J. & J. Leighton <London> [Editor]: Rare books, manuscripts and bindings: from the stock of (London, 1902)

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BASKERVILLE PRESS.
35 BARCLAY (Robert) An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, being an
Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People
called Quakers. £5 5s. Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1765
Rl. 4to, boards, edges quite uneut, fine copy. Straus and Dent 73 : in that Bibliography only 9
examples of Baskerville’s press are noted as uncut : no similar copy of the Barclay is recorded.
No errata leaf but apparently with the cancels mentioned by Straus.
36 BARCLAY (R.) An Apology for the True Christian Divinity. £3 3s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1765
RI. 4to, orig. calf gilt (a little worn), fine large copy with the scarce errata leaf (2nd mentioned
by Straus 71) after title.
37 CATULLUS, Tibullus et Propertius. Opera. £2 10s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1772
Rl. 4to, old calf, orig. marbled calf, full gilt back, large copy. Straus and Dent 91.
38 HORATIUS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. £3 3s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1762
8vo, contempy. red moro. gilt, floral back, g.e. (Derome style), slight crack top of one joint,
trifling defect in frontis. by Grignion after Wale, some stains, but first state, with errors,
leaf of erratum and price list. Straus and Dent 57 and 59.
39 HORATIUS. Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 15s.
Birmingham, S. Baskerville, 1777
12mo, half moro., g.e. MS. notes on one or two leaves. Straus and Dent 116.
40 LUCRETIUS. De rerum natura libri sex. £2 10s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1772
Rl. 4to, orig. marbled calf, full gilt back. First Baskerville ed., and the only one in 4to from
the press. Straus and D. 90.
41 MILTON (J.) [Poems]. Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain’d (&c.), from the
text of T. Newton. £4 10s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1760
2 vols, rl. 8vo, orig. mottled calf gilt, rebacked and corners renewed about 1820, gilt ornaments,
large and clean. Alex. Boswell’s copy, with signature 1764 (father of Johnson’s biographer).
Straus and Dent 18 and 29 (collation differs).
42 PRAYER (Common) The Book of, with the Psalter. £2 10s.
Cambridge, J. Baskerville, 1762
Rl. 8vo, red mor. (? Cambridge) gilt with borders on sides consisting of two-handled vases con-
taining flowers, alternating with sprays and branches in pyramidal form, the back with a
kind of flower basket in each panel, g.e., a trifle worn at corners : large copy. Straus and
Dent 52.
43 SALLUSTIUS (C. Crispus) et L. Annaeus Florus. 12s. 6d.
12mo, orig. sheep, slight stains. Straus 109. Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1774
44 TERENTIUS. Comoediae. £2 15s. Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1772
Rl. 4to, orig. marbled calf, full gilt back, very faintly stained on end margins, large copy.
Straus 93.
45 VIRGILIUS Maro. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. £3 10s.
Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1757
Rl. 4to, old calf, gilt back, first few margins very slightly cockled, large clean copy, with
orig. blank joined to title. The first Baskerville book. Straus 6, but p. 316 misprinted 319.
Bound for Thos. Patten, of Bank, whose crest is on each panel of back, and his uncommon
ex-libris inside. List of subscribers includes “ Ben. Franklin, Esq., of Philadelphia,” 6 copies.

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