C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Anneaus Florus
by Sallust, C. Crispus and Lucius Anneaus Florus
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- Condition
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About This Item
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. First Baskerville edition. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 9 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. 4to. [2] + 317 numbered pages (199-204, 228-229 misnumbered) with two feps at front and end, one set marbled. With armorial bookplate of Charles Percy, younger son of the 2nd Baron Lovaine of Alnwick. A little light foxing and toning mostly at extremities. Wide margins and clean leaves. Bound in striking contemporary full dark purple straight grained morocco with carefully detailed double gilt borders and gilt lettering and blindstamped decorations to spine. Spine lightly bleached and extremities lightly rubbed. ESTCT133320. An impressive example of the papermaking and printing that made Baskerville famous.
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- Bookseller
- St. Wulfstans Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 739
- Title
- C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Anneaus Florus
- Author
- Sallust, C. Crispus and Lucius Anneaus Florus
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Baskerville edition
- Publisher
- John Baskerville
- Place of Publication
- Birmingham
- Date Published
- 1773
- Keywords
- Baskerville classics printing Sallust Lucius binding 18th
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About St. Wulfstans Books
St. Wulfstan's specializes in antiquarian religious books, especially Bibles, Prayer Books, and other texts in the Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal or Presbyterian traditions. We are known for our extensive inventory of liturgical texts (such as the Book of Common Prayer) and related books.The inventory ranges from historically significant and very rare texts to affordable copies of prayer books from the U.S. and Great Britain.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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