Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis
Contributors: Baskerville, John, 1706-1775, printer; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: Typis Johannis Baskerville
Published: 1770
Place of publication: Birminghamiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 432
Other titles: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis; Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare and Shakespeariana (Boston Public Library)
Work titles: Works
Notes: This edition of Virgil was issued under a false date of imprint, not in 1757, as stated on the title page, but likely ca. 1770 by Baskerville himself. Gaskell and others theorize that the printer issued this facsimile as a forgery of his 1757 Virgil in order to capitalize on the popularity of that earlier edition. This later Virgil is differentiated typographically (the "J" in the imprint falls to the left of the "B" in Birminghamiae on the title page; the subscriber list has 24 additional names), as well as by the laid paper stock on which it is printed.

Signatures: pi1 a-b℗ø A-3H́þ

Error in pagination: p. 224 misnumbered 424.

ESTC T131452.

Gaskell, P.  John Baskerville

Boston Public Library.  Barton collection catalogue, Misc. p. 597

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in red, straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt. The spine is panelled and tooled with a pattern of flowers and diamonds. All text block edges are gilt. The armorial bookplate of the Barton Library is present on the front pastedown.