[CLASSICAL WORKS] VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757, 4° (288 x 225mm.), FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION (quire A a little spotted, occasional light crinkling of leaves), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (covers scuffed, upper joints cracked and one cord broken, spine label lacking, front free endpaper detached), book label of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. [Gaskell 1: "Baskerville's first and perhaps his finest book"]

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[CLASSICAL WORKS] VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757, 4° (288 x 225mm.), FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION (quire A a little spotted, occasional light crinkling of leaves), contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt (covers scuffed, upper joints cracked and one cord broken, spine label lacking, front free endpaper detached), book label of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. [Gaskell 1: "Baskerville's first and perhaps his finest book"]

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