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BASKERVILLE PRESS -- Publius VERGILIUS Maro (70-19 B.C.) Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [Bound with:] Pietro Santo BARTOLI (c.1635-1700). Picturae Antiquissimi Virgiliani Codicis Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Rome: Monaldini. 1782. 2 works in one volume, 4 (284 x 215mm). First work with 8pp. subscriber's list, with 4 additional names at end. 2nd work with engraved portrait, title, vignettes, dedication and 124 engraved plates (most plates bound into an appropriate position in the first work). Citron straight-grained morocco by Christian Kalthoeber, gilt, g.e., ticket at front (discoloured, spine repaired). Provenance: Henry Heathcote (original subscriber to first work); D.J.Powell (pencilled note recording purchase, 14th April 1802, 'at the Sale of Mr Heathcote's Books'); R.J.G.Tangye (inscription dated 28/7/95). Gaskell 1. (first work).
CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. 4 (295 x 235mm). 1 cancel, H3 a cancellandum. Near-contemporary "Etruscan" calf, possibly by Edwards of Halifax, covers with gilt outer metope and pentaglyph roll enclosing a stained border of classical palmettes, gilt small palmette roll and central speckled calf panel with central oval containing a centrally-placed stained urn, the spine in six compartments with double raised bands, green morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeated stained and gilt decoration, g.e. (rebacked, original spine laid down). Provenance: Bibliotheca Liddelliana (early ink ownership stamp). Gaskell 44; and two other works from the Baskerville Press.
(Publius Vergilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, 1757, 2 copies, Baskerville's first and second editions. Gaskell 1 & 2). (4)
CATULLUS, TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772. 4 (295 x 235mm). 1 cancel, H3 a cancellandum. Near-contemporary "Etruscan" calf, possibly by Edwards of Halifax, covers with gilt outer metope and pentaglyph roll enclosing a stained border of classical palmettes, gilt small palmette roll and central speckled calf panel with central oval containing a centrally-placed stained urn, the spine in six compartments with double raised bands, green morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeated stained and gilt decoration, g.e. (rebacked, original spine laid down). Provenance: Bibliotheca Liddelliana (early ink ownership stamp). Gaskell 44; and two other works from the Baskerville Press.
(Publius Vergilius Maro. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, 1757, 2 copies, Baskerville's first and second editions. Gaskell 1 & 2). (4)