ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719). The Works. Birmingham: John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761.
4 volumes, 4o (290 x 235 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Miller after Kneller, 3 engraved plates by Grignion after Hayman, 13 woodcut plates of coins. (Without the leaf of directions to the binder as usual, very minor occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary diced russia gilt, edges gilt (a few joints starting, rubbing to others). Provenance: purchased note dated 1820 (on front free endpaper); purchased from Carnegie Book Shop, New York, 25 August 1959.
FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. One of the most ambitious productions of the Press. "The book is certainly the most beautiful edition of Addison ever published. Dibdin calls it 'a glorious performance.'" Straus/Dent John Baskerville (1907) p. 35; Gaskell 17. (4)
ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719). The Works. Birmingham: John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761.
4 volumes, 4o (290 x 235 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by Miller after Kneller, 3 engraved plates by Grignion after Hayman, 13 woodcut plates of coins. (Without the leaf of directions to the binder as usual, very minor occasional pale spotting.) Contemporary diced russia gilt, edges gilt (a few joints starting, rubbing to others). Provenance: purchased note dated 1820 (on front free endpaper); purchased from Carnegie Book Shop, New York, 25 August 1959.
FIRST BASKERVILLE EDITION. One of the most ambitious productions of the Press. "The book is certainly the most beautiful edition of Addison ever published. Dibdin calls it 'a glorious performance.'" Straus/Dent John Baskerville (1907) p. 35; Gaskell 17. (4)
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