In Full Contemporary Morocco, Kalbfleisch Copy
De Rerum Natura Libri Sex.
Lucretius Carus, Titus.
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1772.
Price:
$2,000.00
About the item
First Baskerville edition. [2], 280 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Full contemporary red straight-grained morocco, double gilt-fillet borders with floral cornerpieces on sides, additionally tooled in blind, spine gilt. Bookplate of Charles Conover Kalbfleisch; Francis Kettaneh book label perished gilt in five panels with wide raised bands, a.e.g. Corners and spine tips a bit rubbed, otherwise a lovely copy. Bookplate of Charles Conover Kalbfleisch; Francis Kettaneh book label perished. Gaskell 43. Provenance: Charles Conover Kalbfleisch (book label); Francis Kettaneh (book label removed).
Item #377811
Baskerville’s beautiful Lucretius is not a rare book, but unusual in contemporary morocco.
First of the elegant quarto series of Latin classics produced in 1772 by the great typographer and printer John Baskerville.
One of the grandest and most moving poems in the Latin language (PMM 87).
