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SUBSCRIBER'S COPY [PARKE, JOHN.] The Lyric Works of Horace... By a Native American. 8vo, later 1/4 cloth, backstrip defective, needs rebinding;
SUBSCRIBER'S COPY [PARKE, JOHN.] The Lyric Works of Horace... By a Native American. 8vo, later 1/4 cloth, backstrip defective, needs rebinding; lacks the frontispiece and two text leaves (Zz2 and Zz3); foxed and browned; bookplate on the front free endpaper. Signed by original subscriber Francis Johnston on the title. sold as is. Philadelphia, 1786
- Notes: Parke dedicates Ode XXV in Book III to Johnston (the original owner of this copy) who had served as the Colonel Commandant in the army. "Henry Stevens calls this 'the rarest and oddest of all the American books of poetry.' The translations are in rhymed verse, and paraphrased by the substitution of American public characters for the Roman worthies to whom Horace addressed his Odes, and by allusions to local and contemporary conditions"--Evans 19717.
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