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Baskerville Printing of Addison's Works 1761

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Title: The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq.
Author: Addison, Joseph
Description: 4 volumes. [xxvii], 525 [i.e. 537], [4]; [vi], 538, [11]; 579, [11]; 555, [10] pp. Frontispiece and three engraved plates in Volume 1; six leaves of engraved medals in Volume 1 (included in pagination) and 7 inserted plates of medals in Volume 2. Bound without the directions to binder (as usual). (4to) 11½x9¼, early full calf with modern rebacking, red and green morocco spine labels. First Baskerville Edition."Baskerville spared neither pains nor money to make his books as fine as he could most of his books were unusually beautiful..." (Gaskell, p. xix). Gaskell 17.
Heading: Place Published: Birmingham
Publisher: John Baskerville
Date Published: 1761