall-mall, J. BEECROFT and / M. COOPER in Pater-noster Row, London. / [rule] / M DCCLVII.
• Volume I. Volume title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / ARS POETICA, / EPISTOLA ad PISONES: / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which is added / A DISSERTATION / Concerning the PROVINCES of the several / Species of the DRAMA. / [rule] / VOL. I. / [double rule] / CAMBRIDGE, / Printed for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer. / [rule] / M DCCLVII.
• Collation: 8°: π4 A-U8 = 164 leaves = 328 pages.
• Contents: π1r edition title page, π1v blank, π2r volume title page, π2v blank, pages i ii-iii Dedication to Sir Edward Littleton, signed "Cambridge, 21 June 1757," iv blank, iii [sic]-xvi Introduction, 1 2-34, 35-36 39 [sic]-242 243-246 247-308 text. Page 225 is correctly numbered in the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library copies; it is unnumbered in all other copies examined. Other pages misnumbered as above.
• Press figures: 86-4.
• Volume II. Title page.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLA / AD / AUGUSTUM: / With an English / COMMENTARY and NOTES. / To which are added, / A DISCOURSE / CONCERNING / POETICAL IMITATION; / AND / A LETTER to Mr. MASON. / [rule] / VOL. II. / [double rule] / CAMBRIDGE, / Printed for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer. / [rule] / M DCCLVII.
• Collation: a8 A-T8 = 160 leaves = 320 pages.
• Contents: Page i volume title page, ii blank, iii iv-xv Dedication to the Rev. Mr. Warburton, signed "Cambridge, 29 March, 1753," xvi blank, 1 2-27 text, 28 blank, 29 section title, 30 blank, 31-101 text, 102 blank, 103 section title, 104

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  blank, 105-207 text, 208 blank, 1 title page to A Letter to Mr. Mason. . . 2 blank, 3 [misnumbered 1] 4-76 text, dated on p. 76: "15 August 1757," 77-96 Index to the Two Volumes. In the Letter to Mr. Mason . . ., page 3 is misnumbered 1 and 67 is misnumbered 76 in all copies. In the course of printing, page 190 slowly lost its first digit: in three copies examined it is correctly numbered, in four other copies it is numbered 190, and in another five copies it is misnumbered 90.
• Press figures: 13-4 or none, 31-4, 43-4, 66-2, 91-4, 166-4, 178-3, 206-4, 210-4, 222-1 or none, 226-2, 2 79-2.
• Size of an uncut copy: Regular (small) paper copy, 19.8 x 12.5 cm. (Cornell copy, in blue wrappers).
• Number of copies printed: Unknown; but since 750 copies of the second edition had been printed four years earlier, it is probably safe to assume that this edition was at least that large. Keep in mind that the next printing—the fourth edition of 1766—was printed in 1000 copies. Volume II of this edition was printed at Cambridge University Press, and the colophon on the last page reads: "CAMBRIDGE, / Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University. / [rule] / M DCC LVII." Joseph Bentham presumably printed this work for Thurlbourne and Woodyer on his "private account," so since it was not a publication of Cambridge University Press there is no record of it among the archives of the Press in Cambridge University Library. There is no record of this edition in the Bowyer ledgers, nor are there any decorative initials or ornaments of any kind in either volume to help in identifying the printer.
• Date of publication: Although the last piece in Vol. II is dated 15 August 1757, at least a few printed copies were available immediately afterwards. In a letter to Thomas Gray dated August 16, 1757, Hurd states that "The Letter to Mason is printed off, and I shall send you a copy very soon to Dodsley's" (Hurd-Mason Correspondence, 36-37). In a letter to Hurd dated September 12, 1757, William Warburton says that "I have received your new Edition.—Your additional notes, and new pieces, are admirable" (Letters, 253).
• Illustrations: In Vol. I, page 1 has an engraving of the Muses, signed F. Hayman inv. & del., C. Grignion Sculp. In Vol. II, page 1 has an engraving of the head of Augustus, signed WS. These are the same engravings found in the previous editions.
• Copies: Regular (small) paper copies: *British Library 1578/2836; *Cambridge University Library 4 copies: Adv. d. 75. 6-7, Ely d. 697-698, Keynes R. 3. 15-16 (ex libris Edward Gibbon Esq.), and X. 5. 80-81; *Cornell; University of Florida at Gainesville 871 H5e 1756 [sic]; Free Library of Philadelphia 1757M680 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Karen Lightner, for describing this copy for me]; *Jesus College, Cambridge MK. 3. 1-2; Northwestern Horace H961 1757 [I thank the Curator of Special Collections, R. Russell Maylone, for describing this copy for me]; *Yale Gnh6 b753b; *D. D. Eddy. Large paper copies: *Bodleian Library Vet. A5e. 2067, 2068.

• Notes: 1. The watermark of the regular paper copies is best seen in the uncut copy at Cornell; it has a watermark of a fleur-de-lis over the initials "IV" (see Heawood 1540; Gaskell, 68).

  2. The Bodleian copy is handsomely bound in speckled calf with double labels, the covers and spines ornately gilt, and all edges gilt. Both volumes contain the ex libris of Sir Edward Littleton Bart., so this is a dedication copy. Although both volumes were so heavily trimmed in binding that only traces of a watermark are visible, yet both measure 20.6 x 13.0 cm. and so are slightly larger than the uncut small paper copy at Cornell.

  The University of Florida copy is bound similarly to the Bodleian copy, except that its edges are not gilt. Both of its volumes also contain the ex libris of Sir Edward Littleton Bart., so it appears that Richard Hurd sent attractively bound sets of both the large and small paper copies to the dedicatee. In binding, the pages of both volumes of the Florida copy were trimmed to 18.0 cm. in height. [I am grateful to the University of Florida Library Curator of Rare Books,

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  Miss Carmen Hurff, for giving me an accurate description of these volumes.]

  "At Cambridge [Hurd] formed a close friendship with his pupil and old schoolfellow, Sir Edward Littleton, bart." (DNB). Littleton was admitted to Emmanuel College as a nobleman on April 20, 1744, and he received his M.A. in 1746; see Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part I, Vol. III, p. 92.

• V. 1757 (ESTC ID: To68159)
• A / LETTER / TO / Mr. MASON; / ON THE / MARKS of IMITATION. / [rule] [quotation from Malherbe] / [double rule] / CAMBRIDGE: / Printed for W. THURLBOURN & J. WOODYER; and / sold by R. DODSLEY in Pall-mall, J. BEECROFT and / M. COOPER in Pater-noster Row, London. / [rule] / M DCCLVII.
• Collation: 8°: A-E8 = 40 leaves = 80 pages.
• Contents: Page 1 title, 2 blank, 3-76 text, 77-80 Advertisements for "Books printed for and sold by W. Thurlbourn and J. Woodyer, in Cambridge." Page 58 misnumbered 85.
• Press figures: 26-1, 34-1, 58 [misnumbered 85]-3, 68-1.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Unknown. Although this is a different edition from the one included in the 1757 edition of Hurd's Horace, it was presumably printed at approximately the same time at Cambridge University Press.
• Date of publication: Again citing Hurd's letter to Thomas Gray (see above), at least some printed copies were available on August 16, 1757.
• Illustrations: None.
• Copies: *Bodleian Library 2 copies: Godw. Pamph. 105(1) and Godw. Pamph. 1860 (16); *British Library 11825.b.29(1); *Cambridge University Library Yorke. d. 630 (3); *Cornell (lacking pp.77-80); *Princeton 2865 .331 .253(2); *Yale Had 21 g757h; *D. D. Eddy (ex libris R. W. Chapman).
• Note: Owen Ruffhead (1723-69) praised this book highly in a long review article in the Monthly Review 18 (Feb. 1758), 114-125; see Nangle, #2457. The price is listed as 1s.
• VI. 1766 (ESTC ID: To46143). The two Horatian Epistles and four dissertations.
• Volume I.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLAE / AD / PISONES, / ET / AUGUSTUM: / WITH AN ENGLISH / COMMENTARY AND NOTES: / TO WHICH ARE ADDED / CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS. / BY THE / REVEREND MR. HURD. / IN THREE VOLUMES. / THE FOURTH EDITION, / CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. / VOL. I. / LONDON, / PRINTED FOR A. MILLAR, IN THE STRAND; / AND W. THURLBOURN AND J. WOODYER, / AT CAMBRIDGE. MDCCLXVI.
• Collation: 8°: a4 b1(=T4) A-S8 T4(-T4=b1) = 152 leaves = 304 pages.
• Contents: Page i title page, ii blank, iii Contents, iv blank, v-ix Dedication to Sir Edward Littleton, Bart., x blank, 2i-xvi Introduction, 1-36 text, 37 section title, 38 blank, 39-277 text, 278 blank.
• Press figures: vii-1 or none, 2iv-1, 2-4, 13-2, 22-2 or none, 34-2, 41-4, 52-1, 58-4,

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  70-4, 76-1, 84-4, 98-2, 123-1, 140-4, 156-4, 164-1, 175-4, 182-1, 194-2, 212-2, 240-1, 270-4, 276-2.
• Volume II.
• [Title identical with Vol. I, but deleting "IN THREE VOLUMES" and reading "VOL. II."]
• Collation: 8°: a8 b2 B-Q8 R4 = 134 leaves = 268 pages.
• Contents: Page i title, ii blank, iii-xix Dedication to William Warburton, xx blank, 1-32 text, 33 section title, 34 blank, 35-131 text, 132 blank, 133 section title, 134 blank, 135-161 text, 162 blank, 163-247 text, 248 blank.
• Press figures: xi-2 or none, 11-1, 28-1, 42-4, 59-4, 68-4, 92-2, 105-1, 124-4, 139-4, 146-1, 173-2, 174-3, 185-2, 186-2, 203-2, 222-2, 233-4, 242-1.
• Volume III.
• [Title identical with Vol. I. but deleting "IN THREE VOLUMES" and reading "VOL. III."]
• Collation: 8°: A1 B-R8 S4 T1 = 134 leaves = 268 pages.
• Contents: A1r title page, A1v blank, 1-240 text, 241-265 Index, 266 blank.
• Press figures: 9-2, 18-2, 38-2, 57-2, 70-1, 94-1, 100-3, 106-1, 121-2, 136-2, 153-2, 169-2, 184-2, 190-4, 205-2, 210-1, 234-4, 242-3, 249-2, 262-3, 264-2.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Bowyer Ledgers #4608: 1000 copies (6 May 66).
• Date of publication: Thursday, May 15, 1766 (Public Advertiser). "This Day is published, Elegantly printed on a fine Writing-Paper, in Three Volumes, Duodecimo [sic], Price bound 9s. A new Edition (being the Fourth) corrected and enlarged . . . By the Rev. Mr. Hurd, Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-Inn. . . ." On May 6, the day printing was completed, the Public Advertiser carried its first "Speedily will be published . . ." notice.
• Illustrations: None.
• Copies: *Bodleian Library Montagu 252-254; *British Library 237. l. 21-23; *Cornell; Free Library of Philadelphia 1766M713 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Karen Lightner, for describing this copy for me]; *Hartlebury Castle Bb 24-26; *Harvard (Houghton) Lh8 .567* (see note 2, below); *Jesus College, Cambridge F. 5. 22-24; *Princeton PTT 2865 .331 .266 (Vol. II lacks signature Q); *Yale Gnh6 b753c; *D. D. Eddy.

• Notes: 1. The paper used has vertical chain lines throughout all copies examined but has no visible watermarks. No copies were printed on large paper.

  2. Hurd was made "Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, on the recommendation of Mr. Charles Yorke, &c., November 6, 1765" (Hurd-Mason Correspondence, xxvii); and when the fourth edition of his Horace was published the following spring, Hurd was happy to include his name and new title in the newspaper advertisements (see above). Also residing at Lincoln's Inn at that time was Thomas Hollis, who presented to the Harvard College Library a set of the three volumes of this edition of Hurd's Horace, the copy listed above. The volumes were bound by John Shove of London and have his characteristic tool in the center of each cover. Each volume also contains the college bookplate engraved by Nathaniel Hurd of Boston, filled out in manuscript "The Gift of Thomas Hollis, of Lincoln's Inn, London." For pictures of Shove's binding tool and Hurd's bookplate, see W. H. Bond, Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn: A Whig and his Books (1990), 54-55, 89-90.

  3. This edition apparently contains Hurd's final thoughts about his edition of Horace. "A manuscript in Hartlebury Library, in the handwriting of Hurd's nephew, reveals the Bishop's directions concerning the collected edition of his

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  works: . . . Horace & the Critical Dissertations [are to be] printed from the 4th Edition in 1766" (Martz, p. 587).

• VII. 1766 (ESTCID: No58848)
• A / DISSERTATION / ON THE / IDEA / OF / UNIVERSAL POETRY. / [ornament] / LONDON, / Printed for A. Millar, in The Strand. / MDCCLXVI.
• Collation: 8°: A-B8 = 16 leaves = 32 pages.
• Contents: Page 1 title, 2 blank, 3 4-29 text, 30-32 blank.
• Press figures: None.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: 250. "Used for 2 sheets No. 250 1 [ream]; Dd to Mr Millar the Pamphlet No. 250" (Bowyer Ledgers P1221).
• Date of publication: Friday, May 30, 1766 (Daily Advertiser). In the month of May, 1766, none of the advertisements for the fourth edition of Hurd's Horace in either the Daily Advertiser or the Public Advertiser mentioned any separate reprint of the "Dissertation" until the notice in the Daily Advertiser of May 30 added: "Note: The above Dissertation on Universal Poetry may be had separately, Price 6d."
• Illustrations: None.
• Copies: *Emmanuel College, Cambridge 331.3.65 (3) [I thank the Sub-librarian, Rhiannon Jones, for initially describing this copy for me]; Folger Shakespeare Library PN 1055 H9 Cage, lacking final blank leaf B8 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Georgianna Ziegler, for describing this copy for me]; University of Kansas B 4569, lacking final blank leaf B8 [I thank the Associate Special Collections Librarian, Richard W. Clement, for describing this copy for me].
• VIII. 1768 (ESTCID: T187173)
• Volume I.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLAE / AD / PISONES, / ET / AUGUSTUM: / WITH AN ENGLISH / COMMENTARY AND NOTES: / TO WHICH ARE ADDED / CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS. / BY THE / REVEREND MR. HURD. / IN TWO VOLUMES. / THE FIFTH EDITION, / CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. / VOL. I. / DUBLIN: / PRINTED BY SARAH STRINGER, UNDER DICK'S / COFFEE-HOUSE IN SKINNER-ROW. / [rule] / M,DCC,LXVIII.
• Collation: 12°: a4 A-I12 2a6 [between I11 and I12] K-N12 O1 = 167 leaves = 334 pages. 2a2 missigned a3.
• Contents: Page i title, ii blank, iii Contents, iv blank, v-viii Dedication to Sir Edward Littleton, 2i-xiv Introduction, 1-32 text, 33 section title, 34 blank, 35-198 text, 199 section title, 200 blank, 3i-xi Dedication to William Warburton, xii blank, 201-229 text, 230 blank, 231 section title, 232 blank, 233-299 text, 300 blank.
• Press figures: None.
• Volume II.
• [Title page same as Vol. I, except: . . . VOL. II. / DUBLIN : / . . .]
• Collation: 12°: A1 B-L12 M8 = 129 leaves = 258 pages.
• Contents: A1r title, A1v blank, pages 1-75 text, 76 blank, 77-240 text, 241-256 Index.
• Press figures: None.

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• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Unknown.
• Illustrations: None.
• Copies: * Bodleian Library Montagu 255, 256; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PA 6393 .E75 1768 [I thank Dr. Charles McNamara for describing this copy for me]; *Yale Gnh6 b753e.
• Note: The paper used has horizontal chain lines throughout the copies examined and has no visible watermarks.
• IX. 1772 Translation into German by Johann Joachim Eschenburg, 1743-1820.
• Volume I.
• Horazens / Episteln an die Pisonen / und / an den Augustus / [rule] / mit / Kommentar und Anmerkungen / nebst / einigen kritischen Abhandlungen / von / R. Hurd. / [rule] / Aus dem Englishen uebersetzt / und / mit eigenen Anmerkungen begleitet / von / Johann Joachim Eschenburg. / [rule] / Erster Band. / [rule] / Leipzig / bey Engelhart Benjamin Schwickert 1772.
• Collation: 8°: π1 (=2C8?) A-2B8 2C8 (-2C8) 2D2 = 210 leaves = 420 pages.
• Contents: π1r title, π1v blank, pages 1-54 text, 55 section title, 56 blank, 57 58-246 text, 247 section title, 248 blank, 249 250-292 text, 293 section title, 294 blank, 295 296-418 text.
• Volume II.
• [Title identical with Vol. I, except for reading "Zweyter Band."]
• Collation: π1(=U8?) A-T8 U8 (-U8) X2
• Contents: π1r title, π1v blank, 1 section title, 2 blank, 3 4-24 text, 25 section title, 26 blank, 27 28-94 text, 95 section title, 96 blank, 97 98-214 text, 215 section title, 216 blank, 217 218-321 text, 322 list of errata.
• Size of an uncut copy: 21.5 x 13.5 cm. (Princeton copy, top edge lightly trimmed and gilt, the other edges uncut).
• Copies: *British Library 11385. c. 26; Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) 871 H5a .huG [I thank the Curator of Rare Books, N. Frederick Nash, for describing this copy for me]; Northwestern Horace H961 1772 [I thank the Curator of Special Collections, R. Russell Maylone, for describing this copy for me]; *Princeton PTT 2865 .311 .272.

• Notes: 1. The entire book, both text and title pages, is set in Fraktur.

  2. Again I thank Fred Nash for locating in Illinois two more copies of this elusive translation: DePaul University Library and Bethany Northern Baptist Seminary Library.

• X. 1776 (ESTC ID: To46144)
• Volume I.
• Q. HORATII FLACCI / EPISTOLAE / AD / PISONES, / ET / AUGUSTUM: / WITH AN ENGLISH / COMMENTARY AND NOTES: / TO WHICH ARE ADDED / CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS. / BY THE / REVEREND MR. HURD. / IN THREE VOLUMES. / THE FIFTH EDITION, / CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. / VOL. I. /

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  LONDON, / PRINTED BY W. BOWYER AND J. NICHOLS: / FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND; AND / J. WOODYER, AT CAMBRIDGE. / MDCCLXXVI.
• Collation: 8°: a1-5 A-S8 T1-3(=a6-8?) = 152 leaves = 304 pages.
• Contents: Page i title page, ii blank, iii Contents, iv blank, v-ix Dedication to Sir Edward Lyttelton, x blank, 2i-xvi Introduction, 1-36 text, 37 section title, 38 blank, 39-277 text, 278 blank. In some copies, page 82 not numbered; in the Princeton copy, 82 and the NO of the headline NOTES are both lacking; in the Harvard and Northwestern copies, 82 and NOT are lacking.
• Press figures: vi-1, viii-2 or none, 2ii-5, 6-7, 9-3, 26-4, 34-6, 56-5, 62-1, 79-7, 92-4, 94-1, 111-4, 126-2, 141-3, 143-2, 146-1, 168-2, 190-1, 205-7, 207-4, 221-1, 223-7, 239-2, 248-5, 264-5, 270-3.
• Volume II.
• [Title same as Vol. I, except for deleting "IN THREE VOLUMES" and reading "VOL. II." instead of "VOL. I."]
• Collation: 8°: a8 b2 B-Q8 R4 = 134 leaves = 268 pages.
• Contents: Page i title page, ii blank, iii-xix Dedication to Warburton, xx blank, 1-32 text, 33 section title, 34 blank, 35-131 text, 132 blank, 133 section title, 134 blank, 135-161 text, 162 blank, 163-247 text, 248 blank. In approximately half the copies examined, the inner forme of signature L is mis-impressed and misnumbered; see note 2, below.
• Press figures: x-6, xiii-4, 14-4, 25-7, 48-6, 54-6, 61-2, 68-5, 75-1, 91-1, 107-5, 127-4, 143-7, 158-1, 172-3, 185-4, 187-3, 200-6, 223-1, 245-7.
• Volume III.
• [Title same as Vol. I, except for deleting "IN THREE VOLUMES" and reading "VOL. III." instead of "VOL. I."]
• Collation: 8°: A1 B-R8 S4 T1 = 134 leaves = 268 pages.
• Contents: A1r title page, A 1v blank, pages 1-240 text, 241-265 Index, 266 Advertisements for three works of Hurd published by T. Cadell. Page 176 misnumbered 76.
• Press figures: 2-6, 27-5, 42-2, 50-5, 79-4, 89-5, 110-2, 121-4, 127-2, 134-1, 150-1, 170-2, 191-7, 194-1, 222-5, 236-2, 238-1, 254-6, 263-3.
• Size of an uncut copy: None examined.
• Number of copies printed: Unknown; see Bowyer Ledgers #5095.
• Illustrations: None.
• Copies: *Bodleian Library 29764 e. 7-9; *British Library 1002. h. 16-18; *Cambridge University Library Nn. 34. 36-38; *Cornell; Free Library of Philadelphia 1776 M744 [I thank the Reference Librarian, Karen Lightner, for describing this copy for me]; *Hartlebury Castle Bb 13-15; *Harvard (Widener) Lh8 .569; Northwestern Horace H961 1776 [I thank the Curator of Special Collections, R. Russell Maylone, for describing this copy for me]; *Princeton PTT 2865 .331 .276; *St. John's College, Cambridge H. 12. 8-10; *Trinity College, Cambridge Z. 14. 44-46; *D. D. Eddy 2 copies.
• Notes: 1. The watermark is a fleur-de-lis in the paper used in all copies. There are no royal paper copies. 2. In Volume II, signature L (pages 145-160) exists in two states: in the first, the inner forme was mis-impressed and page 160 in the outer forme was misnumbered 164; thus the page numbers of the signature read 145, 150, 151, 148, 149, 146, 147, 152, 153, 158, 159, 156, 157, 154, 155, and 164. Copies of this first state are: Bodleian Library, British Library, Cornell, Free Library of Philadelphia, Northwestern, Princeton, St. John's College, Cambridge, and D. D. Eddy

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  copy 1. In the second state, all of the pages are correctly impressed and page 160 is correctly numbered; copies: Cambridge University Library, Hartlebury Castle, Harvard, Trinity College, Cambridge, and D. D. Eddy copy 2.