Owned by a One-Legged Scottish Lothario
HORACE.
Q. Horatius Flaccus ex recensione Dan. Heinsii. Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1704.
12mo, pp. 184; a good copy in contemporary sheep, covers a little worn and stained; ownership inscriptions of James Dickson, 1801, and Samuel Wilson, Burnbrae 1810.
A rare, modestly printed Scottish Horace, apparently the only printing in the British Isles of Heinsius’ edition, first published by Louis Elzevir in 1612.
Provenance:
Samuel Wilson (1784–1863), of Burnbrae, in the parish of Crossmichael, Dumfries & Galloway, was a one-legged poet of antiquarian tastes and dissolute behaviour – he fathered three children out of wedlock with three different women.
ESTC N21941 (recording copies at NLS and Princeton only).