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SHAFTEBSURY, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of (1671-1713). Characteriticks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. 3 volumes, 8° (235 x 138mm), engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes on the general title and volume titles, engraved head-pieces, all by Simon Gribelin (offsetting on general title, Y7v and Y8r of vol. I lightly browned, occasional browning elsewhere, vols. I-II without final blanks), contemporary green morocco by William McKenzie of Dublin, single fillet on covers, smooth spines divided into six panels by fillets and a foliate roll, two red morocco lettering-pieces, other panels with large oval sunburst surrounded by smaller tools, the tools include McDonnell and Healy nos. 5, 10, 23, 50, spot-marbled endpapers, yellow edges (spines a little faded, covers spotted, tips of corners rubbed).
FINE COPY OF THE BASKERVILLE EDITION, WITH WIDE MARGINS, AND GREEN MOROCCO BINDING BY McKENZIE. McKenzie became free of his bookbinding apprenticeship on 4 July 1780. On his marriage in 1783, he became bookseller and stationer to Trinity College, Dublin, but was dismissed from the post in 1795. He died in 1817. Gaskell Baskerville 49; Rothschild 1831; cf. McDonnell and Healy, Gold-tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, plate 94). (3)
FINE COPY OF THE BASKERVILLE EDITION, WITH WIDE MARGINS, AND GREEN MOROCCO BINDING BY McKENZIE. McKenzie became free of his bookbinding apprenticeship on 4 July 1780. On his marriage in 1783, he became bookseller and stationer to Trinity College, Dublin, but was dismissed from the post in 1795. He died in 1817. Gaskell Baskerville 49; Rothschild 1831; cf. McDonnell and Healy, Gold-tooled Bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century, plate 94). (3)
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