Bibliotheca Askeviana, sive, Catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D.
By: quorum auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh, in vico dicto York Street, Covent Garden, Londini, die Lunae 13 Februarii MDCCLXXV ; & in undeviginti sequentes dies
Contributors: Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774
Published: 1774
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Classical literature; Early works to 1800; Bibliography; Catalogs; Private libraries; Rare books; Library
Other titles: Bibliotheca Askeviana; Catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D.
Notes: Date of publication inferred from date of sale and date of conditions of sale.

Conditions of sale signed: S. Baker and G. Leigh, and dated: July 1774.

This work was printed on ordinary paper, priced at one shilling and sixpence, with errata on p. 149; variant 1 omits the errata and shortens the advertisement on the final page; variant 2 is on royal paper, priced at four shillings, with the errata; variant 3 is also on royal paper, omits the errata, and shortens the advertisement. See English short title catalogue.

Signatures: A⁴( -A4) B-T⁴ U⁴(-U4).

English short title catalogue T3321

Date of auction: February 23-March 7, 1775.

Place of auction: London.

Library's copy 1 is variant 2; annotated with all prices in brown ink; title page with ruled lines added.

Library's copy 1 binding: modern tan cloth.