| Variant title |
Bucolica, Georgica et Æneis |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy bound in straight grain goat leather with wove paper. Includes armorial bookplate featuring three crests with two shields with the inscription below reading "Invictus maneo" on front pastedown and armorial bookplate with motto "Denique coelum" of Beresford V. Melville on verso of second front flyleaf. |
| General note | Date in Roman numerals. |
| General note | Identified as second edition, commonly said to be printed in 1771. In this edition the 'J' of "Johannis" is to the left of the 'B' of "Birminghamiae." Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | Misnumeration: main series runs 1-103, 104-5, 105-231, 233-432 (=423) as in the first edition. Cf. Gaskell. |
| General note | List of subscribers on p. [5-12] |
| General note | Headline damaged on pp. 7 and 25; misplaced after the page number on p. 83; inverted on p. 239. |
| General note | Pp. 143-4: set from the cancellantia of both S4 and T1, thereby omitting line 457 entirely. |
| General note | Verso of t.p. and pages [30] and [104] are blank. |
| References |
Gaskell, P. John Baskerville, 2 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from George Bayntun, 3/28/2018 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Virgil. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica ; Georgica ; et Aeneis. Birminghamiae : Typis Johannis Baskerville., 1757 [i.e. 1771] |
| Genre/form | Wove papers (Paper) England 18th century. |
| Genre/form | Goatskin bindings (Binding) England Birmingham 18th century. |
