BIBLE, in English – The Holy Bible . Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries , p. 279). Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville (1790-1864) was the second son of P.R. Mynors of Treago, Herefordshire, and assumed the additional name Baskerville on the death of his cousin Col. Thomas Baskerville in 1817. He was returned as MP for Herefordshire in 1841, retiring from Parliament in 1847. Herbert 1146; Gaskell 26. Folio (495 x 320mm). List of subscribers in third state (very small faint marginal stain to gathering 12X, otherwise a very clean, fresh copy). Late 18th-/early 19th-century red morocco, covers panelled with gilt fillets and roll-tooled borders, spine with double-raised bands in 6 compartments lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges (hinges reinforced, new flyleaves, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville (1790-1864, large armorial engraved bookplate) – thence by descent to the present consignor.
BIBLE, in English – The Holy Bible . Cambridge: John Baskerville 1763. This edition 'has always been regarded as Baskerville's magnum opus, and is his most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen' (T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries , p. 279). Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville (1790-1864) was the second son of P.R. Mynors of Treago, Herefordshire, and assumed the additional name Baskerville on the death of his cousin Col. Thomas Baskerville in 1817. He was returned as MP for Herefordshire in 1841, retiring from Parliament in 1847. Herbert 1146; Gaskell 26. Folio (495 x 320mm). List of subscribers in third state (very small faint marginal stain to gathering 12X, otherwise a very clean, fresh copy). Late 18th-/early 19th-century red morocco, covers panelled with gilt fillets and roll-tooled borders, spine with double-raised bands in 6 compartments lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt turn-ins and edges (hinges reinforced, new flyleaves, extremities rubbed). Provenance : Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville (1790-1864, large armorial engraved bookplate) – thence by descent to the present consignor.
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