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(BASKERVILLE PRESS.) Vergilius Maro, Publius. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. [10] (of [12]), 432 pages; lacks the initial blank. 4to, 284x227 mm, modern mottled calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering pieces, spine faded; scattered marginal foxing, marginal browning on title. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [i. e., circa 1770?]
Second Baskerville edition, "textually almost identical with the first, and also dated 1757. Clearly it was intended to be a facsimile of the first edition--it included the original list of subscribers--and, since Baskerville's Virgil was soon sought after by eighteenth-century collectors, it is arguable that it was also intended to be sold dishonestly as the first edition . . . The second edition, unlike the first, is a rare book"--Gaskell 2.
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