Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Tibullus, Albius; Propertius, Sextus:
Title: Opera.
Description: Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. 4to., pp. [ii], 200, 221-372 (i.e. 352, due to usual error in pagination). Writing royal paper of good quality. Occasional tiny marks, a few very faint spots of foxing, some small pencil notes mostly to endpapers. Small stain to fore-edge showing very slightly at page edges. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, gilt leaf border to boards, edges pale yellow, marbled endpapers. Neatly rebacked with original spine retained though darkened, a few scratches and chips, corners a little worn, very good. Gilt rose with an Earl's coronet to upper board, portcullis also with an Earl's coronet to lower board. The same symbols alternating to each compartment of the spine. Possibly the arms of St John's College, Cambridge, though there are no other institutional markings. Leaves A2 and H3, often cancelled, are both found here in their original state. Also available in 12mo., this 4to. version was priced on publication at a guinea, though copies were advertised for sale at 18s. on 9th July 1773; 780 copies remained in stock in 1775. Dibdin describes this edition, based on Coustelier's 1743 production, as 'very beautiful', though 'not esteemed for accuracy'. ESTC T6260; Dibdin I (4th edn.) 377; Gaskell 44; Graesse 287; Moss 1263

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