May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(BASKERVILLE PRESS.) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. [Opera.] Engraved frontispiece by Henriquez. [4], 344 pages. 4to, 286x217 mm, contemporary brown morocco attractively gilt with scallop border on covers, spine in 7 compartments with morocco lettering piece in one and floral tools in the rest; contents generally clean. Armorial bookplate of Asa Palmer French (1860-1935) dated 1912. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1770

Additional Details

first baskerville quarto edition. Without the additional 4 plates after Gravelot found in some copies. Gaskell 39.