(xviii), 46pp. Second edition, copy number one. This famous miniature book of Horace's songs was first printed at the Ashendene Press in 1923 on a commission from Queen Mary for the library of her magnificent Doll's House. Of that first printing, only a handful of copies survive today, making it a book of the utmost rarity. This second edition was printed by Linnea Gentry with the original plates of the 1923 edition on the handpress used at Ashendene. With a new introduction by Michael Hornby, son of Ashendene founder Charles Henry St. John Hornby. Bound in full brown morocco with gilt-stamping by David Bourbeau, in the same style as the 1923 edition. Housed with the prospectus in a small octavo-sized, morocco-backed clamshell box. Considered one of the important miniature publications of the last century. Fine.