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BASKERVILLE PRESS, -- Joseph ADDISON (1672-1719). Works. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761. 4 volumes, 4 (297 x 233mm). Four engraved plates, 7 woodcut plates, 6 full-page woodcut illustrations. (Light browning to engraved plates and facing leaves.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt arms of Hutchinson family on upper covers, g.e. (discolouration to leather along lower edge of bindings). Provenance: Joseph Hutchinson (armorial bookplate, binding); Henry J.B.Clements (armorial bookplate). Gaskell 17.
Ludovico ARIOSTO (1474-1533). Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 4 volumes, 8 (237 x 150mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Ariosto, 46 engraved plates after G.Cipriani, J.M. Moreau le jeune, C.Eisen, C.N.Cochin and others. (Vol.I without subscribers or errata leaves, occasional spotting.) 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, covers with wide decorative border surrounding centrally-placed lyre and laurel wreath, g.e. (joints weak). Provenance: H.N.Astley (various inscriptions, one dated 1850); C. & V.Baldwin (leather book-label). Gaskell 48 (a); and three others from the Baskerville Press (R.Andrews. The Works of Virgil, englished, Birmingham, 1766, 8 [Gaskell 32]; [R.Dodsley]. Select Fables of Aesop and other fabulists, Birmingham, 1761, sm.8 [Gaskell 14]; The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge, 1761, 8 [Gaskell 13]). (11)
Ludovico ARIOSTO (1474-1533). Orlando Furioso. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 4 volumes, 8 (237 x 150mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Ariosto, 46 engraved plates after G.Cipriani, J.M. Moreau le jeune, C.Eisen, C.N.Cochin and others. (Vol.I without subscribers or errata leaves, occasional spotting.) 19th-century red straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, covers with wide decorative border surrounding centrally-placed lyre and laurel wreath, g.e. (joints weak). Provenance: H.N.Astley (various inscriptions, one dated 1850); C. & V.Baldwin (leather book-label). Gaskell 48 (a); and three others from the Baskerville Press (R.Andrews. The Works of Virgil, englished, Birmingham, 1766, 8 [Gaskell 32]; [R.Dodsley]. Select Fables of Aesop and other fabulists, Birmingham, 1761, sm.8 [Gaskell 14]; The Book of Common Prayer, Cambridge, 1761, 8 [Gaskell 13]). (11)