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Baskerville (John).- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., list of subscribers, some foxing at beginnings and ends (mainly vol.1), preliminary leaf b7 in vol.1 creased, bookplate of Thomas Middlemore of Hawkesley, near contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e., rebacked with gilt spines, rather worn, [Gaskell 4a & 5a], Birmingham, John Baskerville for J. & R.Tonson, 1758 § Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opera, 2 vol., second issue with "potest" on p.108 of vol.2 and without 'List of Antiques' in vol.1 as usual, engraved throughout with frontispieces, vignette titles, dedications, several lists of subscribers, portraits & illustrations (some full-page) and numerous head- & tail-pieces and initials, some spotting and offsetting, tear with slight loss to lower margin of 2N2 in vol.1, old ink inscriptions of Francis Skrine of Oxford to front endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked, spines worn, vol.1 broken, [Cohen-de Ricci 498; Ray, England p.3; Rothschild 1548], John Pine, 1733-37; and 7 others, mostly literature, 8vo (11)

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Baskerville (John).- Milton (John) Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain'd, together 2 vol., list of subscribers, some foxing at beginnings and ends (mainly vol.1), preliminary leaf b7 in vol.1 creased, bookplate of Thomas Middlemore of Hawkesley, near contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e., rebacked with gilt spines, rather worn, [Gaskell 4a & 5a], Birmingham, John Baskerville for J. & R.Tonson, 1758 § Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opera, 2 vol., second issue with "potest" on p.108 of vol.2 and without 'List of Antiques' in vol.1 as usual, engraved throughout with frontispieces, vignette titles, dedications, several lists of subscribers, portraits & illustrations (some full-page) and numerous head- & tail-pieces and initials, some spotting and offsetting, tear with slight loss to lower margin of 2N2 in vol.1, old ink inscriptions of Francis Skrine of Oxford to front endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked, spines worn, vol.1 broken, [Cohen-de Ricci 498; Ray, England p.3; Rothschild 1548], John Pine, 1733-37; and 7 others, mostly literature, 8vo (11)

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