[Rarebooks] FS: Baskerville Press Terence, 1772

[Charles Agvent]

(BASKERVILLE PRESS) TERENTIUS, Publius (TERENCE). COMOEDIAE. Birmingham: 
John Baskerville, 1772. First Edition. The quarto (9-1/4" x 11-1/2") 
Baskerville Edition (there was also a duodecimo edition) bound in modern 
green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine, all edges gilt; (ii), 
364 pages. Gaskell 46 with pages 203 misnumbered as 303 and 299 as 283. 
Terence, a Roman playwright, is believed to have been a Carthaginian 
slave educated and freed by his Roman master. Six of his plays have 
survived. Baskerville, a pioneer in advances in printing technology, is 
credited with the invention of hot-pressing: pressing the wet sheets 
between copper plates, thereby smoothing the paper and setting the ink. 
Baskerville invented an ink that was both quick-drying, allowing him to 
print the reverse sides of his paper faster, and uncommonly rich, black 
and lustrous in appearance. Contents clean with wide margins; binding 
with little wear. Near Fine. (#020517) $150

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