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Baskerville Virgil, 1st book from the press

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Description

Heading:
Author: [Virgil] Vergilius Maro, Publius
Title: Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis
Place Published: Birmingham
Publisher:Johannis Baskerville
Date Published: 1757
Description:

[10], 432 pp. 28.2x20.5 cm. (11¼x8¼"), period mottled calf, rebacked in leather, original spine strip laid on.

The first book from John Baskerville's press, introducing the typographic world to the Baskerville types much admired by Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson and others. A portion of the text was printed on wove paper believed to have been produced by James Whatman; this was apparently the first use of wove paper to appear in the West. Bookplates of George Courtenay and Robert Throckmorton.

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Wear to spine strip, joints tender; else very good.

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Baskerville Virgil, 1st book from the press

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SKU: 29428018
Price: 750 USD
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