VIRGIL. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [but later], 4°, second edition, list of subscribers (slight marginal waterstaining, a few leaves very lightly spotted), later speckled calf, covers with double gilt-rule borders (upper cover slightly dampstained), spine gilt in compartments, yellow-edges.

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VIRGIL. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757 [but later], 4°, second edition, list of subscribers (slight marginal waterstaining, a few leaves very lightly spotted), later speckled calf, covers with double gilt-rule borders (upper cover slightly dampstained), spine gilt in compartments, yellow-edges.

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Gaskell Bibliography of John Baskerville 2. Contending Renouard's remark that "cette édition nouvelle fut tirée au nombre de mille exemplaires," Gaskell states: "I am doubtful whether as many as a thousand copies of the second edition were printed, since it appears to be some twenty times less common now than the first edition."

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