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Archive Print Collection

Fine Printing (Brotherton Collection)

Mainly the works of private presses, with particularly strong representation of the Ashendene, Doves, Golden Cockerel, Kelmscott and Vale Presses. The collection also includes productions of fine comm...

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Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera

Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Baskerville, John (1706-1775); Tibullus; Propertius, Sextus

1772

Indexed in: Gaskell 45.

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Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica; Georgica ; et Æneis

Virgil; Livie, John (1654-1659); Baskerville, John (1706-1775)

1766

Sigs. D5, E4, G2, G4, I3 and I8 are cancels.

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C. Crispus Sallustius : et L. Annæus Florus

Sallust (86 B.C.-34 B.C); Florus, Lucius Annæus; Baskerville, John (1706-1775)

1774

Pp. 264, 274 misnumbered 265 and 275. Gaskell notes five arrangements of the page numbers in sig. O.

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Novum Testamentum ex Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione (v. 1)

Castellion, Sébastien (1515-1563); Foulis, Robert (1707-1776); Foulis, Andrew (1712-1775)

1758

Signatures: v. 1: [pi]², A-R⁸, [chi]²; v. 2: [pi]², S-Z⁸, Aa-Qq⁸, Rr². Pagination: v. 1: [2], 273, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 276-630 p. Title page versos and p. [274] are blank.

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Novum Testamentum ex Sebastiani Castalionis interpretatione (v. 2)

Castellion, Sébastien (1515-1563); Foulis, Robert (1707-1776); Foulis, Andrew (1712-1775)

1758

Signatures: v. 1: [pi]², A-R⁸, [chi]²; v. 2: [pi]², S-Z⁸, Aa-Qq⁸, Rr². Pagination: v. 1: [2], 273, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 276-630 p. Title page versos and p. [274] are blank.

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Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae

Terence

1772

Contents: Andria -- Eunuchus -- Heautontimorumenos -- Adelphi -- Phormio -- Hecyra.

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D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae

Juvenal; Persius; Baskerville, John (1706-1775)

1761

Signatures: A-2G⁴. "D. Junii Juvenalis Satyrae" and "Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae" each have divisional half-title on leaves A2r and 2C1r respectively; pagination is continuous throughout. Indexed...

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Hē Kainē Diathēkē = Novum Testamentum : juxta examplar Millianum

Mill, John (1645-1707); Baskerville, John (1706-1775)

1763

Continuously paged. The first three words of the title are transliterated from the Greek. With a half-title. Indexed in: Darlow & Moule,

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The portraits of Increase Mather : with some notes on Thomas Johnson, an English mezzotinter

Murdock, Kenneth B (1895-1975); Rogers, Bruce (1870-1957)

1924

"Printed by Bruce Rogers at the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, in June, 1924, the text from the original types of John Baskerville owned by the press. The edition consists of 250 copies"--Coloph...

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Broadside ballads of the Restoration period from the Jersey collection, known as the Osterley Park ballads

Fawcett, F Burlington

1930

Half-title page. Woodcut vignette on title page. Without music; most of the tunes indicated by title. A collection of ninety-three ballads printed on ninety-one broadsheets, first listed by J. W...

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