?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING (BASKERVILLE PRESS.) Vergilius Maro, Publius. Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. [10] (of [12]), 432 pages; lacks the initial blank. 4to, 292x228 mm, early 19th-century diced russia, rebacked with calf; contents washed with faint residual stains on title and elsewhere, blank corner off Y1; cloth slipcase, repaired with tape along one edge. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757
first baskerville edition, "Baskerville's first and perhaps his finest book"--Gaskell 1.with a fore-edge painting depicting the Roman amphitheatre at Verona.
