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Birmingham, by G. Baskerville, for P. and G. Molini, 1773 [i.e. 1775?]

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Lot description

4 vol, 8vo: portrait-[6]-lviii-[28]-362, front.-[2]-450, front.-[2]-446, front.-[2]-431-[15] pp.; 43 pl. (some foxing, light damp stain in inner margin of end vol. I).

Mod. three-quarter light brown leather, marbled paper covers, spines with raised bands blind-ruled, red. spr. edges (covers rubbed, black staining to some covers).

Illustrated with the portrait of Ludovico Ariosto after Charles Eisen in frontispiece of vol. I and with 46 plates (3 places as front.) after J.M. Moreau the young, J.B. Cipriani, de Ghendt etc. Some plates are dated from 1773 or 1774; according to Cohen the work wasn't published before 1775.
Ref. ESTC T133620 & T133621. - Cohen 95-97.
Prov. Tyndale Library, Cambridge (stamps, in some margins also). - Mod. ms. ownership entry.