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VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Engraved additional title from 1649 French edition bound in as frontispiece (with outer margin restored). [10] (of [12]), 432 pages; lacks initial blank. Contents ruled in red throughout. 4to, 295x228 mm, later 18th-century red straight-grain morocco gilt with floral border on covers, the front additionally stamped with monogram P.D. in Gothic letters, spine in 7 compartments, lettered in 2 with ornamental tooling in the rest, elaborately gilt-tooled blue morocco doublures with inlaid red morocco invected frame and concave octagonal centerpiece, blue silk endleaves, spine darkened, slightly worn at top; mostly moderate foxing; gilt edges with gauffered triangular floral design near head- and tail-caps. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757
first baskerville edition, "Baskerville's first and perhaps his finest book" (Gaskell). With 4 additional names in the subscribers' list as in most copies, all of Gaskell's usual cancels, and none of his uncommon cancels. Gaskell 1.
