Unsworth’s Booksellers will be exhibiting at our forthcoming Summer Fair on June 4th. They will have the following items for sale:
Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Tibullus, Albius; Propertius, Sextus: Opera. Birminghamiae [Birmingham]: Baskerville, 1772. [51370] £500
Occasional scatterings of very light foxing, but generally clean. Red calf, contemporary boards with later but sympathetic gilt spine; both boards heavily gilt in the herringbone style with borders and diamond-shaped centrepieces, suggesting a Scottish binding. Marbled endpapers, cloth hinges. In rebacking the binder has employed a French joint, seemingly to correct the original structure and give a better square at the foredge; the look is a little unusual, with a deep groove at the joint, but the work is neatly and skillfully done. Some slight splits to tail-cap, a few small scrapes to upper board, corners repaired but a very good, attractive copy.
Howard, John: Aikin, John (ed.):
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with Various Papers Relative to the Plague:Together with Further Observations on Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and Additional Remarks on the Present State of Those in Great Britain and Ireland; [bound with] Appendix, Containing Observations Concerning Foreign Prisons and Hospitals: Collected by Mr Howard in His Concluding Tour. Warrington: printed by William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and J.Taylor, in London, 1789; 1791 [51654] £650
[Martial] Martialis, Marcus Valerius: Epigrammata. In amphitheatrvm Caesaris. Venice: [Heirs of] 
Aldus Manutius, and Andrea Torresanus, 1517. [51705] £1,500
Second edition thus. 8vo., ff. 190, [ii]. Woodcut printer’s anchor device on leaves A1 recto and [et]8 verso, a few errors in foliation as usual. Some marginal annotations in sepia ink, most now sadly faded to illegibility. SOme occasional light foxing, including a little to title-page. Early 19th-century antique-style vellum binding, raised bands, remains of spine label, board edges turned a little inward, edges coloured green, narrow green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Vellum darkened, slightly grubby, top edge dusty. A very good copy in a sympathetic later binding. Bookplate of James John Falconer to the front paste-down, with ‘1877’ inked beneath
