Opera Omina
Q. Horati Flacci [ Horace ]
| Publication Date |
1840 |
| Publisher |
John R. Priestley, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy |
| SKU |
24921 |
| Notes |
Not just an interesting association copy and evidence of women’s education in the Victorian era, this is handsomely bound work in full leather with gilt decoration to spine in compartments separated by raised bands. A little rubbed and scuffed with uneven darkening to the leather. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. Full leather binding of these works of Horace with an interesting provenance. The name label of Katharine Elizabeth Boulton is to the endpaper with a pen date of 1840. Katharine Elizabeth Boulton was the daughter of Matthew Robinson Boulton and the granddaughter of the engineer Matthew Boulton who with James Watt perfected the steam engine, the power house of the Industrial Revolution. She grew up with her father managing the Soho works in Birmingham with his father and James Watt. Her grandfather was a founder member with Joseph Priestley of the Luna Society. She went on to marry James Patrick Muirhead, lawyer, writer and the biographer of James Watt. In a less academic vein one of their sons, Herbert Muirhead, played in the 1872 FA Cup Final, the very first FA Cup Final, for the Royal Engineers. This volume has notes throughout in the same hand and ink as the 1840 written on the endpaper and they are presumed to be Katharine’s notes. It is interesting that in this distinguished family of male scholars, engineers, authors and inventors that the daughters too seem to have been encouraged to read and study as Katharine was clearly working on her Latin prior to her marriage and beyond her school years (she was 21 in 1840). The notes on some of the works are extensive, in both English and Latin and often reference other classical authors.
