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Published by Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson in London. MDCCLIX [1759], 1759
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Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound in full brown leather. Nicely decorated front cover, with borders and decorations in gold. Leather spine is a professional reback, with title label in gold on maroon. Another maroon label at the foot of the spine says Baskerville 1759. 390 pages + 4 page table of contents. Bindin…g good and tight, with marble paper endpapers. Gutters reinforced with maroon binders tape on the inside. Bookplate on the inside front cover with initials RJW Milton Library Wickenheiser. Text block clean and square. Some very neat pencil notes in the margins, primarily on pages 190-205. Scarcely any foxing to speak of. A very nice clean copy. Printed on good wove paper. Measures 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Please email with questions or to request photos.
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Published by Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, London, 1758
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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketFull leather. Condition: Near fine. First John Baskerville Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], [i], ii-lxix, 416pp; 390pp. Full brown calf, thin gilt trim to covers. Five raised bands, title in gilt over red and green morocco labels affixed to spine. Gilt embellishments to compartments on spine. Solid text blocks, small chips to cor…ners, faint creasing along hinges. Light foxing along endpapers, occasional spotting throughout text. Overall, a bright, near fine example. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper of both volumes. (Gaskell 4a) (Gaskell 5a). In addition to Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, John Baskerville is celebrated for his clear printings of Virgil (1757), Joseph Addison works (1761), The Bible (1763), and Vergil in English (1766). He is the namesake of the modern Baskerville typeface. A complete set of Paradise Lost together with Paradise Regained by John Milton. This is the first edition printed by type designer John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, published in 1758. (illustrator).
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Published by Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson in London, Birmingham, 1759
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller3-star sellerSecond Baskerville Quarto Edition. 250 x 180 mm. (10 x 7 1/2"). Two volumes. From the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D., with his Life of Milton. Recent retrospective calf, covers panelled in blind, raised bands, spine panels with elaborate blind-stamped ornament, black morocco label in the second panel of each volume. Frontispiece po…rtrait engraved by J. Miller. Verso of title pages with early ink signature of "Le[onard](?) Kennedy." Gaskell 6, 7; Coleridge 122, 202; Straus & Dent, p. 69; Wickenheiser 697, 698; Howe's, Cat. 240, #188, 189 (1989); ESTC T133905, T134634. âOccasional minor browning and foxing (a small handful of leaves more noticeably affected), but a clean and pleasant copy in an attractive new sympathetic binding. According to Howes, this is the "largest paper edition of Baskerville's Milton," and the best obtainable Baskerville edition. The text used here is that edited by English cleric Thomas Newton and first published in 1749 ("Paradise Lost") and 1752 ("Paradise Regained"). According to DNB, "The edition, with its rigorous use of original documents and collation of all previous editions, is highly rated by literary scholars and has been described as 'scrupulously definitive' (Moyles, 73)." After the success of his beautifully printed "Virgil," Baskerville wanted to print editions of some English classics. But his Milton ran into opposition from the Tonson firm, which claimed its copyright. As Straus & Dent observe, the Tonsons "could hardly fail to understand the advantage of offering the public another edition of Milton . . . printed in some fashion similar to that of the Virgil," and they agreed to act as London publisher for Baskerville's imprint. The venture was a financial success, and as Straus & Dent point out, the appearance of the Milton "increased his reputation, and prepared the way for other works of no less brilliant a kind." John Baskerville (1707-75) started his career as a writing master, then began cutting letters for gravestones. He patented a process for "japanning," a type of veneer that replicated the popular Japanese lacquer work, and ran a successful business in this manufacture for 10 years before following his desire to cut type and print books. His typeface is his most enduring legacy to the art of the book, though not his only innovation in the field. In his preface to the 1758 octavo first edition of his Milton, he wrote, "Amongst the several mechanic Arts that have engaged my attention, there is no one which I have pursued with so much steadiness and pleasure, as that of Letter-Founding. Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. I formed to my self Ideas of greater accuracy than had yet appeared, and have endeavoured to produce a Sett of Types according to what I conceived to be their true proportion." Their beauty is attested to by their longevity, with Baskerville typefaces being among the most popular serif fonts ever since their creator's time.
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Published by Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, London, 1758
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerTwo vols., uniform 8vos, [xxxii] 416pp & lxix, 390pp; contemporary calf, rebacked with elaborately gilt-tooled spines. The first Baskerville books in English (preceded by Virgil in Latin), with all cancels called for, p. 135 correctly numbered and italic I in headline on p. 346 of Paradise Lost. Includes full list of subscribers…, including Benjamin Franklin. Gaskell 4, 5. Bookplates (John Hadmar Sticht); wear to edges, hinges, and spine ends; signature N in Paradise Regain'd pulled loose; front cover of Paradise Lost detached, still an attractive set.
