Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/108
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 563: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20 BASKERVILLE PRESS. A€sop._ Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. In three books, With engraved frontispiece, numerous plates and vignettes. Small 8vo, original calf (rebacked). Birmingham, Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. ares: 1761. 3 3s 2I Ariosto. Orlando Furioso (in Italian). With the portrait of Ariosto after Eisen, engraved by Fiquet, and 46 plates after Cipriani, Cochin, Ezsen, Greuze, Monnet and Moreau, engraved by Bartolozat, Choffard, Duclos, ‘de Ghendt, Helman, Henrique, de Launay, de Longueil, Martini, Massard, Moreau, Ponce, Prévost, and Simonet. 4 vols., royal 8vo, fine copy in contemporary calf, gilt backs. Birmingham, Baskerville, 1773. £14 14s 21A Congreve (William). Works. Consisting of His Plays and Poems. With engraved portrait by T. Chambers after Sir G. Kneller and five plates by F. Hayman and C. Grignion. 3 vols., 8vo, fine unspotted copy in contemporary calf, full gilt backs. Birmingham, Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761. £25 WITH ALL THE PLATES. 22 ——_—- Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, With fine impressions of the engraved frontispiece by Henriquez, and the four rare plates after Gravelot, engraved by Godfrey, Me and Lainé, Leveau, and C. le Vaisseur. 4to, fine copy in contemporary calf, full gilt back. Birminghamiae, Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770. £21 The rarest of the classic quartos and the only one issued by Baskerville with plates. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. With the engraved frontispiece by Henriques. 4to, contemporary russia. Birminghamiae, Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1770. £12 12s Sallust. C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Annaeus Florus. Ato, original calf. Birminghamiae, Typis Joannis Baskerville, 1773. £2 2s 24 Shaftesbury (Anthony, Earl of). Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, With engraved portrait by S. Gubelin and vignettes. vols., 8vo, orzginal tree calf. ermingham, Printed by John Baskerville, 1773. £6 10s 25
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