Lot 33
  • 33

Baskerville Press

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • A uniformly bound set of classical texts, comprising:
  • paper
JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS, and AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS. Satyrae. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1761, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 15 engraved plates, and 4 leaves of letterpress explanation from another edition, inlaid to size and ruled in red, [Gaskell 15]
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aenis. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1757 [but c.1770], second edition, list of subscribers, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 57 engraved plates, and 8 leaves of letterpress explanation from another edition, inlaid to size and ruled in red, [Gaskell 2]
HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. [Opera]. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1770, engraved vignette on title, engraved frontispiece and 4 engraved plates by Gravelot, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 35 engraved plates and 2 leaves of letterpress explanation from another edition, inlaid to size and ruled in red, [Gaskell 39]
LUCRETIUS CARUS, TITUS. De rerum natura. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772, [Gaskell 43]
TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. Comoediae. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 6 engraved plates from another edition, inlaid to size and ruled in red, [Gaskell 46]
CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772, [Gaskell 44]
SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS, GAIUS, and LUCIUS ANNAEUS FLORUS. [Opera]. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1773, [Gaskell 51]

together 7 volumes, 4to (295 x 230mm.), eighteenth-century straight-grained red morocco gilt by H. Walther, with his ticket, alternate gilt fillet and dotted borders on covers, spine gilt in 6 compartments, gilt edges and turn-ins

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A HANDSOME SET.