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TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595). La Gierusalemme liberata. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763. 2 volumes, small 8° (146 x 90mm). Etched frontispiece portrait, additional title and 20 plates. Initial blank in each volume (last few quires in vol. II wormed at outer margin). Contemporary calf (one upper cover detached, other joints cracked, spines rather worn and with shelf mark at base). A scarce Foulis imprint. Gaskell Foulis 425.
VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.), Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [but 1759 or later]. 4° (288 x 229mm). (Spotting, occasional marginal soiling, slight marginal dampstains at end, library stamp on title, head of subscriber's list and A1.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, gilt edges (covers slightly darkened and a little scuffed, spine chipped at head and with shelf mark at base). Hon. W. Scott of University College Oxford (pencilled ascription). Second edition of Baskerville's first and 'perhaps finest' book. Gaskell Baskerville 2.
Together with one other work, printed by Baskerville, in 2 volumes. (5)
VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.), Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [but 1759 or later]. 4° (288 x 229mm). (Spotting, occasional marginal soiling, slight marginal dampstains at end, library stamp on title, head of subscriber's list and A1.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, gilt edges (covers slightly darkened and a little scuffed, spine chipped at head and with shelf mark at base). Hon. W. Scott of University College Oxford (pencilled ascription). Second edition of Baskerville's first and 'perhaps finest' book. Gaskell Baskerville 2.
Together with one other work, printed by Baskerville, in 2 volumes. (5)
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