May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BASKERVILLE PRESS.) Juvenalis, Decimus Junius; and Persius Flaccus, Aulus. Satyrae. 240 pages. 4to, 295x232 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco; some foxing at end. Contemporary armorial bookplate of I. White of New College, Oxford. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761

Additional Details

first baskerville edition; first state of E2, K4, U4, and Z3. Gaskell 15. extra-illustrated with the complete set of 17 etched plates by Wenceslaus Hollar from the 1660 edition of Sir Robert Stapylton's English translation of Juvenal titled Mores Hominum, The Manners of Men.