RARE 1757 1ST EDIT 1ST STATE JOHN BASKERVILLE VIRGIL
BASKERVILLES FIRST PUBLISHED WORK 95 INSERTED PLATES
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SquareTrade © AP6.0 kenyoncadwalder store RARE 1757 1ST EDIT 1ST STATE JOHN BASKERVILLE VIRGIL Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, Et Aeneis. Birminghamiae: Typis Johannis Baskerville. MDCCLVII, 1757. 1st Edition, 1st Issue. 432 pages. 95 full page inserted plates, including 2 folding and 1 map. Marbled endpages. FO bookplate to inside front board, “Robert Amedee Heath” and another bookplate facing, “Ex-Libris Stephani D. Winkworth, II. Lovelands Walton on the Hill.” Interior remains tight, clean and complete. Pages remain fresh with minor toning. A.e.g.(All edge gilt) remains bright and fresh. Full leather exterior with some wear and scuffing remians much better than average. Some flaking to the leather. 5 raised bands at spine. Title and gilt line decoration at backstrip remains bright and fresh. Minor wear and rubbing to the head and toe of spine. Everything being said volume remains much better than average. A fatnastic find for the collector or anyone interested in this subject matter. Bibliographically complicated, with numerous mispaginations, typesetting errors and so on, this tome includes, Subscribers List with 4 added names, Page 143 is misnumbered 341, Headline on page 133 poorly spaced, Page 144 with the catchword on page 143(341) is correct. The grangerizing in this tome is wonderful. Tome includes 95 full page plates. We would suggest that most of the plates are from Ogilby’s Virgil, both the 1654 folio in English and the 1663 folio in Latin. Folded plate by P. Lombart after Francis Cleyn by way of Frontispiece. Map titled, “Aeneae Troiani Navigatio” (not cut down) by Hollar, 1653. The plates are chiefly after Francis Cleyn. 38 of the plates engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, besides the map. 31 of the plates engraved by P. Lombart, besides the frontis, The last plate in this tome is engraved by William Faithorne. The remainder of the plates engraved by others. Tome includes a receipt from the famed binder Laura S. Young, dated March 29, 1979 for the services of “Restoring Baskerville’s Virgil” the cost of the work in 1979, $275.00. Former Allen T. Hazen Collection. Includes Hazen’s receipt for the purchase of this title from Suckling & Co, in Covent Garden, August 12th, 1938. Of note Hazen paid 22 pounds.John Baskerville's first publication. Baskerville's Virgil was the first European book in which "wove" paper was used. Although work on Baskerville's revolutionary Virgil began in 1754 it was not published until three years later. Highly sought after in Baskerville's own time, the popularity of the first edition ensured that a second facsimile edition was issued almost immediately.'Chef-d'oeuvre de Baskerville, (Brunet). 'In this Virgil, his first book, the 'amateur' Baskerville shows an assurance one would have expected from a highly experienced master. His use of his own, freshly created type, with its balance between the subtlety of the earlier printers' designs and the harsh new French types, is exemplary. The skill seen here is especially remarkable, for such simplicity, even minimalism, was revolutionary. It was a defining moment in bookmaking, ridding it of the irrelevant, flowery decoration. The repercussions were to be felt not only in Britain, but in continental Europe, and even in America.' (Bartram). [Gaskell I; Brunet V 1292; Bartram - Five Hundred Years of Book Design pg. 70-71]. Papermaking-The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, by Dord Hunter, Dover Publications. pages 125-129. The most recent auction record is Christie-7576-205, held May 2, 2008. The final price not including the BP was $6871.00. Remember that Christies’ charges a 25% premium on top of the aforesaid price. A wonderful addition to any serious Baskerville collection.
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