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1. ABBEY (J.R.) Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. From the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco.1991. £125 Large 4to, frontispiece, plates, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
2. AGRICULTURE. Catalogue of the Walter Frank Perkins Agricultural Library. The University Library, Southampton.1961. £55 First Edition, large 8vo, one of 500 copies, frontis., orig. cloth. Over 2,000 titles mostly before 1900.
3. ALEMBIC PRESS. DeLittle 1888-1988. The First Years in a Century of Wood Letter Manufacture 1888-1985. The Alembic Press, Oxford.1988. £38 4to, 63pp., one of 145 numbered copies, 19 specimens of wood type, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. Printed to commemorate the centenary of the wood type manufacturing firm R.D. DeLittle of York.
4. ALMACK (Edward) Fine Old Bindings with Other Interesting Miscellanea in Edward Almack's Library. Blades, East & Blades.1913. £325 First Edition, folio, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the publishers, coloured frontis., 52 full page plates of bindings (27 in colour), some light spotting, re-cased, orig. half creme coloured buckram over red buckram, uncut, t.e.g. Fine plates of English late seventeenth-century bindings.
5. ALSTON (R.C.) A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800. A Corrected Reprint of Volumes I-X. Reproduced from the Author’s Annotated Copy with Corrections and Additions to 1973 Including Cumulative Indices. Janus Press, Ilkley.1974. £295 10 Vols., in one, orig. cloth. Sheehy BC47. The indices are of subjects, authors and anonymous titles, with a new preface and a cumulative list of libraries on whose collections the entries are based.
6. ALSTON (R.) & HILL (B.S.) Compilers. Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library. The British Library.1996. £50 First Edition, coloured frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth. Out of print.
7. AMERICAN INDIANS. A Selective Bibliography of Ceremonies, Dances, Music & Songs of the American Indian from Books in the Library of Gregory Javitch, with an Annotated List of Indian Dances. Osiris, Montreal.1974. £45 First Edition, 4to, one of 280 numbered copies, inscribed by Gregory Javitch, frontis., illustrs., orig. quarter cloth, decorated paper covered boards, uncut. This collection was presented to the University of Alberta.
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8. AMHERST (Lord, of Hackney) Catalogue of the Magnificent Library of Choice and Valuable Books & Manuscripts, the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Thursday, the 3rd of December, 1908, and on Wednesday, the 24th of March, 1909. Dryden Press.1908-9. £175 4to, iv,198pp., 25 chromolithographed plates of fine bindings, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. half-vellum, over blue ribbed silk boards, the silk with fleur-de-leys, green morocco label lettered in gilt, spine with art deco gilt design, a good copy in an attractive binding. Lord Amherst was a fine judge of incunabula, his series of seventeen Caxtons was one of the finest in private hands. His early-printed books illustrated the dawn of typography in practically every European country. These 2 sales produced £32,592 and did not include the seventeen Caxtons, which were sold privately before the sale for £30,000 to J.P. Morgan. De Ricci, pp.165-6.
9. ANGLING PICTURES. Catalogue of the Collection of Angling Pictures, Early English Drawings and Mezzotints of Arthur N. Gilbey, Esq. deceased, late of Folly Farm, Sulhampstead, Berks... Which will be Sold at Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods... on Thursday, April 25 and Friday, April 26, 1940. London.1940. £95 Small 4to, 65,[1]pp., Major J.R. Abbey’s copy, signed and dated on front free endpaper, frontis., 36 plates, orig. printed boards, spine browned, 245 lots.
10. ARBER (Professor Edward) The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.; With a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A.D. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne. Edited... by Professor Edward Arber... Edward Arber, Privately Printed.1903-06. £145 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, xvi,576; x,664; x,742pp., inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, gilt.
11. ARMSTRONG (Elizabeth) Robert Estienne, Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus. Cambridge University Press.1954. £65 First Edition, 4to, xx,[ii],310pp., 8 plates, 15 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth. Full-length study of this important and admirable figure.
12. ATKINSON (Geoffroy) La Litterature Geographique Francaise de la Renaissance. Répertoire Bibliographique. Description de 524 Impressions d’Ouvrages Publiés en Français avant 1610, et Traitant des pays et des Peuples non Européens, que l’on Trouve dans les Principales Bibliotheques de France et de l’Europe Occidentale. [with:] Supplement. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1927-36 Edition) 1968. £45 4to, facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth. Giving full detailed collations.
13. [AVERY (Samuel Putnam)] Catalogue Raisonnée. Works on Bookbinding, Practical and Historical. Examples of Bookbindings of the XVIth to XIXth Centuries from the Collection of Samuel Putnam Avery, A.M. Exhibited at Columbia University Library. [Compiled by Charles Alexander Nelson]. Privately Printed, New York.1903. £95 First Edition, xii,108pp., orig. printed wrappers, upper cover chipped and detached, uncut. The first part of the catalogue, nos. 1-120, gives a chronological bibliography with collations of works on bookbinding, practical and historical. Nos. 121-243 consist of examples from Avery’s collection and include his own commissions from Cobden-Sanderson, Marius Michel, Annie S. Macdonald. Extremely scarce.
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14. BAESECKE (Georg) Lichtdrucke nach Althochdeutschen Handschriften. Codd. Par. Lat. 7640, S. Gall 911, Aug. CXI Jun. 25, Lobcow. 434. Niemeyer, Halle.1926. £75 Folio, 8pp., 38 facsimile plates, loosely inserted in orig. portfolio, a nice copy.
15. BAILEY (Arthur L.) Library Bookbinding. The H.W. Wilson Company, New York.1916. £45 First Edition, [viii],248pp., 14 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth. Dealing directly with the binding of books for libraries.
16. BALSTON (Thomas) James Whatman Father and Son. Methuen & Co. Ltd.1957. £45 First Edition, xii,170,[2]pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. cloth, uncut. This gives personal and economic detail of the firm and its founders. Appendixes review countermarks and watermarks used by the Whatmans as well as the “contrivance” for making “antiquarian” paper invented by James Whatman II.
17. BALTIMORE MUSEUM. The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A.D. An Exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.1957. £75 First Edition, 4to, limited edition, 184 illustrs., on 106 plates, orig. decorated boards, small tear to upper hinge. This important exhibition of bookbindings was organized by Miss Dorothy Miner; 718 bindings are carefully described, with critical notes and references to published works, and 184 are illustrated on 106 half-tone plates. The exhibition was the most comprehensive to have been held since the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of 1891.
APPRAISED BY M.R. JAMES 18. BANNISTER (Arthur Thomas) Compiler. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hereford Cathedral Library. With an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James. Wilson Phillips, Hereford.1927. £95 First Edition, [x],viii,190pp., with a number of marginal pencil prices and the following note by Bannister? “M.R. James suggested for insurance purposes the valuations here indicated, as “perhaps modest.” No single book less than £100. [Therefore] all not marked are £100. But those valued at more than £100 are indicated”, orig. printed wrappers.
19. BARBIER (Jean Paul) Ma Bibliotheque Poétique, II: Ronsard. Librairie Droz, Genève.1990. £65 First Edition, 4to, 425pp., ex-library, coloured plates, facsimiles, orig. decorated cloth. This is the description of a breathtakingly rich collection of books, pamphlets and mauscripts by and about Pierre de Ronard.
20. BARKER (Nicolas) Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Fordham University Press, New York.1992. £75 Second Edition, 4to, xiv,138pp., a printing error has resulted in 6 pages not being printed - these have been supplied in facsimiles, 49 illustrations, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt.
21. BARTLETT (Henrietta C.) Catalogue of Early English Books, Chiefly of the Elizabethan Period. Collected by William Augustus White. Privately Printed for Mr. W.A. White, by the Pynson Printers, Inc. New York.1926. £45 First Edition, [x],170pp., one of 500 copies, folding facsimile frontis., orig. buckram, morocco labels lightly rubbed, uncut.
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22. BASSETT (John) Editor. The Printing World. A Journal Devoted to the Interest of Printing. Vol. II.-Jan. to Dec., 1892. [&] New Series Vol. 1. 1893 - Vol. 2. 1894. Geo. W. Jones.1892- 94. £65 3 Vols., 4to, small neat library stamps, coloured and black & white throughout, numerous trade adverts, hinges shaken, orig. cloth.
23. BECKFORD LIBRARY. The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the First [-Fourth] Portion of the Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1882-83. £345 4 Parts in one, large 8vo, iv,[ii], 237; [vi],195,[1]; vi,[ii],196; iv,[ii],78pp., with the armorial bookplate of John William Pease, cont. half calf, re-backed, morocco labels, raised bands, ruled in gilt. De Ricci, pp.84-87. “One of the most greatest collectors of the day, a man to be mentioned in the same breath as Lord Spencer, was the wealthy and eccentric ‘Vathek’, William Beckford (1759-1844)... As a book collector, he was certainly far ahead of his times... [He did not collect in the manner usual in his day and] the result of these bizarre tastes was less a library, in the proper sense of the world, than a cabinet of bibliographical rarities & freaks, each one a gem of its kind.”. One of the most famous and notable sales in the annals of book-collecting. A book from the Beckford Library still carries with it a pedigree second to none.
24. BENDALL (Sarah) Editor. Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers of Great Britain and Ireland 1550-1850. The British Library.1997. £195 Second Edition, 2 vols., 4to, 312; 578pp., 14 coloured plates, orig. cloth. This work, in two volumes, provides details of all persons who measured and made large-scale local maps in Great Britain or Ireland between 1530 and 1850. The first volume discusses the history of the surveying profession based on an analysis of the mapmakers in the dictionary, together with lists of sources and comprehensive indexes. The second volume contains the biographical entries for each surveyor. This revised edition increases the number of surveyors by almost 50% to nearly 14,000, with the starting date two decades earlier to incorporate local military surveyors who practised in the 1530s and whose importance is being recognised by scholars. Bibliographical references have been added, and organisational and stylistic changes made.
25. BERNARD (Auguste) Geofroy Tory, Painter and Engraver: First Royal Printer: Reformer of Orthography and Typography under François I. An Account of his Life and Works, by Auguste Bernard, Translated by George B. Ives. The Riverside Press, [Boston].1909. £145 4to, [ii],332,[8]pp., one of 370 copies, library label on front paste-down, two stamps to verso of title, orig. boards, gilt, re-backed with the orig. spine laid-down, uncut, a very good ex-library copy.
26. BERNERS (Dame Juliana) The Boke of Saint Albans by Dame Juliana Berners. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour; Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486. Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by William Blades. Elliot Stock.1899. £65 4to, 32,[175]pp., ex-library, some light foxing, library quarter calf. The introduction deals with the authorship, typography, bibliographical aspects and subject matter of the work, followed by a vocabulary of the chief words in which peculiarity of spelling or dialect are noticeable.
27. BERWICK (Lord [Thomas Noel Hill]) A Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of the Rt. Hon. the Lord Berwick, Consisting of a Valuable Collection of Antiquities, History, Voyages, Travels, Classics, and Miscellanies... Which will be sold by Mr. Sotheby... on Tuesday, July 15, 1817... [Wright and Murphy, Printers].1817. £195 [ii],18pp., recent paper wrappers.
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28. BESTERMAN (Theodore) A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the like. Societas Bibliographica, Lausanne.1965-66. £295 Fourth Edition, revised and greatly enlarged throughout, 5 thick vols., 4to, a very good ex-library set, orig. cloth. The last and best edition. One of the greatest one-man bibliographical achievements of this century.
29. BEWICK (Thomas) and others. [Specimens of Woodblocks]. [Newcastle upon Tyne: George Angus].[c.1815]. £1,595 A collection of 28 sheets with impressions of 239 blocks, sheets 220 x 285mm, on wove paper, 3 sheets watermarked 1815, loose, in very good condition. A compendium of popular iconography from the stock of successive generations of printers in North East England. The blocks themselves date from the mid-17th century to c.1800 and the watermarked date on these impressions places them in the collection of Newcastle printer and publisher George Angus.
The subjects, many of which would have illustrated chapbooks and ballad sheets, include a set of 26 thumbnail alphabet cuts, 2 children’s games (?by John Bewick), 3 ornamental borders by Thomas Bewick (Hugo 2327 & 2328), a cut for Huttons Mensuration (Hugo 4425), Robinson Crusoe (based on the frontispiece of the 1719 first edition), a portrait of William Markham, at least two series of ‘Fables’ cuts, various trade cuts including a tea merchant, 2 from a series of street cries, biblical scenes, printer's ornaments, fighting cocks (signed R.R.), royal arms, scientific instruments, ships, astrologers, jousting knights, soldiers, a series of six apostles (signed I.T. Isaac Thomson?), a ‘Merry Andrew’ posture maker, medieval and 17th century figures, coats of arms, portraits of Queen Anne, figures in stocks and on gallows, a mermaid, a view of Gravesend and a map of Sumatra. Other cuts by or attributed to Thomas Bewick include “The Hangman, the Pope and the Devil” (Hugo 3539), a Northumbrian Piper (Hugo 4282 & 4283), bell ringers (Hugo 335 & 4285), a crown (Hugo 4259), throne and tent (Hugo 5103) and breeches maker (Hugo 5147).
A full description will be sent on request or may be viewed at: www.forestbooks.co.uk/29bewick.htm
30. BICKNELL (Peter) The Picturesque Scenery of the Lake District 1752-1855. A Bibliographical Study. St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester.1990. £40 First Edition, 4to, facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. In addition to a full detailed bibliography the book is a facinating commentary on the development of the literary and mountainous scenery, tracing the journeys and reactions of Lake District tourists, from the earliest travellers in search of the picturesque to the Victorian holiday-makers brought there by the railway.
31. BLACK (George F.) A Gypsy Bibliography. Gypsy Lore Society. Monographs. No. 1. Bernard Quaritch.1914. £40 First Edition, viii,226,12pp., orig. printed wrappers, detached. Fully describes over 4,500 works.
32. BLAKE (William) Catalogue of a Choice Selection of the Original Productions of William Blake, the Property of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Crewe... on Monday, 30th March, 1903. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1903. £95 [2],4pp., orig. printed wrappers, stapled within card covers. The scarce catalogue of 18 lots of original art work by William Blake.
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33. [BLANDFORD (Marquess of)] Catalogus Librorum qui in Bibliotheca Blandfordiensi, Reperiuntur. [Printed by T. Bensley].1812. £595 4to, 9 parts in one, general title and separate titles to each part, margins to prelims slightly chipped, recent antique half calf. A fine privately printed catalogue, compiled by Robert Triphook, of the Library at White Knights, near Reading, formed by the fifth Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840), then Marquess of Blandford. This volume has parts 1 to 9, a supplementary part was published in 1814.
Martin, pp.201-2.
34. [BLANDFORD, Marquess of] White Knights Library. Catalogue of that Distinguished and Celebrated Library, Containing Numerous Very Fine and Rare Specimens from the Presses of Caxton, Pynson, and Wynkyn de Worde, &c... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... On Monday, June 7, and Eleven Following Days [& 22 June 1819]. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.1819. £745 2 Part in one, [iv],107,[1]; [ii],[109]-220pp., priced throughout in a cont. hand with buyers names, orig. half calf, rubbed, marbled sides, 4701 lots. “George Spencer, fifth Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840), better known to book-collectors as the Marquess of Blandford, spent enormous sums of money on his library... In 1819, he was compelled by circumstances to part with his library (7 and 22 June 1819). Although the sale was brilliantly attended and such great collectors as Spencer, Heber and Grenville bought liberally, the result was disappointing. The ‘Valdarfer Boccaccio’ which Blandford had bought against Lord Spencer for £2,260 in the Roxburghe sale, now bought only £918.15s. and the buyer was Lord Spencer, who had lost nothing by waiting seven years.” De Ricci, pp. 77-78.
35. BODONI PRESS. MOCCHETTI (Angelo) Dei Benefizj. Carme. Co’ tipi Bodoniani, Palma.1827. £325 Second Edition, folio, [2],18,[2]pp., light foxing, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. boards, spine slightly defective, gilt armorial stamp in the centre of covers, gilt border. One of the largest books produced by the press and in remarkably good condition for the size of the book. Brooks 1290.
36. BOHATTA (Dr. Hannas) Katalog der in den Bibliotheken der Regierenden Linie des Fürstlichen Hauses von und zu Liechtenstein Befindlichen Bücher aus dem XVI.—XX. Jahrhundert. Gemälde-Galerie, Vienna.1931. £175 First Edition, 3 vols., [iv],640; [ii],641-1465; [ii],1467-2177pp., 48 plates, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut.
37. BOHATTA (Hanns) Bibliographie der Breviere 1501-1850. B. De Graaf, Nieuwkoop.(Reprint of the 1937 Edition) 1963. £40 349pp., orig. cloth. A bibliography of breviaries, including Roman breviaries and those of the various orders. Indexes by title, date, printer or publisher, and place of publication.
38. BOHATTA (Hanns) & HODES (Franz) Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien; ein Nachschlagewerk, unter Mitwirkung von Walter Funke. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt.1950. £75 4to, [viii],652pp., ex-library, orig. cloth. A classified bibliography of bibliographies. Covers general and national bibliography and subject bibliography, with author and subject indexes.
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PRINTED IN THE HOUSE OF PRINCE LOUIS-LUCIEN BONAPARTE 39. BONAPARTE (Prince Lucien-Lucian) Parabola de seminatore ex evangelio Matthaei, in LXXII Europaeas linguas ac dialectos versa, et Romanis characteribus ecpressa. [Privately Printed by W.H. Billing].1857. £395 First Edition, 83ff., one of 250 copies printed, the Prince’s device on title-page, later cloth, red morocco label to spine, all edges red. Privately printed by W.H. Billing at the home of Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte at his expense. Text in 72 different European languages and dialects, each language is printed on a separate leaf.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891), born in England, nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. During his life Bonaparte had amassed a library comprising many grammars and dictionaries for all the European languages and some non-European ones, rare items exemplifying the early printing of individual languages, and other specimens of everyday printing of the nineteenth century selected to represent the spoken languages of that day. In 1856 he set up his own small printing press at his home in Norfolk Terrace, Bayswater. From here he employed two well- establised printers, W.H. & E. Billing, to print several works on his private press, each in a limited number, these were devised for linguistic purposes and consist of Biblical text, which are used as a basis for comparative study of different languages and dialects. After 1858 he employed outside printers, notably George Barclay of Leicester Square, who was succeeded by Strangeways & Walden, and no more books were printed from his home.
40. BONAPARTE (Prince Ludovic-Lucian) Catalogue des Ouvrages de Linguistique Européenne Édités par le Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. [Printed by George Barclay]. [1858]. Square 12mo, 32ff. printed on recto only, limited to 250 copies, orig. publisher’s green paper wrappers. [Sold with:] Deuxième Catalogue des Ouvrages Destinés à Faciliter l’Étude Comparative des Langues Européennes, Éités par le Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte. [Printed by Strangeways & Walden],1862. £895 Square 12mo, x, 100ff. printed on recto only, limited to 250 copies, orig. green publisher’s paper wrappers. The extremely rare catalogues of works published by Prince Bonaparte, listing 132 titles, apart from ‘Ouvrages Sous Presse’, each entry gives the number of copies printed, usually 250, and the number printed on special paper.
41. BONAPARTE (Prince Ludovic-Lucian). COLLINS (Victor) Attempt at a Catalogue of the Library of the Late Prince Ludovic-Lucian Bonaparte. Henry Sotheran & Co.1894. £795 First Edition, 4to, xi,[i],718pp., formerly in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society and later Cambridge University Library with their cancellation stamp, orig. black hard-grained half morocco, remain of shelf number to foot of spine, joints and corners a little rubbed, t.e.g. Prince Bonaparte had requested that his philological library of over 13,000 books was to remain in tact, hence the publication of this catalogue as a means of attracting a potential buyer. A printed compiler’s compliments slip tipped-in before the title-page reads “The Library of the late Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte is now for sale en bloc, the Prince desiring that it should remain intact. Intending purchasers may obtain orders to view by applying to Mr. Victor Collins... in whose hands the Prince Bonaparte has placed the disposal of the Library”. The corporation of the City of London had made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the books for the Guildhall Library. They were subsequently sold to the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1901.
42. BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES. List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 now in the British Museum. With an Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. British Museum.1915. £85 First Edition, xvi, 523pp., orig. buckram. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, 8,000 items catalogued, with index of names.
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A COMPLETE SET 43. BOOK COLLECTOR, THE. Edited by Philip Gaskell, John Hayward, Nicholas Barker, and others. Vol. 1-53 [with indexes]. The Collector Ltd. 1952-2004. 213 Issues (including the Bernard Quaritch special issue), fully illustrated throughout, orig. printed wrappers. [Sold with:] BOOK HANDBOOK. An Illustrated Guide to Old and Rare Books. Edited by R. Horrox, John Haward, and others. The Dropmore Press Ltd.1947-52. £645 12 Issues [all published], illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. Bibliographical and bibliophilic periodical. The first volume under the present title was published in 1952, but it was the successor of The Book Handbook. Since its inception BC has maintained a exceptionally high standard of both writing and illustration. As its name suggests, its primary concern is with bibliophily, and regular features have included accounts of collectors, collections, collectable books of many kinds, and a very important series of articles on bookbindings, as well as articles on many other topics.
44. BOOKBINDING. Catalogue d’un joli choix de Livres Rares et Précieux, Reliés en Maroquin Ancien et Moderne. La vente aura lieu le lundi 2 juin 1890 et les deux jours suivants... Hôtel des commissaires-priseurs, rue Drouot, 9... par le Ministère de Me Georges Boulland, commissaire-priseur...; assisté de M. Ch. Porquet, libraire. Charles Porquet, Paris.1890. £45 4to, viii,92pp., 11 plates of bookbindings, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. half morocco, marbled sides, lightly rubbed otherwise a nice copy.
45. BOOKBINDING. Exhibition of Modern Bookbindings by the Chief European Craftsmen, at The Caxton Head, 232, High Holborn... J. & M.L. Tregaskis, Caxton Head.1891. £85 First Edition, 4to, 16pp., coloured frontis., 1 coloured plate, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. In 1891 booksellers James and Mary Lee Tregaskis staged this unusual exhibition of 41 bookbindings. Copies of Charles Kingsley’s “Water Babies” had been dispatched to the chief bookbinders of Europe seeking representative specimens of the art. They came back bound in morocco, calf, pigskin, vellum, and kid, with a varying decoration of gold or blind tooling, displaying a variety of design, from the plain straight line around to the delicate pattern of lace, or the geometrically interwoven. Each of the 41 bindings are priced individually and the whole collection could be bought for £150.
46. BOOKBINDING. Leathers for Bookbinding and Upholstery, Produced by Edw. & Jas. Richardson, Elswick Leather Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne. [N.p.].[c.1910]. £95 [ii],8,[4]pp., mounted to the inside covers are 6 actual specimens of leather (offset onto text), including goat and seal, orig. cloth, gilt.
47. BOOKBINDING. Les Plus Belles Reliures de la Réunion des Bibliothèques Nationales. [Introduction by Émile Dacier]. Éditions des Bibliothèques Nationales de France.[1929]. £125 First Edition, folio, limited edition, [42]pp., followed by 42 full-page plates (some coloured), with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, loose as issued in the orig. printed board portfolio, slightly worn. “as valuable for its text as for its superb reproductions.” — Hobson, The Literature of Bookbinding.
48. BOOKBINDING. Lost on the Titanic. The Story of ‘The Great Omar’. Shepherds Sangorski & Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf.2001. £160 4to, limited to 750 numbered copies, coloured frontis., 10 coloured tipped-in plates, numerous other plates, orig. decorated cloth. This book tells the story of ‘The Great Omar’, a magnificent jewelled binding of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that went down with the liner S.S. Titanic. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the binding was the most ambitious commission ever undertaken by the firm of London bookbinders. It took two years of continuous work to complete and boasted over a thousand precious and semi-precious jewels inlaid into the book’s covers.
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49. BOOKBINDING. ABRAMI (Léon) Bibliothèque Léon Abrami. Livres illustrés du XVIIIe Siècle reliés en maroquin la plupart armoriés ou ornés de dentelles. Léopold Carteret, Paris.1926. £45 4to, [iv],86,[2]pp., numerous plates of bookbindings throughout, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. quarter cloth, marbled boards, uncut.
50. BOOKBINDING. GRUEL (Lêon) Étude sur les Magnus, Relieurs Hollandaid au XVIIe Siècle. Henri Leclerc, Paris.1922. £45 4to, [iv],18pp., one of 170 copies, 3 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy.
51. BOOKBINDING. MÉRIC (M.) Catalogue d’un choix de très beaux Livres Modernes Recouverts de Riches Reliures par les Principaux Maîtres Ès-Reliures d’Art Contemporains Provenant de la Bibliothèque de Mr M. Méric de la Société des Cent Bibliophiles. A. Durel, Paris.1903. £45 2 Vols., 59pp., main catalogue accompanied by a album of 24 plates of bookbindings, orig. printed wrappers, 109 lots.
52. BOOKBINDING. MITIUS (Otto) Fränkische Lederschnittbäande des XV. Jahrhunderts. Ein Buchgeschichtlicher Versuch. Rudolf Haupt, Leipzig.1909. £35 Small 4to, viii,44pp., 13 plates, orig. printed wrappers.
53. BOOKSELLERS’ CATALOGUE. Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, Lately Selected in London and Paris, Comprising Useful and Valuable Works in Every Class of Literature. For Sale by Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston. [Boston, Massachusetts].1846. £65 [iv],216pp., from a institutional library now dispersed, with faint stamps, title browned, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, library boards, 3,151 items. Bound with: Catalogue of Books Selected from the Publications of Firmin Didot Brothers. Paris. 1846. 24pp., text browned.
54. BOSSUAT (Robert) Manuel Bibliographique de la Littérature Française du Moyen Age. Melun: Librairie d’Argences.1951. £35 First Edition, large 8vo, xxxiv,638pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in, cloth. 5,797 Items described.
55. BOUILLET (M.N.) & CHASSANG (A.) Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire et de Géographie Contenant: I. l’Histoire proprement dite. II. La biographie universelle. III. La mythologie. IV. La geographie ancienne et moderne. Paris: Librairie Hachette.1884. £45 Small thick 4to, 2024,16pp., recent cloth.
56. BOWES (Robert) A Catalogue of Books Printed at or Relating to the University Town & County of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893. With Bibliographical & Biographical Notes. [with:] Index. Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge.1894. £95 First Edition, 2 vols., xxxii,516; [viii],67,[1]pp., with the bookplate of John William Willis Bund, 98 illustrs., of ornaments, initial letters etc., orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g. Upwards of 3,000 items described.
57. BRADSHAW (Henry) The Skeleton of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: An Attempt to Distinguish the several Fragments of the work as left by the author. Macmillan & Co.1868. £38 First Edition, 54,[2]pp., from the library of John William Willis Bund, orig. paper wrappers a little chipped.
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58. BRADSHAW (Henry) The Early Collection of Canons Commonly Known as the Hibernensis: A Letter Addressed to Dr F.W.H. Wasserschleben. Macmillan & Co.1885. £35 First Edition, 15,[1]pp., from the library of John William Willis Bund, orig. paper wrappers a little chipped.
59. BRADSHAW (Henry) Collected Papers. Comprising 1. ‘Memoranda’; 2. ‘Communications’ Read before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society; Together with an Article Contributed to the ‘Bibliographer’, and Two Papers not Previously Published. [Edited by Francis Jenkinson]. Cambridge University Press.1889. £65 First Edition, vii,[i],508pp., with the bookplate of John William Willis Bund,13 plates, orig. cloth, uncut.
60. BRASSINGTON (W. Salt) Editor. A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with Some Account of the Books of the Ancients. Elliot Stock.1894. £245 First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 9 plates (of which 3 are coloured), 153 illustrs., in the text (20 coloured), orig. decorated cloth, spine gilt, uncut, t.e.g. A nice copy of this important book, covering the entire history of bookbinding up to the nineteenth century.
61. BREWER (Luther A.) My Leigh Hunt Library. Collected and Described by Luther A. Brewer. The First Editions. Privately Printed by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.1932. £65 First Edition, 4to, xlvi,391pp., one of 100 copies on hand-made paper, J. Christian Bay’s copy (author of the introduction), frontis., 100 plates and facsimiles, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy.
62. BRIGHT (Benjamin Heywood) Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late Benjamin Heywood Bright, Esq. Containing a Most Extensive Collection of Valuable, Rare, and Curious Books, in all Classes of Literature. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co... on Monday, March 3, 1845 & March 31, 1845. Compton and Ritchie, Printers.1845. £295 [iv],viii,388+4pp., of adverts, with the armorial bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple, prices and buyers names supplied in a neat cont. hand, cont. half morocco. Bright’s splendid collection of 6,197 lots included many literary works, including the Roxburghe collection of broadside ballads, bought by Bright for £477.15s, at the Duke of Roxburghe sale in 1812, then purchased for the British Museum by Rodd for £535 at this sale.
63. BRITTON (Charles J.) Cricket Books. The 100 Best (Old and New), with Notes and Values, Etc. Cotterell & Co., Birmingham.1929. £38 First Edition, [viii],54pp., orig. printed boards. Padwick, 5.
64. BRITWELL COURT LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Library of S. Christie-Miller, Esq. Britwell, Bucks. Divinity; Voyages and Travel; British History. Printed at the Chiswick Press.1873. £675 3 Vols., in one, [iv],282,[1]; [iv],264,[1]; [iv],314,[1]pp., bookplate on front paste-down, title-pages printed in red and black, cont. half buckram, marbled paper boards, uncut, t.e.g. These three volumes, handsomely printed by Charles Wittingham the Younger at the Chiswick Press on hand- made paper, are the only catalogues of any parts of the celebrated Christie-Miller Library at Britwell Court ever produced while the library, founded by William Henry Miller (1789-1848), ‘one of England’s greatest book- collectors’, was still intact. “But the few copies struck off of these volumes all remained at Britwell and bibliographers seem to have ignored their very existence”—(De Ricci, who on pp. 105-113, gives the most comprehensive account of the history of this library, “as a collection of English books, the greatest ever brought together by a private individual”). Samuel
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Christy (d. 1889), who adopted the name of Christie-Miller, had inherited the library and Britwell Court from Miss March, a cousin of W.H. Miller. He added some books of considerable importance.
65. BROCKETT (John Trotter) A Catalogue of the Choice, Curious, and Elegant Private Library of John Trotter Brockett... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby... On Monday, the 8th Day of December, 1823, and Thirteen Following Days... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... J. Compton.1823. £395 132 + 5pp., of adverts, with the bookplates of Henry B.H. Beaufoy and A.N.L. Munby, priced in a cont. hand, orig. half calf, marbled sides, rubbed, rebacked, 3,604 lots. John Trotter Brockett (1788-1842), the Newcastle antiquary, was an early enthusiast of the private press and compiled the first bibliography of George Allan’s press at Darlington, as well as having a substantial collection of Strawberry Hill Press books. He was an early friend of Patron of Bewick and the sale includes large paper copies of most of Bewick’s works.
66. BROOKE (Thomas) A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A. and Preserved at Armitage Bridge House, Near Huddersfield. Printed for Private Circulation by Ellis and Elvey.1891. £695 2 Vols., large 8vo, one of 100 copies, vi,318; [iv],319-759,[5]pp., with a presentation letter from Brooke to the Provincial Grand Lodge Library, Wakefield, also with a letter and photographic portrait of the Grand Master of the Lodge, Thomas William Tew, portrait of Brooke to vol. I, title-page vignettes, a plan, 2 coats of arms, 17 facsimile reproductions from manuscripts, orig. decorated printed boards, uncut, a fine set. Brooke had 100 copies of this catalogue privately printed, by the Chiswick Press, on fine paper, with six copies of large paper. He bought at most of the important sales in the second half of the nineteenth century but is best remembered for his inspired purchase of all 170 volumes from the Pillone Library with painted bindings by Cesare Vecellio (see A.R.A. Hobson in ‘The Book Collector’, Spring, 1958). Brooke’s library was dispersed at Sotheby’s in Seven sales between 1909 and 1923. De Ricci, pp.167-8.
67. BROOKS (H.C.) Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane. Maurizio Martino, Mansfield.(Reprint of the 1927 Edition) 1994. £65 4to, one of 150 copies, facsimiles, orig. cloth.
68. BRUNET (Gustave) Lettre au Bibliophile Jacob au sujet de l’étrange accusation intentée contre M. Libri, membre de l’Institut, contenant des recherches sur les livres a la reliure de Grolier, sur les volumes Elzeviriens non rognés, et sur quelques particularités bibliographiques. Paulin, Paris.1849. £45 First Edition, 32pp., text lightly browned, orig. printed wrappers.
69. BRUNET (Jacques Charles) Manuel du Libraire et de l’Amateur de Livres... Rosenkilde et Bagger, Copenhagen.(Reprint of the 1860-1880 Edition) 1966. £345 9 Vols., orig. cloth, a very nice set.
Vols. I-V: AA-Z; Vol. VI: Table Methodique; Vols. VII-VIII: Supplements; Vol. IX: Deschamps. This bibliography is still the most reliable work detailing the great majority of important books printed until 1880. In addition to learned comments, it contains an indispensable collation of single books.
70. BRYANT (John) A Catalogue of Antient and Modern Books... Now on Sale at the Very Reduced Prices, by John Bryant, Bookseller... Printed by J. Davy.1836. £35 212 + 12pp., of adverts, from a institutional library now dispersed, faint stamp on title-page, orig. printed boards, detached, lacks spine, 1,818 items.
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71. [BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton)] Polyanthea Librorum Vetustiorum, Italicorum, Gallicorum, Hispanicorum, Anglicanorum, et Latinorum. G. Fick, Geneva.1822. £175 First Edition, 2 parts in one, lvi,464pp., of of 75 copies printed, ex-library with several stamps, cont. quarter calf, spine defective, uncut.
72. BURKE’S IRISH FAMILY RECORDS. Burke’s Irish Family Records. Burke’s Landed Gentry. Genealogical Histories of Notable Irish Families. Burke’s Peerage & Gentry Ltd.2007. £145 Fifth edition, 4to, xxxii,1237pp., orig. red cloth, covers with gilt coat of arms on front cover and gilt title on spine, fine.
For more than 170 years, Burke’s Landed Gentry has been an invaluable genealogical guide to notable families and their histories throughout the British Isles. Burke's Irish Family Records details the descendents of some 500 important Irish families, whether living in Ireland or settled abroad. The book includes a free searchable PDF (on CD-ROM) of the full contents of the book along with comprehensive family records from all current Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition titles - The Kingdom in Scotland, The Ridings of York, The Principality of Wales and The North West.
73. BURN (Jacob Henry) Catalogue of the Interesting Cabinet of Coins, Medals & Tokens, Collected by the Late Jacob Henry Burn... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Tuesday, July 20th, 1869. [ii],20pp., 321 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of the Very Interesting Collection of British & Foreign Porcelain, Collected by the Late Jacob Henry Burn... Chiefly with a view to a History of Porcelain Manufacture... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Monday, August 2nd, 1869. [ii],12pp., 254 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of a Large and Interesting Collection of Engravings... [Collected by the Late Jacob Henry Burn]... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on August 3rd, 1869. [ii],27,[1]pp., 682 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of the Very Interesting Collection of Autograph Letters of the Late Jacob Henry Burn... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1870. [ii],56pp., 866 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of Upwards of Twenty Thousand Volumes of Books and Tracts, Collected by the Late Jacob Henry Burn... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Wednesday, July 21st, 1869. £295 [iv],151,[1]pp., 2996 lots. 5 Parts bound in one, cont. cloth, re-backed. Jacob Henry Burn (1794-1869) at an early age showed a taste for literature and antiquities, as a young man he was apprenticed to William Hone, publisher. On entering business for himself, he opened a bookshop in Covent Garden and specialised in English and Foreign literature, and he possessed considerable expertise in deciphering ancient manuscripts. His assistance was frequently sought by auctioneers in the compilation of their catalogues; notably so by George Robins, on occasion of the famous Strawberry Hill sale, 1841. Besides an extensive knowledge of the Coinage of all nations and of antiquities in general, he added much research into the history of Porcelain manufacture of every country, particularly England.
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74. BYRD (Cecil K.) A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints 1814-58. The University of Chicago Press.1966. £45 First Edition, 4to, orig. cloth, d.w. In more than 3,000 annotated entries, Byrd has recorded the books, broadsides, pamphlets, and maps that were produced in the print shops of the territory and state of Illinois between 1814 and 1858.
75. CAMERINI (Paolo) Annali dei Giunti. Firenze: Sansoni Antiquariato.1962. £145 2 Parts (all published), small 4to, 444,[2]; 568,[6]pp., numerous plates and facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut, slip-cases, a nice set.
76. CAMPBELL (J. Menzies) Compiler. A Dental Bibliography: British and American, 1682- 1880. David Low Ltd.1949. £35 First Edition, orig. cloth.
77. CANNEY (Margaret) & KNOTT (David) Compilers. Catalogue of the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature. Cambridge University Press.1982-95. £145 First Edition, 5 vols., folio, frontispieces, orig. cloth, d.w’s. Vol. 1. Printed Books to 1800. Vol. 2. Printed Books to 1801-1850. Vol. 3. Periodicals, Manuscripts and Additions since the publication of volume 1. Vol. 4. Index. Vol. 5. Additions to the Printed Books, Periodicals and Manuscripts to 1850.
78. CARTA (F.) CIPOLLA (C.) & FRATI (C.) Monumenta Palaeographica Sacra: Atlante Paleografico-Artistico Compilato sui Manoscritti Esposti in Torino alla Mostra d´arte Sacra nel MDCCCXCVIII... Fratelli Bocca, Turin.1899. £325 Large folio, [ii],viii,72,[2]pp., 120 full-page plates, buckram, label on spine, uncut.
79. CARTERET (L.) Le Trésor du Bibliophile Romantique et Moderne 1801-1875. L. Carteret, Paris.1924-28. £175 4 Vols., 4to, numerous coloured facsimiles, orig. boards, hinges to volume 3 split, uncut, leather label on spines, a little rubbed.
80. CASPAR (M.) Bibliographia Kepleriana. Ein Führer durch das Gedruckte Schrifttum von Johannes Kepler. Im Auftraag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften unter Mitarbeit von Ludwig Rothenfelder C.H. Beck’sche, Munich.1936. £175 First Edition, small folio, xiv,[1],181pp., 86 facsimiles of title-pages, orig. cloth, d.w.
81. CAXTON (William) The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Translated by William Caxton, 1480. Volume I, Books 1-9. The Phillipps Manuscript; Volume II, Books 10-15. The Pepys Manuscript. George Braziller, Publisher, New York, in Association with Magdalene College, Cambridge.1968. £245 2 Vols., folio, limited numbered edition, full calf, spines gilt, slip-case. The discovery in 1964 of the MS of Books 1-9 of the translation of Ovid made by William Caxton in 1480 is one of the most remarkable instances of the reappearance of a supposedly lost MS. The remainder of the work, Books 10-15, had been for some 250 years one of the principal treasures of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The whole MS, now reunited at Magdalene, is made available in a facsimile which both the publisher and Magdalene College have ensured is of the highest possible degrees of fidelity to the original.
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82. CHAUCER (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales. Cornmarket Reprints in Association with Magdalene College, Cambridge.1972. £275 4to, with the Zaehnsdorf Company bookplate, hand bound in goatskin by Zaehnsdorf, motif stamped in gold on both covers, spine gilt with morocco title label, all edges gilt. This facsimile edition, as printed by William Caxton in 1484, is taken from the Pepys’ copy in Magdalene College.
83. CHEW (Beverly) The Library of the Late Beverly Chew. [Part One] English Literature before 1800, Manuscript Horae, Printed Horae. [Part Two] English Literature after 1800, Presentation Copies, Bibliography. The Anderson Galleries, New York.1924. £45 2 Parts., [vi],200; [ii],107pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers chipped and detached, 1331 lots.
84. CHILDREN’S BOOKS. The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books 1566-1910. A Catalogue. Prepared by Judith St. John, with an Introduction by Edgar Osborne. Toronto Public Library.1966-75. £75 2 Vols., coloured frontis., 11 coloured plates, numerous illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, vol. I slightly soiled. A standard reference in the field.
85. CHRISTIAN (Arthur) Débuts l’Imprimerie en France. L’Imprimerie Nationale. L’Hôtel de Rohan. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.1905. £50 First Edition, 4to, xxiv,343pp., numerous text illustrations (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, unopened.
86. CHRISTIE-MILLER (S.R.) Catalogue of Rare & Interesting Books in all Branches of Literature, from the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks. The Property of S.R. Christie-Miller... on Monday, 7th of April, 1924. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1924. £35 4to, [ii],69,[1]pp., 4 plates, orig. printed wrappers. The fourteenth sale catalogue of the Britwell Court library, with 652 lots of miscellaneous literature.
87. CHRISTIE-MILLER (S.R.) Catalogue of a Further Selection of Rare & Valuable Works in Early English Poetry and other Literature, from the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks. The Property of S.R. Christie-Miller... on Monday, 23rd of March, 1925. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1925. £40 4to, [ii],90pp., 25 plates, orig. printed wrappers. The fifteenth sale catalogue of the Britwell Court library, with 692 lots of early English literature.
88. CHRISTIE-MILLER (S.R.) Catalogue of the Final Portion of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks. The Property of S.R. Christie-Miller, Esq. Comprising English Literature from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth, Tracts, Ballads, Broadsides, Proclamations, Newspapers, Etc.... on Monday, 28th of March & Monday, 4th April, 1927. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1927. £45 4to, [ii],346,[2]pp., numerous plates (some folding), orig. printed wrappers, lightly soiled. The nineteenth sale catalogue of the Britwell Court library, with 2151 lots of early English literature.
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89. CICOGNARA (Conte) Catalogo Ragionato dei Libri d’Arte e d’Antichità Posseduti dal Conte Cicognara. Niccolò Capurro, Pisa.1821. £245 First Edition, 2 vols., xiv,415; [iv],333,[1],lxxvii,[i]pp., with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, a couple of small faint stamps, some light foxing to text, orig. marbled boards, spine over-laid with cloth. “The catalogue of the vast library on archaeology and art history collected by Cicognara, himself a notable art historian. It is tantamount to a bibliography of the pre-1820 literature on these subjects, owing to the detailed bibliographical and critical notes to the 4,800 works, and is still frequently consulted and quoted.” — Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography. 121.
UNRECORDED AMERICAN CIRCULATING LIBRARY 90. CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Circulating Library, No. 7 Exchange Buildings. At the Book Store and Book Bindery of Childs & March. [Portsmouth, New- Hampshire: Childs & March].1828. £575 Small 8vo, [3],4-16pp., title vignette, stitched, lightly soiled, overall a very nice copy in the original state as issued. A rare early circulating library catalogue from this little known Portsmouth book store come book bindery. It list over 550 titles, including novels, history & travel. Subscribers, by paying $6 per year, are entitled to two octavo or four smaller volumes at one time. Not in Singerman or Kaser; Not on OCLC.
91. CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Catalogue of Books in the Westminster Circulating Library, No. 140 Westminster Street, (South Side,) Providence. Established May 1, 1848. Printed by Joseph Knowles, Providence.1848. £295 35,[1]pp., some light foxing, stitched as issued, a nice copy in the original state. The Westminster circulating library was set-up by the booksellers Winsor & Perrin at 140 Westminster Street in July of 1848. This catalogue of 1,000 titles was the first to be issued and was followed by a second and third in 1849 and 1853 respectively. By 1850 the partnership had been dissolved, each of the partners then went on to establish a circulating library in their own names.
Singerman records the second and third catalogues but not this first - nor is there a copy recorded on OCLC; Kaser, p.100.
92. CIRCULATING LIBRARY. Catalogue of Perrin’s (late Dana’s) Circulating Library, 177 Westminster St., (North Side,) Providence. Daniel Perrin, Bookseller & Stationer, 177 Westminster St. Providence. Printed by M.B. Young, [Providence].1850. £195 47,[1]pp., stitched as issued, a nice copy in the original state. Some 1700 titles recorded. Singerman, 3077; Kasser, p.100.
93. CLARK (F.) A Catalogue of Old Books, to be Sold at the Prices Affixed to Each, by F. Clark, No. 33, Piccadilly. Printed by J. Hill.1819. £275 [iv],119pp., title and last leaf dusty, stitched as issued (stitching loose), uncut. Priced catalogue of 2,679 items in most fields. Not found on Copac.
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94. CLAYE (J.) De la Situation faite aux Imprimeurs de Paris par la Société Typographique. Lettre a ses Confrères par J. Claye, Imprimeur. J. Claye, Paris.1870. £50 First Edition, large 8vo, 25,[1]pp., lower margin lightly stained, orig. printed wrappers. In 1850 the Parisian printers demanded an increase of wages, this was debated for several years and this pamphlet relates to their plight. Claye was a well-known Parisian printer, who founded a school for instruction in typography.
95. CLOUZOT (Henri) Notes pour Servir a l’Histoire de l’Imprimerie a Niort et dans les Deux- Sèvres. L. Clouzot, Niort.1891. £55 First Edition, large 8vo, [iv],iii,[i],163,[3]pp., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, quarter calf, marbled boards.
96. COCKERELL (Sydney Carlyle) A Psalter and Hours Executed Before 1270 for a Lady Connected with St. Louis, Probably his Sister Isabelle of France, Founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, Now in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson... with Photographs of all the Miniatures by Emery Walker. Printed at the Chiswick Press.1905. £355 Large oblong 4to, 36pp., double-column text, 25 plates, each with a reproduction of 2 MS pages, title printed in red and black, presentation inscription “To T.H. Riches with infinite thanks from Sydney Cockerell Feb. 5, 1919”, with the armorial bookplate of Charles Travis Clay, free endpapers browned, orig. green roan-backed printed boards. The text considers the MS in relation to the companion psalter of St. Louis in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmsott Press 1891-6, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1908-37, partner with Sir Emery Walker in process engraving business. Blackman (1866-1947), distinguished plant physiologist, succeeded Sir Francis Darwin in the readership in botany in Cambridge, became FRS (1906), etc. He was for many years a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum during Cockerell’s long directorship.
97. CODEX PURPUREUS ROSSANENSIS. Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, Museo dell’Archivescovado. Rossano Calabro. Cod. Mir. 1. Cod. Sel. LXXXI. [The Purple Codex of Rossano]. Salerno Editrice, Rome.1985-87. £3,200 2 Vols., folio, complete facsimile in original size, one of 750 numbered copies, consisting of 378 coloured facsimile pages of simulated vellum designed to imitate the thickness of the original, bound in half light brown calfskin with decorative blind-tooling and wooden boards to simulate the original binding, slip-case, the commentary volume is edited by Guglielmo Cavallo, Jean Gribomont & William C. Loerke, and consists of 213 pages and 51 illustrations with text in Italian and English, bound in quarter calf, slip-case. The Codex Rossanensis is a Greek parchment manuscript of Matthew and Mark, written in silver on purple- stained parchment, and is one of the oldest pictorial Gospels known. Scholars date the codex from the end of the fifth to the eighth or ninth century; it is probably of Alexandrian origin.
98. CONDE (Jose Antonio) Catalogue of Rare, Curious and Interesting Spanish Books, and a Few Miscellaneous Articles, forming the Library of Don. J. Antonio Conde... which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, On Tuesday, July 6, and Four following Days. [Printed by W. Nicol].1824. £195 [ii],70pp., ‘Sold’ stamp on title, later quarter leather, slightly rubbed. Consisting of 970 lots of early Spanish books, including an extensive collection early Spanish chronicles and works relating to America. A separately printed catalogue of a further portion of the library was sold on the 15th July.
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99. CORSER (Rev. Thomas) Collectanea Anglo-Poetica: or, A Bibliographical and Retrospective Catalogue of a portion of a collection of Early English Poetry, with Occasional Extracts and Remarks Biographical and Critical. Printed for the Chetham Society, Manchester.1860-83. £295 11 Vols., with the Bradley Martin bookplate, orig. blind-stamped cloth, several volumes with some light water-staining, 1 volume with loose covers. Corser died in 1876, but his work was carried on by James Crossley (beneficiary to the library). The 1883 volume has a complete index to the eleven volumes and a useful list of the prices at which all of the works were sold. Indispensable reference on early English poetry.
100. CORSER (The Rev. Thomas) Catalogue of the First [-Eighth] of the Extensive Library Formed by... Comprising a Large Assemblage of Rare and Unique Works of our Early English Poets and Dramatists, Several Volumes by Caxton and other Early English Printers, Manuscripts, Block Books, Etc. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1868-73. £225 8 Parts in one, 4to, parts 4,6,7 & 8 wanting titles, otherwise complete, later cloth, 6,244 lots. Thomas Corser (1793-1876), editor of ‘Collectanea Anglo-Poetica’, an alphabetical account, with extracts from each author, and elaborate biographical and bibliographical notices of the editor’s magnificent collection of early English poetry which he had begun to form at an early age. The first part was issued in 1860. The rector’s advanced age and infirmities interfered with the progress of the undertaking on the original scale beyond the letter C, which was concluded at the fourth part (1869). Corser died after the fifth part was published in 1873, and James Crossley edited the remainder. The work is a very valuable contribution to English bibliography. The collection of books which formed the basis of this work was here sold in eight portions at different dates, from July 1868 to 1873, and realised upwards of 20,000l. Mr. Henry Huth purchased some of the most valuable volumes. Corser was also a member of the Spenser, Camden, Surtees, Percy, and Shakespeare societies, and was elected a F.S.A. in 1850. De Ricci, pp.150-51; Fletcher pp. 372-76.
101. COTTON (Rev. Henry) The Typographical Gazetteer. Oxford University Press.1831. £65 Second Edition, corrected and much enlarged, xviii,393pp., cont. morocco. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p.145. “This is a standard work of reference, and has always enjoyed great authority. The names of the towns are arranged in alphabetical order, and the circumstances attending the introduction into them of the art of printing, the earliest products of their presses, and biographical references to early printers, are given in a succinct manner.”
BOOKBINDERS’ TRADE CATALOGUE 102. [COX (Alfred J.)] The Making of the Book; A Sketch of the Book-Binding Art. A.J. Cox and Company, Chicago.1878. £475 First Edition, 12mo, 48pp., orig. blue cloth, stamped in black and gold, a little rubbed and stained with a crease fold to lower cover. Trade catalogue describing the different kinds of binding carried-out by the firm of A.J. Cox & Company. Also included is a forty page price list for different binding sizes and styles. Extremely rare.
103. [COXE (H.O.)] Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of All Souls College. Printed by T. Combe, Oxford.1842. £45 4to, vi,99,[1]pp., with the bookplate of John William Willis Bund, orig. cloth, upper hinge split, printed paper label on upper cover.
104. CRAWFORD LIBRARY. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Handlist of Proclamations Issued by Royal and Other Constitutional Authorities 1714-1910 George I to Edward VII. Together with an Index of Names and Places. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1913 Edition) 1967. £65 Folio, orig. cloth. Bibliotheca Lindesiana Vol. IV.
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105. CROFTS (Thomas) Bibliotheca Croftsiana. A Catalogue of the Curious and Distinguished Library of the late Reverend and Learned Thomas Crofts, A.M. Chancellor of the Diocese of Peterborough, and fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, Deceased: Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr. Paterson... On Monday, April 7. 1783. and the Forty-Two Following Days... Samuel Paterson.1783. £395 xvi,420pp., later cloth-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine, 8377 lots. “Crofts (1722-81) had accumulated the finest library of old Italian books yet seen in England; his sale (7 April 1783) also contained a number of fine French chivalar-romances...” — De Ricci, p. 56.
IRISH ANTIQUITIES 106. CROKER (Thomas Crofton) Catalogue of the Greater Part of the Library of the Late Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A., Etc. Consisting Chiefly of Works Interesting to the Archaeologist and Antiquary, and to the Student of Irish History... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson... on Monday, December 18th, 1854. London. 1854. 55,[1]pp. [Bound with:] ----. Catalogue of a Highly Valuable and Important Collection of Antiquities, Formed by the Late Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A., Etc... Especially Rich in Specimens of Celtic & Early Irish Antiquities... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson... on Thursday, December 21st, 1854. London.1854. £375 38pp., closed tear through leaf 11/12, extra-illustrated with 23 illustrs., pasted on to inserted leaves. 2 Vols., in one, quarter roan, orig. boards are a little rubbed, re-backed. Bound in is a 8 page article, with a portrait of Croker “Memoir of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq.” (from the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine, Oct. 1854.)
107. CROSS (Wilbur L.) The History of Henry Fielding. Russell & Russell, New York.(Reprint of the 1918 Edition) 1963. £50 3 vols., ex-library, frontispieces, 33 plates, orig. cloth. Contains the best bibliography of Henry Fielding.
108. [CULEMANN (F.G.H.)] Catalogue of a Bibliotheca Typographica, in the Choicest Condition, Comprising one of the most Valuable Collections ever Offered for Sale of Books illustrating the History of Printing from its Invention... Amongst them will be found Block-Book, Printed on Vellum... an Extraordinary Unique series of Playing Cards of the XIVth Century... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on Monday, 7th February, 1870. Printed by J. Davy & Sons.1870. £110 [ii],89,[1]pp., disbound, 730 lots.
109. DALYELL (John Graham) Some Account of the Ancient Manuscript of Martial’s Epigrams. Illustrated by an Engraving, and Occasional Anecdotes of the Manners of the Romans. Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh.1811. £175 [ii],ii,78pp., frontis., (slightly offset to title), nineteenth-century half calf, uncut, a nice copy.
110. DANIEL (George) Catalogue of the Most Valuable, Interesting and Highly Important Library of the late George Daniel, Esq. of Canonbury, together with his Collection of Original Drawings and Engraved Portraits of Distinguished Actors and Actresses... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1864. £265 4to, vi,222pp., with the ‘Times’ newspaper reports of the sale mounted on 18 inserted leaves, an invitation to J. Kershaw to the viewing, the Kershaw bookplate and crest, ruled in red throughout with prices and buyers names in a cont. hand, occasional heavy foxing, orig. half calf over marbled boards, uncut, t.e.g.
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De Ricci, pp.148-9. “George Daniel (1789-1864... was a satirical poet and editor of John Cumberland’s two collections of British plays. His Elizabethan and Shakespearean library was one of the choicest in private hands and when sold brought no less than £15,865”.
111. DARTON (Lawrence) Dartons: an Annotated Check-list of Children’s Books, Games and Educational Aids Issued by Two Publishing Houses 1787-1870. The British Library.2005. £60 4to, 736pp., 16 colour and 70 black & white illustrs., orig. decorated boards. In 1787 William Darton began engraving and printing books especially for children. Over the next 60 years over 1000 books for children and young people were published, and about 50 games and educational aids. A separate firm of Dartons was begun in 1804 by his eldest son, and using various imprints (always including the name Darton) they published over 1600 children's books in 65 years. This check-list contains details of the output of these two famous publishers, together with information on later editions, an index of artists and engravers and another of publishers and printers. This work is a source of reference for scholars of the history of the book, particularly in the study of children's books.
112. DAVENPORT (Cyril) Samuel Mearne. Binder to King Charles II. The Caxton Club, Chicago.1906. £295 First Edition, 4to, 118,[2]pp., one of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper, presentation inscription inscription to Charles J. Sawyer from an illegible dedicator, coloured frontis., 24 chromolithographic plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth-backed boards, corners lightly bumped, printed paper label on spine, uncut. Still remains as an important study of Samuel Mearne.
113. DAVIES (Hugh William) Devices of the Early Printers 1457-1560. Their History and Development. With a Chapter on Portrait Figures of Printers. Grafton & Co.1935. £85 First Edition, x,[ii],707,[1]pp., frontis., 267 text illustrs., orig. cloth, spine faded. This masterly survey ranks as one of the most important works in English on the subject. It covers the origin, development and use of the printer’s device from the advent of printing in the West to the middle of the 16th century.
114. DAVIES (Hugh Wm.) Compiler. Bernhard von Breydenbach and his Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4: A Bibliography. J. & J. Leighton.1911. £275 First Edition, 4to, [vi], xxxii, 47,[9]pp., one of 200 numbered copies, with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, frontis., 59 facsimile plates of woodcuts, orig. quarter morocco, slightly rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy. An extremely thorough bibliography detailing the twelve illustrated editions of “Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam” printed between 1486 and 1522.
115. DE RICCI (Seymour) A Catalogue of Early English Books in the Library of John L. Clawson, Buffalo. The Rosenbach Company, New York.1924. £45 First Edition, 4to, xvi,348pp., one of 200 numbered copies, numerous facsimiles, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, uncut. A library of quality rather than quality, this collection of 926 items, mostly of early English literature from 1550 to 1660, was incredibly rich.
116. DEVILLE (Étienne) La Reliure Française. Les Éditions G. Van Oest, Brussels.1930-31. £75 First Edition, 2 vols., 40,[4]; 48,[4]pp., 64 plates, orig. printed wrappers, upper wrapper of vol. one detached, unopened, uncut. Vol. 1. From the beginning of binding to the end of the 17th century. Vol. 2. From the 18th century to the 19th century.
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117. DIBDIN (Rev. T.F.) The Library Companion; or, the Young Man’s Guide, and the Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard.1825. £145 Second Edition, [viii],l,899 + 1pp., advert, cont. half calf, re-backed preserving the orig. spine, a little rubbed. “Dibdin endeavoured in this edition to insert the corrections supplied him by his friends and not very friendly reviewers” - Jackson, 64. Windle & Pippin, A 50b.
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED 118. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognal) Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. Illustrated with Cuts. London: Printed for the Author, by J. M'Creery, Blackhorse-court, Fleet-street; and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-row.1811. £1,275 Second edition, xii,782pp., followed by errata leaf, frontispiece woodcut (not described by Windle & Pippin) of a pile of books, with the caption ‘Libri quosdam ad Scientiam, quosdam AD INSANIAM, deduxêre. GEYLER; Navis Stultifera: sign. B. iiij. rev.’, numerous engravings in text, and plate (as called for, facing p.158), presentation copy to John Nichols (1745-1826), printer and proprietor of the Gentleman’s Magazine, extra-illustrated with forty-two portraits, and bound up with printed and other matter, including a letter from Dibdin to Nichols, a prospectus for The Bibliographical Decameron, and four keys to Dibdin’s ‘romantic names’, on lightly-aged and foxed paper, nineteenth-century green half morocco, gilt, raised bands, spine in compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, lightly worn, the extra-illustrated matter is expertly bound in, usually inlaid in windows, with guards to the engravings. For the connection between Dibdin and Nichols see Tributes of Respect to John Nichols (1858; Windle & Pippin, B 16), which reproduces Dibdin's letter of condolence on Nichols’ death, dated Exning Vicarage, 30 November 1826, and the essay ‘Visit To An Octogenarian’ (first published in The Gentleman’s Magazine, August 1823, pp.102-104, under the name ‘Capricornus’), in which Nichols, as ‘Sylvanus’ is described as possessing ‘sound principles, and the respect of all those whom we have long known and reciprocally loved’, and praised for ‘that perfection of intellectual vision which all his friends acknowledge it is his happiness to enjoy’.
At the head of the frontispiece, in pencil in Dibdin’s hand, is ‘with the Author's Compts.’; and facing the contents page is an Autograph Letter Signed (12mo, 1 p) from ‘T F Dibdin’ to ‘J. Nichols Esq. With Mr. Dibdin’s kind Compts’, 21 May 1811. Dibdin presents ‘this book-mad volume’, which he hopes will find a place in ‘a niche in your critical department of the Gent. Magazine’, to Nichols, asking him, should he wish to review it, to ‘speak of it just as you feel: bitter medicines being as wholesome as those of a more palatable nature’.
The volume is lightly annotated in a contemporary hand (possibly that of John Bowyer Nichols), mostly suggesting the true identities of individuals described in the book under ‘romantic names’. (But see also the reference to ‘Dr Dibdin’ in a note (p.648) relating to an engraving by Thomas Stothard.)
Bound in before the book are two keys (each 8vo, 1 p), in different hands, to the ‘romantic names’ used by Dibdin in the book. Another manuscript key (12mo, 1 p), written in the twentieth century, is loosely inserted. The identities of several of the individuals (Heber as Atticus; Haslewood as Bernardo; Bolland as Hortensius) are well- established, but these keys differ from one another in several ways, and supplement the information provided in the most extensive yet published, that in M. V. de Chantilly’s 2001 edition of Ferriar’s Bibliomania and Dibdin’s Bibliography.
Following the keys, and before the volume’s half-title, is an Autograph Letter Signed (12mo, 1 p) to John Bowyer Nichols from the politician and author William Hodgson (1754-1851), written from Hodsden, 3 July 1818. He thanks him for ‘information, and also for the minute specimen of the Grange Press’. Regarding Dibdin’s names, he assures Nichols: ‘You may rely on me that the names shall not be made public’. In the following paragraph he corrects two statements relating to Dibdin. Ends ‘When the Surtees appear please to select for your obliged Sert. W. Hodgson’.
The other manuscript item in the volume is the Autograph Signature of Horace Walpole (‘Exr. H Walpole’), laid down on a leaf facing p.715. Tipped in above this is an undated printed extract (12mo, 2 pp, paginated 85-6) headed ‘Strawberry Hill, Middlesex’.
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Four printed items are inserted:
First (facing p.481): Undated separate publication (8vo, 1 p) of Stephen Weston’s anonymous poem on the death of Isaac Gosset, ‘The Tears of the Booksellers’, beginning ‘When Gosset fell, | Leigh rang his knell, | And Sotheby ‘gan to vapour’. The poem first appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine for February 1813, but this rare separate issue has two vignettes, and the publisher’s slug ‘Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet- street, London.’
Second (bound in at the end of the book): Undated separate publication (8vo, 3 pp, paginated [1]-3) of an article entitled ‘Sale Of The Roxburghe Library. (Extracted from the “Gentleman's Magazine” for August 1812.)’ Slug: ‘Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Printers, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London.’
Third (following the last): Undated prospectus (8vo, 4 pp) for a two-volume The Bibliographical Decameron; or Ten Days Pleasant Discourse, upon the Early State of the Fine Arts, Ancient and Modern Typography, and Bibliography. Embellished with numerous engravings. By the author of Bibliomania, a Bibliographical Romance. The publisher’s name is not given, but the prospectus is clearly the work of the book’s publisher William Bulmer. This is the first of the four prospectuses described by Windle and Pippin on p.101, in their entry (A 28) for the Bibliographical Decameron, and according to Jackson it is ‘presumably the earliest of all’.
Fourth (following the last): Leaf (pp.11-12) from a catalogue of (according to the running title) ‘English and Foreign Books’, containing a number of Dibdin’s works. Followed by a couple of slips from autograph catalogues, carrying descriptions of letters addressed to Dibdin, laid down on a blank leaf. Jackson 18; Windle & Pippin A 11c. A full list of the portraits will be sent on request or may be viewed at: www.forestbooks.co.uk/118dibdin.htm
119. DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall) An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics; Being, in Part, A Tabulated Arrangement from Dr. Harwood’s View, &c. With Notes from Maittaire, De Bure, Dictionnaire Bibliographique, and References to Ancient and Modern Catalogues. Printed by H. Ruff, Glocester.1802. £165 First Edition, xii,64pp., some neat pencil annotations to text, cont. half calf, rebacked, corners rubbed. Jackson 3; Windle & Pippin A3a.
FINELY BOUND 120. DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall) Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of many Valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer... Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Press.1814-15. £1,000 4 Vols., 4to, all half-titles present, [vi],ix,[iii],lii,383,[1], (pp.87-88 present in both states); [vi],503,[1]; [iv],509,[7]; vii,[iii],587,[3],lxxvii,[iii]pp., (pp.263-270 present in both states, also with the second state p.509 from vol. 3), plates, illustrations, engraved portraits, plans and views, facsimiles of woodcuts and devices, extensively printed in red and black, occasional light foxing, some offsetting to plates, finely bound in contemporary straight-grained blue goatskin, wide gilt diamond roll border on the covers, flower tool to each corner, blind roll within, spines divided into six panels, lettered in two, the others tooled in gilt and blind, pink endpapers, gilt rolled border to turn-ins, lightly rubbed, all edges gilt, a very attractive set. Guild, p.24. “This superb collection of books contains upwards of 45,000 volumes; among them are sixty-four editions from the press of Wm. Caxton... The abundance and beauty of the facsimiles and other embellishments, as well as the fineness of the paper and printing, render this catalogue one of the most splendid bibliographical works ever published in any country. It describes books printed from wooden blocks about the middle of the fifteenth century, early printed Bibles, Liturgical works, works of the Fathers, Greek and Latin Classics & Miscellaneous Literature.” Windle & Pippin, A25; Jackson 36; De Ricci pp.72-77.
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121. DINGLEY (Pauline) Historic Books on Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry. 1992. £50 First Edition, large 8vo, 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Illustrated with fifty photographs, and provides a full description of every item (some 900 titles) in the collection, including details of pagination and illustrations. This is the first definitive bibliography in its field describing books and pamphlets on farriery, animal husbandry and veterinary science.
122. DIX (E.R. McC.) Compiler. Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601 to 1700. Volume One: Parts I-III [Volume Two: Part IV and Supplement]. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1912 Edition) 1971. £65 2 Vols., 4to, orig. cloth.
123. DIX (James) Bibliotheca Biblica. Catalogue of the Valuable & Important Library of James Dix, Esq. of Bristol, Comprising an Extraordinary Collection of Rare English Bibles, and detached Portions thereof, Early Testaments, Psalters, Liturgies, &c. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, on Friday, 11th of February, 1870. J. Davy and Sons, Printers.1870. £95 [ii],48,[2]pp., disbound, 442 lots.
124. DOHENY (Estelle) Catalogue of Books & Manuscripts in the Estelle Doheny Collection. [Compiled by Lucille V. Miller, Cary and Amelia Bliss]. [Privately Printed by The Ward Richie Press], Los Angeles.1940-55. £795 3 Vols., small folio, xiii,297; ix,77; 170pp., one of 100 copies, 3 coloured frontispieces, 72 plates (including 3 in colour), orig. cloth, orig. red label on spines, small nick to head of spine of volume one. This important three-volume catalogue contains a record of Estelle Doheny’s great collection of early printed books, illuminated MSS., English and American literature, Western Americana, private press books, fine bindings, autographs, children’s books, fore-edge paintings, etc.
125. DOWD (Anthony) The Special Bindings of Gwasg Gregynog. A Catalogue Compiled and Introduced by Anthony Dowd and Including a Memoir by James Brockman. Gregynog Press.2004. £295 4to, 108pp., limited to 215 copies, coloured plates, bound at Gregynog by Alan Wood in full blue morocco, presented in a slip-case. This new volume contains a full description, often with additional commentary, of each of the nineteen special bindings produced at Gregynog between 1977 and 2002, with each binding reproduced in full colour.
126. DREYFUS (John) A History of the Nonesuch Press. With an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes and a Descriptive Catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendall & John Dreyfus. The Nonesuch Press.1981. £195 First Edition, folio, one of 950 copies, 39 full-page illustrs., with many other smaller facsimiles (mostly of title-pages), orig. cloth, d.w. The best bibliographical work for the Nonesuch Press.
127. [DUCLOS (R.) & CAILLEAU (André Charles)] Dictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares, Précieux, Singuliers, Curieux, Estimés et Recherchés qui n’ont Aucun Prix Fixe tant des Auteurs Connus que de ceux qui ne le sont pas... Cailleau et Fils, Paris.1791. £195 Second Edition, 3 vols., xxiv,550,[1]; [iv],556; [iv],524pp., quarter calf, rubbed, spine leather labels slightly chipped. This work was the leading rare book bibliography between De Bure and Brunet. “The foundation on which Jacques-Charles Brunet built the ‘Manual du Libraire’ and thus to modern bibliography... Cailleau’s ‘Dictionnaire’ continues the bibliographical traditions established by Osmont. He offers a judicious selection of both good and rare books with their prices and some supplementary information... as he
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says, he has based the ‘Dictionnaire’ on nearly the hundred priced sale catalogues” — Taylor, Catalogues of Rare Book, pp. 32-33. These sale catalogues are a particularly important feature of the work, and are listed at the beginning of the first volume. Peignot, p.396; Petzholdt 84.
128. DUDLEY LIBRARY & BOOK SOCIETY. Laws and Catalogue of the Dudley Library, Established December 19th. 1805. Dudley: Printed by W. Maurice.1826. £585 First Edition, xiii,[iii],214pp., orig. calf-backed printed boards, spine chipped, hinges worn but still holding. A rare catalogue, commencing with the laws of the library, followed by a list of committee and general members, catalogue of the library and finally a list of donors and donations. The Dudley Book Society merged their library with the Dudley Library on its formation in 1805; the books presented to the library by the Dudley Book Society are marked with an asterisk. The library is substantial, with c. 4,000 titles classified by subject (Antiquities, History, Biography, Romances, Novels Tales, Poetry, Plays, Arts Sciences, Divinity, Periodical Works, etc.).
“The Dudley Book Society, founded in 1732 by Protestant Dissenters at a time when individuals were often persecuted for their religious beliefs or liberal thinking. A small number of similar societies had been founded during the preceding few decades but most had disappeared before the end of the 18th century. However the Dudley society continues to flourish with around 30 members and is believed to be the oldest continuing book club in Britain”. (DBS Website). Copac locating just the British Library copy; OCLC adds a copy at Harvard.
129. DUHEM (Jules) Musée Aéronautique avant Montgolfier. Fernand Sorlot, Paris.1943. £95 First Edition, 253pp., one of 90 copies, 164 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut.
130. DUNTHORNE (Gordon) Catalogue Raisonne of 18th and Early 19th Century Flower and Fruit Books and Prints. Martino Publishing.(Reprint of the 1938 Edition) 1996. £85 4to, limted to 250 copies, 100pp., of illustrs., orig. cloth. The Standard reference work for flower and fruit books and prints with 335 complete entries for books and print collections with complete descriptions of the characteristics.
131. DURHAM LIBER VITAE. ROLLASON (David & Lynda) Durham Liber Vitae [Complete facsimile edition]. British Library.2007. £195 4to, (276 x 219mm), 1540pp., 30 black and white illustrations, plus digital facsimile on CD-Rom, hardback. The Durham Liber Vitae was created in the mid-ninth-century, as a deluxe manuscript containing lists of royalty, aristocracy and churchmen. It was little used in the tenth and eleventh centuries, but was revived around 1100 when it became the repository for the names of monks at Durham Cathedral Priory up until the Dissolution. Several thousand names of lay persons were also added throughout the Middle Ages – some from the royalty and aristocracy but some from much humbler levels of society.
This publication unlocks its potential for a range of studies into family and religious history, linguistics and palaeography. It offers a text edited to the highest standards, based on the various periods in which names were entered into the book and thus permits real understanding of it use and significance.
132. DURKAN (John) & ROSS (Anthony) Early Scottish Libraries. John S. Burns & Sons, Glasgow.1961. £45 First Edition, 196pp., frontis., 48 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. Contains information about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed books, existing in the libraries of Great Britain, which can be proved to have been in Scottish libraries in late medieval times.
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133. DYCE (Rev. Alexander) Dyce Collection. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce. Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum.1875. £95 First Edition, 2 vols., large 8vo, xxiv,462,[2]; 448,[2]pp.,frontispiece portrait, presentation label from the Science and Art Department of the South Kensington Museum “Presented by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to Dr. Macpherson. 18th of February, 1876”, cont. quarter morocco, head and tail of spine chipped, uncut, t.e.g. De Ricci, 154-55pp. “Another distinguished collector of Shakespeareana was the Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798- 1869), well known as an editor of Shakespeare and other English authors. He bequeathed his important library to the South Kensington Museum of which it is a notable ornament.”
134. DYER (Isaac Watson) A Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle’s Writings and Ana. The Southworth Press, Portland.1928. £35 First Edition, one of 600 copies, frontis., orig. cloth, uncut.
135. EAMES (Wilberforce) Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.1924. £35 First Edition, xix,[iii],440pp., portrait, illustrs., orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.
136. EBERT (Friedrich Adolf) Allgemeines Bibliographisches Lexikon. F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig.1821-1830. £195 First Edition, 4to, xviii,1076 columns; x,1120 columns, orig. marbled boards, re-backed with over-laid cloth. The learned Chief Librarian of the Royal Library of Saxony assembled this general bibliography over a period of more than a decade. “Whereas Brunet and Grasse emphasized bibliophilic aspects, this general bibliography stresses the scholarly value of its 24,280 selections arranged in one long author alphabet. Its chief usefulness lies in the learned annotations provided by the well-known Dresden librarian.” — Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography, 122. Besterman 911; Petzholdt, p. 92.
137. EDWARDS (James) A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of James Edwards, Esq. Containing a Splendid Assemblage of Early Printed Books, Chiefly Upon Vellum, Highly Curious and Important Manuscripts, Many of them Executed for Sovereign Princes... Magnificent Books of Prints... Also his Collection of Fine Greek Vases. Which will be Sold by Auction, On Wednesday April 5, 1815, and Five Following Days, By R.H. Evans. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. 1815. [iv],47,[1 blank]pp., 3 folding plates, partially priced in a cont. hand. [Bound with:] GRAFTON (George Henry Fitzroy, Fourth Duke of) A Catalogue of a Most Elegant Collection of Books, Consisting of many of the First Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics, with almost all of the best editions of those authors on Large Paper…, the extensive library of a Nobleman... Which will be Sold by Auction, by R.H. Evans... On Tuesday, June 6, and the five following Days. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.1815. £595 [viii],46pp., with the bookplate of Edward Lockwood Percival, several related newspaper cuttings pasted in to endpapers. 2 Vols., in one, cont. half calf, marbled boards, rebacked. Edwards, the son of William Halifax, the celebrated bookbinder, was in fact a bookseller on a grand scale, acquiring the Pinelli library from Venice, the Paris d’Illens books from France and books from Prince Eugene de Savoire in Vienna. This sale in the last year of his life included many of the treasures that he had kept back for himself such as the Bedford Missal, bought by the Marquess of Blandford for £687.15s., the 1469 Livy on Vellum and Poussin’s drawings after Leonardo. The sale is dealt with at length by Dibdin in ‘The Bibliographical Decameron,’ vol. III, pp. 112-126. 830 lots of books, 9 lots of Greek vases (of which 3 are illustrated by the plates).
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De Ricci, pp.89-90.
“Pursuing our rambles through the catalogues of notable libraries in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, we are confronted with the ‘extensive library of a nobleman’, i.e. the fourth Duke of Grafton (1760-1844), with many classics on large or largest paper and a few Shakespeare Quartos.” (De Ricci, p.93).
138. EGERTON (Thomas) A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books, in All Languages, and Every Branch of Science and Literature, Ancient and Modern; Containing Many Rare and Curious Articles... Which are this Day Selling (for Ready Money) by Thomas Egerton, Bookseller, at the Military Library, Whitehall. [London].1796. £445 [iv],403,[1]pp., title and last leaf a little dog-eared and soiled, inner margin of title-page repaired with slight loss on text, from the reference library of H.P. Kraus, recent cloth-backed boards. “John Egerton... a bookseller of great eminence in Whitehall. To the literati he was a useful man; he knew books well; and his memory, uncommonly retentive, was seldom at a loss through the varieties of dates, prices, and sizes. In the sale-room he was conspicuously clever, and put the excellencies of an article very forcibly to the bidders. In private life his character and conduct were very exemplary; and his zeal and activity in business few have exceeded.” — Timperley, Dictionary of Printers and Printing. ESTC records British Library & Bodleian copies only.
139. EGERTON (Thomas & John) Booksellers. A Catalogue of Books, Including the Libraries of the Rev. Francis Blackburne... the Rev. Richard Ward... and Several other Collections... Which are now Selling, 1789 (for Ready Money) by Thomas and John Egerton, (Successors to Mr. Millan) at the Military Library, Whitehall. [London].1789. £595 [4],168,185-450pp., (pp. 440-450 misnumbered 340-350, as the B.L. copy, text is continuous despite pagination), modern antique half calf, spine gilt with leather label, a nice copy. Thomas and John Egerton were successors to John Millan (Bookseller 1727-1784), their first catalogue being for the sale of his books. Although Thomas and John were partners (1784-95) they also published catalogues alone. ESTC records British Library & Bodleian Library copies only.
UNRECORDED STOCK SALE OF A PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER 140. ENO (J.) Catalogue of Printing Materials: Including Types, Presses, Inks, Chases, Cases, Etc. With an Assortment of Bookbinder’s Tools, and other Articles Connected with the Business of a Printer and Bookbinder; Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. George Miller, On Thursday, Dec. 19, 1844, on the Premises of Mr. J. Eno, Printer and Bookbinder; Church Street, Boston [Lincolnshire], (Who is declining the Business). [Boston: J. Eno, Printer].[1844]. £1,645 21ff. (1 leaf “Conditions of Sale”, 18 leaves, printed on recto only, illustrated by 84 specimens of typefaces with the lot number along side each, the final 2 leaves are printed on both sides and contain single line text descriptions for 132 lots of bookbinding tools, presses, printing ink & other paraphernalia), stitched as issued in the orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled and dog-eared. A very rare and highly unusual auction catalogue of a provincial printer and bookbinder’s stock. A Search of Copac finds no other similar auction catalogues for a printer or Bookbinder’s stock before 1875, nor does it find any items printed by Mr. J. Eno of Boston.
141. ERASMUS. Bibliotheca Erasmiana. Répertoire des Oeuvres d’Érasme. 1re Série: Liste Sommaire et Provisoie des Diverses Éditions de ses Oeuvres. 2e Série: Auteurs Publiés, Traduits ou Annotés par Erasme. Liste Sommaire et Provisoire. 3e Série: Sources. Biographies d'Erasme et Écrits le Concernant; Ouvrages qui Contiennent des Notes d’Erasme, des Extraits de ses Oeuvres, etc. B. de Graaf, Nieuwkoop.(Reprint of the 1893 Edition) 1961. £38 3 parts in 2, 186; 68; 65pp., orig. cloth.
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142. FACSIMILE. THE CROY HOURS. Das Croy-Gebetbuch (Les Heures de Croy). Codex 1858 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien. Kommentar von Otto Mazal und Dagmar Thoss. Faksimile Verlag Luzern.1993. £2,000 2 Vols., small 4to (200 x 150mm), limited edition of 980 copies, facsimile volume consists of 366 facsimile leaves with 58 colourful miniatures, over 200 fantastic drolleries as well as a great number of decorative elements, bound in dark red velvet decorated with precious gold-plated ornamental clasps, fittings and rosettes, the commentary volume contains 318pp., with text in German and French, 34 illustrs., bound in matching dark red velvet, orig. cloth-folding box. This magnificent work was probably commissioned by a lady of the court of Habsburg-Burgundy. Because of an inscription showing the name of Guillaume de Croy, the book is also called the Croy Hours. Under the reign of Jean sans Peur and of his son Philip the Good of Burgundy, the Croy family held rather high-ranking positions. They were among the most powerful and richest families of Burgundy. At the beginning of the 18th century, Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired the precious illuminated manuscript for his private library, one of the largest in the world. In 1738, the emperor Charles VI took over the library from Prince Eugene's niece.
The Croy Hours begin with a calendar which on magnificently decorated double-leaves illustrates the course of the year. All other miniatures are of equally excellent quality.
All pages with large-format illustrations are surrounded by richly carved bronze-gold Gothic frames.
The same framing system is used for the relevant opposite text pages thus providing a uniform visual impression when opening the book. All 58 miniatures are of stunning quality and keep in line with the usual programme of a Book of Hours: the twelve initial calendar miniatures are followed by diverse artfully executed pictures related to the devotion in the face of Christ, of the Holy Cross and the Holy Ghost, and further by illustrations referring to an Office of the Virgin and to pericopes of the four Gospels.
143. FACSIMILE. [Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, Rossi 3(1)] Modi Orandi Sancti Dominici. Die Gebets- und Andachtsgesten des Heiligen Dominicus. Entstanden um 1330 in Sudfrankreich. Kommentarband von Leonard E. Boyle und Jean-Claude Schmitt. Belser, Zurich.1995. £275 2 Vols., a complete 24 coloured page facsimile edition, one of 980 copies, bound in full leather which reproduces the original style girdle books, presented together with the commentary volume by Leonard E. Boyle and Jean-Claude Schmitt, solander box with a leather title label.
144. FACSIMILE. [Wandalbert von Prum, Cod. Reg. Lat. 438] Wandalbert von Prum. Das Reichenauer Martyrologium fur Kaiser Lothar I. Entstanden nach 855 auf der Insel Reichenau. Kommentarband von Hans-Walter Stork. Belser, Zurich.1997. £395 2 Vols., a complete 70 coloured page facsimile edition, one of 900 numbered copies, bound in quarter leather, wooden boards with a cameo inset into upper board, presented together with the commentary volume by Hans-Walter Stork which is bound in the original cloth.
145. FAIRBRIDGE (Charles Aken) The Fairbridge Library. A Catalogue of the Collection of Books Formed by the Late Charles Aken Fairbridge and Preserved at Sea Point, Cape Colony. Privately Printed, T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh.1904. £75 First Edition, 4to, cont. buckram, leather labels on spine, lower cover slightly damp stained, uncut, t.e.g. Mr. Fairbridge made it the work of his life, outside law and politics, to collect rare books and pamphlets on South Africa, and there are treasures at Mimosas, Sea Point, which surpass in many respects those of any public collection.
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JUST PUBLISHED 146. FOOT (Mirjam M.) The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings. Volume III: A Catalogue of the South European Bindings. British Library.2009. £75 4to, 428pp., 470 illustrs., cloth. This much anticipated third and final volume of The Henry Davis Gift focuses on south and east European fine bindings, with additional sections on Oriental and American bindings. It includes many new identifications, and owners and binders are discussed comprehensively. Not only have the decorative features of every binding been described and illustrated, details of structure have also been described and consequently, it is now possible to compare and contrast bookbinders’ practices in the various countries, as evident from this splendid collection of fine bindings.
147. FOURNIER (Edouard) L’Art de la Reliure en France aux Derniers Siecles. E. Dentu, Paris.1888. £40 Second Edition, 12mo, 268pp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. half calf, rubbed, uncut.
148. FOURNIER (Francois Ignace) Dictionnaire Portatif de Bibliographie, Contenant plus de 17,000 Articles de Livres Rares, Curiux, Estimés et Recherchés... suivi du Catalogue des Éditions cum notis Variorum, ad usum Delphini, et de celles Impimées par les Aldes, les Elzevirs, Baskerville, etc. Fournier Fréres, Paris.1805. £95 First Edition, [iv],viii,401,[4]pp., (pp. 41-44 repeated), recent half calf, marbled boards, a nice copy. First Edition of the immediate predecessor to Brunet. A listing of over 17,000 books from incunabula up to about 1800. The entries include information on how to distinguish originals from forgeries, and notes on relative rarity and importance, together with prices obtained in famous sales. This main part of the book is followed by a 24-page list of Aldine editions from 1494 to 1595; there are also list of Variorum editions of the classics, of ‘ad usum Delphini’ editions, classical and French editions by Elsevier, Latin editions from Baskerville and Barbou, and French classical authors by Didot. Taylor, pp. 35-36; Brunet II, 1360.
149. FREEMAN (Arthur & Janet Ing) Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. The Book Collector.1990. £50 First Edition, viii,169pp., frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. The dispersal of the Foley family library in October 1919 was notable for the richness of the books sold - and for the general inadequacy of the prices they fetched. Drawing on records kept by principal participants in the sale and in the four subsequent “knock-outs”, the Freemans reveal the intricacies of a practice whose workings have not previously been subject to such detailed and informed scrutiny.
150. FREYTAG (Friedrich Gotthilf) Analecta Litteraria de Libris Rarioribus. Weidemann, Leipzig.1750. £110 First Edition, small tick 8vo, [viii],1138pp., engraved vignette on title, text a little browned, cont. calf, hinges cracked, upper cover detached, spine chipped, rubbed. First and only edition of this important guide to rare books. This was a basic working tool of the eighteenth century librarian and collector, and consequently retains a considerable interest. Petzholdt, p.113; Ebert I, 7917; Graesse, 2,634.
151. FULTON (John F.) Michael Servetus: Humanist and Martyr. With a Bibliography of his Works and Census of Known Copies by Madeline E. Stanton. Herbert Reichner, New York.1953. £45 First Edition, 98pp., limited edition, frontis., 26 illustrs., orig. cloth. A valuable bibliography of the works of Servetus in their various editions and translations.
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152. FÜRSTENBERG (Hans) Das Französische Buch im Achtzehnten Jahrhundert und in der Empirezeit. Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, Weimar.1929. £65 First Edition, 4to, viii,431,[2]pp., orig. cloth, leather label on spine. A study of the eighteenth century illustrated French book.
153. GAMBA DI BASSANO (Bartolommeo) Serie dei Testi Di Lingua Italiana e di Altri Esemplari del Bene Scrivere, Opera. Venezia: Dalla tipografia di Alvisopali. Si vende in Milano presso A. Fortuno Stella e Figli.1828. £75 Third Edition, 4to, xvii,521,[3]pp., cont. half morocco, marbled sides, rubbed. Parte Prima: sono descritte le migliori edizioni antiche e moderne di tutte le opere citate nel vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca - Parte Secunda: sono registrate le miglioni edizioni di altre opere opportune allo studio della lingua publicate dal XIV. a tutto il secolo XVIII.
154. GARCIA ICAZBALCETA (Joaquin) Bibliografia Mexicana del Siglo XVI. Catalogo Razonado de Libros Impressos en Mexico de 1539 a 1600... Precedido de una Noticia Acerca de la Introduccion de la Imprenta en Mexico. Nueva Edicion, por Agustin Millares Carlo. Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico.1954. £275 4to, 583pp., facsimiles throughout (some in red and black), orig. quarter calf, d.w. chipped. Besterman 5156-57.
NO OTHER COPY LOCATED 155. GASKELL (Frank) The Experience and Maxims of a Practical Printer. [Printed by Frank Gaskell, Birmingham], Published by Isaac Pitman & Sons.[1890]. £295 First Edition, viii,70 + 2pp., of adverts, interleaved, with the bookplate of Charles Rothschild, pencil marginal corrections mainly to spelling errors, may be in the author own hand, orig. red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, a nice copy. We have been unable to locate another copy of this delightful little manual of advice to the practical printer. It is possible that this is the author’s proof copy and it never went on to be published.
156. GAULLIEUR (Ernest) L’Imprimerie a Bordeaux en 1486. E. Forastie, Bordeaux.1869. £38 First Edition, [iv],44pp., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, marbled boards, hinges a little torn.
157. GEE (Ernest R.) Compiler. The Sportsman’s Library. Being a Descriptive List of the most important Books on Sport. R.R. Bowker Co., New York.1940. £38 First Edition, xx,158pp., one of 600 copies, frontis., 7 plates, orig. buckram.
158. GELDNER (Dr. Ferdinand) Bucheinbände aus elf Jahrhunderten... Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich.1959. £65 First Edition, folio, 46pp., 108 plates (12 coloured), cloth-backed boards, d.w. a little soiled and torn. Breslauer, Page 24. “One of the greatest European collection, the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Dr. Ferdinand Geldner is an undisputed authority, especially on German bindings.” Produced to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the Bayerischen Staatbibliothek.
159. [GERDES (Daniel)] Florilegium Historico-Criticum Librorum Rariorum. Gröningen & Bremen, Spandau.1763. £145 Second Edition, [xiv],314pp., with valuable MS. notes and corrections, full vellum, inner boards slightly torn, leather label on spine. Second edition of Gerdes’ guide to rare books, listing some 400 titles, mainly theological but describing a good many scientific books.
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160. GIBSON CRAIG (James T.) The Gibson Craig Library. Catalogue of the Valuable and Very Extensive Library of the Late... (Removed from Edinburgh). First Portion [-Third and Concluding Portion]. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1887-88. £85 3 Parts in one, cont. half morocco, rubbed, 9,404 lots. Fletcher pp. 395-399. “An extensive and valuable library of choice books, many of which were bound by celebrated binders, and were once to be found in such famous libraries as those of Grolier, Canevari, Diana of Poitiers, Mary Queen of Scots, Count von Hoym, Longepierre, and Madam de Pompadour.”
161. GIBSON (R.W.) Compiler. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of his Works and of Moreana to the year 1750. With a Bibliography of Utopiana Compiled by R.W. Gibson and J. Max Patrick. Yale University Press.1961. £50 First Edition, xx,[ii],499p., ex-library, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth. Full bibliographical descriptions of More’s works and of biographies of him, giving locations of copies insofar as it has been possible to discover them.
162. GID (Denise) Catalogue des Reliures Estampées à Froid XVe-XVIe Siècles de la Bibliothèque Mazarine. Éditions du CNRS, Paris.1984. £85 2 Vols., 4to, xvi,561,[1]; [xii],573-725,[1]pp., 700 diagrams and illustrations of rubbings, orig. printed wrappers.
163. GILBERT (H.M.) Bibliotheca Hantoniensis. An Attempt at a Bibliography of Hampshire. Printed for Subscribers, to be had at “Ye Olde Booke Shoppe”, Southampton.[1872]. £35 First Edition, iv,43,[1]pp., orig. quarter morocco, lacking upper spine.
164. GOLDSMID (Edmund) A Bibliographical Sketch of the Aldine Press at Venice, Forming a Catalogue of all Works Issued by Aldus and his Successors, from 1494 to 1597, and a List of all Known Forgeries or Imitations... E. & G. Goldsmid, Edinburgh.1887. £145 3 Vols., in one, 56; 80; 42,xxivpp., one of 75 copies on large paper, orig. cloth, re-cased, uncut.
165. GOSFORD (The Earl of) Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford... (Removed from Gosford Castle, Armagh, Ireland)... As well as a Large Number of Books on Local Topography, Archaeology, & Antiquities, a Large Series of Privately Books on Family History & Genealogy, a Number of Rare Books and Tracts on the History and Topography of Ireland... a Perfect Copy of the First Folio Shakespeare, Volume One of the Famous Mazarine Bible... To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson... On Monday, April 21, 1884, and Ten Following Days... London.1884. £295 Large 8vo, vii,175,xxxivpp., fine paper copy printed on Van Gelder paper, printed list of prices and buyers’ names bound-in at rear, orig. blind stamped cloth, uncut. The library was sold en bloc to the London Bookseller James Toovey in 1878. He sold the Aldines by catalogue, Bibliotheca Aldina 1880, and the better French books by auction in Paris, “La Bibliotheque d’un Amateur Anglais” 1.5.1882. Some of the best books he retained, and they were finally sold by his son, Charles James Toovey, to J. Pierpont Morgan in 1899 (a catalogue issued New York, 1901). The residue of the library was sold at this auction. “In the early ‘forties, the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) had formed at Gosford Castle, in Ireland, a large and extremely beautiful library which was sold by private contract in 1878 to the London bookseller James Toovey... the history, topography, natural history and the important series of books on large paper were dispersed by Puttick and Simpson (21 April 1884), the total for 3363 lots being over £11,000.” — De Ricci, pp.156-157.
166. [GOULDING (Philip S.) Compiler. Check-List or Brief Catalogue of the Library of Henry E. Huntington [English Literature to 1640]. Compiled under the direction of GeorgeWatson Cole. Privately Printed, New York.1919. £45 First Edition, 4to, [iv],482pp., orig. cloth.
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167. GOVE (Philip Babcock) The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction. A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, with an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages from 1700 to 1800. Octagon Books, New York.(Reprint of the 1941 Edition) 1961. £110 xiv,445pp., orig. cloth, d.w. The work is of the highest value and use to all those who are interested in the bibliographical and historical study of the novel, and the imaginary voyage of the 18th Century. A scarce and important work.
168. GREAT DOMESDAY. The De-Luxe Millennium Edition. Alecto Historical Editions.1986- 2000. £2,650 6 volumes, folio, number 11 of 450 sets, comprising: I. The two-volume facsimile of Great Domesday, bound in authentic replica brown embossed calfskin to the 12th Century design of the earliest known Domesday binding, the Winton Domesday, all 413 folios reproduced in full colour on simulated vellum, preserved in wallet-style limp suede, with ties. II. A two-volume complete and authoritative modern English translation, typeset so that the text follows the original hand-written script line-for-line, these volumes are superbly hard bound within a linen spine and hand-made paper sides. III. A people and places index volume, bound to match the translation. IV. A matching box containing a complete set of modern Ordnance Survey maps (33 counties on 28 large folding sheets) with overlaid Domesday sites and the indexes. The Domesday is one of the most important historical documents of the first millennium. William the Conqueror’s great survey has been used as a working document ever since its commission at Christmas 1085, and remained pre-eminent as a census of England until the 19th Century.
In 1984 the Public Record Office took the historic decision to unbind the original Domesday manuscripts for restoration and invited Alecto Historical Editions to undertake the publication of a facsimile. This is the first colour facsimile of the Great Domesday and was printed in a strictly limited number of sets.
169. [GRIFFITHS Acton Frederick] Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry: in the Possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical. Printed by Thomas Davison.1815. £195 First Edition, large 8vo, viii,481,[1]pp., the Bradley Martin copy, with several notes and marks in pencil, frontis., woodcut portraits in the text, front-free endpaper loose, cont. morocco, marbled sides, rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. This famous catalogue, with notes by A.F. Griffiths and prices affixed, includes the rarest books in English Poetry. Lowndes says, “This extremely useful catalogue of the rare and curious collection made by R. Park, and added to by Thos. Hill is deserving of a place in every good library, from the interesting information which it affords of the works of our early poets.” (Lowndes I, p.200.)
170. [GRIFFITHS (John)] A Descriptive Catalogue of Editions of the Homilies to the End of the Seventeenth Century, Prefixed to the Oxford Edition of MDCCCLIX. [N.p.].1859. £65 [ii],28pp., interleaved copy, with a couple of additions and the signature of C[harles]. J[ames]. Stewart (London bookseller), orig. cloth.
171. GUMUCHIAN & CIE. Les Livres de l’Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siecle. Preface de Paul Gavault. The Holland Press.(Reprint of the 1930 Edition) 1967. £75 4to, xx,446pp., coloured frontis., 72 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography. 158. “This splendidly illustrated bookseller’s catalogue of 6,251 children’s books is the first major bibliography solely devoted to children’s books and has become a standard reference work on the subject.”
172. HAEBLER (Konrad) Spanische und Portugiesische Bücherzeichen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts. Heitz & Mündel, Strassburg.1898. £145 Folio, [iv],xlpp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, 46 plates, cont. quarter roan, spine rubbed, marbled sides.
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The marks of 93 different Spanish and Portuguese printers are included in this study. An alphabetical list of printers’ and publishers’ names refers the reader to biographical sketch in which each name appears. Information presented includes the dates during which a printer was active, cities in which he worked, and associates with whom he worked. Clear prints of marks are provided, as are the title, author, date and city of publication, and size of book(s) in which each mark appears, as well as citations to other scholarly resources. The index of printers’ and publishers’ names is comprehensive, guiding users of this work to both the main entry on a printer or publisher as well as to entries in which the name is mentioned, which makes this a useful book for researching the interactions between various printers.
PRINTING SPECIMENS 173. HAILING (Thomas) Specimens of General Printing by Thomas Hailing. Cheltenham: The “Oxford” Printing Works.1879-[1882]. £1,695 4to, 2 vols., [39]ff., 1-35,[3]pp., + 2 plates; [36]ff., [41]-89,[5]pp., title-pages printed in several colours, numerous specimens of ‘fancy’ printing in various typefaces in colours, silver and gold, orig. cloth decorated in blind and gilt, vol. 1 re-cased with new endpapers, “Specimens of Work, Thomas Hailing, Printer” lettered in gilt on upper covers, all edges gilt, nice copies. Extremely rare and splendid sample books of a wide variety of printing styles and techniques, including commercial stationary, posters, advertising and topographical engravings, mostly printed in colours and on different coloured papers. These came about after Thomas Hailing had forwarded several specimens of his work to the “The Paper and Printing Trades Journal.” After the editor had highly praised his work Hailing was inundated with requests for such specimens of his work. Hence, these two volumes were produced to satisfy demand.
Bound in at the back of each volume are no. 1-10 (November, 1887-April, 1881) of ‘Hailing’s Circular’. The main objective of this publication was “the modest one of imparting to our patrons and more immediate neighbours in the district a little technical knowledge of the noble art of printing.” Originally published gratuitously, however, it was so highly appreciated that from the fifth number a charge was made. It then became a more purely technical serial which was beautifully printed with the display of type both ingenious and original. Initially the numbers consist of 4 pages, and expanding to 12 pages from by the fifth issue.
Copac locating just the British Library with both volumes and Cambridge with a copy of volume two; Saint Brides do have a copy of each; Not listed on OCLC.
174. HALDANE (Duncan) Islamic Bookbindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. World of Islam Festival Trust.1983. £75 First Edition, 4to, 205pp., 22 illustrs., (mostly coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. This magnificently produced volume covers in detail the art of binding books and their sumptuous decoration as practised in the Islamic world.
175. HALL (Trevor H.) A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850. Palmyra Press, Lepton.1957. £125 First Edition, 4to, 96pp., one of 12 interleaved copies, numbered and signed by the author, frontis., 18 plates, orig. buckram-backed boards, d.w.
176. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. An Inventory of Certain Books and Manuscripts, Including Notes for Shakespearian Researches, Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, Brighton. Printed by John George Bishop, Brighton.1887. £75 Small 4to, 7,[1]pp., inscribed on front paste-down “F.C.N. Hall, Executor’s Copy. 1887. All these articles are at Copse, with the exception of the second [the diaries of the late Henrietta Elizabeth Molyneux Halliwell (née Phillipps)], the four volumes comprising which are in London”, cont. cloth.
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177. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. A Hand-List of Sixty Folio Volumes, Containing Collections made by J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, from 1854 to 1887, on the Life of Shakespeare, and the History of the English Stage. Harrison and Sons.1889. £65 7pp., manuscript note to upper cover “Collection of History of Shakespeare to be sold for £1200”, orig. printed wrappers. Copac locates the Oxford and Edinburgh copies only.
178. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts, Including a Portion of the Library of a noble Lady... [Including] A Remarkable Fine Copy of the Third Folio Shakespeare, and a Large Quantity of Shakespeareana, Sold by Order of the Executor of the late J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Esq. [lots 666-679] On Monday, the 1st July, 1895. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1895. £45 [ii],94pp., orig. printed wrappers, upper wrapper detached and with the ink stamp of “J. Pearson & Co.”, 1261 lots. The third and final portion of the Halliwell-Phillipps library sold after his death.
179. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. BAKER (Ernest E.) A Few Notes on a Selected Portion of the Halliwell-Phillipps Library, Which will be Sold by Auction, at Messrs. Sotheby’s in June, 1889. Printed for Private Circulation at the “Gazette” Office, Weston-Super-Mare.1889. £65 25,[1]pp., one of 150 copies printed, 2 newspaper cuttings relating to prices realized are pasted onto the final page, and orig. printed wrappers. A prelude to the auction compiled by the benefactor and nephew of Halliwell-Phillipps. H-P had left a letter to Baker stating “Pray sell no books, nor engravings, nor manuscripts, nor old deeds, &c., by private contract. If you do, you will be ‘done’ as sure as a whistle. I am continually adding rarities... most of these are a class the value of which is known to very few people indeed. If sold by private contract they are certain to be sacrificed...”.
180. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J.O.) Catalogue of the Important Library of the late J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps including an Extensive Collection of Works of Shakespearian Interest... 1st July, 1889. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1889. £85 [ii],97pp., loosely inserted is a ALs from J. Pearson & Co. to an unknown recipient asking for commissions for the sale, orig. printed wrappers (corners chipped and defective), 1,291 lots. The first of three auctions of the remaining library which was sold by his nephew and beneficiary, Ernest E. Baker.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS’ FIRST BOOK 181. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (James Orchard) Shakesperiana. A Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare’s Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications Illustrative of his Works. John Russell Smith.1841. £85 46 + 2pp., of publishers adverts, title lightly foxed, cloth. Halliwell was only 21 years old when this catalogue, the first of his innumerable bibliographical studies devoted to Shakespeare, appeared.
182. HANEY (John Louis) A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Printed for Private Circulation, Philadelphia.1903. £45 First Edition, xvi,144pp., one of 330 numbered copies, frontis., orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine and upper cover, uncut.
183. HANNAS (Linda) The English Jigsaw Puzzle 1760-1890. With a Descriptive Check-List of Puzzles in the Museums of Great Britain and the Author's Collection. Wayland Publishers.1972. £45 First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 66 illustrs., (7 coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. The standard reference work for jigsaw puzzles.
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184. [HANNETT (John)] ARNETT (John) Pseud. Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding in all its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings. By John Andrews Arnett. Richard Groombridge.1835. £325 First Edition, iv,[2 (advert leaf)],212pp., frontis., 8 plates, a little foxed, orig. patterned cloth, re-backed, orig. spine laid-down, new endpapers. Pollard & Potter, 100. “John Hannett (1803-93) after being apprenticed to a printer and bookbinder in Sleaford, Lincs., worked for ten years in the publishing house of Simpkin, Marshall & Co., then set up as a printer and bookbinder at Market Rasen, Lincs. in 1837, and, in 1844, at Henley-in-Arden. Still an important work today as it offers general comments on contemporary bookbinding practices and enables us to date some early bookbinding techniques. Bernard Middleton quotes from it extensively in his classic book ‘A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique’.”
185. HANNOVER (Emil) Kunstfaerdige Gamle Bogbind indtil 1850. Det Danske Kunstindustri- Museums Undstilling 1906. Lehmann and Stages, Copenhagen.1907. £95 Small 4to, 164,11pp., one of 500 copies, 144 photogravure plates, cont. calf, rubbed, spine faded. The first important bookbinding exhibition held in Scandinavia. Mejer 386.
186. HANSON (L.W.) Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701- 1750. Cambridge University Press.1963. £65 First Edition, xxiv,978pp., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly soiled and torn. The comprehensive indexes are an important feature of the book. 6,487 entries, with bibliographical notes, and locations of copies.
187. HANSON (Laurence) Government and the Press 1695-1763. Oxford University Press.1936. £45 First Edition, 4to, x,149,[1]pp., frontis., orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. A scholarly monograph describing the relationship between government and the newspaper press.
188. HARDING AND LEPARD. A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books in Various Languages, on Sale by Harding and Lepard, 4, Pall Mall East, London. Printed by Thomas Davison.1829. £295 2 Parts., [vi],183,[1] + 4pp., of adverts; [iv],185-428 + 4pp., of adverts, orig. paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper covers, 5,541 items, a very nice copy. Copac locates copies at the National Library of Scotland and Durham University.
189. HARFORD (Rev. Frederick Kill) Epigrammatica, Serious, Semi-serious, and Divertive. Messrs. Henry Sotheran and Co.1890. £35 First Edition, 4to, one of 50 large paper copies, inscribed by the author, orig. printed boards, slightly rubbed, uncut.
ONE OF 50 NUMBERED COPIES 190. HARMSWORTH (Sir R.L.) A Short Title Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of Sir R.L. Harmsworth, Bart. to the Year 1640. Printed for Private Circulation only, [Harding and Curtis, Ltd., Bath].1925. £345 4to, [iv],372,[2]pp., no. 37 of 50 numbered copies, cont. quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt. A rare privately printed catalogue of the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth’s in the form of a check list with an asterisk against books of American interest and notes on provenance.
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191. HARMSWORTH TRUST LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Collection of Rare and Valuable Books... the Renowned Library of the late Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth. Sotheby & Co.1939- 54. £300 36 Parts bound in 3, all plates called for (parts 3, 12, 22 and 23 were only issued unillustrated) except part 15 which has the 6 plates in photostat, most with printed price lists and/or manuscript pricing, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, green cloth. A complete set of this enormous and elusive series, officially in 35 parts, with a final catalogue of books omitted or returned from previous sales in 1954.
192. [HARRISSE (Henry)] Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima. A Description of Works Relating to America Published Between the Years 1492 and 1551. [With:] Additions. Geo. P. Philes, New York & Librairie Tross, Paris.(An unacknowledged reprint of the 1866-1872 Edition). £225 2 Vols., 4to, [8],liv,519; [4],xl,199,[13]pp., corrections to text in pencil (for a new edition?), red half morocco, a nice copy. Still one of the standard books for early works on America. Describes 304 works in exhaustive detail in the main volume plus a further 186 in the supplement.
193. HATCHARD (John) A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, Including Part of the Library of a Gentleman of Distinction Lately Deceased... Which are now Selling (for ready Money) at the Prices Marked in the Catalogue, by John Hatchard... Printed by S. Gosnell.1810. £185 [iv],154pp., from a institutional library now dispersed, several small stamps, recent cloth, 4,145 items. John Hatchard founded the business in 1797 when he was twenty-nine years of age. He had served his apprenticeship with a bookseller named Ginger, and thereafter went to the famous shop of Thomas Payne at Mews Gate. Hatchard quitted Payne’s service on June 30th, 1797, and having prepared the way he opened a shop in Piccadilly. John Hatchard died on June 21st, 1849, and Thomas, his son, who succeeded him, died in 1858. Not found on Copac.
194. HAYES (Samuel) A Catalogue of Books, Containing Near Fifty Thousand Volumes, Collected in England and Various Parts of the Continent... To Begin Selling, for Read Money Only, February 1788, By Samuel Hayes, Bookseller, No. 332, Oxford-Street, Corner of Argyle-Street, London. [London].1788. £465 [ii],289,[1]pp., title and last leaf a little dog-eared, soiled and a small repair, from the reference library of H.P. Kraus, recent cloth-backed boards. An extensive bookseller’s catalogue of some 9,149 items with fixed prices. ESTC locates 3 copies (British Library, Bodleian & John Rylands Library).
195. HEALEY (George Harris) Compiler. The Cornell Wordsworth Collection. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Presented to the University by Mr Victor Emanuel. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.1957. £125 First Edition, 4to, [xiv],458pp., one of 750 copies, 24 plates, orig. cloth. Complete bibliographical descriptions of books written by Wordsworth also including periodical appearances, anthologies, Wordsworthiana, etc.
196. HEAWOOD (Edward) Watermarks: Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society.1950. £95 Large 4to, 154pp., one of 300 numbered copies, frontis., 533 plates illustrating some 4,078 watermarks, orig. quarter morocco, lower cover damp-stained and warped, cloth peeling, but still a good working copy.
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The fruits of more than 30 years’ collection and comparison of watermarks in maps and printed works in the famous library of the Royal Geographical Society in London. 4,078 full-sized watermarks, with introduction, sources and complete indexes, representing the most comprehensive collection of watermarks of the period yet published. Volume I in the series on papermaking issued by the Paper Publications Society and Edited by E.J. Labarre.
197. HEBER (Richard) Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the Library of the Late Richard Heber, Esq... Removed from his House in York-Street, Westminster, Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby and Son [Evans; Wheatley]... [Printed by W. Nicol].1834-36. £1,995 12 Parts (of 13) in 5 vols., [iv],388; xii,363; [iv],295,[1]; [viii],355,[1]; [iv],257,[1]; [iv],314; [iv],306; [iv],170; [iv],195,[1]; [iv],117,[1]; [iv],189,[1]; [iv],83,[1]pp., vol. IV in nineteenth-century half calf, others bound to match, part XII in cloth. Heber was a book collector on a monumental scale, De Ricci estimated his library between two and three hundred thousand volumes. The sales took place at a time when the market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no buyers. The total realised was £65,774, for books which had cost their late owner a good deal over £100,000. “The Dibdinian age may be aptly said to terminate with the dispersal of the gigantic library accumulated by Richard Heber (1773-1833), a bibliomaniac if ever there was one... From 1800 to 1830, he purchased at every London sale, either in his own name or through agents like Triphook and Thorpe...” — De Ricci, p.102. Organised according to the residences where Heber kept his libraries, the present catalogues number 1 - 12 and were held in 1834, 1835 and 1836. Sotheby’s managed the sale for parts 1- 3 and 8 - 10; R. H. Evans, for parts 4 and 6 - 8 and 11; B. Wheatley, parts 5 and 12. A thirteenth part, the catalogue of books from Holland, was sold by Wheatley on 22 February 1837.
198. HEINSIUS (Nicolaus) Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive catalogus librorum, quos, magno studio, & sumtu, dum viveret, collegit vir illustris Nicolaus Heinsius, Dan. fil., in duas partes divisa. Leiden: [Abraham Elzevir for] Jean de Vivie.1682. £1,695 2 parts in one, 12mo, [ii],374,[2 (blank)]; 286,[2 (blank)]pp., from the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, priced in a cont. hand throughout, woodcut device to title-page, woodcut tail-piece, cont. calf, rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped. The third issue of this important catalogue, with prices added in what appears to be English currency rather than florins. “The sale catalogue of the polymath library of Nicolaus Heinsius, eminent Dutch classical scholar, Neo- Latin poet, and diplomatist, containing over 13,000 lots. It was immediately recognized as having more than ephemeral value, and was reissued as a reference work... It became one of the most frequently consulted catalogues of its kind.”—Breslauer & Folter, 80.
The catalogue contains volumes relating to theology, jurisprudence, medicine, mathematics, philology, history, belles-lettres, and the classics. Many of the books were purchased by the Oxford Professor of Astronomy, Edward Bernard, and brought to England forming part of the Bodleian Library. Pollard & Ehrman 231; Taylor p. 245; Willems 925.
199. HELLINGA (Wytze and Lotte) The Fifteenth-Century Printing Types of The Low Countries. Menno Hertzberger & Co., Amsterdam.1966. £445 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, xxviii,[ii],267; vi,505,[2]pp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, 291 plates, orig. quarter morocco, d.w’s. The authors have investigated Netherlands incunabula with a thoroughness unattempted by any previous scholars. This gives a complete survey of all the types used in the Low Countries, each of them being illustrated by at least one reproduction of a full page of an edition in which they were used. Variants within types or between types are also dealt with and reproduced. In addition a complete inventory of each font is included as well as a list of all editions in which the specific types are known to have been used.
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200. HELLINGA (Wytze and Lotte) Editors. Henry Bradshaw’s Correspondence on Incunabula with J.W. Holtrop and M.F.A.G. Campbell. Menno Hertzberger & Co., Amsterdam.1966-78. £85 First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, 258; xii,259-535pp., from the library of Lotte Hellinga with a few inserted notes in her hand, loosely tipped-in are several letters of congratulations on the publication of this work, frontispieces, plates, orig. cloth. Vol. I: The Correspondence 1864-1884. Vol. II: Commentary.
201. HEMSWORTH (Ill. Bro. H.W.) Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of the 33° 33, Golden Square, London. Collated and Arranged for the Supreme Grand Council. Printed for Private Circulation only.1870. £85 32pp., interleaved with blank pages, margins of the orig. purple printed wrappers lightly chipped. A rare privately printed library catalogue of a Masonic library.
202. HENKEL (Arthur) & SCHÖNE (Albrecht) Editors. Emblemata. Handbuch zur Sinnbildkunst des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.1978. £120 4to, lxiii,1098pp., facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. a little worn. Monumental reference work. Organised by iconographic themes. Classified bibliography. Indexes of mottoes, images and meanings.
203. HERLUISON (H.) Recherches sur les Imprimeurs & Libraires d’Orléans. Recueil de Documents pour servir a l’Histoire de la Typographie et de la Librarie Orléanaise, depuis le XIVe Siécle jusqu’a nos jours. H. Herluison, Orléans.1868. £95 First Edition, [vi],156,[2]pp., one of 78 numbered copies, illustrs., in the text, cont. cloth-backed boards, lacks label, uncut.
204. HEWETT (Mary Crane) Compiler. Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. New York.(Reprint of the 1918-20 Edition) 1994. £75 2 vols., in one, 4to, limited to 150 copies, orig. cloth. The catalogue is of importance because of the detailed collations provided for this vast library of 22,000 volumes on horticultural and botany. Plate count is provided, as are details concerning contents and editions.
205. HIBBERT (George) A Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland Place; Which will by Sold by Auction on Monday, March 16... by Mr. Evans. Printed by W. Nicol.1829. £275 [x],484pp., frontis., 4 facsimile plates (of which 3 are folding), cont. half, rubbed, re-backed with the orig. spine laid-down, 8726 lots. De Ricci, p. 100. “George Hibbert (1757-1837) was a wealthy West Indian merchant, who resided at Clapham and sold his books on retiring into the country. They brought over 23,000 and included a Gutenberg’s Bible on paper, the 1459 Psalter on vellum and the Complutensian polygot, also on vellum. A good buyer at the Hibbert sale was the fifth Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884).”
206. HIRSCH (August) Biographisches Lexikon der Hervorragenden Aertze aller Zeiten und Volker. (Reprint of the 1884-88 Edition) 1996. £295 6 Vols., c. 4,600pp., orig .cloth. “...very valuable medical biographical dictionary, international in scope covering physicians who had achieved prominence before 1880. Includes biographical facts, bibliography of works by, and sometimes bibliographical references for further information.” - Sheehy. Garrison & Morton 6716.
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207. HOBSON (Anthony) Great Libraries. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.1970. £45 First Edition, 4to, frontis., coloured and monochrome plates, illustrs., and maps throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. When were libraries founded and why? What sort of people founded them? What books did they contain and where were these obtained from? These are questions Anthony Hobson discusses in his account of thirty-two great libraries of Western Europe and North America.
208. HOBSON (G.D.) Maioli, Canevari and Others. Monographs on Bookbinding No. 1. Little, Brown, and Company.1926. £175 First Edition, 4to, 64 plates (6 coloured), orig. cloth, t.e.g. An historical account of plaquette bindings, Architectural Bindings, and studies of the binders Maiolus, Filareto, Canevari, and Farnese.
209. HOBSON (G.D.) English Binding Before 1500. Cambridge University Press.1929. £265 First Edition, folio, one of 500 copies, 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings, small neat ownership stamp to front and rear endpaper, orig. buckram, t.e.g. This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given at the Sandars Lecture for 1927.
210. HOCKEN (T.M.) A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand. Newrick Associates Ltd., Wellington.(Reprint of the 1909 Edition) 1973. £35 Limited Edition, xii,619pp., orig. cloth.
211. HODGKIN (John Eliot) Rariora: Being Notes of Some of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Historical Documents, Medals, Engravings, Pottery. Etc., Collected (1858-1900) by John Eliot Hodgkin. Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd.[1902]. £110 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, xix,[i],124; [viii],iv,297,[1]; xiv,161,[1],viii,92,11,[1]pp., a very good ex- library set, printed on thick Van Gelder paper, plates and illustrs., throughout (some coloured), orig. buckram, soiled, uncut, t.e.g. Describes many items acquired by Hodgkin from the Phillipps sales of manuscripts, also, the fine collection of incunabula. Volume three has an annotated bibliography of firework books. De Ricci, p. 187.
212. HOE (Robert) Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York... The Anderson Auction Co., New York.1911-1912. £375 8 Parts bound in 4, 322; 323-606; 286; 287-583; 239; 240-471; 250; 251-542pp., parts I & II priced in pencil, printed prices list for other parts, numerous plates and illustrs., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cloth, leather labels. One of the finest collections of books sold in America, the Hoe sale (comprising of 14,579 lots) realized $1,932,000 which was larger than the previous four largest book sales added together. Hoe had an excellent collection of bindings and had many of his own books bound by the famous binders of the day.
213. HOLKHAM BIBLE. BROWN (Michelle P.) The Holkham Bible: Picture Book. Commentary by Michelle P. Brown. The Folio Society.2007. £245 2 Vols., 4to, a complete 84 coloured page facsimile edition of the Holkham Bible (British Library Additional MS 47682), limited and numbered edition, printed on Swiss-made Furioso paper, half-bound in blue Nigerian goatskin with buckram sides printed with diaperwork pattern, leather title label blocked with a design by David Eccles in gold, red and blue, gilded on all three edges, presented together with the commentary volume by Professor Michelle P. Brown in a buckram-bound solander box with a leather title label. This distinctive manuscript has been carefully photographed and reproduced on special paper designed to replicate the look and feel of the original vellum. The facsimile is accompanied by Michelle P. Brown’s commentary
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volume which includes a full transcript and translation of the text, as well as a commentary based on her unrivalled knowledge of the period.
214. HOLMES (John) A Descriptive Catalogue of Books, in the Library of John Holmes, F.S.A. with Notices of Authors and Printers. [Privately] Printed by Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchett, Norwich.1828-40. £395 6 Volumes bound in two, viii, 310,[2, errata]; vii,[i],286,[2, errata]; viii, 295,[1, errata]; viii, 224; viii,84; viii,[93]-171,[1]pp., lithographic portrait frontispiece and a view of the gothic library, with the Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, orig. cloth, re-backed with the orig. spine laid-down, uncut. This copiously annotated catalogue, which mainly consists of incunabula and early English books, was privately printed for the author. Included here are two supplementary volumes which were published in 1837 and 1840. The library was sent to auction in 1841, the prices achieved have here been entered in pencil along side each corresponding entry.
215. HOOK (Diana H.) & NORMAN (Haskell F.) Compilers. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine. Jeremy Norman & Co., San Francisco.1991. £495 2 Vols., 4to, lxxxvii,[iii],511,[1]; xvi,513-1005,[3]pp., limited to 500 copies, 33 coloured plates, illustrs., orig. two-tone cloth. “This is the first bibliographical catalogue to offer complete annotated descriptions, with full collations, paginations, and plate counts, for the first editions of the great classics of science and medicine from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.” Includes comprehensive indices of authors, subjects, artists, binders and provenances with particular attention paid to bibliographical variants and states, association and presentation copies, and bindings.
216. HOPKINSON (Cecil) Collecting Golf Books 1743-1938. To which has been added ‘Bibliotheca Golfiana’ together with some notes and commentary by Joseph S.F. Murdoch. Compiled and arranged by H.R. Grant. Grant Books, Droitwich.1980. £245 Small 4to, 90,[2]pp., one of 250 signed numbered copies, frontis., 8 plates, orig. cloth, gilt.
217. HOWE (Ellic) The London Bookbinders 1780-1806. With Wood Engravings by Gwendolen Raverat. The Dropmore Press.1950. £145 First Edition, [viii],ii,182,[iv], limited to 250 numbered copies, printed on hand made paper, frontis., wood engravings in the text, buckram, uncut, dust-wrapper lightly chipped and browned. From about the period 1840 to 1858 John Laffray, a journeyman bookbinder working in London, was at great pains to collect every possible scrap of information concerning the early history of bookbinder’s trade union, which was founded c.1780. Not only did he assemble a number of documents and minute books, but much additional information which he wrote down, or pasted into scrap-books. This body of material had never been seen by anybody outside the trade union, until Mr. Ellic Howe was granted access in 1945. From the documents at his disposal Mr. Howe has pieced together an entertaining account of personalities and working conditions in the London trade during the period 1780-1806.
218. HOWELL AND STEWART. A Catalogue of Books, in Every Department of Oriental Literature: Including the Philology, Religion, History, &c. of Eastern Nations: The Holy Scriptures in Hebrew, and its Various Oriental Versions... and Jewish and Rabbinical Literature: Together with a Collection of Oriental Manuscripts. On Sale, by Howell and Stewart, Successors to Ogle, Duncan, and Co. {Printed at the Temple Printing-Office, by J. Moyes].1826. £225 [iv],255pp., signed and dated (1826) by the printer, cont. half calf, rubbed, hinges cracked, leather label on spine.
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219. HOYM (Karl Heinrich, Graf von) Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym, olim regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud Regem Christianissimum Legati extraordinarii. Digestus & descriptus a Gabriele Martin, Bibliopola Parisiensi. Cum Indice Auctorum alphabetico. Paris: Gabriel & Claude Martin.1738. £1,295 [vi],xx,528,[58],6,[6]pp., including the rare 6 page supplement, leaf of additions and the slip advertising the print sale, two final blank leaves with contemporary additional notes in manuscript, priced in cont. hand with a few added notations, woodcut arms on title, some light staining to margins of first and last few leaves, cont. calf, rubbed, re-backed. The celebrated library of the former Polish ambassador to France, who committed suicide after he was sentenced to life in prison following a series of false charges were brought against him. Martin offered the collection for sale en bloc, but no buyer was found before the deadline of 1st April, wench the auction of the library of 4,862 lots took place. North 46; Pollard & Ehrman pp. 150 & 247; Taylor pp. 105, 207, 228, & 248.
220. HULSE (Richard) A Catalogue of a Small Collection of Books, the Property of the Late R. Hulse, Esq. Together with the Duplicates of another Gentleman’s Library, Removed from the Country; Including some Valuable Classics, Useful French Books, and Rare English Books and Tracts: Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Cochrane... on Friday the 17th, and Saturday the 18th May, 1816. [Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge].1816. £145 [iv],42pp., title and final leaf a little browned, disbound, 541 lots. The only other copies located are that of the British Library & Harvard University Library.
221. HUNTER (Dard) My Life with Paper: An Autobiography. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.1958. £38 First Edition, ex-library, with 2 specimens of paper tipped-in; a sample of Chinese spirit paper and a specimen of hand-made paper from Hunter’s Lime Rock Mill, 58 illustrs., orig. cloth, uncut. An autobiography of America’s most famous papermaker and historian of papermaking. Also has a bibliography of the writings of Dard Hunter.
222. HUNTER (Dard) Papermaking. The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.1967. £75 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, xxiv,611,[1],xxxvii,[i]pp., frontis., 317 illustrs., folding map at rear, orig. cloth, d.w. lightly torn. One of the most important books on papermaking.
ONE OF 130 SETS 223. HUTH (Henry) The Huth Library. A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings, Collected by Henry Huth, with Collations and Bibliographical Descriptions. Ellis and White & Chiswick Press.1880. £1,100 5 Vols., large 4to, limited to 130, frontis., portrait, later buckram, lower cover of volume one slightly stained and small paint splash to lower cover of volume two, uncut, t.e.g. Huth’s collection, which ranked among the finest in England, was rich in incunabula, voyages, Shakespearean and early English literature, and Bibles. He began compiling this catalogue late in life, but finding it too time- consuming, he employed W.C. Hazlitt and F.S. Ellis to do most of the work. “With the assistance of Ellis and Hazlitt, Huth had started printing a magnificent catalogue of his library, with full titles of every item and exact collations, both entirely novel features in a library catalogue. The work was completed in five volumes two years after his death and has remained... a corner-stone of British bibliography.” De Ricci, p. 151.
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224. IMBERDIS (J.) Papyrus or the Craft of Paper. Translated by Eric Laughton. The Paper Publications Society, Hilversum.1952. £75 4to, 68,[2]pp.,one of 200 numbered copies, orig. embossed hand-made paper wrappers, slip-case worn. Translation of a Latin poem in praise of paper; contains many interesting descriptions of ancient paper-making.
225. INCUNABULA. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Herausgegeben von der Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig.1925-38. £195 7 Vols., large 4to, later buckram, a very good ex-library set. Winchell, AA169. “As far as published, the most comprehensive record of Incunabula yet made, based on information collected during more than twenty years’ work by the Kommission. The sections issued record nearly half again as many editions as Hain, and the information given for each is much fuller, including: (1) author entry, title, date, etc.; (2) collation, types, capitals, and illustrations; (3) transcripts of title, colophon, and other extracts; (4) references to descriptions in Hain and other bibliographies; and (5) location of copies, which includes a complete record of all copies if not more than 10 are known and, for commoner books, a selection of copies in representative libraries in different countries, both European and American. Indispensable in both cataloguing and references work in the scholarly library.”
226. INCUNABULA. English Incunabula in the John Rylands Library. A Catalogue of Books Printed in England and of English Books Printed Abroad Between the Years 1475 and 1500. The Manchester University Press.1930. £38 First Edition, 4to, xi,[v],102pp., with the bookplate of Estelle Doheny, 16 facsimiles, orig. cloth, a fine copy. The collection dealt with in the present catalogue is not large, but is of considerable importance by reason of the extreme rarity of a number of the works which find a place in it. It describes 154 items. Of these 132 formed part of the famous Althrop Library.
227. INCUNABULA. Incunabula. Katalogue 24. Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster.1991. £65 4to, numerous coloured plates throughout, price list loosely inserted, orig. cloth, 97 items.
228. JAMES (M.R.) The Romance of Alexander: A Collotype Facsimile of MS. Bodley 264. With an Introduction by M.R. James. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1933. £695 First Edition, Elephant folio, [vi],50,[2]pp., 4 coloured plates highlighted with gilt, 208 collotype facsimile plates, orig. cloth. This large facsimile of the most famous illuminated manuscript in the Bodleian Library was made possible by a substantial donation, made anonymously through the Friends of the Bodleian. Four of its pages are reproduced in full colour; Mr. W.A. Cadbury, Mr. A. Chester Beatty, Mr. C.W. Dyson Perrins, and Mr. C.H. St. John Hornby having each of them contributed the cost of the colour plate. The descriptive text has been written by Dr. M.R. James.
229. JAMES (M.R.) Introduction and described by. Speculum Humanae Salvationis, being a reproduction of an Italian manuscript of the fourteenth century. with a discussion of the school & date by Bernhard Berenson. Printed for Private Circulation at the Oxford University Press.1926. £385 4to, vii,76pp., 110 collotype plates (2 in colour), orig. half morocco, uncut, t.e.g.
230. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover. The Catalogue of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St Martin’s Priory at Dover. Cambridge University Press.1903. £195 First Edition, xcv,552pp., with the bookplate of the Signet library, orig. buckram, small nick to head of spine, uncut, t.e.g. Pfaff, pp.205-207. “The largest and most important of MRJ’s investigations into medieval libraries”.
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231. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) & JENKINS (Claude) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Lambeth Palace. Cambridge University Press.1930-32. £295 4to, 5 parts in one, 871pp., a couple of notes in Dr Wright’s hand, half morocco, spine slightly faded, a nice copy. Pfaff, pp.280-7. “In quality the Lambeth catalogue is as fine as any MRJ ever did.” From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum).
232. JEAYES (Isaac Herbert) Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters and Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge, at Berkeley Castle. C.T. Jeffries and Sons, Bristol.1892. £38 First Edition, xxxvii,[3],443,[1]pp., with the bookplate of John William Willis Bund, orig. blind- stamped cloth, uncut, a nice copy.
233. JOHNSON (C.R.) Provincial Poetry 1789-1839. British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background. With an Introduction by Dr. Robert Woof. Jed Press.1992. £65 First Edition, limited to 500 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth. The collection consists of 1,000 contemporary original minor verse printed in the provinces between 1789 and 1839.
234. JONES (George W.) An Album of Letterpress Printing. [Raithby & Lawrence, Leicester].[1888]. £1,875 2 Vols., 4to, each with a portrait frontispiece, mounted title with colour and illumination, 235 mounted specimens (some printed in colours and gold), the specimens range from small business and trade cards to full-page advertisements printed in colours, original half parchment.
George W. Jones was one of the most influential printers during the latter part of the nineteenth century, particularly during his time in Leicester with Raithby & Lawrence, coinciding with the vogue for artistic printing. The dated pieces were printed between 1886 and 1888, many for specific occasions, and there would not have been a sufficient supply to produce multiple copies of the albums, which were probably assembled by the printer as a sample books or a record of his work.
George W. Jones and Robert Hilton together formed the British Typographia, an association of employing and working printers united in the aim of advancing vocational training throughout the industry. The objectives were to form local branches, to establish libraries of reference and job specimens, to organise courses of technical instruction, to run seminars and group discussions, and to help settle trade disputes. Undoubtedly the concept was forward-looking and turned out to be a success, with branches of the British Typographia later developing into early schools of printing.
235. [JOUAUST (D.)] Editor. Aux Bibliophilies. Ultima. Notes et Chroniques. Jouaust, Paris.1891. £50 First Edition, [vi],78,[1]pp., one of 300 copies printed on handmade paper, etched frontis., portrait, inscribed ‘A.N.G. Renault le fidèle amateur de la Librairie des Bibliophiles. Cordial et sympathetique souvenir de l’editeur, D. Jouaust.’, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. half tan crushed morocco by ‘Ch. Weill, Orléans’, marbled sides, corners rubbed, spine lettered and intricately tooled in gold, uncut, t.e.g. A collection of appreciations of the Librairie des Bibliophiles editions, with details of sets and authors published in the series.
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DUTCH EDITION OF LA LANDE 236. KASTELEIJN (Petrus Johannes) De Papiermaaker; uit het Fransch van den heere De La Lande; Vermeerderd met Aanmerkingen en Aanhangzels door P.J. Kasteleijn. A. Blussé en Zoon, Dordrecht.1792. £725 xvi,288pp., 14 engraved folding plates, orig. wrappers, uncut, a very nice copy. This is the Dutch edition of De La Lande. It contains fourteen folded copper plates showing the complete process of papermaking. The plates are practically the same as in the first French edition (1762), the only change being in the costumes of the workers. Volume 9 in the series:- Volledige Beschrijving van alle Konsten, Ambachten, Handwerken, Fabrieken, Trafieken, Derzelver Werkhuizen, Gereedschappen, enz.
237. KELCHNER (Dr. Ernst) Die Marienthaler Drucke der Stadt-Bibliothek zu Frankfurt am Main. Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt.1883. £40 4to, [iv],10pp., 5 photographic plates, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cloth-backed marbled boards. Illustrations of some examples of type used in incunabula attributed to the Press at Marienthal. Tipped-in at the back: HENNEN (Dr.) Unbekannte und Unzulänglich Gewürdigte Marienthaler... Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig. 1887. 12pp., orig. upper wrapper.
238. KER (Neil R.) Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings with a Survey of Oxford Binding c. 1515-1620. Oxford University Press.1954. £95 First Edition, 4to, 278pp., 14 plates, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications New Series Vol. 5. Howard-Hill IV, 1374. “A most important though rather scarce work”.
239. KERN (Jerome) The Library of Jerome Kern. The Anderson Galleries, New York. 1929. £65 4to, 2 vols, 247; [iv],249-468pp., illustrs., with prices and buyers names in a cont. hand, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, 1,482 lots. One of the most successful American book auction ever. Prices at the Kern sale were astronomical; the 1,482 lots brought $1.7 million, slightly less than what had been realized at the Robert Hoe sale for ten times as many items. The Kern collection consisted mainly of original and rare editions of English works of the 18th and 19th century.
240. KERNOT (Henry) Bibliotheca Diabolica; Being a Choice Selection of the Most Valuable Books Relating to the Devil... Satan, Demons, Hell, Hell-Torments, Magic, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Divination, Superstitions, Angles, Ghosts... New York.(Reprint of the 1874 Edition) 2002. £35 40pp., double-page facsimile, orig. cloth. Kernot list some 400 titles, many with useful annotations.
241. KEYNES (Geoffrey) A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. and of Observations on the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt F.R.S. Oxford University Press.1971. £65 First Edition, large 8vo, portrait, 1 plate, facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
242. KING (Edmund M.B.) Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography. The British Library.2003. £60 Large 8vo, 304pp., 32 pages of coloured plates, 100 black-and-white illustrations, orig. cloth. This study deals with book cover design in Victorian Britain. New technology provided the means for artists to experiment, and a new market for creative bindings cumulated with the Great Exhibition in 1851. Practitioners such as Walter Crane and John Leighton broke new ground. Edmund King describes and indexes over 750 different books in detail, concentrating on those that have cover designs signed by artists, or who are known to be responsible for it. Many are illustrated in colour or black and white.
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243. KISSEL (Clemens) Symbolical Bookplates. Twenty Five Ex-Libris Designed and Drawn by Clemens Kissel, Mayence. H. Grevel & Co.1894. £75 4to, [8]pp., followed by 25 coloured plates, orig. printed wrappers, uncut.
244. L'ESOPO. Rivista Trimestrale di Bibliofilia. No.44, Dicembre 1989 - No. 64, Dicembre 1994. Edizioni Rovello, Milan.1989-94. £75 21 Parts, 4to, numerous plates (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers.
245. LACOMBE (Paul) Livres d’Heures Imprimès au XVe et au XVIe Siècle Conservés dans les Bibliothèques Publiques de Paris. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.1907. £195 First Edition, small 4to, lxxxiv,438,[2]pp., presentation inscription from the author, half blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, a nice copy. The output of manuscript Horae during the 14th and 15th century was immense. The majority of printed horae derive from the years between 1490 and 1520, with Paris as the most active centre of production. Lacombe’s work is one of the standard bibliographies of early printed Book of Hours. In all 598 printed books are described. Lacombe was the honorary librarian of the French Bibliotheque National, and compiled the bibliography from copies in all the public libraries in France. Most of the books were printed in the 15th & 16th Centuries.
246. LAING (David) Catalogue of the First Portion [-Fourth and Concluding Portion] of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the late David Laing, Esq. LL.D. Librarian of the Signet Library... Comprising an Extraordinary Collection of Works by Scottish Writers or Relating to Scotland... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... Dryden Press.1879-81. £345 pp.[ii],271; [ii],250; [ii],138; [ii],94pp., recent half calf, smooth backstrip divided by blind single rules, orig. gilt lettered red leather label relaid in second compartment, marbled sides, blue and red sprinkled edges. Sale catalogues of the library of the great Scottish bibliographer. The Signet Library, when he became its librarian in 1837, contained about 40,000 volumes. He left it at his death, 41 years later, with 70,000. The sale of his books occupied 31 days and realised £16,137, 9s. 0d. De Ricci, p.191.
247. LAMBINET (P[ierre]) Origine de l’Imprimerie, d’Après les Titres Authentiques, l’Opinion de M. Daunou et celle de M. Van Praet; Suivie des Établissemens de cet art dans la Beligique et de l’Histoire de la Stéréotypie. H. Nicolle, Paris.1810. £110 First Edition under this title, 2 vols., xxx,434,[2]; xvi,424pp., 2 engraved plates, some light browning to text, cont. boards, lightly chipped. Bigmore & Wyman, I p.418. One of the most distinguished treatises on the history of printing in which the author has inquired into its background and evolution. Lambinet treats antiquity of engraving, wood engraving, origin of letters, Chinese paper, woodblock books, citing Biblia Pauperum, the Haarlem and Gutenberg controversy. Regarded by Bigmore & Wyman to be one of the “monuments of typographical bibliography.”
248. [LANGLAND (William)] Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede. Reprinted by T. Bensley ... for Lackington, Allen and Co. ... and Robert Triphook.1814. £195 4to, [44]pp., title-page and text printed in red and black, wood engraved headpieces and vignette tailpiece, cont. vellum, gilt, a little soiled, a nice copy, a.e.g. An anonymous alliterative verse satire of 850 lines written between 1393 and 1401, attributed to Langland by Tyrwhitt, Skeat and Jusserand. The poem exists complete in two sixteenth-century paper manuscripts, Trinity College Cambridge MS R. 3. 15 and British Library MS Bibl. Reg. 18. B. XVII; in a fragment, British Library MS Harley 78 (fol. 3r); and in a black-letter edition (London, Reyner Wolfe, 1553) from which this reprint is taken.
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249. LAURENCE (Dan. H.) Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography. Oxford University Press.1983. £110 2 Vols., frontispieces, 25 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. This work identifies, for the first time, myriad unsigned and pseudonymously signed pamphlets, leaflets, and serial writings, including the ephemeral Fabian Society contributions.
RIVALS THE DARD HUNTER PRODUCTIONS 250. LE CLERT (Louis) Le Papier. Recherches et Notes pour Servir a l’Histoire du Papier, Principalment a Troyes et aux Environs Depuis le Quatorzième Siècle. A l’Enseigne du Pegase, Paris.1926. £595 2 Vols., folio, xiv,268;[iv],269-530,[1]pp., one of 675 numbered copies, more than 400 illustrations, facsimiles and specimens, orig. printed wrappers, uncut, a nice copy. The product of forty years’ research this monumental work begins with that is probably the best general history of papermaking. There follow accounts of forty mills in the Troyes region of France, the cradle of the European paper industry and notes about a thousand papermakers, including, for example, the sale to Christopher Plantin of the paper for his polyglot Bible. “with its de luxe format and abundant facsimile documentation... rivals the Dard Hunter productions.” - Bidwell.
251. LIBRI (Count Guglielmo Bruto) Half length portrait, of Count Libri. On paper, pencil and watercolour, with some use of grey and black pastel, with fresh tints added, 280 x 306mm, in a mount, framed and glazed. [c. 1850?]. £895 Lithographed by Alexis Noel, and this reproduced by both Fumagalli (as frontispiece) and Ruju & Mostert. The latter comment (p. 133) “shows him at the height of his fame, his hair thinning, his hand resting on a book in a scholarly manner, but determined to maintain the steadfast gaze of the man of action...”. Fumagalli, Guglielmo Libri, a cura di Berta Maracchi Biagiarelli. 1963; Ruju & Mostert, Life and Times of Guglielmo Libri. 1995.
252. LIBRI (Count Guglielmo Bruto) Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts, Chiefly upon Vellum... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messers. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, on Monday, 28th of March, 1859. 4to, [ii],xlviii,[2],260pp., printed on tick paper, 37 lithograph plates (3 folding), orig. printed wrappers bound in, 1190 lots. [Sold with:] Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical, Bibliographical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library... Part the First, A-L. [-Part the Second, M-Z. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messers. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, on Thursday, the 25th of April, 1861 [Thursday, the 18th July, 1861]. 4to, 2 parts bound in one, xxi,[1],475,[1]; [iv],477-799,[1]pp., 4 plates, orig. printed wrappers bound in, 7628 lots. [Sold with:] Catalogue of the Choicer Portion of the Magnificent Library... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messers. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, on Monday, 1st of August, 1859. 4to, xx,380pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in, 2824 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of the Reserved and Most Valuable Portion of the Libri Collection... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messers. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, on Friday, the 25th July, 1862. 4to, [iv],185,[1]pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in, 713 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Precious Manuscripts and Objects of Art and Vertu, of M. Guglielmo Libri... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, on Wednesday, June 1, 1864.
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4to, [ii],44pp., 15 plates (one folding), orig. printed wrappers bound in, 153 lots. [Bound with:] The Libri Collection of Books and Manuscripts. Prices and Purchaser’s Names to the Catalogues of the Three most Important Sales of this Celebrated Collection, viz. “The Splendid Manuscripts,” “The Choicer Portion of the Library,” and the “Reserved Books and Manuscripts,” Sold by Auction, 1859-1862. Puttick and Simpson. Puttick and Simpson.1868. £1,495 4to, [ii],48pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in. 7 catalogues with printed price lists bound in 3 vols., uniform buckram, morocco spine labels, a nice set. Libri, 1803-69, was as infamous for his thefts of books and manuscripts as he was renowned for his work as bibliophile, mathematician, and director of the state libraries of France. Immediately after his appointment as secretary of a commission to make an inventory of the manuscripts in the French public libraries, he began to “collect”. In 1850 the French courts sentenced Libri, in his absence, to ten years in prison for his thefts. He never returned to France, but moved to England were he disposed of his large library. Léopold Delisle proved that Libri had in fact stolen many of the books contained in these catalogues, and in 1888 the French government requested that the books and manuscripts which Libri had stolen, and the sold, be made available for them to buy back.
“The catalogues were drawn up in a charlatanesque style with which English bibliophiles were quite unfamiliar and the success of these sales was far from brilliant. They contain, however, a large number of valuable books and manuscripts and, if used with some caution, will always be found of use to the bibliographer... The biggest buyer of manuscripts at the Libri sales was Sir Thomas Phillipps.” — De Ricci, pp. 131-38.
253. LIFE OF ST EDMUND. EDWARDS (A.S.G.) The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr. The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund in MS Harley 2278 by John Lydgate. Introduction, transcript and commentary by A.S.G. Edwards. The Folio Society.2004. £445 2 Vols., 4to, a complete 238 coloured page facsimile edition of the Life of St Edmund (MS Harley 2278), limited and numbered edition, printed on Swiss-made Furioso paper, bound in full Nigerian goatskin with leather onlays over bevelled boards, blocked with a design by David Eccles, presented together with the commentary volume by A.S.G. Edwards in a buckram-bound solander box with a leather title label. On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey at Bury St Edmunds. He remained there until Easter and at the end of his stay abbot William Curteys conceived the idea of commemorating Henry's visit with a life of the Anglo-Saxon king, St Edmund, the patron saint of the abbey. It is hard to overstate the importance of the resulting manuscript, both as a monument to the development of the English language, and for its illustrations.
254. LITHOGRAPHY. BRY (Auguste) L’Imprimeur Lithographe, Nouveau Manuel a l’usage des élèves. Ouvrier Imprimeur Lithographe, orné d’une jolie vignette, par Raffet, et d’une couverture écrite par H. Toquet. Chez l’Auteur, Paris.1835. £345 First Edition, iv,[5]-45pp., without the plate called for on the title, orig. paper wrappers (lacking upper cover), title and text a little browned and spotted, uncut. An extremely rare and early lithography manual. Although sadly lacking the frontispiece, we can find only one other copy recorded, that being the CNAM copy. Not in Bigmore & Wyman, St. Bride’s or Twyman.
INCUNABULA OF ENGLISH LITHOGRAPHY 255. LITHOGRAPHY. DÜRER (Albrecht) Albert Durers Designs of the Prayer Book. London: Published September 1st 1817 at R. Ackerman’s Lithographic Press.1817. £795 Folio, [iii],8pp., portrait & 44 leaves of plates, printed on rectos only, lithographed throughout, apart from the advertisement, introduction and list of plates, title-page and one unnumbered plate are printed in red and black, portrait of Dürer is in black, the marginal drawings are in black or a single colour (red, mauve, green, grey, blue & black), cont. half calf, rebacked and recornered, marbled paper boards.
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The first substantial Lithographed production produced in England, it is the first “English edition of Dürer’s marginal designs for the Emperor Maximilian’s prayer book, which Senefelder had published in Munich in 1808. It represented the earliest use of color lithography in England, with its two-color title-page.”—Friedman.
“The first book printed by lithography in England... attempts had been made earlier at lithography, as witness Forbes’s ‘Oriental Memoirs’, which contain a few specimens engraved in 1811, but the above book is the first serious attempt to popularize the new method.”—Abbey.
“One of the first and most important productions of Ackermann’s press”—Twyman. Friedman, Color Printing in England. 120; Abbey Life, 202; Twyman, Lithography. pp.38-9.
SEMINAL TREATISE ON LITHOGRAPHY 256. LITHOGRAPHY. ENGELMANN (Godefroy) Manuel du Dessinateur Lithographe, ou Description des meilleurs moyens à employer pour faire des dessins sur pierre dans tous les genres connus. Suinie d’une instruction sur le nouveau procede du Lavia Lithographique. Chez l’Auteur, Paris.1824. £745 Second Edition, [iv],90,[6]pp., with lithographed half-title, title-page and 13 plates (2 folding, 2 tinted), some slight foxing, text lightly browned, margins cut down, imprint folded, explanation leaf to the plates closely cut text just effecting text, one plate also closely just just effecting image, repair to plate VIII, recent half calf. Second edition of one of the earliest treatises on lithography by the leading printer in France, published two years after the first edition. The work is seminal in the inclusion of the 13 plates illustrative of the drawing equipment and technique, including details of the results of errors in drawing, fixing, or otherwise handling the stone. Bigmore & Wyman I, pp.199-200; Twyman, pp.114.
257. LITHOGRAPHY. HOUBLOUP (L.) Théorie Lithographique, ou Manière Facile d’Apprendre à Imprimer Soi-même; contenant six planches représentant onze sujets. Auguste Imbert & chez l’Auteur, Paris.1825. £545 First Edition, 94 + 2pp., of publishers adverts, 2 folding lithographed plates representative of the 11 topics covered, lightly water tide mark throughout to lower cover, orig. paper wrappers, unopened, uncut. Houbloup’s theory holds an important part in the development of lithography as he simplified the process by selecting planographic printing from simple chalk or ink drawings as the essential part of lithography. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.345; St. Bride’s, p.448.
LITHOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR 258. LITHOGRAPHY. HOUBLOUP (L.) Théorie Lithographique, ou Manière Facile d’Apprendre à Imprimer Soi-même; contenant six planches représentant donze sujets. Chez l’Auteur, en l’Imprimerie Lithographique, Paris.1828. £795 Second Edition, 99,[5]pp., the text entirely in cursive lithographed script, lithographed frontis., and 6 plates, title vignette, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut, a nice copy. Not in Bigmore & Wyman or St. Bride’s.
“The most important English treatise on lithography”—Twyman 259. LITHOGRAPHY. HULLMANDEL (C.) The Art of Drawing on Stone; Giving a Full Explanation of the Various Styles, of the Different Methods to be Employed to Ensure Success, the Modes of Correcting, as well as of the Several Causes of Failure. Published by C. Hullmandel and R. Ackermann.[1824]. £1,250 First Edition, 4to, [ii],xvi,vii,[i],92 + advert leaf, lithographed title with vignette,19 lithographed plates (2 tinted, 2 mounted), some light foxing, orig. lithographed boards, re-hinged, uncut.
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“Describes chalk drawing in particular, with advice on the dabbing style and pen-and-ink style. Also covers transfer work, the preparation of the tint stone, correcting drawings on stone and some of the causes of failure. The plates include examples of all styles, a tinted lithograph (with separate printing of the tint stone), a machine engraving transferred to stone, tools and implements, methods of employing them.... The most important lithographic manual published in England in the first half of the nineteenth-century with the most explicit illustrated insatructions for the artist working in the tonal style.”—Bridson & Wakeman. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 349; Twyman, Lithography, p. 114; Bridson & Wakeman, Printmaking & Picture Printing, D20.
260. LITHOGRAPHY. HULLMANDEL (C.) The Art of Drawing on Stone; Giving a Full Explanation of the Various Styles, the Different Methods to be Employed to Ensure Success, the Modes of Correcting, and the Several Causes of Failure. Published by Longman; and sold by Ackermann; and the Author at his Lithographic Establishment.1835. £395 Second Edition, revised, xv,[i],79,[1]pp., 9 lithographed plates, cont. roan-backed boards, head and foot of spine chipped. First published in 1824, and reissued in 1833. This second edition is revised with a new preface. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 349.
261. LITHOGRAPHY. [LASTEYRIE DU SAILLANT (Count Charles-Philibert de)] Procédé Actuel de la Lithograhie mise à la portée de l’artiste et de l’amateur: ouvrage contenant les différend procédés qu'il est indispensable de suivre pour obtenir un résultat satisfaisant, et à l’aide duquel on peut soi-même, sans le secours de qui que ce soit, mettre au jour totes sortes de productions utiles, ingénieuses et agréables. Delaunay, Paris.1818. £1,200 First Edition, 40pp., large folding lithographed plate, orig. plain wrappers, uncut. A rare and early lithography pamphlet aimed at the artist as well as the amateur. Lasteyrie, who learned the art from Senefelder himself, was very instrumental in the early years of lithography and founded the first commercially successful lithographic printing house in France. Although Lasteyrie lost interest in lithography, he still holds an important place in the history of its development. A wealthy nobleman, Lasteyrie went on to sponsored Engelmann in his lithographic work.
“Charles Philibert de Lasteyrie (1759-1849) had taken an interest in lithography almost from the beginning and was one of the most persistent in his attempts to get established in France... [In 1810] he tried to get Senefolder to bring workmen to Paris in order to establish a press there, but when his plan failed he determined to go to Munich himself and study the process at first hand. When he had made himself familiar with the process, he bought the necessary materials and engaged workmen to return with him to Paris... [His plans to establish] a press in Paris was thwarted by the unsettled state of the capital, and it was not until the close of 1815 that he finally reached his goal and set up a lithographic press in France.”—Twyman. Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850, p.50; Bigmore & Wyman II, p.223; Not in St. Bride’s.
262. LITHOGRAPHY. [RAUCOURT DE CHARLEVILLE (Antoine)] A Manual of Lithography, Clearly Explaining the Whole Art, and the accidents that may happen in Printing, with different methods of avoiding them. To which is added, (now for the first time printed) selections from the work of M. Brégeaut; forming a sequel to the manual, and bringing down the improvements in the art of the present time. Translated from the French, by C. Hullmandel. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman.1832. £295 Third Edition, corrected, xix,117,[3]pp., 2 fold-out lithographed plates, the first containing twelve figures of tools and implements, the second nine figures of printing presses and parts, both plates are lightly water-marked affecting the image, & with 1” marginal tear to vertical fold of each, final leaf includes publisher’s advertisements for two additional titles by Hullmandel; front & back endpapers soiled, with early owner’s signature (L. Stilson) & date on front pastedown, final two blank leaves bit stained, half calf with early marbled paper over boards, red leather label (3x2”) with gilt border & title, “A Manual of Lithography”, & the name “L. Stilson” added to front board; spine worn & rubbed with 1- 1/4” piece missing at head & small label with black “C” at foot; 3” split in front joint; corners, edges & joints worn, paper boards chipped, edges of cover label chipped.
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Hullmandel’s best know work and most influential publication is his book ‘The art of drawing on stone’ which was first published in 1824. But in terms of establishing lithography in Britain, his translation from the French of this treatise by Raucourt de Charleville was probably just as important. This third and final edition contains some important new additions. Colonel Antoine Raucourt was chief engineer at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and ran its in-plant lithographic press. His book was originally published in Toulon in 1819. Hullmandel thought highly of Raucourt’s treatise and wrote in the preface: “The books which have hitherto been published on lithography are very imperfect, and are much more adapted to persons who already understand the art than those who wish to learn it... I have repeatedly wished for a guide to explain the new accidents which occur every instant, and which... appear each time so new and intricate, that the beginner is consequently tempted to give up all hopes of ever succeeding. I am consequently better enabled to appreciate the value of this excellent treatise on lithography, and hesitate not an instant to pronounce it the best work which has ever been published on the art.” Bigmore & Wyman II, p.240; Twyman, pp.110-14.
263. LITHOGRAPHY. SENEFELDER (Alois) A Complete Course of Lithography: Containing Clear and Explicit Instructions in all the Different Branches and Manners of that Art: Accompanied by Illustrative Specimens of Drawings. To Which is Prefixed a History of Lithography, from its Origin to the Present Time. Printed for R. Ackermann.1819. £1,795 First English Edition, 4to, xxviii,[iv],342pp., coloured lithographed frontispiece, portrait and 12 plates (one folding), orig. boards, re-backed with orig. spine laid-down, uncut, a nice copy. The first book published in England on the subject of lithography and one of the most important books on the subject of printing to be published in the nineteenth century. This famous manual of lithography, written by its inventor, was originally published in Munich and Vienna in 1818. The work is in two parts; first relates his travails and disappointments; the second describes the qualities of stone, the preparations to be made, the necessary instruments and utensils, different sorts of paper, presses and so forth. The plates include technical illustrations, a handwriting facsimile, and examples of lithographs in various styles. Bigmore & Wyman, II p.340.
264. LITHOGRAPHY. THURY (Héricart de) Extrait d’un Rapport fait a la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, sur l’Établissement de Lithoglyptique de M. Vallin, Entrepreneur Lithoglypie de ‘Intendance du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne... [Extrait des Annales des Mines, 1820]. Madame Huzard, Paris.1821. £145 9,[1]pp., orig. plain wrappers, unopened, uncut. Not in Bigmore & Wyman, St. Bride’s or Twyman.
265. LOCKER-LAMPSON (Frederick) The Rowfant Library. [With:] An Appendix... of the Books Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters etc. Collected Since the Printing of the First Catalogue in 1886. Bernard Quaritch Ltd; The Chiswick Press.1886-1900. £295 First Editions, large 8vo, one of 150 and 350 copies respectively, etched frontispiece by George Cruikshank, drypoint portrait by George Du Maurier, presentation inscription from an unknown dedicator “For John Fleming some good Bibliophilic reading, you and Locker Lampson would have enjoyed meeting - Shane Leslie will introduce you in the Libraries of Heaven, for Xmas, 1961.”, orig. quarter morocco, a little rubbed, head of spine slightly chipped, cloth lightly stained, uncut, t.e.g. De Ricci 174-75pp., “...unique of its kind. The owner’s object... was to secure the masterpieces (and the masterpieces only) of English Literature, from Chaucer to Swinburne, in the first original edition of each work... At the end of his life Locker added to his English library a foreign section, containing the first editions of Corneille, Racine, Molière, Cervantes and other great Continental writers. These, with other additional purchases, were catalogued in 1900 in an “Appendix” forming a companion volume to The Rowfant Library.”
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WITH THE FINE RARE MEZZOTINT PORTRAIT 266. LOS RIOS (Jean François de) Bibliographie Instructive, ou Notice de quelques Livres rares, Singuliers & difficiles à trouver, avec des Notes historiques, pour connoitre & distinguer les différentes Editions, & leur valeur dans le Commerce... Françcois Seguin, Avignon; l’Auteur, Lyon.1777. £345 First Edition, xvi,207pp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, mezzotint portrait frontis., nineteenth-century paper boards, hinges torn, a nice clean copy. An early bookseller’s catalogue “which, according to the ‘Avertissement’, was written to preserve the notes that De los Rios had made in the course of his business as a bookseller... Being a list of books already sold, the ‘Bibliographie Instructive’ is a very strange variety of catalogue of which I can cite very few examples. More than once De los Rios calls attention to works containing “quelques libertés qui ne plaisent pas à tous les Littérateurs” (p. 97), in other words, to gallant, curious, or pornographic writings, whatever one chooses to call them. Rare as such books ordinarily are, the ‘Bibliothèque’ is one of the few catalogues of rare books to make special mention of this aspect”. — Taylor, Catalogues of Rare Books, pp. 27-32. Each book cited by is priced; classified by subject with extensive annotations, they include the block-book ‘Speculum humanæ salvations’ and the ‘Durandus’ of Fust & Schöffer. Most of the books cited came from the Jesuit library in Lyon which was purchased by De los Rios in 1768. Our copy has the handsome mezzotint of Los Rios which, according to Taylor, is found in only “a few copies”. Besterman 909; Petholdt 83-84.
267. LOWENDAHL (Bjorn) Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology. Disclosed in Western Printed Books 1477-1877. The Catalogue of the Löwendahl - von der Burg Collection. Hua Hin, The Elephant Press.2008. £165 4to, 2 vols., xliv,264; iv,374pp., 8 plates in colour, orig. cloth, d.w’s, in a cloth box. An important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Löwendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
268. LOWRY (Martin) The World of Aldus Manutius. Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice. Cornell University Press.1979. £75 First Edition, viii,350pp., 8 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. This book provides a fascinating and meticulous examination of the life and work of the scholar-printer, Aldus Manutius, by describing his background, outlook, method of business and effect on the intellectual life of his time.
269. LUNN (W.H.) A Catalogue of the Classical Library, Soho Square, London; Containing a very numerous Collection of Greek and Latin Books... [N.p.],[c.1806]. £75 Caption title, 26pp., margins frail and chipped but not effecting text, disbound. Lunn was a distinguished scholarly bookseller, who imported many important continental editions.
270. LUTTRELL PSALTER. BROWN (Michelle P.) The Luttrell Psalter. Commentary by Michelle P. Brown. The Folio Society.2006. £945 2 Vols., 4to, a complete 624 coloured page facsimile edition of the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Additional MS 42130), limited and numbered edition, printed on Swiss-made Furioso paper, bound in blue Nigerian goatskin, spine with label and raised bands, with a design by David Eccles using motifs from the Psalter blocked onto the cover using gold, silver and coloured foils, with the Luttrell coat-of- arms of six martlets argent, covers with bevelled edges, presented together with the commentary volume by Professor Michelle P. Brown in a buckram-bound solander box with a leather title label.
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The Luttrell Psalter is one of the British Library’s supreme treasures. It has more than 600 pages and the delicate task of recreating this masterpiece of English medieval art so accurately into a complete full size facsimile edition has taken well over a year to achieve. Every stage of the production process has been subjected to the greatest attention to detail, from reproducing the subtle effect of fine worked gold and silver that decorate the pages of the manuscript, to finding a modern paper which matches the weight and feel of the original animal skin vellum pages. The volume is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by leading medieval manuscripts expert Michelle P. Brown, which details the history of the manuscript and includes a folio-by-folio description.
PRINTED ON VELLUM 271. [LYNCHE (Richard)] Diella: Certaine Sonnets. By R.L. Gentleman. Printed for Henry Olney, and are to be Sold at his shop in Fleet-streete, neer the Middle-temple Gate. 1596. The Bookworm’s Garner. I. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid.1887. £395 46ff. printed on recto only, one of two copies printed on vellum, each sonnet leaf with woodcut head and tail piece, recent full calf. “Similarities in style and the unusual use of Italian tags and mottoes have led critics to identify the initials R. L. on the title-page of Diella, Certain Sonnets (1596) with Linche”.—(Oxford DNB).
272. McCORISON (Marcus A.) Compiler. Vermont Imprints 1778-1820. A Check List of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester.1963. £35 First Edition, orig. cloth, d.w.
273. MacDONALD (Hugh) & HARGREAVES (Mary) Thomas Hobbes: A Bibliography. Bibliographical Society.1952. £60 First Edition, 6 plates, facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. Collations, locations of copies and bibliographical notes of all editions of works to 1725.
274. MACGEORGE (Bernard B.) Catalogue of the Library of Bernard B. MacGeorge. Printed for Private use. James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow.1906. £145 Small 4to, vi,256pp., endpapers browned, orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g. De Ricci, p. 190. “He had beautiful Blakes, fine copies of all the great English classics and many scarce items in eighteenth-century literature”. The extensive library was disbursed by Sotheby’s in 1924 and brought very high prices.
275. MACGEORGE (Bernard Buchanan) Catalogue of the Well-Known and Valuable Library... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1924. £45 4to, 168pp., coloured frontis., 14 plates (2 folding), prices and buyers’ names in cont. hand, orig. printed wrappers, 1,484 lots. De Ricci, p. 190. “He had beautiful Blakes, fine copies of all the great English classics and many scarce items in eighteenth-century literature”.
276. MACINTOSH (Charles A.) Popular Outlines of the Press, Ancient and Modern: or, a Brief Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Printing, and its Introduction into this Country: with a Notice of the Newspaper Press. Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt.1859. £195 First Edition, half-title, xii,224pp., orig. cloth. Bigmore & Wyman II, p.3.
277. MACKENZIE (John Whitefoord) Catalogue of the Very Extensive and Valuable Library of Rare and Curious Books, of the Late John Whitefoord MacKenzie, Esq., Writer to Her Majesty’s Signet, Edinburgh... It Includes Complete Sets of the Publications of Nearly all the Literary Clubs and Societies... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. T. Chapman & Son. Colston and Company, Printers, Edinburgh.1886. £165 2 Parts in one, [iv],351,[1]; [iv],[353]-558,43,[1]pp., complete with printed price list bound in at rear, numerous press clippings tipped-in, later cloth, 8935 lots.
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Much of Scottish interest, including Burns relics [common-place books, letters, ms. , Kilmarnock Burns [which made 80 guineas,] etc.
278. MACMILLAN AND CO. A Bibliographical Catalogue of Macmillan and Co.’s Publications from 1843 to 1889. Macmillan and Co.1891. £45 First Edition, 715pp., with the Signet Library bookplate, orig. buckram, gilt, a.e.g. Contains a catalogue of all the books published by Macmillan and Co. from 1843 to 1889 inclusive. The titles and collations have been taken from copies of the first edition of every book except in a few instances, in which the deviation from the rule has always been noted.
279. MAGGS BROS. Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World. Vol. 1-5. A Descriptive Catalogue. Maggs Bros.1942-1962. £495 5 Vols., numerous plates, general indices to each volume, orig. buckram, spines gilt with two contrasting morocco labels. A highly regarded reference work. The prices maybe out of date but the valuable annotations are timeless, making this a most valuable work of reference.
280. MAIDMENT (James) Catalogue of the Extensive, Curious, and Valuable Library of the Late James Maidment, Esq.... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. T. Chapman & Son... Edinburgh... on Tuesday, April 27th, and Fourteen Following Lawful Days... Colston & Son, Edinburgh.[1880]. £165 Large 8vo, [iv],288pp., a very good ex-library copy, several prices added in a cont. hand, with the bookplate of George Dempster and Newcastle University Library, half calf, rubbed, 5059 lots. Sale catalogue of the enthusiastic Scottish antiquary (1795-1879), friend of Sir Walter Scott, author or editor of numerous publications. The sale occurred on fifteen ‘lawful days’ and included many works of Scottish history and genealogy; the most important item in the sale was lot 3,725, simply described as ‘Scottish Topographical Collections’ which in fact consisted of 100 volumes of papers, archives, tracts, and pamphlets arranged according to county, it sold for £210.0. From the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York.
281. MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE. Catalogue of the Library at Kevington St. Mary Cray, Kent. 1892. £275 Large 4to, title printed in red and black, 84pp., of manuscript entries written on one side of each page, with the signature of Cecil Berens on the title, cont. brown morocco, slightly rubbed, ornate gilt borders on covers, gilt lettering on upper cover, all edges gilt.
282. MARROT (H.V.) A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy. Elkin Mathews & Marrot.1928. £45 First Edition, one of 210 numbered copies signed by John Galsworthy, frontis., portrait, 1 coloured plate by Max Beerbohm, facsimiles, orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g. d.w. slightly torn.
283. MARSDEN (William) Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica et Orientalis: A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View to the General Comparison of Languages, and to the Study of Oriental Literature. Printed by J.L. Cox.1827. £895 First Edition, 4to, [ii],308,[4]pp., occasional spotting, orig. boards, lightly stained, re-backed. William Marsden (1754-1836), distinguished oriental scholar. Born in Verval, co. Wicklow, Ireland, the son of a shipping merchant and banker. At the tender age of 16 he obtained a civil service appointment with the East India Company and was sent to Benkulen, Sumartra, in 1771.
After eight years’ service abroad, he resigned his East India Company position and returned to England, and later held a post in the Admiralty. He soon became acquainted with Sir Joseph Banks and the leading literary men of the day, and was elected a member of the Royal Society and other learned bodies.
Marsden presented his collection of over 3400 oriental coins to the British Museum in 1834 and his library of
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books and manuscripts to King’s College, in 1835.
His publications include: ‘History of Sumatra’, 1783, ‘Dictionary of the Malayan Language’, 1812 & ‘Grammar of the Malayan Language’, 1812.
284. [MARSHALL (Robert G.)] Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in Italy and of Books in Italian Printed Abroad 1501-1600. Held in Selected North American Libraries. (Reprint of the 1970 Edition) 2001. £125 3 Vols., small 4to, x,679; [ii],662; [iv],613pp., orig. cloth. “This Short-Title Catalog was compiled to provide students and scholars with a reference work of books Printed in Italy and Italian books printed abroad during the sixteenth century [1501-1600]. It was decided that this catalog should follow the general format of the British Museum Short-Title Catalogue of Italian Books, 1465-1600. Each contributing library checked its holdings of Italian 16th century books against the BM-STC. Like the BM-STC, this book is an author catalog, with a publisher and printer index.” — Preface. There are approximately 12,000 books cited, making this one of the most comprehensive catalogues on the subject.
285. MASSON (Sir Irvine) The Mainz Psalters and Canon Missae 1457-1459. The Bibliographical Society.1954. £40 First Edition, folio, with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, 6 folding plates, 8 tables on 6 folding leaves, orig. cloth-backed boards, hinges slightly torn, uncut.
286. MAUL (Johannes) Deutsche Bucheinbände der Neuzeit. Eine Sammlung Ausgeführter Arbeiten Aus Deutschen Werkstätten... Mit 40 Lichtdrucktafeln Und 2 Farbenbeilagen... Unter Mitwirkung von Hans Friedel, Architect in Leipzig. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig.1888. £625 Folio, [xii], 2ff containing 48 mounted specimens of binding leather in different colours, 40 photolithograph plates, front inner hinge shaken, orig. half cloth over paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, small nick to upper hinge otherwise a nice copy. The large and detailed plates show binding executed by the leading German binders of the day. Each item is described with reference to owner, binder, format and a detailed technical description of the binding, usually with reference to the leather colour used - as shown in the numbered mounted samples. An excellent overview of German de-luxe bookbinding of the period.
287. MELZI (Gaetano) PASSANO (G.B.) & ROCCO (R.) Dizionario di Opere Anonime e Aseudonime di Scrittori Italiani o come che sia aventi Relazione all’Italia. [With:] Supplemento. Arnaldo Forni Editore.(Reprint of the 1848-1888 Edition) 1982. £175 4 Vols., 482; 484; 701; 518,16pp., orig. cloth. The standard reference for Italian works of published anonymously from the 16th to the 19th century, this reprint also includes the supplement by Passano & Rocco.
288. MENDELSSOHN (Sidney) Mendelssohn’s South African Bibliography. Being the Catalogue Raisonné of the Mendelssohn Library of Works Relating to South Africa, Including the Full Titles of the Books, with Synoptical, Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical Notes on the Volumes and their Authors... Kegan Paul.1910. £145 First Edition, 2 vols., lxxii1008; [viii],1139pp., frontispieces, 24 plates, orig. cloth. The standard and best-known retrospective South African reference work.
289. MICHON (Louis-Marie) Les Reliures Mosaïquées du XVIIIe Siècle. Société de la Reliure Originale, Paris.1956. £375 Small 4to, 125pp., one of 500 copies, coloured frontis., 45 plates (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut, slip-case. “Excellent study of French eighteenth century inlaid bindings... comprising a census of all such bindings known at the time.” — Breslauer, Uses of Bookbinding Literature. p. 21.
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290. MILWARD-OLIVER (Edward) Len Deighton: An Annotated Bibliography 1954-1985. With a Foreword by Julian Symons. The Sammler Press.1985. £35 First Edition, 64pp., of one 375 copies signed by Deighton, orig. cloth, d.w. a nice copy.
291. MONTPENSIER MANUSCRIPT. The Montpensier Manuscript. Four Devotional Treatises Written for Anne d’Orléans Duchesse de Montpensier Called “La Grande Mademoiselle”. Red Morocco, Richly Gilt, Bound by Boyet Enclosed in a Coffre by Boulle. [Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press.1905]. £175 Folio, iv,24pp., 2 fine chromolithographed plates framed in gilt, margin tear to one leaf, orig. cloth, uncut. This account was printed for Pearson & Co. in 50 copies, it was purchased by Pierpont Morgan in ca. 1911; the MS. is now M.21 in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
292. MORANTI (Luigi) Le Cinquecentine della Biblioteca Universitaria di Urbino. Leo S. Olschki, Florence.1977. £65 3 Vols., large 8vo, xxix,514; [ii],515-1072; [ii],1073-1603pp., orig. printed wrappers, uncut. 3,673 items described with full collations.
A COMPLETE SET 293. MORRISON (Alfred) Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Formed Between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison. Compiled and Annotated under the Direction of A.W. Thibaudeau. [First-Second Series]. Printed for Private Circulation.1883-1897. £1,250 13 Vols., first series consists of 6 folio volumes, second series consisting of 7 octavo volumes, limited to 200 sets, 166 photographic plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, slightly rubbed, labels of the Hamilton & Nelson volumes are chipped, otherwise a very nice set. “From about 1865 until his death Morrison assembled what the Historical Manuscripts Commission described as ‘the most remarkable gathering of historical autographs ever formed by a single private collector in Great Britain’ (Ninth Report, HMC, 2.406–93). He searched for the finest specimens, using as his agent A. W. Thibaudeau of Green Street, Leicester Square, and his collection was remarkable in the number of letters it contained both from and to prominent persons. Major individual items—of which the last letter of Mary, queen of Scots, now in the National Library of Scotland, is an important example—were complemented by groups such as 111 letters from Admiral Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, with her replies, and the papers of Sir Richard Bulstrode. A six-volume folio Catalogue, compiled initially under Thibaudeau’s direction, was privately printed in an edition of 200 copies between 1883 and 1892: it is notable for its facsimiles of especially important items. A second series, in smaller format, followed, with three volumes on the general collection, A–D (1893–6), two on the Hamilton and Nelson papers (1893–4), one on the Blessington papers (1895), and a first volume (1897), covering the years 1667 to 1675, devoted to the Bulstrode papers.”—(Oxford DNB). De Ricci, p.188.
294. MORSE (Robert) A Catalogue of the Extensive and Choice Collection of Prints, Formed by the Late Robert Morse... Sold by Auction, by Mr. Thomas Dodd... On Wednesday, May 15, 1816, & Twenty-seven Following Days. [Smith & Davy, Printers]. 1816. vii,[i],191,[1]pp., title-page and text browned, margins worn, 3,602 lots. [Bound with:] A Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of Books, of Robert Morse... Sold by Auction, by Mr. Thomas Dodd... On Thursday, 20th of June, 1816, and Seven Following Days. [Smith and Davy, Printers].1816. £75 [ii],47,[1]pp., title-page and text browned, margins worn, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, 1,608 lots.
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295. MOSS (Joseph William) A Manual of Classical Bibliography: Comprising a Copious Detail of the Various Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, and of the Critical and Philological Works Published in Illustration of them, with an Account of the Principal Translations, into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. Henry G. Bohn.1837. £95 Second Edition, 2 vols., vii,[74] supplement,544; ii,729,[2]pp., orig. cloth, hinges split but still holding, orig. printed paper label on spine chipped, uncut. Second, and best, edition of Moss’s important bibliography of the classics.
296. MUNBY (A.N.L.) Floreat Bibliomania. [Rampant Lions Press], Cambridge.1953. £50 Small 8vo, [iv],10,[2]pp., one of 200 copies privately printed for Philip Hofer by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, orig. black card covers with orig. printed label on the front.
297. MUNBY (A.N.L.) Book-Collectors: Preservers of the Humanities. The Rasmussen Press, Orange, California.1976. £38 32pp., illustrs., number 51 of 200 copies privately printed “for ye Roxburghe-Zamorano meeting of 1976 by Bill Rasmussen” and signed by him, inscription in ink on free front endpaper, orig. cloth. A reprint of Munby’s essay “Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors; An Essay”, which was originally published in 1948.
298. MYERSON (Joel) Editor. Emerson and Thoreau: The Contemporary Reviews. Cambridge University Press.1992. £35 xxviii,450pp., orig. cloth. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
299. NAPIER (Alexander) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell... [With:] Johnsoniana... George Bell and Sons.1884. £95 5 Vols., Sir Edward Gosse’s copy with his bookplate in each volume, orig. numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, soiled, lower hinge to vol. 1 part split, one or two small nicks to head of spines, uncut. Pottle, p.189. “This edition was handsomely printed [at the Chiswick Press], with many useful and beautiful illustrations.”
300. NEEDHAM (Paul) Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.1979. £75 First Edition, 4to, xxvii,338pp., coloured frontis., 100 bindings described with 100 plates ( 6 coloured), orig. pictorial wrappers. This volume traces the history of bookbinding, from its beginnings to the end of the sixteenth century, through detailed consideration of one hundred important examples in The Pierpont Morgan Library, whose collection is world-renowned.
301. NEWCASTLE (Seventh Duke of) The Clumber Library. Catalogue of the Magnificent Library, the Property of the Late Seventh Duke of Newcastle Removed from Clumber, Worksop, and Sold by Order of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Lincoln. The First [-Fourth] Portion. Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby & Co... on Monday, the 21st June, 1937 [- 1938]. Sotheby & Co.1937-38. £165 4 Parts in one, 4to, from the library of Bernard Breslauer, partly priced and with some buyers’ names, 11 coloured plates, 97 monochrome (some folding), printed wrappers bound-in, crimson half morocco, 1,412 lots. The preface notes that “The books and manuscripts from Clumber, the most important to appear at auction in this country since the Holford sales nearly ten years ago, are probably less well known to collectors than any library of similar consequence.” The fourth Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) apparently was principally responsible for the
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formation of the library, which included a First Folio. Lot 1 was the prize of the sale: the Hours of Isabel of Brittany, otherwise known as the Lamoignon Hours. The collection’s three Caxtons (lot 10-12) included a fine copy of ‘Reynard the Fox’. Symour de Ricci provided a handlist of the manuscripts in the collection, which was used by Sotheby’s in their preparation of the catalogue.
302. NEWTON (A. Edward) Rare Books, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton Removed from his Home Oak Knoll, Daylesford, Pa. For Public Sale. Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York.1941. £45 4 Vols., (including the prospectus volume), 4to, frontispieces, profusely illustrated, orig. boards, inner hinge broken and endpapers stained to prospectus volume,d.w. 2,003 lots.
303. NEWTON. BABSON COLLECTION. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton and the Material Relating to him in the Babson Institute Library, Babson Park, Mass. With an Introduction by Roger Babson Webber. [With:] Supplement... Compiled by Henry P. Macomber. New York and Babson Park.1950-55. £85 First Edition, 2 vols., large 8vo, xiv,228; [viii],92pp., limited editions of 750 and 450 copies respectively, portrait, 19 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice set.
304. NORTHUP (Clark Sutherland) A Bibliography of Thomas Gray. Yale University Press, New Haven.1917. £45 First Edition, Percy Muir’s copy, orig. cloth, uncut. Scarce.
305. NORTON (Charles Eliot) Illustrated Catalogue of American and English “Men of Letters”. Autograph presentation copies and holograph manuscripts by famous writers…Edward Fitzgerald…William Blake, Mainly from the Library of Charles Eliot Norton of Boston, Massachusetts. To be sold without reserve or restriction by order of Elizabeth Gaskell Norton. The Anderson Galleries, New York.1923. £95 Frontis., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers detached, 318 lots.
PORTRAITS OF PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS 306. NYENHUIS (J.T. Bodel) Liste Alphabétique d’une Petite Collection de Portraits d’Imprimeurs, de Libraires, de Fondeurs de Caractères, et Correcteurs d’Épreuves. [Not Printed for Sale], Leyden.1836-61. £245 6 Parts (of 7), 4to, 8; 24; 16; 29; 21; [vi],28pp., with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, foxing to part i, orig. decorated patterned paper wrappers. “An interesting list of published portraits of printers and publishers, arranged in a tabular form, and giving the date of the birth and the death of the subject, and the painter and engraver of the portraits, with notes as to the ‘pose’, where the picture is preserved. &c. The author’s valuable typographical library, including the collection of portraits described above, was sold, after his death in 1874, by auction, by Mr. Fred. Muller, and the collection of portraits, in one lot, fetched over £100.” — Bigmore & Wyman, II, p.86.
A seventh part of this very scarce privately printed catalogue was published in 1868, but is not present here.
PROOF COPY 307. [O’CASEY (Ian V.) & MANEY (A.S.)] The Nature and Making of Papyrus. Ashling Press, Saxton.1972. £95 Large 8vo, xvi,69,[3]pp., , proof presentation copy signed by Maney, one sample of genuine papyrus, specially hand-bound in Nigerian goatskin, with buckram sides, three small marks on upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. A unique proof copy printed the year before the first edition was issued. With chapters on the papyrus plant, papyrus rolls and codices, scribes and papyri, making papyrus sheets: ancient and modern techniques, practical sheet-making & the future of papyrus.
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308. OATES (J.C.T.) & HARMER (L.C.) Vocabulary in French and English. A Facsimile of Caxton’s Edition c. 1480. Cambridge University Press.1964. £145 4to, xxxv,[i]pp., followed by 49 facsimile plates, with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, orig. quarter red morocco, spine gilt. The copy of the work from which this facsimile has been made was acquired by H.P. Kraus at auction in 1960. It was immediately offered to the Cambridge University Library in exchange for one of the Library’s two imperfect copies of Caxton’s edition of ‘The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy’. The Library Syndicate, who are empowered by the Ordinances of the University to sell or exchange duplicate books, accepted this proposal.
309. OFFICINA BODONI. BARDUZZI (Bernardino) A Letter in Praise of Verona [1489]. In the Original Latin Text with an English Translation by Betty Radice. [Officina Bodoni], Verona.1974. £245 4to, 58pp., one of 150 numbered copies, translated into English by Hans Schmoller, quarter vellum and blue Roma paper sides with woodcut pattern in white, uncut, t.e.g. slip-case slightly sunned, a nice copy. Barduzzi’s letter was printed in May 1489 by Paulus Fridenperger, Verona’s last fifteenth-century printer, and is one of the rarest Veronese incunables. Mardersteig & Schmoller 190.
310. OLDHAM (J. Basil) Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, Catalogue Raisonne. Illustrated Mainly from Photographs by the Late P.W. Pilcher. Printed for the Librarian of Shrewsbury School at the University Press, Oxford.1943. £425 First Edition, 4to, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author, coloured frontis., 62 plates, orig. white buckram spine with red buckram sides, uncut. The library was founded in 1596, and contained a remarkable range of 15th- and 16th-century English bindings in stamped calf, mostly in brilliant condition, nearly 260 of the bindings are described in detail by the school librarian, Mr Oldham, and 87 of them are reproduced; more than 330 rubbings of binders’ tools are classified and illustrated on 19 plates. The descriptions are followed by a discussion of the work of each bindery, and a list is given of all known examples from the more important. Nearly all the well known English binders are represented in the library. This is much more than the catalogue of a particular collection, it provides registers a material advance in the study of early English bookbindings.
311. OLDHAM (J. Basil) English Blind-Stamped Bindings. Cambridge University Press.1952. £110 First Edition, folio, xiii,[i],72,[2]pp., one of 750 copies, 61 full-page plates, orig. buckram, leather label on spine, d.w. slightly defective. An important fully-illustrated account covering English 15th, 16th and 17th Century blind-stamped bindings.
312. OLDHAM (J. Basil) Blind Panels of English Binders. Cambridge University Press.1958. £110 First Edition, folio, 56 pages of text followed by 67 plates, orig. buckram, leather label on spine, frayed d.w. Contains general discussion and detailed descriptions of panels.
313. OMONT (Henri) Miniatures des plus Anciens Manuscrits Grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale du XIe au XIVe Siècle. Honoré Champion, Paris.1929. £295 Folio, [iv],viii,66pp., presentation inscription on upper cover “For Dr. [Giuseppe] Martini with the compliments and gratitude of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1930”, 136 plates, orig. printed boards, re-backed with the orig. spine laid-down, uncut.
314. ORLÉANS. L’université et la Typographie. Exposition Organisée par la Archéologique et Historique de l’Orléanais. H. Herluison, Orléans.1885. £42 First Edition, Large 8vo, xii,94,[2]pp., coloured frontis., plates and facsimiles (some folding), cloth- backed boards, uncut.
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315. OSLER (Sir William) Bibliotheca Osleriana. A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected, Arranged, and Annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. and Bequeathed to McGill University. McGill-Queen’s University Press.(Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1969. £85 4to, xlii,792pp., with a new prologue, addenda and corrigenda, orig. cloth. Particularly valuable for its annotations.
316. OSMONT (J.B.L.) Dictionnaire Typographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares, Singuliers, Estimes et Recherches en tous Genres... Chez Lacombe, Paris.1768. £145 First Edition, 2 vols., xii,515,[1]; [iv],456,[4]pp., with half-titles, several ornamental head & tail-pieces, stamps of Merton House Library on verso of titles, recent blue cloth, maroon & gilt leather spine label, red speckled edges. There are over 700 works listed, many with prices fetched for them on the open market and at particular auctions. Points are given for recognizing the best editions and several “Anecdotes historiques, critiques & interessantes”.
This book “had a large share in determining the character of the later French catalogues of rare books... Osmont’s title suggests his preface states clearly that he was making a list of choice books suitable for a good private library as well as a list of rare books.” (Taylor, Catalogues of Rare Books).
Osmont was helped in his compilation by Barthelemy Mercier, Librarian of the abbey of Ste.-Genevieve, and Albert Francois Floncel, the royal censor and owner of a large library of Italian books.
317. PADWICK (E.M.) Compiler. A Bibliography of Cricket. Library Association.1984. £85 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, 877pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The standard bibliography of Cricket.
318. PÁL (Gulyás) A Könyvnyomtatás Magyarországon a XV. és XVI. Században. Müzeum Barátainak Egyesülete, Budapest.1931. £150 First Edition, folio, [viii],272pp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, 68 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. buckram.
319. PANSIER (P.) Histoire du Livre de l’Imprimerie a Avignon du XIVme au XVIme Siècle. Aubanel Frères, Avignon.1922 £95 First Edition, 3 vols., vi,206; 190; 213,[2]pp., frontispieces, front end-paper to vol. one loose, head on spine of vol. one defective, cont. quarter red morocco, rubbed, marbled boards, uncut. Incorporated is a bibliography of books printed at Avignon 1497 - end of the sixteenth century. Also deals extensively with manuscripts, scribes, illuminators, and bookselling during the later Middle Ages.
320. PARRISH (M.L.) with the assistance of Barbara Kelsey Maun. Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes. First Editions (with a few Exceptions) in the Library at Dormy House, Pine Valley, New Jersey, Described with Notes. Constable and Company Ltd.1936. £195 First Edition, 4to, only 150 numbered copies printed, 27 full page reproductions of titles, bindings, autograph letters, etc. orig. cloth, unopened, uncut, d.w. a nice copy. With full bibliographical descriptions of all important early editions of the works of Kingsley and Hughes in the Parrish collection, now at Princeton University Library. This book remains the only bibliography of these two important Victorian authors.
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THE SECOND ENGLISH BOOK DEVOTED WHOLLY TO BOOKBINDING 321. [PARRY (Henry)] The Art of Bookbinding: Containing a Description of the Tools, Forwarding, Gilding and Finishing, Stationary Binding, Edge-Colouring, Marbling, Sprinkling, &c., &c. Published by Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy.1818. £2,995 First Edition, small 8vo, [iv],iv,92pp., woodcut frontispiece (offset), woodcut vignette on title page, marbled endpapers, cont. half calf, marbled boards, upper hinge expertly repaired, spine gilt with green morocco label, a nice copy. Pollard & Potter, Early Bookbinding Manuals. 93. “The authors name, Henry Parry, appears on the printed boards, but not on the title-page. It seems likely that he was the same Henry Parry to whom the Oswestry book of 1811 was registered, though the 1818 manual is substantially a different book. It contains a much more adequate description of the forwarding processes; and, while the recipes for colouring edges and sprinkling leather come largely from the Oswestry book, they do not follow its wording...”.
This, the second English book devoted wholly to bookbinding, is a far scarcer book than the Oswestry manual of 1811.
322. PASTELOT (Alex.) Aux Imprimeurs Parisiens la France Reconnaissante. Journées des 27, 28 et 29 Juillet 1830. Poesie Nationale. Libraires du Palais-Royal, Paris.1830. £95 7,[1]pp., some light foxing, orig. yellow printed wrappers with ornate border. This poem in praise of the Parisian printers appears to be totally unrecorded.
323. PASTONCHI FACE. Pastonchi. A Specimen of a New Letter for use on the Monotype. Printed at the Officina Bodoni for the Lanston Monotype Corporation.1928. £245 First Edition, 4to, 72pp., one of 200 copies printed by hand on special Fabriano paper, numerous specimens of Pastonchi face, orig. half vellum, marbled boards, uncut. Composed and printed according to the design of Hans Mardersteig at the Vero Nese Press of Arnoldo Mondadori by the Officina Bodoni.
EDINBURGH BOOKSELLER 324. PATON (George) Catalogue of a Very Valuable Collection of Books, Being the Library of the Late Mr. George Paton, of the Customs, Edinburgh. Containing a Number of Very Rare and Curious Articles, Many of them Printed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries... To be Sold by Auction, in Ross’ Saleroom, No. 63 South-Bridge Street, on Monday 27th February, 1809 and Twenty-Three Following Lawful Evenings... Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart.1809. £595 [ii],106pp., interleaved throughout, with prices and buyers names supplied in a neat cont. hand, orig. half calf, rebacked, marbled sides. Paton, George (1721-1807), antiquary and bibliographer. George came from an important Edinburgh family of booksellers and printers. "His father had acted as agent for the Advocates' Library and St Andrews University Library in demanding from Stationers' Hall books that they were entitled to claim under the Copyright Act of 1710, and his grandfather had supplied books to the Advocates' Library in the 1680s and printed its first catalogue in 1692… he entered his father's bookselling business; imprints show that he was certainly a bookseller in the 1750s. About 1760 the Patons were unable to meet a debt and their business failed, and after 1760 George Paton earned a living as a clerk at the custom house in Edinburgh… Paton was a compulsive collector… neither he nor his father would sell a volume that they desired to add to their collection…". (ODNB). This auction catalogue of his library consists of 2871 lots, with prices and buyers names, which realised £1358 9s. 4d.
Copac locating the National Library of Scotland & Ashmolean copies only.
325. PATON (Lucy Allen) Selected Bindings from the Gennadius Library. Thirty-Eight Plates in Colour. With Introduction and Descriptions. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Cambridge, Mass.1924. £275 4to, vii,33pp., one of 300 numbered copies, followed by 38 fine chromolithography plates, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy.
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326. PERRY (James) A Catalogue of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late James Perry, Esq. Containing an Extraordinary Assemblage of Rare and Curious Books in Every Department of Literature; But Particularly in Early English Poetry, Literature, and History... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... [London].1822-23. £445 4 Parts in one, [ii],96; [ii],47; [ii],53,[1]; [ii],29,[1]pp., some light foxing, cont. half calf, marbled sides, hinges cracked, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. A substantial library of 5,847 lots particularly strong in early English literature. The sale took place over 27 days and realised a total of £7,400.
327. PHILLIPPS (Sir Thomas) Bibliotheca Phillippica. Mediaeval (and Oriental) Manuscripts. New Series Parts 1-11 [Complete]. [Sold with:] Bibliotheca Phillippica. New Series Parts 1-20 [Complete]. Sotheby’s.1965-1977. £295 31 Vols., 4to, numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. boards and printed wrappers. A complete set of all 31 “New Series” sales, dispersed by order of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust, of this unparalleled collection, the like of which will never be repeated.
A COMPLETE SET 328. PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY. Philobiblon Society. Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies. Printed by Charles Whittingham.1855-84. £1,695 15 vols., [all published], small 4to, limited to a small number of sets, printed by the Whittinghams on a fine quality wove paper with very wide margins, Sylvain van der Weyer’s set, orig. cloth, a few spines with repairs to head and foot, but overall a very good set of this rare journal of a book collectors society. The Philobiblon Society, named from the famous book of Richard de Bury, was a society of book collectors. It was founded in 1853 by Richard Monckton Milnes and William Sterling, with the aid and advice of Sylvain van der Weyer, the Belgian Minister in London. On its conception it consisted of thirty-five distinguished members, although this number varied over the years.
New members were elected by ballot and had to subscribe to its rules, the foremost of which were that “the Society will print, once or twice a year, as may be found practicable, a volume of Biographical Miscellanies which shall consist of Notices and Analyses of Rare or Curious Books or Manuscripts; unpublished Documents and Letters; Biographical Sketches of Persons connected with Literature, from original sources; Typographical Curiosities, Illumination and illustration of books; Researches into the Connection of Literature with the Fine Arts; Information respecting the Value, Sales and Publication of Rare Books and the Contents of Peculiar, Dispersed, or hitherto Unnoticed Collections; Accounts of the Productions of Private Presses; Any matter especially interesting to lovers and collectors of Books; And the Transactions of the Society”.
The society regularly held elaborate breakfast parties where members would display and discuss treasures from their libraries. “The membership of the Society always comprised several elements—noblemen with important family libraries like the Duke of Hamilton, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Bath, Lord Elleswere and Lord Powys; pure scholars like William Stirling, Edward Cheney and the Northamptonshire bibliographer Beriah Botfield; men of letters like Milman and Monckton Milnes; painters like Sir Charles Eastlake; travellers like Richard Ford and Robert Curzon, and erudite publishers, chiefly represented by John Murray and Thomas Longman.”—Pope- Hennessy. Pope-Hennessy, Monckton Milnes. Vol. II, p.41.
329. PICKERING & CHATTO. A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books; Being a Portion of the Stock of and Offered for Sale by Pickering & Chatto. Pickering & Chatto.1896. £45 [ii],518pp., inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, printed paper label slightly chipped. A mammoth catalogue of 5,636 items from the stock of this renowned firm of London booksellers.
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330. PICKERING (William) Catalogue of the First [-Fourth] Portion of the Extensive Collection of Valuable Books, Formed by Mr. William Pickering, of Piccadilly, Bookseller... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... J. Davy & Sons.1854- 55. £395 4 Parts in one, [ii],104; [ii],261,[1]; [ii],227,[1]; [ii],66pp., the first two parts are priced with buyers names in a cont. hand, cont. half calf, re-cased, 9851 lots. After a successful career as a publisher and bookseller, “the year 1845, however, saw the beginning of a financial crisis, due partly to the high cost of some publications, and heavy purchasing. Thornthwaite claimed he was owed £19,000, but Pickering denied owing such a sum and, instead of having a sale to pay part of the debt, he allowed the matter to go to court, a decision which resulted in bankruptcy on 9 May 1853. After his death, however, the sales of his stock enabled all his debts to be paid in full.”—(Oxford DNB).
331. PLOUGH PRESS. WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) English Hand Made Papers Suitable for Bookwork. The Plough Press, Loughborough.1972. £625 Folio, 76 leaves, of which 41 are printed in black and various colours on different hand-made papers, one of 75 numbered copies, frontispiece leaf, made by Wookey Hole Mill, watermarked with a picture of a vatman, handset in Bembo, with display in Stevens Shanks Extra Ornamented and Figgins Shaded, orig. green cloth, spine lettered in gold, uncut. “This book sets out to provide a record of all the book papers being made by hand in England which are readily available for sale.” — Introduction.
332. POLAIN (M.-Louis) Catalogue des Livres Imprimés au Quinzième Siècle des Bibliothèques de Belgique. [With the Supplement]. Société des Bibliophiles & Tulkens, Brussels.1932-1978. £245 5 Vols., 4to, xxx,772; [iv],748; [iv],794; [iv],645; xii,615pp., facsimiles, cloth, supplement in orig. printed wrappers. An indispensable work of reference on incunabula.
333. [POLLARD (A.W.] Facsimiles from Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Selected Pages from Representative Specimens of the Early Printed Books of Germany, Italy, France, Holland, and England, Exhibited in the King’s Library. British Museum.1897. £50 First Edition, folio, [viii],8pp., 32 facsimiles, loose in orig. cloth-backed boards as issued. A study of early typography, comprising thirty-six facsimiles on thirty-two plates, ranging in date from block- books executed probably about 1450 to the edition of Frezzi’s ‘Quatriregio’ printed in Florence in 1508.
334. POOR (Henry W.) Catalogue of the Library of Henry W. Poor. Part I [-V]. Masterpieces of Printing; Illuminated and other Manuscripts; English Literature of the Elizabethan and Later Periods; A Rare Collection of the English Authors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Illustrated and Extra-Illustrated Books; Association Books of Remarkable Interest; Rare and Artistic Book-bindings; Americana; Autographs and Private Book-Club Publications. The Anderson Auction Company, New York.1908-09. £395 5 Parts bound in one, viii,194; vi,146; vi,134; iv,112; iv,170pp., coloured frontispiece to each part, numerous plates and facsimiles, red buckram, spine lettered in gilt. A magnificent library sold in some 5423 lots. “In 1908, when Poor’s financial structure collapsed, Arthur Swann of the Anderson Auction Company prepared a sumptuous sale catalog calculated to pull large bids out of sensitive buyers. The plan worked and the sale was a success. Walter T. Wallace bought some of the English literature, but a new collector, Henry E. Huntington, took away most of the prizes. With the irrepressible bookdealer George D. Smith leading the way, Huntington managed to capture almost one-third of the Poor library. For Poor this was the end, but for Huntington it was just the beginning.”—Dickinson, American Book Collectors.
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335. POTTLE (Frederick Albert) The Literary Career of James Boswell, Esq. Being the Bibliographical Materials for a Life of Boswell. Oxford University Press.(Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1967. £55 xliv,335pp., frontis., facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. Pottle’s bibliography remains a useful scientific study of the course of Boswell’s literary career.
336. PRAZ (Mario) Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome.1964. £85 Second Edition, considerably increased, large 8vo, 607pp., illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. A comprehensive study of 17th-century emblems and devices. The Appendix is a critical bibliography of emblem books, including important earlier books. With detailed bibliographical descriptions.
337. PRICE (Harry) Compiler. Short-Title Catalogue of Works on Psychical Research, Spiritualism, Magic, Psychology, Legerdemain and other Methods of Deception, Charlatanism, Witchcraft, and Technical Works for the Scientific Investigation of Alleged Abnormal Phenomena from Circa 1450 A.D. to 1929 A.D. N.L.P.R.1929. £75 First Edition, [ii],67-422pp., 32 plates, 9 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. Proceeding of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research Vol. 1 part 2. Scarce.
338. PRINTERS RECEIPT & GUARD-BOOK. Receipt book of the Caxton Printing Offices, Leicester, 1818 to 1868; with twelve chapbooks and specimen woodcuts from the firm of John Fowler of Leicester. £1,675 The collection, containing 369 items relating to 50 printing firms, and around 350 specimen woodcuts, was originally housed in a thumb-indexed album, leaf dimensions 43 x 25 cm, but now with spine lacking, covers loose, and leaves disbound in sections and worn at extremities. The receipts and other business items are laid out over fifty-nine of the leaves, six of which have had sections cut away, and the front board. The sample woodcuts are on fifteen leaves at the front of the album. Contemporary foliation indicates the loss of a few leaves. Although there is damage to a handful of items in the collection, the large majority are clear and complete, on aged, worn and spotted paper. Many are cut to size and laid down, while others are tipped in. With its many rare and ephemeral items, the collection has been housed in a custom-made box.
A. Receipt Book
The Leicester firm called towards the end of its existence the Caxton Printing Offices was established, according to its letterhead, in 1816, but probably at least two years before that. The earliest references in this collection give the proprietor’s name as Thomas Gregory (not in BBTI). By 1825 it was in the hands of John Fowler (BBTI, 1812-1845), passing, around 1846, to his eldest son John Smith Fowler (BBTI, 1846-1884). Most of its few publications were of a religious nature, and the Fowlers were clearly dissenters, with the father publishing A Methodist Magazine, conducted by the camp-meeting Methodists, known by the name of Ranters, called also Primitive Methodists, and the younger Fowler being referred to, in the Baptist Earthen Vessel and Christian Record and Review, 1848, as one of two ‘nice tender-hearted believers down at Leicester’. One of John Smith Fowler’s brothers, William, traded in St Martin’s, Leicester, as ‘Son and Successor to the late John Fowler’, ‘General Printer, Bookseller, Stationer, and Book-binder’.
The collection provides a valuable insight into the world of a provincial Victorian printer, trading with leading firms within the British printing trade, both in London and the provinces. It reflects all aspects of the trade, from ink, paper and binding, to the carpentry required for fitting out an office (see Thomas Thornton below). Most of the bills are on printed letterheads and forms, but some are handwritten, often with a signed acknowledgement of receipt of payment, and several with other communications. Also letters, and printed circulars, price lists, and advertisements, some with illustrations of presses (see Clymer & Dixon; Harrild; S. & T. Sharwood; Sherwin, Cope & Co). Many of the letterheads are interesting example of Victorian graphic design, exhibiting the care one would expect from members of the printing trade. For example, John Gilton of Liverpool advertises his printing
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inks (‘in every variety of colour’) on a letterhead in green and red, ‘Printed with Gilton & Co.’s Magenta Ink at 30s.’ (‘Inks prepared for foreign climates.’); and the engraver Thomas Greaves showcases his skill with an elaborate calligraphic design, while O. Jewitt heads his bill with a woodcut of his house and garden, within a floral border.
A couple of items of correspondence, responding to contested bills, indicate a contentious streak in the younger Fowler. ‘[W]e wish to meet you as fair as possible’, the firm of Caslon informs him in 1868. The collection also gives hints of the change in the economic climate. ‘Times are not very good, but I think you are disposed to make them worse’, Thoms writes in 1844; and in 1868 Rowland Wood of Austin Wood & Co, writes: ‘I hope that trade has so revived, that you have abandoned the idea of parting with such a nice compact Office’.
B. Twelve chapbooks and specimen woodcuts
The examples are laid down over twenty-nine pages, on fifteen leaves of the album. Three of the leaves are incomplete, with small sections cut or torn away, resulting in damage or loss to a few examples. As with the other part of the collection, there is damage or wear to a number of items, but the collection as a whole, though aged, is in fair condition. Each group of examples carries a numbered annotation next to it on the album page. The numbering runs from 14 to 158. In manuscript at head of first page: ‘No 1 to 13 are 13 Pages of Fowlers 4th. Edition Reading Easy (6d.)’.
A wide range of attractive illustrations, with a variety of accompanying letterpress, ranging from a ‘Multiplication Table’ to a broadside with poem and illustration of six Leicester churches. Present are a 12mo advertisement for 71 ‘School Pieces, sold by J. Fowler, Printer, Book-seller, Stationer, &c. Opposite Messrs. Pares & Co.’s Bank, Leicester.’ and a printed label for an item from ‘John Fowler’s Circulating Library, St. Martin’s, Leicester.’ Also present are eighteen 12mo handbills, each on coloured paper, and each with slug ‘J. Fowler, Printer, Leicester.’ Each handbill carries a large cut and letterpress. The topics are as follows: St. Mary’s Church, Melton-Mowbray; Leicester Market-Place; The Bull-Dog; The Cameleopard (damaged); The Cockatoo; The Fox; The Lion; The Owl; The Panther; The Tiger; The Parrot; The Peacock; Hannibal to His Soldiers; The Stork; The Tower of Babel; The Zebra; The Goat; The Ass. Also a picture of ‘Hogg the Clown’, two execution scenes, a pillory scene, a ‘Lottery Picture’ containing 96 illustrations, and 12mo ‘Directions for Writing’ on pink paper.
Of particular interest is the presence of twelve ‘Half-penny Books Sold by J. Fowler, Leicester’, none of these chapbooks being listed on COPAC. A complete set, according to an advertisement under the heading ‘Horse and Gig’ (Fowler’s shop sign?). All twelve pages of each of the twelve items are laid down. Each title carries the imprint ‘LEICESTER: | Printed and Sold by J. Fowler. | Price One Half-penny.’ The titles are as follows:
The History of an Apple Pie A New Riddle Book, for Little Boys and Girls Cock Robin’s Death and Burial The Good Child’s Picture Book The Cries of London Old Dame Trot and her Comical Cat The House that Jack Built Jack & Jill, and Old Dame Gill The Life of Jack Sprat, His Wife, And His Cat Little Red Riding Hood Mother Hubbard and Her Dog Tom the Piper’s Son
A full list will be sent on request or may be viewed at: www.forestbooks.co.uk/338printers.htm
339. PRINTING. Magasins Spéciaux pour la Librairie, la Papeterie l’Imprimerie la Fonderie, la Gravure et les Autres Industries qui s’y Rattachent; Avenue de Saxe, No. 42, et rue Pérignon, No. 4. Agréés par le sous-comptoir du Commerce et de l’Industrie. [Ad. Lainé et J. Havard, Paris].1864. £55 14,[2]pp., orig. printed wrappers, small piece of blank margin of lower wrapper torn away. No other copy located.
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340. PROTHERO (G.W.) A Memoir of Henry Bradshaw. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.1888. £50 First Edition, [xii],447pp., with the bookplate of John William Willis Bund, frontis., 1 facsimile letter, orig. cloth.
341. PUBLISHING. Hints and Directions for Authors in Writing, Printing and Publishing their Works. Edward Bull.1842. £145 [viii],56 + 16pp., of publisher’s adverts, inner hinge shaken, orig. embossed cloth, a little faded and stained, title stamped in gilt on upper cover. A practical guide with a few historical observations, and illustrations of type size and proof correction. With a footnote by the publisher, who obviously inspired if not actually wrote the text, offering to publish an author’s works directly.
342. QUINBY (Jane) & STEVENSON (Allan) Compilers. Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. New York.(Reprint of the 1958 Edition) 1991.£85 3 Vols., in 2, 4to, limited to 400 sets, frontis., 24 plates, orig. cloth. Vol. 1. Printed Books 1477-1700 with several manuscripts of the 12th, 15th, 16th & 17th centuries. Vol. 2. Part 1. Introduction to Printed Books 1701-1800. Vol. 2. Part 2. Printed Books 1701-1800.
343. QUINN (John) The Library of John Quinn: Part One [-Five]. The Anderson Galleries, New York.1923-24. £75 5 Parts in one, [vi],634; [ii],635-1205,[1]pp., plus list of prices realised, numerous plates, orig. cloth. Quinn, an Irish-American lawyer, assembled a remarkable collection of modern authors. One area of its strength was Conrad; the other was Irish or Anglo-Irish authors, where Quinn had bought with both vigour and perception - Shaw, Joyce and Yeats were particularly well represented. The Anderson Galleries took the considerable risk of cataloguing each book individually - hence the 12,096 lots; the catalogue forms a remarkable bibliographical guide to virtually everything published by Conrad, as well as much of his autograph material.
344. RABY (Julian) & TANINDI (Zeren) Turkish Bookbinding in the 15th Century. The Foundation of an Ottoman Court Style. Edited by Tim Stanley. Azimuth Editions.1993. £95 Folio, x,245pp., 84 illustrs., numerous coloured plates, orig. cloth. Concentrates on Ottoman bindings that date from a period of some 75 years, from the second quarter of the 15th century to the first decade of the 16th century. Much of the emphasis of this book is on imperial patronage, for it deals in the main with works that can be associated with three successive sultans, Murad II, Mehmed II and Bayezid II.
345. RADCLIFFE (John) Bibliotheca Chethamensis: sive Bibliothecae publicae Mancuniensis ab Humfredo Chetham Armigero fundatae Catalogus exhibens libros in varias classes pro varietate argumenti distributos. J. Harrop, H. Smith & S. Simms, Manchester.1791-1863. £325 First Edition, 5 vols., with a presentation label from the Chethams’ library to E.W. Jones, lacking the portrait from volume one, uniform nineteenth-century buckram, uncut, a nice set. Catalogue of the most important of the early town libraries and the only one, up to the mid-nineteenth century, that was entirely free and accessible to the public. Founded in 1653 by a prosperous Manchester Wool merchant, Humphrey Chetham, it grew rapidly in size and scope to become the first “modern” public library. This catalogue was based on a novel classification devised by Radcliffe, with various headings and consecutive numbering (8029). A sixth volume was issued in 1883 of additions from 1863-1881.
346. RAHIR (Edouard) La Bibliothèque de l’Amateur. Guide Sommaire a Travers les Livres Anciens les plus Estimés. Francisque Lefrançois, Paris.1924. £100 Second Edition, large 8vo, lx,718pp., numerous illustrs., orig. printed wrappers bound in, half morocco, gilt, leather labels on spine, lower hinge slightly cracked, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.
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347. RAVEN (James) British Fiction 1750-1770. A Chronological Check-List of Prose Fiction Printed in Britain and Ireland. University of Delaware Press.1987. £45 First Edition, 349pp., orig. cloth, d.w. faded. This catalogue provides the first comprehensive listing of novels and associated prose fiction published in the twenty years after 1750.
348. REDOUTÉ. Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s Les Liliacées. The Empress Josephine’s Copy with the Original Drawings and the Text on Vellum. Sotheby’s, New York.1985. £42 4to, 486 coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 486 lots.
ONE OF 12 LARGE PAPER COPIES 349. REED (Isaac) Bibliotheca Reediana. A Catalogue of the Curious & Extensive Library of the late Isaac Reed, Esq... Editor of the Last Edition of Shakspeare. Comprehending a most Extraordinary Collection of Books, in English Literature; Particularly Relating to English Drama, and Poetry... Which Will be Sold by Auction, By Messrs. King and Lochée... On Monday, Nov. 2, 1807, and 38 Following Days... J. Barker, Printer...1807. £495 xii,405,[1]pp., one of 12 large paper copies, an old note in pencil states “Mr. Bindley’s copy”, engraved portrait frontis., orig. boards, front inner hinge almost detached, later cloth reback, spine morocco label rubbed, uncut. This important catalogue of 8,957 lots, selling for £4386.19s.6d., included a great many scarce tracts and some interesting manuscripts as well as a fine collection of plays. Reed was a noted Shakespearean scholar and counted among his friends Dr. Johnson, Boswell and George Steevens. De Ricci, p.63.
350. REGEMORTER (Berthe van) Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library. Hodges Figgis & Co., Ltd. Dublin.1961. £110 First Edition, 29,[3]pp., folio, coloured frontis., 70 plates (of which 20 are coloured), orig. cloth. Surveys the bookbinders art in all its forms throughout the oriental world. There is probably no library in the world where so many and such varied examples of bookbinding are to be found as in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
351. RENOUARD (Ph.) Bibliographie des Éditions de Simon de Colines 1520-1546. B. De Graaf, Nieuwkoop.(Reprint of the 1894 Edition) 1962. £45 vii,516pp., 37 facsimiles, orig. cloth. Standard bibliography of the famous French printer.
352. RENOUARD (Philippe) Imprimeurs Parisiens Libraires Foundeurs de Caractères et Correcteurs d’Imprimerie, Depuis l’Introdution de l’Imprimerie à Paris (1470) jusqu’à la fin du XVIe Siècle. M.J. Minard, Paris.(Reprint of the 1898 Edition) 1965. £35 vi,511pp., folding map in pocket at rear, orig. cloth.
353. RICE (John A.) Catalogue of Mr. John A. Rice’s Library to be Sold by Auction on Monday March 21st 1870 and Five Following Days by Bangs Merwin & Co. at their Sale-Rooms 694 & 696 Broadway. J. Sabin & Sons, New York.1870. £55 Large 8vo, xvi,536pp., spot stain to title and first 2 leaves of prelims, margins of title and final leaf strengthened with archival paper, new cloth, uncut, spine printed paper label. One of the great American collections of the nineteenth century, contains extensive Americana, early poetry, travels, etc.
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354. RIVINGTONS AND COCHRAN. A Catalogue of Books, in Various Languages, and in Every Department of Literature, now Selling, at the Prices Affixed to each Article, by Rivingtons and Cochran. Printed by R. Gilbert.1824. £45 [viii],815,[1] + 4pp., of adverts, from a institutional library now dispersed, a few stamps throughout, first three leaves detached with margins chipped, orig. boards, rubbed, covers detached, lacks spine, 17,328 items described.
355. ROBERTS (Julian) & WATSON (Andrew G.) Editors. John Dee’s Library Catalogue. The Bibliographical Society.1990. £175 4to, viii,253pp., frontispiece, 168 facsimiles, orig. cloth. Includes a facsimile of the 1583 catalogue together with a history of the collection both before and after Dee’s death.
356. ROBINSON (William H.) Early English Books from the Huth, the Hoe, the Britwell and other Famous Libraries. Examples from the Presses of Wynkyn de Worde, Julian Notary, Pynson, Berthelet, John Day, and other Early English Printers... Catalogue No. 19. William H. Robinson, Newcastle-on-Tyne.1928. £110 4to, [ii],208pp., presentation inscription from Sir Leicester Harmsworth to his librarian Dorothy Coates, with an A.L.s, frontis., plates and facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, half morocco, 758 items. It appears from the A.L.s that this catalogue includes Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth’s duplicates which William H. Robinson was selling on his behalf. “I send you herewith copies of the Robinson Catalogue of duplicates. These so far have realised roughly £6,600...”
357. ROBINSON (William H.) Rare Books and Manuscripts Offered for Sale by... Catalogue No. 83. William H. Robinson Ltd.1953. £45 Small folio, viii,192pp., coloured frontis., facsimiles throughout (1 coloured and folding), orig. decorated boards, a nice copy. Containing 24 manuscripts and 80 printed books, mostly from the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).
358. ROSCOE (William) Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Winstanley at his Rooms in Marble Street, Liverpool, On Monday the 19th of August, and Thirteen Following Days... [J. McCreery, Printer]. 1816. [vi],208,[1, advert leaf for the Prints auction]pp., title-page washed and expertly repaired, priced throughout in a cont. hand. [Bound with:] Catalogue of the Genuine and Entire Collection of Prints, Books of Prints, &c. The Property of William Roscoe... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Winstanley... on Monday the 9th of September, and Ten Following Days... Smith and Galway, Liverpool].1816. £245 [iv],170pp., title-page a little dusty, priced throughout in a cont. hand, nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, new red morocco label reading “Edwards/Roscoe”. Catalogues of the library of the great Liverpool historian, prepared under his own supervision, after the failure of his family bank. The library reflected Roscoe’s fascination with the Italian Renaissance with many incunabula from the earliest Italian presses as well as the 1459 Psalter and 1460 Catholicon. Many of the books were bought back by his friends but on his refusal to accept them they were presented to the Liverpool Athenaeum. De Ricci, pp. 93-94; Quaritch pp. 236-239.
359. ROSENBACH (A.S.W.) A Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts of Harry Elkins Widener. Privately Printed, Philadelphia.1918. £175 2 Vols., 4to, viii,317,[1]; [iv],291pp., frontispieces, orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g. The son of an affluent Philadelphia family, Widener began book collecting at an early age. He had been greatly assisted and advised by the Philadelphia bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach. At the tender age of 27, on his return
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voyage from London where he had attended the great Huth sale, he became one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. Although the Widener literature collection of 3,000 books and manuscripts had been developed over a short period, it was remarkable rich.
360. ROUSSELLE (Hippolyte) Bibliographie Montoise. Annales de l’Imprimerie a Mons depuis 1580 jusqu’a nos jours. Masquillier et Lamir, Mons.1858. £175 First Edition, viii,770,[1]pp., large paper copy, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cloth. The only topo-bibliography of Mons (Bergen, Belgium). 1556 entries.
361. ROXBURGHE CLUB. Map of the Holy Land, Illustrating the Itineraries of William Wey, Fellow of Eton in A.D. 1458 and 1462. In fac-simile from the original in the Bodleian Library. Printed for the Roxburghe Club [by] J.B. Nichols and Sons.1867. £295 4to, [viii],ivpp., library stamp and number to title, 1 large folded lithographed map (42 x 217 cm. folded to 25 x 17 cm.), Francis Henry Dickinson’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, boards rubbed. Baker, 88.
362. ROXBURGHE CLUB. A Book of Old Testament Illustrations of the Middle of the XIIIth Century. Sent by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski to Shab Abbas the Great, King of Persia, Now in the Pierpont Morgan Library at New York. Described by Sydney C. Cockerell. With an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James, and Notes on the Armour by Charles J. Ffoulkes. Printed by W. Lewis, at the University Press for the Roxburghe Club.1927. £1,495 Large folio, [xii],148pp., one of a small number (probably not more than 50) printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, 92 full-page facsimile plates by Emery Walker Ltd., including 10 in fine colour with gilt decoration, some light dampstaining to lower margins, orig. red half morocco, gilt, upper hinge cracked, some discolourations, a little rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. “In 1927 James and Cockerell again collaborated in one of the most magnificent of all Roxburghe books, the Old Testament Illustrations, originally executed in the thirteenth century and sent by Cardinal Maciejowski to Shah Abbas in 1608. This had come in 1920 from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (from whom Robert Curzon had tried to buy it in 1869), to the Pierpont Morgan Library where, with its splendid illustrations, which its romantic provenance has adored with marginal glosses in a fine Persian hand, it is one of the principal treasures... [it is] bound in half red morocco with the spine panels and corners tooled in gold, the only covering, perhaps, worthy of the contents.” — Barker, The Publications of the Roxburghe Club, p. 60. The MS. is reproduced in its entirety (46 folios).
363. ROXBURGHE CLUB. AETHELGIFU. The Will of Aethelgifu. A Tenth Century Anglo- Saxon Manuscript, Translated and Examined by Dorothy Whitelock. With a Note on the Document by Neil Ker and Analyses of the Properties, Livestock and Chattels Concerned by Lord Rennell. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club.1968. £375 Folio, [xii],92pp., 4 full pages of facsimile and 6 facsimiles and 3 sketch maps in the text, with the bookplates of Dorothy Whitelock, P.A.M. Clemoes & Eric Poole, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt and slightly marked, uncut, t.e.g. This, the largest and one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon documents of this category, has been dated to 980/990 A.D. It comes from a district, namely the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire, which is otherwise poorly represented by such documents. More than this, it is full of historical interest on the social, agricultural, and ecclesiastical conditions of the areas and era. The Will is reproduced in full size facsimile.
364. ROXBURGHE CLUB. ALEXANDER (Jonathan) Editor. An Early Breton Gospel Book. A Ninth-Century Manuscript from the Collection of H.L. Bradfer-Lawrence 1887-1965. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.1977. £95 Folio, with 8 colour plates and 40 monochrome, orig. red quarter morocco.
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365. ROXBURGHE CLUB. DODGSON (Campbell) Editor. Los Desastres de la Guerra. Etched by Francisco Goya y Lucientes. [Printed for the Roxburghe Club at the University Press] Oxford.1933. £695 Oblong 4to, xvi,12pp., 101 plates admirably reproduced in collotype, with an introduction and annotated list of the plates, small bookplate of front paste-down, orig. Roxburghe morocco-backed buckram, uncut, t.e.g. Presented by Brigadier Archibald Stirling, of Keir, and Sir John Stirling Maxwell, with the material for reproduction largely provided from the library at Keir.
366. ROXBURGHE CLUB. DREYFUS (John) Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography. A Study of Type Specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library, with a Handlist Compiled by David McKitterick. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.1982. £125 4to, with illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt.
367. ROXBURGHE CLUB. FLOWER (Desmond) Editor. Voltaire. Thérèse: A Fragment. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.1981. £75 4to, with 8 pages of facsimiles, orig. quarter morocco.
368. ROXBURGHE CLUB. GUNTHER (Robert T.) The Herbal of Apuleius Barbarus. From the Early Twelfth-Century Manuscript Formerly in the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds (MS. Bodley 130). Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford.1925. £595 4to, xxxvi,[ii], 87 collotype facsimile numbered leaves (68-75 omitted in paging, [96]-148pp., 7 plates (5 coloured), title printed in red and black, small bookplate on front paste-down, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Formerly ascribed to L. Apuleius Madaurensis; now believed to be of much later date, probably a Latin compilation of the fifth century. Presented by Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill.
369. ROXBURGHE CLUB. JAMES (M.R.) Editor. La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei. The Life of St. Edward the Confessor. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ee. 3. 59) Together with some Pages of the Manuscript of the Life of St. Alban at Trinity College, Dublin. Printed for the Roxburghe Club at the University Press, Oxford.1920. £545 4to, 74,[2]pp., with 77 pages of collotype facsimile by Emery Walker (including 2 in colour), with the ‘Printer’s Library’ bookplate, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter blue Roxburghe morocco, slightly worn, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g.
“A magnificent production” 370. ROXBURGHE CLUB. MILLAR (Eric George) The Rutland Psalter. A Manuscript in the Library of Belvoir Castle. Oxford: Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club.1937. £1,795 4to, [viii],63,[3]pp., followed by 348 facsimile collotype plates, all loose as issued in the orig. portfolio of linen-backed boards, printed paper label to spine with a small splash mark, card slip-case with repairs to joints, a bright clean copy. Privately printed by Messrs. Emery Walker Ltd. for members of the Roxburghe Club. Facsimile of British Library Add. MS. 62925. With an introduction by Eric George Millar, the ten Deputy Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum. Produced in England in around 1260, the Rutland Psalter is one of the earlier surviving illuminated manuscripts. Containing six full-page illuminations and a wealth of marginalia the psalter was at one time owned by the Dukes of Rutland. Barker, 203. “A magnificent production”.
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371. ROXBURGHE CLUB. PICOT (Émile) Le Livre et Mistere du Glorieux Seigneur et Martir Saint Adrien, Publié, d’Après un Manuscrit de Chantilly, aux frais de S.A.R. Mgr le Duc d’Aumale. Imprimé poru le Roxburghe Club [by] Protat Frères, Macon.1895. £265 4to, [vi],xxxiv,206,[2]pp., 1 double-page photogravure facsimile of the original manuscript in the library of the Duc d’Aumale at Chantilly, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, lightly rubbed, unopened, uncut. Barker, 125.
372. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WAGNER (Anthony Richard) Editor. Heraldo Memoriale or Memoirs of the College of Arms from 1727 to 1744. Stephen Martin Leake some time Garter King of Arms. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.1981. £100 8vo, coloured portrait frontis., orig. quarter morocco.
373. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WORMSLEY LIBRARY. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Wormsley Library Owned by Members of the Roxburghe Club Elected from 1812 to 1944. A Selection of which Forms Part of an Exhibition for Members on the Occasion of the Annual Dinner of the Roxburghe Club on 23 May 1994 at Wormsley Hosted by J. Paul Getty, K.B.E. [N.p.].[1991]. £225 Square 8vo, [ii],82,[6]pp., dinner menu loosely inserted, orig. cloth, leather label on upper cover. Published especially for the annual dinner held at Wormsley for members of the Roxburghe Club only.
374. RYLANDS LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [Edited by E. Gordon Duff]. J.E. Cornish, Manchester.1899. £175 3 Vols., large 4to, [vi],648; [iv],[649]-1334; [iv],[1335]-1986pp., full brown morocco by Fazakerley of Liverpool, inner dentelles gilt, corners bumped, a couple of small nicks to head a foot of spines, a little rubbed, uncut, a.e.g. “This is one of England’s greatest libraries, formerly that of Lord Spencer at Althorp. It was purchased en bloc for nearly $1,250,000 and became the basis for the Rylands Library in Manchester. It was described by T.F. Dibdin in his Bibliotheca Spenceriana. It has been added to with excellent judgement by the several librarians who have guarded its destinies since its foundation in 1899 and is today one of England’s richest storehouses of books.” — Cox, Vol. 3 p.704.
375. SABIN (Joseph) A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York.1998. £195 29 vols., in 2, oblong 4to, orig. cloth. Breslauer & Folter 129. “The most important of all American bibliographies, comprising well over 100,000 entries of books and pamphlets printed in the Western Hemisphere and works about it printed elsewhere. Collations and locations of copies are included.”
376. SADLEIR (Michael) XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. New York.(Reprint of the 1951 Edition) 1992. £75 2 Vols., 4to, xxxiii,[i],399; [viii],195pp., 48 plates, orig. cloth. An author-alphabet of first editions with bibliographical notes and comparative scarcities. The collection of 3,761 items is now in the University of California Library.
377. SALE (William Merritt) Samuel Richardson. A Bibliographical Record of his Literary Career with Historical Notes. Yale University Press, New Haven.1936. £55 First Edition, title-page facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth.
378. SALVESTRINI (Virgilio) Bibliografia Delle Opere Di Giordano Bruno E Degli Scritti Ad Esso Attinenti. Prefazione di Giovanni Gentile. V. Salvestrini, Pisa.1926. £38 First Edition, 4to, xiv,384pp., limited to 400 copies, facsimiles throughout, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut.
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379. SANDER (Max) Le Livre à Figures Italien depuis 1467 jusqu’a 1530. Essai de sa Bibliographie et de son Histoire. [With:] RAVA (Carlo Enrico) Supplement... Gianpiero Zazzera, Lodi.(Reprint of the 1942 Edition) 1996. £475 7 Vols., in 6, 4to, limited to 350 numbered copies, numerous facsimiles throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth. Sander’s important study of the development and progress of the graphic arts in Italian book illustration. This fundamental reference book (text in French) contains the descriptions of over 8,000 works. Each listing includes a precise collation, bibliographical citations, sale prices and, in many cases, notes on the edition and descriptions of particularly significant illustrations.
380. SAWYER (Charles J.) & DARTON (F.J. Harvey) English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd.1927. £48 First Edition, 2 vols., limited edition, presentation inscription from Charles J. Sawyer, frontispiece, folding plate, 98 full-page illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy. Discusses the works of each writer in turn from a selling and book-collecting point of view; the authors were a bookseller and a collector.
381. SCHIFF (Mortimer L.) French Signed Bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection. [With:] British and Miscellaneous Signed Bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection. By Seymour de Ricci. Privately Printed, New York.1935. £1,695 First Edition, together 4 vols., large 4to, with over 300 reproductions of bindings, orig. buckram, extremities lightly rubbed, uncut. Of French 18th and 19th century signed bindings the Schiff collection was remarkably fine and certainly the most comprehensive brought together by a single collector. In this catalogue, beginning with Monnier and Padeloup and ending with Trautz-Bauzonnet, each binding is given a highly detailed description so as to register clearly the idiosyncrasies of each binder, and every binding of any importance is reproduced in a full-size photograph (except for a dozen very large volumes). In many cases the doublures and inner dentelles are also reproduced and all binders’ stamps and tickets are given in facsimile. The British and miscellaneous section is treated in the same meticulous manner, British bookbinding being represented chiefly by binders of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
382. SCHIFF (Mortimer L.) Catalogue of the Famous Library, Principally of Fine Bindings, Rare Engravings, Illustrated Books and French Literature Formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff. Sotheby & Co.1938. £295 3 Vols., in one, 4to, from the library of Bernard Breslauer, priced with buyers’ names in part 1, printed price lists with buyers’ names for parts 2 and 3, coloured frontispieces, 132 plates of bindings (of which 34 are in colour), orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. blue quarter morocco, t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 2,493 lots. “Although he had purchased a number of important books in the first few years of the century, the Robert Hoe III sale in 1911 launched Schiff’s collecting career. The bindings of Padeloup, Derôme, and Le Monnier and the tasteful illustrations of Boucher, Moreau le Jeune, Cochin, Eisen and Gravelot all appealed to his love of the sumptuous... In 1920, A.S.W. Rosenbach sold Schiff a number of distinguished French illustrated books from the Robert Schuhmann library, including Graffigny’s ‘Lettres d’une Péruvienne’ with Lefèvre drawings and ‘L’Eloge de la Folie’ with seventeen original sketches by Eisen... Three years after Schiff’s death, Seymour De Ricci produced an elaborate catalog of the signed bindings in the library... Three years after the publication of the catalog, the heirs disposed of the library in a disastrous auction in London. The only beneficiaries were collectors like Lessing J. Rosenwald... Schiff is remembered as a connoisseur who brought together an unrivalled collection of decorative bindings and illustrated books”—Dickinson, Dictionary of American Book Collectors, pp. 281-282.
383. SCHNAPPER (Edith B.) Editor. The British Union-Catalogue of Early Music Printed Before the Year 1801. A Record of the Holdings of over One Hundred Libraries Throughout the British Isles. Butterworths Scientific Publications.1957. £175 First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, xx,583; xx,585-1178pp., orig. cloth, a very nice set.
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A major reference tool for work with early printed sources of music. These volumes provide the key sources in British libraries. Brief bibliographical entries; locations established in more than 100 libraries in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Breslauer & Folter, 167. “The first catalogue of the printed music holdings of a whole country.”
384. SCHOEPFLIN (Johann Daniel) Vindiciae Typographicae. Joh. Gothofredum Bauer, Strassburg.1790. £195 First Edition, 4to, [vi],120,42,[10]pp., 7 plates, ex-John Crerar Library copy with perforated stamp on title and dedication leaf, orig. boards, a little rubbed, re-backed in calf with raised bands and leather label. Schoepflin was one of the most efficient champions of the Gutenberg case at a time when Costerian theory was at its peak. It was Schoepflin who supposedly discovered certain documents (now lost through fire) which by their content would ascribe to Gutenberg the honour of the invention of printing by movable type and to Strassburg the honour of the place of that invention. He attempts to prove this theory through the introduction of various pieces of documentation which he reproduces in this book.
385. SCOTT (Sir Walter) Catalogue of the Library at Abbotsford. [Printed for the Maitland Club, by T. Constable], Edinburgh.1838. £695 4to, iv,[viii],464,[1]pp., from the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York, “James Simson, Melrose, 1853” in ink at head of title, vignette of the device Scott stamped on many of his bindings on title page, some light spotting, cont. half calf, re-backed, morocco label to spine, corders rubbed. The shelf catalogue - the shelves were largely arranged according to subjects - of the vast library of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author of ‘The Waverly Novels’, comprising c. 20,000 volumes, made accessible by a 115- page index. The limited edition was mainly shared between the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs, the latter, for which the above issue was printed, having only seventy-nine members. In his dedication to that club, John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) states the John George Cochrane (1781-1852) ‘who spent several months at Abbotsford for that purpose’ compiled the catalogue, a claim Cochrane also made for himself in the preface to the Bannatyne issue. The library is still intact at Abbotsford, owned by the Advocates’ Library of Edinburgh, house and furnishings by Scott’s descendants. From the library of Bernard Breslauer, New York.
386. SEARLE (Townley) Sir William Schwenck Gilbert; A Topsy-Turvy Adventure. With Decorations by the Author and an Introduction by R.E. Swartwout. Alexander-Ouseley, Ltd.1931. £45 First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. With a 58pp., bibliography of W.S. Gilbert.
387. SEEMILLER (Sebastian) Bibliothecæ Academicæ Ingolstadiensis Incunabula Typographica seu Libri ante annum 1500 Impressi circiter mille et quadrigenti; quos secundum annorum seriem disposuit, descripsit, et notis historico - Litterariis illustravit. Sebastian Haberger, Ingolstadt.1787-88. £215 2 Vols., [of 4] in one, 4to, [viii],192; xvi,174,[10]pp., one neat stamp on title, slightly spotted, recent boards, uncut. “Vols. I and II (of four), complete in themselves and covering the years through 1483, of the incunabula at Ingolstadt, described by Buuzas as the first satisfactory catalogue of incunabula ever issued.” — Hill. This extensively annotated catalogue is arranged chronologically, the present parts covering 158 books before 1484, with author and printed indices.
388. SETTE OF ODD VOLUMES. [Wyman, Charles William H.] B.Q. [Bernard Quaritch]. A Biographical & Bibliographical Fragment. [Privately Printed for the Sette of Odd Volumes].[1880]. £145 12mo, 22,[2]pp., one of 25 copies printed,this copy formerly belonged to John E. Dawson and was presented to him (and signed) by C.W.H. Wyman, bookplate removed, spine and wrappers a little chipped, uncut.
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This biographical text was originally compiled for Bigmore & Wyman’s ‘Bibliography of Printing’.
389. SITWELL (Sacheverell) & BLUNT (Wilfrid) Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.1990. £50 New expanded edition, 4to, xii,189pp., coloured frontis., 50 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. A well-illustrated guide to coloured plate flower books. The text describes the illustrators and the age in which these books were produced. The bibliography describes over 750 books.
390. SLOCUM (John J.) & CAHOON (Herbert) A Bibliography of James Joyce 1882-1941. Soho Bibliographies V. Rupert Hart-Davis.1953. £75 First Edition, 2 facsimiles, orig. cloth, slightly marked, d.w. a little torn and worn.
391. SMITH (John Russell) Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America and the West Indies. Collected by John Russell Smith. Alfred Russell Smith.1871. £50 vii,[i],234+56pp., bibliography of books published by John Russell Smith, with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, cont. quarter calf, spine defective, 3593 items. This is the last catalogue of Americana that J.R. Smith put together; the rest being collected and arranged by his son, Alfred Russell Smith.
392. SOCARD (Alexis) Livres Populaires. Imprimés à Troyes de 1600 à 1800. Hagiographie, — Ascétisme. Ouvrage orné de 120 Gravures tirées avec les bois originaux. Auguste Aubry, Paris.1864. £125 First Edition, [iv],176 + 8pp., of publishers adverts, one of 200 numbered copies, illustrs., in the text, cont. marbled boards, upper cover detached, spine chipped, uncut.
PRESENTATION COPY WITH EXTRA PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR 393. SOTHEBY (Samuel Leigh) Paper-Marks in the Early Block-Books of the Netherlands and Germany... the Types and Marks in Productions of the Press of Caxton... Forming the First Portion of the Third Volume of the Principia Typographica. [Together with:] Specimen of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby’s Principia Typographica... London: Not Printed for Sale.1858. £1,695 Folio, contemporary half green morocco, spine elaborately gilt, marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, rather rubbed scuffed at joints and extremities. A superb item. The book was presented by Sotheby to Henry Pain and is extra-illustrated with three mounted albumen photographs of Samuel Leigh Sotheby, his home in Surrey and his family (contemporary notes in pencil give the photographs dates of 1856). The photograph of Sotheby is pasted in as a frontispiece within a gothic architectural surround engraved by Jewitt, pencil notes on the page mark the presentation of the book: “S. Leigh Sotheby, The Woodlands, Norwich, To Mr. Pain, Oct. 25 1858”. In addition there are two engravings, one of Sotheby’s home Buckfastleigh Abbey and one of the River Dart over which is written in pencil “The River Dart in which S.L. Sotheby Esq. met his death”. There are also two mounted ALs to Henry Pain and his wife from Sotheby—the first is a long two page A4 letter dated 1858 and describes his depression of the past year and remembers a joyous visit he had to the Pains some time ago. The second is from later in the same year and talks of a recent week spent with the Pains. He also writes of his hope in adding to his work in this volume on the block book and a potential fourth volume to the ‘Principia Typographica’. This is an unusual issue of the third volume of Sotheby’s fascinating work on early printing. Sotheby printed only 215 copies of ‘Principia Typographica’, however there was a larger print run for the chief contents of the third volume than for the first two, thus the overrun of this volume was given away to friends. The ‘Specimens’ of the ‘Principia Typographica’ is interesting in that it was also limited to 215 copies and offered to the trade by Sotheby & Co. at auction in the year of publication. It sold out within two hours.
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394. [SPENCER (Charles, Third Earl of Sunderland 1674-1722)] Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana. Sale Catalogue of the Truly Important and Very Extensive Library of Printed Books Known as the Blenhiem Library. Comprising a Remarkable Collection of the Greek and Roman Classic Writers in First Early and Rare Editions. A Large Series of Early Printed Bibles and Testaments in Various Languages. A Few Ancient and Important Mss... The First Portion [- Fifth]. To be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson... [G. Norman & Son].1881-83. £145 5 Parts, large 8vo, from the library of John William Willis Bund, orig. printed wrappers loose and chipped. De Ricci pp. 38-40. “The great library of Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), contained only a few manuscripts and some 20,000 printed books... Baron James de Rothschild, of Paris, actually considered the purchase of the whole library when he suddenly died, and the negotiations fell through. Lord Crawford was also tempted and Bernard Quaritch actually tried to raise the money but failed. The library was therefore sold by auction in five memorable sales, 1881-1883, the 13,858 lots of which brought the enormous sum of £56,581, about £33,000 being the share of Bernard Quaritch.”
HUTH COPY 395. SPILSBURY (William H.) Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Printed for the Society, by C. Roworth & Sons.1859. £420 Small 4to, viii,970,[2],26,54,58,67,[1]pp., with the leaf of corrigenda and omissions bound at end with 4 supplements covering acquisitions through 1877, from the library of Alfred and Henry Huth, with their bookplate, and with an 1880 A.L.s from John Nicholson, librarian of Lincoln’s Inn, presenting this copy to Alfred Huth, cont. half morocco, marbled boards, a.e.g. a very nice copy.
396. STERLING (Sir Louis) The Sterling Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books and Literary Manuscript Collected by... and Presented by him to the University of London. Privately Printed, Cambridge University Press.1954. £60 First Edition, 4to, xiv,613pp., signed by Sterling on front endpaper, frontis., portrait, 7 plates, orig. cloth, t.e.g. The collection consisted of first and early editions of English Literature from the 15th to the 20th Century, and modern private press books.
397. STERNE (Laurence) A Facsimile Reproduction of a Unique Catalogue of Laurence Sterne’s Library. With a Preface by Charles Whibley. James Tregaskis & Son.1930. £75 16pp., introduction followed by 96pp., of facsimiles, one of 330 copies, with the bookplate of A.N.L. Munby, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, a nice copy. A facsimile of the catalogue by Todd and Sotheran of York who bought Sterne’s library after his death in 1768. A horrifying collection of bargains.
398. STEVENSON (Eric) Inventario dei Libri Stampati Palatino-Vaticani... Edito per Ordine di S.S. Leone XIII P.M. Tipografia Vaticana, Rome.1886-91. £115 First Edition, 4 vols., in two, 4to, [xvi],41*,394; 335,[5]; [vi],499; [iv],394,[8]pp., later cloth, a nice copy. A bibliographical work of lasting importance for 16th century Latin and German books, including full title-page transcriptions and collations.
399. STEWART (C[harles] J[ames]) A General Catalogue of the Stock of J.C. Stewart 1880. C.J. Stewart.1880. £45 584pp., orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. cloth-backed marbled boards, 6992 items.
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ENGLAND’S EARLIEST FEMALE BIBLIOPHILE 400. STEWART (C.J.) Compiler. A Catalogue of the Library Collected by Miss Richardson Currer at Eshton Hall, Yorkshire. Printed for Private Circulation Only [by J. Moyes].1833. £1,475 Large 8vo, xii,501pp., one of 100 copies, steel-engraved frontispiece showing Eshton Hall and 3 steel- engraved plates of the library and its surroundings, cont. half morocco by J. Mackenzie (bookbinder to the King), upper hinge broken but still holding, spine gilt, marbled paper sides, corners a little bumped, uncut. Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861) was England’s earliest female bibliophile and was described by Dibdin as the “head of all female book collectors in Europe.”. Currer inherited the library of her great grandfather, Richard Richardson (1663-1741), botanist and antiquary, and with the additions made to this Currer built up a sizeable collection of 15,000 volumes. The catalogue is arranged in a number of classes, including religion, arts, natural science, topography, literature and history. Most of the books in her library were auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1862, realising £6,000. Provenance: With the bookplate of David Bickerseth Magee (1905-1977). Born in Yorkshire, emigrated to America with the intention of taking up farming in California. However, the life of a farmer was not to be, and soon he found himself employed as an assistant to John Howell, noted San Francisco book dealer. In 1923, Magee opened his own book shop in San Francisco, and thus became one of the first in a long line of distinguished book dealers who were trained in the Howell establishment before venturing out on their own.
401. STOCKBAUER (Dr. J.) Abbildungen von Mustereinbänden aus der Blüthezeit der Buchbinderkunst in Lichtdruck Ausgeführt von A. Naumann & Schroeder... Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig.1881. £175 First Edition, folio, 13,[1]pp., 40 loose plates (margins slightly chipped), text a little spotted and water stained, in orig. printed portfolio, rubbed, lacks spine. The plates are mostly of bindings in the state library at Dresden.
402. SUMMERS (Montague) A Gothic Bibliography. The Fortune Press.(Reprint of the 1941 Edition) [1968]. £75 Frontis., 21 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. A guide to the work of the literary movement that provided the foundations for the work of Shelley, Scott, Coleridge and many others.
403. SYKES (Sir Mark Masterman) Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious and Extensive Library of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the First [-Third]. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... on Tuesday, May 11... 1824. [Printed by W. Nicol].1824. £645 Large 8vo, 3 parts in one, [vi],93,[1]; [ii],50 (wrongly paginated ending with pp. 83); [ii],68pp., with the bookplate of Alan G. Thomas, wide margins, cont. half calf, marbled sides, leather label on spine, a nice copy. The large library formed at Sledmere in Yorkshire by Sir Mark Masterman Sykes produced poor results at auction considering its wealth of incunabula of the first importance (Gutenberg Bible, 1459 Psalter, 1462 Bible, etc). Many of Sykes’s books had been purchased at the sales of Pearson, Farmer, Steevens, Reed, Brand, Edwards and the Duke of Roxburghe and possibly suffered from over-exposure in the sale room. However both Sir John Thorold and Henry Perkins made their first important acquisitions at this sale. De Ricci, pp. 95-96.
404. TCHEMERZINE (Avenier) Bibliographie d’Éditions Originales et Rares d’Auteurs Français des XVe, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles. Somerset House.(Reprint of the 1927-34 Edition) 1973. £295 Folio, 10 vols., in one, 450pp., 6,000 original pages reproduced at 12 per page, orig. cloth.
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The standard bibliography of French literary first editions from the beginning of printing until 1800. Gives detailed bibliographical descriptions, line-by-line transcriptions, and many reproductions of title pages and engravings.
405. TEERINK (Dr. H.) A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift. Edited by Arthur H. Scouten. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.1963. £65 Second Edition, revised and corrected, large 8vo, xviii,453pp., ex-library, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth. Second and best edition.
406. TERRY (Rev. Dr. Roderick) The Library of the Late Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry of Newport, Rhode Island... Anderson Galleries Inc. New York.1934-35. £85 3 Parts, 4to, [viii],314; [viii],202; [viii],209pp., frontispieces, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 1175 lots. A library strong in Americana and English literature. “He had the four Shakespeare folios, as well as distinguished first editions of Byron, Lamb, Spenser, and Milton. In many cases letters and manuscripts accompanied the printed texts.”—Dickinson, American Book Collectors. pp. 306-7.
407. THOMAS-STANFORD (Charles) Early Editions of Euclid’s Elements. Bibliographical Society.1926. £65 First Edition, 4t, 12 plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g.
408. THOMPSON (Elbert A. & Lawrence S.) Fine Binding in America. Beta Phi Mu, Urbana.1956. £35 First Edition, frontis., 7 plates, orig. boards. This is the second in a series of chapbooks published by Beta Phi Mu, National Library Science Honorary Fraternity, as a contribution to the art of book design and the literature of books and libraries.
409. THOMPSON (Henry Yates) Facsimiles in Photogravure of Six Pages from a Psalter, written and illuminated about 1325 A.D. for a member of the St. Omer family in Norfolk, subsequently (c. 1422 A.D.) the property of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, fourth son of King Henry IV, and now in the library of Henry Yates Thompson, 19, Portman Square, London. [Privately] Printed at the Chiswick Press.1900. £395 Folio, [6]pp., no. 37 of 53 copies for private distribution, presentation inscription by HYT to C.W. Dyson Perrins, along with 2pp., A.L.s tipped in, subsequently owned by D.H. Turner & Janet Backhouse (with their signatures), 6 photogravure plates, each with a letterpress leaf of description, loose in the orig. morocco-backed printed boards, lightly stained.
ONE OF 20 COPIES PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 410. [THOMPSON (Henry Yates)] Editor. Facsimiles of Two “Histoires” by Jean Foucquet from Vols. I. and II. of the “Anciennetés des Juifs”, Numbered Respectively 247 français in the National Library of France, and 101 in in the Supplemental Volume... of the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson, to Which is Added a Notice with 2 Photogravures and Four Photographic Facsimiles (By Three-Colour Process) from Detached Pages of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of “Historie Ancienne jesqu’à Romains”. Privately Printed [at the Chiswick Press].1903. £375 2 Vols., folio and royal 4to, 10; [ii]pp., limited edition of 20 copies, 5 photogravure, 4 coloured photograph plates, each with a leaf of letterpress explanatory text, cont. printed wrapper, cloth spine, enclosed in orig. portfolio, a nice copy. Extremely scarce, limited to 20 set for private distribution.
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411. THORN-DRURY (George) Catalogue of the Very Extensive and Well-Known Library of English Poetry, Drama and other Literature Principally of the XVII and XVIII Centuries... Sotheby & Co.1931-32. £60 4 Parts, 362pp., un-illustrated version, facsimiles in the text, orig. printed wrappers. This massive sale of 17th and early 18th century books totalled 3,114 lots and took 11 days to auction.
412. TITE (Colin G.C.) The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library. Formation, Cataloguing, Use. The British Library.2003. £60 Large 8vo, 304pp., 20 illustrs., orig. cloth. Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and the dispersal of their libraries, a number of British collectors set to work to recover as much material as possible. Sir Robert Cotton was an outstanding member of this group, and his library went on to become one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753, and eventually the British Library. Here Colin Tite, an expert on Robert Cotton's library, edits and analyses many records from the time, shedding light on the Cotton family as collectors and providing a considerable amount of fresh evidence on the history of the collection and its development.
413. TITE (Sir William) Catalogue of the Extensive, Important and Valuable Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Engravings... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Monday, the 18th May, 1874, and Five Following Days, and on Wednesday, the 27th of May, and Nine Following Days. London.1874. £180 4to, [ii],288pp., ruled in purple with ms. purchasers and prices, orig. upper printed wrapper bound in, cont. half citrine morocco (spine stained), marbled sides and endpapers, 3937 lots. “Among the contemporaries of Henry Huth was a notable bibliophile, the enthusiastic architect Sir William Tite (1798-1873), whose fine and valuable library brought nearly £20,000, a large sum for the early ‘seventies. Tite owned a choice series of Shakespeare Quartos, mainly from the Halliwell sales, a number of English Bibles and Prayer Books, often completed in facsimile with deceptive skill, a few excellent manuscripts and some scarce autographs. Most of Tite’s rare books bear his signature or manuscript notes on the fly-leaf.” — De Ricci, p.154.
414. TODD (William B.) & BOWDEN (Ann) Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841- 1955: A Bibliographical History. The British Library.2004. £75 1080pp., orig. cloth. New. This reprint is an encyclopedic account of the Tauchnitz firm of publishers, famous for their output of Anglo- American books throughout the 19th and first part of the 20th centuries. The main series of books from 1841 to 1943 is described, comprising 5370 volumes representing 783 English and American authors. The research is based on the collections of 46 libraries and over 56,000 variant copies of editions are taken into account. The book lists numerous first editions of Dickens and other popular novelists, and some of the editions actually precede the recognised first editions of many of the works.
415. TOOLE-STOTT (Raymond) Circus and the Allied Arts. A World Bibliography 1500-1970. Based Mainly on Circus Literature in the British Museum, The Library of Congress, The Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, The Bibliothéque Nationale and on his own Collection. Harper & Sons Ltd. Derby.1958-71. £225 First Edition, 4 vols., 4to, limited edition, signed by the author, numerous plates, orig. cloth, d.w’s (no d.w. on vol. 1), slightly faded. Describes books and pamphlets in various languages dealing with circus history and biography; technical aspects of performances; and the circus in drama, literature, art and fiction.
416. TOWNLEY (The Rev. James) Illustrations of Biblical Literature, Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Century; Including Biographical Notices of Translators, and other Eminent Biblical Scholars. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.1821. £75 First Edition, 2 vols., xiv,530;[ii],526;550pp., frontis., 3 plates (1 folding), bound in a rather garish modern cloth, uncut.
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417. TRIMBLE (W.H.) Compiler. Catalogue of the Hocken Library, Dunedin. With a preface by Wm. Downie Stewart. Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspaper Co. Ltd., Dunedin [New Zealand].1912. £45 First Edition, orig. cloth, gilt. Catalogue of the New Zealand library of T.M. Hocken who published in 1909 ‘A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand’.
418. TRÜBNER AND CO. A Catalogue of Books on Philology, American Antiquities, Indians, and Languages, Published during the last Forty Years (1818-1848) in the United States of America, and constantly on sale by Trübner and Co... [John Childs and Son, Printers].1858. £195 [ii],25pp., disbound. Rare. Copac locates the Bodleian copy only; Not listed on OCLC.
419. TURNER (Silvie) & SKIOLD (Birgit) Handmade Paper Today. A Worldwide Survey of Mills, Papers, Techniques and uses. Lund Humphries.1983. £38 First Edition, 4to, 280pp., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. Gives details of over 115 mills throughout the world producing hand-made paper.
420. TUSSER (Thomas) A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie.... of good husbandry, maintaineth good household, with huswifry. House heping and husbandry, if it be good: must loue one another, as cousins in blood. The wife to, must husband as well as the man: or farewel thy husbandry, doe what thou can. Set forth by Thomas Tusser, Gentleman; Servant to the Honorable Lord Paget of Beaudesert. Copied from the First Edition, 1557. Reprinted [ by T. Bensley] for Robert Triphook & William Sanco.1810. £95 4to, 20pp., disbound.
UNRECORDED TYPE SPECIMEN 421. TYPE SPECIMEN. Épreuves des Caractères de la Founderie de F. Constantin, a Nancy, Département de la Meurthe. [Nancy].1809. £2,750 38ff. short tear to title-page with margins strengthened, orig. boards (lacking upper cover). This type specimen appears to be totally unrecorded, we have been unable to locate another copy in any of the usually resources. The only other type specimen we have located from this foundry is a single copy of a 1822 edition held at Columbia University Libraries.
422. TYPE SPECIMEN. “Kent Argus” Office. Specimen Types. [Ramsgate: Kent Argus]. [c.1895]. £395 56ff. printed on one side only, unpaginated and unsigned, no title page (as issued), four leaves mounted on stubs, 30 leaves of specimens of news and jobbing types followed by 24 leaves of pictorial and decorative examples and two large folding sheets (100 a 150mm), one showing ships and the other ecclesiastical types, with an elaborate hand-printed label of the Michael Davies Printing collection, orig. maroon cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. No other copy located.
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423. TYPE SPECIMEN. CASLON (William) A Specimen of Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to His Majesty. London: Printed by Galabin and Baker.1785. £4,250 Large 8vo (248 x 160mm), 67ff. comprising: [i] title, [ii] dedication ‘To His Most Excellent Majesty George the Third’, [iii] dedication ‘To the Public’, followed by 64ff. specimens, including Greek, Hebrew and exotic fonts, music, ships, flowers, ornaments, initials, bands, headpieces & floral sprays composed of flowers, all printed on recto only, a wide margin copy, cont. half-calf, marbled boards, neatly re-backed, corners rubbed, a very nice copy. An extremely rare and important eighteenth century type specimen issued by the son of the first Caslon. “This foundry was begun in the year 1720, and will be carried on, improved and enlarged, by William Caslon, Letter Founder, Chiswell-street, London.” Caslon was the first really competent cutter of punches and caster of types in England and the first typefounder to develop a large-scale business: his success virtually stopped the importation of Dutch types upon which English printers had relied for so long. Berry & Johnson p.19; Bigmore & Wyman I, p.107; Mosley 55.
424. TYPE SPECIMEN. DAVISON (William) New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types, Sold by W. Davison, Alnwick. [Alnwick: W. Davison, c.1837]. £3,975 4to, 130ff. printed on wove paper on one side only, unpaginated and unsigned, title printed within a border made up of decorative units, presentation copy (see below), contains 1082 impressions of Bewick wood-engravings, stock cuts, metal ornaments, wood letters, ornamental borders, etc., numbered and priced, specimens 1061-1079 are absent as in all copies, 400 of the cuts are marked with a manuscript 'B', indicating that these cuts are by Bewick or come from his workshop, blank bottom right-hand margin of title page torn away and neatly repaired, cont. reversed calf, covers with blind tooled border, leather spine label, a nice copy. An exceedingly rare and attractive specimen book of “double interest as an unusual example of the enterprise of a provincial printer and because of its Bewick association…” (Isaac). The first 50 or so cuts illustrate the Burns, Beattie, Blair, and Fergusson poetical works and Percy’s Hermit of Warworth; followed by many stock cuts for tea, tobacco, auctions, race cards, sailing ships, walking stallions, royal & Newcastle arms; then, as one would imagine, there is a long run of animal cuts for Buffon, natural histories and children’s books, all priced and numbered.
Hugo quotes a manuscript note on the fly-leaf of his copy of this book “W. Davison… stated to me that he had paid Thomas Bewick upwards of five hundred pounds for the various Woodcut Blocks, used in illustrating his publications. With a view to disposing of his Blocks, he struck off a very few copies of this Work, as specimens; but, changing his mind as to their disposal, he suppressed the Work, which is very scarce, in consequence of his using up the copies as waste”. However, Hugo then goes on to give his own views “A more correct account, I believe, is that the volume was done as an Advertisement for the sale of his stereotypes, of which he had several taken from most of the blocks, and not of the blocks themselves. Since his death many of his best blocks, which he hardly ever permitted to be used, have come into my possession, and the stereotype copies are widely diffused among printers in the North of England.”
With a presentation inscription on the title page from William Davison to William H. Angus, grandson of Thomas Angus, founder of the family publishing firm which was established in 1774. Thomas became a leading publisher of street literature and employed Thomas Bewick from 1774-1776. After his death in 1784, he was succeeded by his widow Margaret who issued “Specimens of Wood Engraving by Thomas and John Bewick” (Hugo, 4097) in 1798. By October 1800 she was trading as M. Angus & Son with Thomas Jr until his death in 1808, then with her second son George. She retired in December 1812 and George continued the business until 1825 when he was declared bankrupt and his stock was sold by auction.
This volume also bears the bookplate of Joseph George Angus, with a note in pencil “This volume was given by Mr. Davison to Wm. H. Angus and by him to Jos. Geo. Angus.” Tipped-in is a T.L.s from the librarian of Newcastle Public Library stating that their copy is also marked with the engraver's initial “exactly like your volume”. Hugo, 298; Peter Isaac, Printing Historical Society facsimile, 1990.
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425. TYPE SPECIMEN. J. ROBERTS & SONS, SALFORD. Specimens of Type, Borders, Ornaments, &c., in the Office of J. Roberts & Sons, General and Commercial Printers, Stationers, &c., 168, Chapel Street, Salford. Works: Sackville Street, Chapel Street.[c.1895]. £395 201ff. printed on one side only, unpaginated and unsigned, 828 lines of specimen type followed by 42 leaves of pictorial and decorative examples, cont. notebook binding, leather spine, a little rubbed. An unrecorded specimen book with a nice representation of the stock of a small commercial printer in the provinces.
UNRECORDED TYPE SPECIMEN 426. TYPE SPECIMENS. BOWER (George William) New Specimen of Plain and Fancy Printing Types, from the Foundry of Geo. Wm. Bower, late Bower and Bacon, Sheffield. [Sheffield: George William Bower].1839. £2,245 8vo, title-page set within a single line border with cornerpieces, prices of printing types dated 1838, followed by [150] specimen leaves (including 3 tipped-in double-page specimens), orig. cloth, re-cased. We have been unable to locate another copy of this specimen book. The specimens include: Placard types, body type, black and open black, white, ornamental Egyptian, Italians, compressed, shaded, borders & flowers, ornamental dashes, rules & braces and cast ornaments.
“This foundry was begun in Sheffield about the beginning of the nineteenth century. The first specimen-book was issued in 1810 under the style of Bower, Bacon & Bower, the types being all modern face. In the same year Bower issued a price-list below those of the London founders, whose founts he succeeded occasionally in underselling. In 1830 they issued an ‘Improved Specimen of Printing Types’, and further specimens in 1832 and 1837, when the firm was G.W. Bower, late Bower & Bacon... in 1841 the firm was Bower Bothers... After the death of G.W. Bower the foundry was continued by Henry Bower till his death, about 1851, in September of which year the plant and stock were sold by auction and dispersed among the other founders.”—Reed & Johnson, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries. p. 350.
427. TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY (Joseph) A Specimen of Printing Types, by Joseph Fry and Sons, Letter-Founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields, London, 1785. [London, s.n.,1785]. £295 Folio broadside, 2pp., printed on both sides, 510 x 420mm, the fonts are arranged in 4 columns, containing specimens of 67 different Roman types, 9 black-letter, 12 Hebrew, Greek, Samaritan, Persian and Arabic types, and printed ornaments, some light browning mainly to upper margin, lower left-hand blank margin excised without loss of text, fold creases. Joseph Fry (1728-1787) Typefounder and chocolate manufacturer, who in 1764 entering into partnership with William Pine, a printer, and opened the Fry Letter Foundry in Bristol. The types were fine interpretations of Baskerville’s and Caslon’s work. The copies of Caslon were so good, that they were advertised as being interchangeable with the original, a claim that upset the Caslons so much that their 1785 specimen was prefaced with a bitter denunciation. Fry had wide business interests, one being Fry’s Chocolates. He retired from his foundry in 1787, handing it over to his sons Edmund and Henry. This specimens was also issued in Chambers ‘Cyclopaedia; or an Universal Dictionary of Arts & Science’, 1786. Berry & Johnson, p. 40; Mosley, 108; Updike, vol. II, p. 118; Reed, pp. 298-314.
428. TYPE SPECIMENS. GILBERT & RIVINGTON. Specimens of Foreign Types Sold by Gilbert and Rivington, Oriental Printers and Typefounders, St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell Road, London, England. [Gilbert & Rivington].1880. £395 4to, 40ff., printed on recto only, orig. limp cloth, title stamped on upper cover within a decorative border, spine slightly frayed. “The catalogue... comprises all, as far as known, that are required for printing in the various languages in use throughout the Eastern Empire and the surrounding nations. It represents the enterprise of a firm which may fairly claim to be unrivalled in England, perhaps in the world, for its capability in executing oriental printing at home, and in supplying oriental types to printers abroad.” —Printers Notice.
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A rare specimen comprising of 84 different types, including: Assamese, Burmese, Coptic, Hakka, Irish, Kashmiri, Lapponese, Marathi, Pushtoo, Sanskrit, Tamil, Tibetan, Zend, etc. Copac & OCLC both locating just the Cambridge University Library copy; there is also a copy at Saint Bride Library.
429. TYPE SPECIMENS. WILSON (Dr. Alex. & Sons) A Specimen of Printing Types. [At the foot] The above are some of the Sizes cast in the Letter Foundery [sic] of Dr. Alex. Wilson and Sons. Glasgow, 1783. [Glasgow, s.n.,1783]. £325 Folio broadside, printed on one side only, 520 x 420mm, the fonts are arranged in 4 columns, giving examples of 29 different Roman, 5 black-letter, 6 Hebrew, and 5 Greek types, a couple of minor marginal tears, fold creases. “Alexander Wilson together with John Baine established his foundry at St. Andrews in 1742. In 1744 the business was moved to Glasgow and Wilson became closely connected with the University Printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. It was for their edition of Homer, printed 1756-8, that he cut his Double Pica Greek, known as the Glasgow Homer Greek. Although still modelled on Garamond's ‘Grecs du roi’, Wilson's fount is notable for its abandoning of the excessive number of tied letters found in earlier Greeks. His romans, at least those shown in his specimens, were modelled on Baskerville.”—Berry & Johnson. This, the second specimen issued by Wilson and Son, was set up for Chambers ‘Cyclopaedia’ in 1783. Berry & Johnson, p. 53; Mosley, 212; Updike, vol. II, p. 117.
430. UNTERKIRCHER (Franz) Abendländische Buchmalerei Miniaturen aus Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Mit einem Vorwort von Josef Stummvoll. Styria, Wien.1966. £50 Folio, 272pp., 60 tipped-in coloured plates of illuminated manuscripts, orig. embossed cloth, gilt, a nice copy.
431. UPCOTT (William) A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography. Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor.1818. £295 First Edition, 3 vols., one of 250 copies, with the bookplate of Sir Francis Hopkins and of a more recent owner, 2 frontispieces, some light foxing, cont. half, spine and covers elaborately tooled in gold, 2 volumes re-backed with the original spines laid-down, a.e.g. a nice set.
432. VACHON (Marius) La Bibliothèque du Louvre et la Collection Bibliographique Motteley. A. Quantin, Paris.1879. £42 [vi],109.[3]pp., one of 300 numbered copies, 1 plate, orig. printed wrappers, detached, spine broken, uncut.
433. VALENTINELLI (Giuseppe) Bibliografia del Friuli. (Reprint of the 1861 Edition) 1998. £42 viii,540pp., orig. cloth. A bibliography of the Friuli region of Italy, the principal cities of which are Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia and Trieste. Valentinelli’s work is the most comprehensive work on the subject, covering more than 3655 printed items.
434. VATICAN, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Processus Contra Templarios. Exemplaria Praetiosa III. Vatican Secret Archives.2007. £4,745 Folio, 2 vols., one of 799 numbered copies, with the official warranty certificate, text volume in Latin, Italian and English, printed on specially made cotton paper, with 3 engraved plates, accompanying portfolio containing facsimile manuscripts and Papal seals in elaborate leather pockets decorated in gilt, publisher’s vellum over wooden boards, text volume lettered in gilt, spine of portfolio with onlaid leather strapwork and ties, preserved in single wallet-style limp goatskin portfolio, with ties, original velour bag. The documentation of the papal hearings convened by Clement V after Philip IV of France arrested and tortured Templar leaders in 1307 on charges of heresy and immorality. Clement eventually suppressed the order in 1312, but the facsimiles include the “Parchment of Chinon,” a previously overlooked 1308 manuscript recording the
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Clement’s initial decision to save the Templars and their order.
An extremely lavish work issued by the Vatican Secret Archives, reproducing in facsimile the original copies of the exclusive and previously unavailable hearing of the acts of the Poitiers Trial against the Knights Templar (June 28 through August 20, 1308). The acts are backed with an extraordinary transcription and a previously unpublished critical edition.
The ancient parchments, and among them the Chinon paper which includes the papal acquittal upon the accusations against the Knights Templar, the private agenda with notes likely written by pope Clemens V. The surviving acts of the pontiff inquiry, kept at the Vatican Secret Archive, show to what extent the pope himself aimed to save and preserve the existence of the Templar Order, assigning it a new role upon restoration of its habits and rules.
435. VOET (Leon) The Golden Compasses. A History and Evaluation of the Printing and Publishing Activities of the Officina Plantiniana at Antwerp. Vol. I. Christophe Plantin and the Moretuses: their Lives and their World. Vol. II. The Management of a Printing and Publishing House in Renaissance and Baroque. Vangendt & Co., Amsterdam,1969-72. £325 2 vols., xxii,501; xxii,632pp., portrait and 182 plates, orig. cloth, d.w’s. The standard biography of Christophe Plantin, who’s printing and publishing house, The Officina Plantiniana, may be considered the most important that ever existed in Western Europe.
436. VRIES (Abraham De) Eclaircissements sur l’histoire del’invention de l’imprimerie contenant: Lettre à M.A.D. Schinkel ou réponse à la notice de M. Guichard sur le Speculum Humanae Salvationis- Dissertation sur le nom de Coster et sur sa prétendue charge de sacristain . Recherches faites à l’occasion de la quatrième fête séculaire à Haarlem en 1823. Traduit du hollandais par J.F. Noordziek. [With:] Arguments des Allemands en Faveur de leur Prétention à l’invention de l’imprimerie; du examen critique de l’ouvrage de M. A.E. Umbreit... La Haye: A.D. Schinkel.1843-45. £145 First Edition, 2 vols., 275,[1]; xxxiv,212pp., orig. printed boards, spines rubbed. Bigmore & Wyman III, pp.56 & 57.
437. WALLIS (N. Hardy) Editor. The New Testament Translated by William Tyndale 1534. A Reprint of the Edition of 1534 with the Translator’s Preface & Notes and the variants of the edition of 1525. With an Introduction by the Right Honourable Isaac Foot. Cambridge University Press.1938. £75 4to, xviii,628pp., orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g.
438. WALPOLE (Horace) A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole. George Robins.1842. £245 4to, xxiv,250pp., from the personal library of A. Edward Newton, lithographed frontis., portrait, engraved and printed title, orig. printed wrappers detached, lightly rubbed and soiled, cloth spine, preserved in cloth folding case. The sale catalogue for Horace Walpole’s remarkable estate at Strawberry Hill. It includes a tour of the house itself in the introduction, followed by each of the days sales, including books, prints, coins and medals, pictures and drawings, enamels and miniatures, furniture, china, porcelain, and even stained glass (the sale went on for a staggering 24 days).
439. WALTHOE (J[ohn]) A Catalogue of Modern English Books, in Divinity, History, Law, Philosophy, Mathematicks, Poetry, &c. Sold by J. Walthoe Jun.over against the Royal- Exchange in Cornhill.1721. £495 12mo, 12pp., woodcut device on title-page, lists over 220 titles in the aforementioned subjects, cont. calf, rubbed. “John Walthoe began his publishing in 1683. In 1684 when he published two novels from the French entitled ‘The Triumph of Friendship’ and ‘The Force of Love’, and from that time onward he continued to be a prominent
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publisher of similar books. Dunton, however, who speaks very well of him, does not mention these, but notes that “he prints and deals much in Law Books”. Walthoe contributed five guineas to the Bowyer fund, and was in business as late as the year 1733.”—Plomer, Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers 1668 to 1725. pp.300-1.
This catalogue is bound in after a 1710 edition of John Locke’s ‘Some Thoughts Concerning Education’. ESTC T57318, British Library copy only.
440. WEALE (W.H. James) & BOHATTA (Hanns) Bibliographia Liturgica. Catalogus Missalium, Ritus Latini ab Anno M.CCCC.LXXIV. Bernard Quaritch.1928. £75 First Edition, xxxii,380pp., orig. cloth. Still one of the standard works on Latin missal, and here in Bohatta’s revision, describing 1,939 works. All entries are fully described and cross-referenced with all the standard general works on early books.
441. WEGENER (Johannes) Die Zainer in Ulm. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Buchdrucks im XV. Jahrhundert. Heitz, Strassburg.1904. £50 First Edition, 4to, [viii],70,[2]pp., with the H.P. Kraus bookplate, orig. boards, slightly faded, leather label on spine.
442. WHATMAN PAPER SAMPLES. [A Specimen Book of James Whatman Handmade Paper]. Designed and Printed at the “H.B.” Studio for W. & R. Balston, Maidstone.1931. £95 Large 8vo, [44]pp., displaying 12 different stocks and qualities of paper with a further 6 tipped-in samples, with a mounted illuminated plate applied with raised and burnished English gold leaf, the woodcuts are all signed by the artist and numbered indicating a limited edition, later paper wrappers, uncut. The text gives a history of the firm and the illustrations mostly show the various processes used in the manufacture of hand-made paper.
443. WHITE (Benjamin and Sons) A Catalogue of an Extensive and Curious Collection of Books in Every Language, and Class of Literature; Containing Two Entire Valuable Libraries, and Many Costly Articles of Natural History; With a Good Collection of Law Books... The Sale Will Begin on Monday, the 13th of February, 1972, by Benjamin White and Sons, Booksellers, at Horace’s Head, in Fleet-Street, London. [London].1792. £545 [iv],344pp., title and last leaf a little soiled, from the reference library of H.P. Kraus, recent cloth- backed boards, 10,940 items. ESTC locates British Library, Polish Academy of Sciences Library & Bodleian copies only.
444. WILLEMS (Alphonse) Les Elzevier. Histoire et Annales Typographiques. Nieuwkoop: B. De Graaf.(Reprint of the 1880 Edition) 1999. £45 cclix,607pp., plates, orig. cloth, short tear to head of spine. Bigmore & Wyman III, p.84: “This is, without doubt, one of the best guides for those making collections of Elzevier editions. It describes with great minuteness the principal editions from the various presses of this great house.”
PRINTED ON THICK PAPER 445. WILLETT (Ralph) Merly Library. A Catalogue of the Well Known and Celebrated Library of the Late Ralph Willett, Esq. Brought from his Seat at Merly, in the County of Dorset. Comprising a most Rare Assemblage of the Early Printers, Fine Specimens of Block Printing, Old English Chronicles... and a Very Choice Selection of Botanical Drawings, by Van Huysun, Taylor, Brown, Lee, &c. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby... On Monday, December 6, 1813, and 16 Following Days... Leigh and Sotheby.1813. £975 2 Parts in one, [iv],103,[3],103-119,[1]pp., O4 (last leaf of the first part) in both original and cancelled states, printed on thick paper, separate title-page for ‘Botanical Drawings’ but with continues
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pagination, prices and buyers’ names supplied in a neat cont. hand, cont. half calf, hinges cracked, marbled sides, completely uncut, 2720 lots of books and 186 of botanical drawings, a nice copy. Willett formed one of the choicest collections of Incunabula and Caxtons, as well as four block books, of the time. It is possible that Dibdin had a hand in cataloguing some of the books in this sale. He certainly offered to look over the proofs of the early printed book descriptions (letter to Leigh and Sotheby dated Nov. 1, 1813, now at Harvard) and some of the notes look like his work. Along with Dibdin, Heber, Rodd, Noble, Dent, Holford, Bindley, Payne, Calkin, etc. are listed as buyers. According to Windle & Pippin this is the large paper copy printed on thick paper. De Ricci, p.88; Jackson, 33; Windle & Pippin, A22.
MURDER OF A BOOKBINDER 446. WILLIAMS (C.J.) Cook, the Murderer, or the Leicester Tragedy: Being a Full and Faithful Account of the Horrible Assassination of Mr. John Pass, of London, on the 30th of May, 1832, Perpetrated by James Cook, of Leicester; with An authentic detail of the cruel means adopted by the murderer to accomplish the Bloody Deed, And of the inhuman Method which he used to dispose of the Body of his Murdered Victim; To which is added, the Singular Manner in which the Melancholy Fate of the Deceased Gentleman was discovered; The Flight of the Culprit, his Subsequent Apprehension at Liverpool, and his Confession of the Barbarous Fact, with his Trial, Conviction, Sentence, and Execution. Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson.[c.1832]. £775 First Edition, 24pp., folding hand-coloured frontispiece depicting 5 scenes from the case (Cook the Murderer, Burning the Body, The Discovery, Cook Apprehended & The Confession), disbound, lacking lower printed wrapper. The rare account of the murder and trail which, due to Cook’s spectacular method of disposing of the body, caused a sensation in the placid life of Leicester. This was further enhanced by a public execution with the body hanging in chains for three days, thousands came to attend.
“James Cook was born at Anstey, a village outside Leicester, in 1811. Such education as he received was at the Sunday school there. The family later moved to Leicester where Cook was apprenticed to Samuel John, a bookbinder. Johnson died when Cook was about twenty one, and he was said have inherited the business. He bought some tools from John Paas, which were delivered in September, 1831 and it was payment for these that the latter called to collect in 1832. Cook later gave two accounts of what happened at the interview. The likelier one seems to be that he had decided to kill Pass for the money he would have on him from collecting accounts. Cook paid Paas his account and while he was writing the receipt (or possibly when he was examining some books afterwards) hit him on the back of the head with an iron press pin. He failed to kill him, and Paas grabbed up a hammer from the bench to defend himself, but was too weakened to do more than stagger to the door shouting ‘Murder!’ while Cook finished him off with further blows... Then he went out to the Flying Horse Inn, next door, and had a glass of brandy. No doubt he needed it. At ten o’clock he returned to the binding shop and proceeded to dismember the body and burn it... The fire blazed up to such an extent that the wife of the landlord of the Flying Horse thought Cook’s chimney was on fire. She alerted her husband, and they and some others rushed up the stairs and burst open the door. They removed the flesh, put out the fire and sent for a constable.”—Docker, John Paas & James Cook, pp.19-22.
447. WILLIAMS (Iolo A.) Points in Eighteenth-Century Verse. A Bibliographer’s and Collector’s Scrapbook. Bibliographia Series, Edited by Michael Sadleir, No. 7. Constable & Co. Ltd.1934. £45 First Edition, x,144pp., limited to 500 copies, frontis., 8 plates of facsimiles, orig. parchment-backed boards, lightly rubbed, uncut.
448. WILLIAMS & NORGATE. Williams & Norgate’s Foreign Catalogues. I. Classical... II. Theological... III. French... IV. German... V. Linguistic... (A.) European languages... VI. Linguistic... (B) Oriental languages... VII. Scientific & Medical... Williams & Norgate, [London & Edinburgh].[1854-7]. £75 10 parts in one, separately paginated parts variously dated Oct. 1854 - December 1856 with general title-page, orig. embossed cloth, gilt, small tear to lower hinge otherwise a nice copy.
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449. WOLFE (Richard J.) Marbled Paper, its History, Techniques, and Patterns. With Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World. University of Pennsylvania Press.1991. £95 Folio, 38 coloured plates, 49 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive written account available of its history, techniques, and patterns. He has personally tracked down and sorted out historical records of marbling from their original sources, and he draws on his own extensive experience as a practitioner to speak eloquently on technical and stylistic questions.
450. WOUDE (S. van der) Editor. Studia Bibliographia in Honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey. A Collection of Studies and Essays in Bibliography and Allied Subjects. Menno Hertzberger & Co., Amsterdam.1967. £45 First Edition, 478,[2]pp., frontis., numerous plates, orig. cloth, d.w. The book contains 28 contributions of which 13 in English, 13 in French, and 2 in German.
451. WRIGHT (Cyril Ernest) Fontes Harleiani. A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts Preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. The British Museum.1972. £85 4to, xxxv,480pp., 16 plates, orig. cloth, a fine copy. An inquiry into the origins of the manuscripts in the Harleian Collection. The introduction provides a short history of the collection, but the bulk of the work consists of two lists: the first arranged alphabetically by previous owner, place of production, etc.; the second giving the same information in bridged form, but arranged numerically.
452. YATES THOMPSON (Henry) A Lecture of some English Illuminated Manuscripts. With fifty plates taken from ten of the volumes exhibited by the lecturer. Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press.1902. £295 4to, 32pp., followed by 50 collotype plates, presentation inscription from Henry Yates Thompson to Ellen Murray Smith, endpapers spotted, orig. buckram, fore-edges of boards lightly water stained, uncut, t.e.g. A very rare work, private printed in a small number for Henry Yates Thompson and given away by him to friends. Copac locates the a single copy at Manchester; No locations on OCLC.
453. YORKSHIRE. BOYNE (William) Catalogue of the Yorkshire Library, Formed by William Boyne, Esq. F.S.A. Comprising Topography, Spaws, Biography, Geology, Poetry, Commonwealth Tracts, &c. Relating to that Great County... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Thursday, the 11th of December, 1873. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons.1873. £195 27,[1]pp., priced with buyers names in a cont. hand, half calf. The rare auction catalogue of the celebrated Yorkshire collector and bibliographer of that county, the sale consists of 326 lots and realized £398.2s.
Bound in at the the rear are 12 contemporary booksellers catalogues, or partial catalogues, relating to Yorkshire (i.e. John Yule of Scarborough, H.W. Ball of Barton-on-Humber, Watson Chapman of York, etc.).
454. ZEDNER (J.) Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum. The British Library.1964. £40 908pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
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455. BALTAZAR. Livres manuscrits, imprimés, gravés 464. BOOKBINDING. CULOT (Paul) Sur Quelques et peints 1975-1986. Bibliotheca Wittockiana. 1986. Reliures d’Époque à Décor Doré du <
456. BENNETT (H.S.) English Books & Readers 1603 465. BOOKBINDING. DESAMBLANX (Charles) to 1640. Being a Study in the History of the Book Exposition de Reliure Ancienne et Moderne et Trade in the Reigns of James I and Charles I. d’Ouvrages Relatifs a cet Art. Formant la Collection Cambridge University Press. 1970. £25 de Charles Desamblanx, Relieur Bruxellois. First Edition, xiv,253pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Catalogue. Musée du Livre, Brussels. 1916. £32 [iv],24pp., some light foxing, orig. printed wrappers. 457. BERKELEY (Edmund) Editor. Autographs and A rare exhibition catalogue of Desamblanx’s collection of Manuscripts: A Collector’s Manual. New York: bookbindings and his library of 242 books relating to Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1978. £25 bookbinding. First Edition, large 8vo, xviii,[ii],565pp., illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. 466. BOOKBINDING. GHELLINCK Includes sections on forgery and forgers. VAERNEWYCK (Le Vicomte de) La Reliure Flamande au XVe Siècle. Discours prononcé à la 458. BOGENG (G.A.E.) Einfuhrung in die Bibliophilie. séance d'installation du bureau de l'Académie pour Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig. 1931. £25 l'année 1901. Veuve de Backer, Anvers. 1902. £32 First Edition, viii,251pp., orig. cloth, gilt. 30pp., presentation inscription from the author, 3 plates, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy. 459. BOOKBINDING. Leipziger Buchbinderei- Actiengesellschaft. Vorm. Gustav Fritzsche. 467. BOOKBINDING. HIERSEMANN (Karl W.) 300 Sonderabteilung Werkstatt für Handbinde-Kunst. Kunstlerische Buch-Einbande aus dem 14. bis 19. Mit einem Vorwort von Hugo Steiner-Prag. Leipzig. Jahrhundert. Zugleich eine Sammlung seltener und 1911. £25 werthvoller Bücher. Anhang: Literatur über Buch- 4to, 8pp., followed by 14 tipped-in plates of Einbände. Katalog 215 von Karl W. Hiersemann. bookbindings, orig. stiff wrappers. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig. 1900. £30 72pp., 10 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 352 items. 460. BOOKBINDING. Reliures du Moyen Age au Ier Empire. Exposée a la Bibliothèque Royale. Société 468. BOWES (Robert) & GRAY (G.J.) John Siberch. des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. 1955. Bibliographical Notes 1886-1905. With Facsimiles £20 of Title-pages, Colophons, Ornaments, Initial 90pp., 38 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 198 items Letters, Woodcuts, &c., used by John Siberch. described. Printed by John Clay. 1906. £25 First Edition, 52pp., number 74 of 150 copies, with 461. BOOKBINDING. Reliures du XXe Siècle de the bookplate of John William Willis Bund, 10 Marius Michel a Paul Bonet. Exposition a la leaves of facsimiles, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. 1957. £25 469. BRADSHAW (Henry) Notice of a Fragment of the 84pp., coloured frontis., 26 plates (2 coloured), orig. Fifteen Oes and other Prayers, Printed at decorated wrappers, 202 items described. Westminster by W. Caxton about 1490-91, Preserved in the Library of the Baptist College, 462. BOOKBINDING. Exposition de la Société de la Bristol. Macmillan & Co. 1877. £25 Reliure Originale. Accompagnée d’une présentation First Edition, 12pp., from the library of John de reliures ayant appartenu à Jean Grolier. William Willis Bund, orig. paper wrappers a little Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 1959. £28 chipped. Small 4to, xxxii,150 + 22pp., of adverts, no. 65 of 71 copies reserved for members of the société de la 470. BRADSHAW (Henry) Address at the Opening of reliure originale, 42 full page plates of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Library Association bookbindings, orig. decorated wrappers. of the United Kingdom, Cambridge,Sept. 5, 1882. An exhibition of 147 bindings from the library of Jean With an Appendix. Macmillan & Co. 1882. £32 Grolier, followed by a selection of bindings by members First Edition, [4],39,[1]pp., from the library of John of the société de la reliure originale. William Willis Bund, orig. paper wrappers a little chipped. 463. BOOKBINDING. Reliures de Monique Mathieu. A la Bibliotheca Witockiana. Préface de François Chapon, textes de Jean Tardieu et de Jan van der Marck. Éditions Technorama. 1992. £32 4to, 87 bookbindings exhibited, each with a colour illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers.
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471. BROOMHEAD (Frank) The Zaehnsdorfs (1842- 479. FELTOE (Rev. Charles Lett) Editor. 1947) Craft Bookbinders. Private Libraries Sacramentarium Leonianum. With Introduction, Association. 1986. £18 Notes and Three Photographs. The University Press, First Edition, 109pp., limited edition, 36 plates, orig. Cambridge. 1896. £32 cloth. First Edition, xx,244pp., with the bookplate of John The story of one of the better known firms of English William Willis Bund, 3 double-page facsimile bookbinders. plates, orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g.
472. BUTLER (Edward K.) An Important Collection of 480. FRANCO (Edgar) Dictionary of Terms and Notable First Editions of Eminent Nineteenth Expressions Commonly used in the Antiquarian Century English Authors. Unique and Carefully Booktrade in French, English, German and Italian. Selected Copies of the Works of Swinburne, LILA/ILAB. 1994. £30 Rossetti, Tennyson, The Brownings, Byron, etc. The Large 8vo, orig. cloth. American Art Association. 1922. £28 Frontis., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 209 lots. 481. GATHORNE-HARDY (Robert) & WILLIAMS (William Proctor) A Bibliography of the Writings 473. CHRISTIE-MILLER (S.R.) Catalogue of of Jeremy Taylor to 1700. With a Section of Valuable Printed Books and a few Manuscripts from Tayloriana. Northern Illinois University Press. the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court... 1971. £32 the Property of the Trustees of the Late S.R. First Edition, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. rubbed. Christie-Miller.... on 29th & 30th March, 1971. Sotheby & Co. 1971. £25 482. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS. BAKER (Ernest E.) 4to, 117pp., 2 colour and 17 monochrome plates and Are Shakespeare’s Deeds to go to America? 16 illustrations in the text, orig. printed wrappers, Reprinted from ‘The Times’ of 27th August, 1890. 503 lots. [N.p.]. [c.1890]. £18 4pp. 474. [CLOWES (William Laird)] Bibliotheca Arcana Ernest E. Baker, nephew and beneficiary to the Halliwell- seu Catalogus Librorum Penetralium, Being Brief Phillipps library, here pleas to the “many wealthy Notices of Books that have been Secretly Printed, Englishman” to purchase the Shakespearean deeds (for Prohibited by Law, Seized, Anathematised, Burnt or approximately £10,000) before they are to be sold to an Bowdlerised by Speculator Morum. Piscean Press. American library at the close of 1890. An English buyer (Reprint of the 1885 Edition) 1971. £22 was not found, and it was sold, in 1897, to Mr Marsden J. Perry of Providence, who re-sold it Mr H.C. Folger of Small 4to, [ii],xii,141,[1],xxv,[1]pp., one of 700 New York. numbered copies, orig. cloth, d.w. An annotated list of more than 600 obscene and erotic 483. HARLOW (Sylvia) W.H. Davies: A Bibliography. books. The book is sometimes erroneously attributed to Henry Spencer Ashbee. St Paul’s Bibliographies, Winchester. 1993. £16 First Edition, xii,259pp., frontis., 5 illustrs., orig. 475. COLLIE (Michael) George Meredith: A cloth. Bibliography. Dawsons. 1974. £12 First Edition, 290pp., orig. cloth, d.w. 484. HOLLOWAY (Merlyn) Compiler. Steel Engravings in Nineteenth Century British 476. CORNS (Albert R.) & SPARKE (Archibald) A Topographical Books. Holland Press. 1977. £22 Bibliography of Unfinished Books in the English First Edition, small 4to, 205pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Language. Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the With the collation of each work provided in full. 1915 Edition) 1969. £18 xvi,255pp., orig. cloth. 485. HOLMES (Sir Maurice) Captain James Cook: A Bibliographical Excursion. Burt Franklin, New 477. CRICKET. Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures York. (Reprint of the 1952 Edition) 1968. £20 and other items illustrating the History of Cricket at 103pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth. ‘The Yorker’ Piccadilly, London, W.I. With an Introduction and an Anthology of Quotations on 486. HUNT (Arnold) MANDELBROTE (Giles) & Cricket by A. Lloyd-Taylor. Whitbread & Co. Ltd. SHELL (Alison) Editors. The Book Trade & its [1954]. £15 Customers 1450-1900. Historical Essays for Robin 76pp., 19 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed Myers. Introduction by D.F. McKenzie. St Paul’s wrappers. Bibliographies. 1997. £30 First Edition, xviii,316pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. 478. FAXON (Frederick W.) Literary Annuals and Gift cloth, d.w. Books: A Bibliography, 1823-1903; with These essays uncover the connection between the book trade and their customers in the learning and transmission Supplementary Essays by Eleanore Jamieson & Iain of knowledge. They show how the processes and materials Bain. Private Library Association. (Reprint of the involved paved the way for larger economic and social 1912 Edition) 1973. £16 issues. Limited edition, 24 plates, orig. cloth.
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487. KENNINGTON (Don) The Sourcebook of Golf. 496. MOON (Marjorie) The Children’s Books of Mary The Library Association. 1981. £18 (Belson) Elliott. St Paul’s Bibliographies. 1987. £15 First Edition, vi,256pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. First Edition, xxx,142pp., frontis., 26 illustrs., orig. This work highlights and evaluates the key English cloth, d.w. language sources of golf from both sides of the Atlantic This bibliography comprises about 470 entries relating to and elsewhere. the works of one of the most prolific and versatile writers for children in the first half of the nineteenth century. 488. LAKE (Fred) & WRIGHT (Hal) A Bibliography of Archery. An Indexed Catalogue of 5,000 Articles, 497. MOSLEY (James) British Type Specimens before Books, Films, Manuscripts, Periodicals and Theses 1831: A Hand List. Occasional Publications No. 14. on the use of the Bow for Hunting, War, and Oxford Bibliographical Society. 1984. £12 Recreation, from the Earliest Times to the Present 4to, 70pp., orig. printed wrappers. Day. The Simon Archery Foundation, Manchester. 1974. £25 498. MULLINS (E.L.C.) Texts and Calendars: An 4to, xviii,501pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Analytical Guide to Serial Publications. Royal Includes American and British library locations for the Historical Society. 1958. £16 rarer books and manuscripts. First edition, xii,674pp., orig. cloth.
489. LEWIS (Wilmarth) Collector’s Progress. Alfred A. 499. [NIXON (Howard M.)] Bookbindings from the Knopf, New York. 1951. £18 Library of Jean Grolier. A Loan Exhibition. British First Edition, xx,254,[xvi]pp., 17 plates, orig. Museum. 1965. £32 decorated cloth-backed boards, uncut, d.w. First Edition, coloured frontis., 138 illustrs., orig. The collector’s own story of the formation of the world’s gilt-pictorial simulated morocco. greatest collection of books and manuscripts by and about Howard Nixon arranged this exhibition and wrote most of Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the Strawberry Hill the catalogue. Press.
500. PAPERMAKING. The Story of Paper-Making. An 490. LINDLEY (Kenneth) The Woodblock Engravers. account of paper-making from its earliest known David & Charles. 1970. £12 record down to the present time. J.W. Butler Paper First Edition, 128pp., illustrs., throughout, orig. Company, Chicago. 1901. £15 cloth, d.w. First Edition, viii,136pp., illustrs., throughout, orig.
decorated cloth. 491. LODER (Eileen P.) Bibliography of the History
and Organisation of Horse Racing and 501. PARKS(Stephen) The Elizabethan Club of Yale Thoroughbred Breeding in Great Britain and Ireland University and its Library. Introduction by Alan (Books published in Great Britain and Ireland 1565- Bell. Yale University Press. 1986. £30 1973). J.A. Allen. 1978. £25 4to, 280pp., coloured frontispiece, numerous First Edition, 360pp., orig. cloth, gilt. facsimiles, orig. cloth.
492. McDONALD (Edward D.) A Bibliography of the 502. PAYNE (John R.) W.H. Hudson: A Bibliography. Writings of D.H. Lawrence. The Centaur Book Dawson. 1977. £10 Shop, Philadelphia. 1925. £32 First Edition, xvi,248pp., frontis., orig. cloth. First Edition, one of 500 numbered copies, frontis.,
facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper 503. PICKERING & CHATTO. A Catalogue of Old labels, uncut. and Rare Books; Offered for Sale by Pickering &
Chatto. Pickering & Chatto. 1894. £25 493. MAGGS BROS. A Catalogue of Maggs Catalogues 1918 to 1968. Catalogue 918. Maggs Bros. Ltd. [ii],286pp., inner hinges strengthened, endpapers 1969. £16 stained, orig. cloth, covers damp stained, printed paper label rubbed, 3,266 items. Frontis., 59pp., 17 plates, orig. printed wrappers.
504. PROCTOR (Robert) An Index of German Books 494. MAGNUS (Albert) Bookbindings by Albert 1501-1520 in the British Museum. The Holland Magnus. University Library, Amsterdam. 1967. £15 Press. (Reprint of 1903 Edition) 1966. £32 First Edition, 16pp., oblong 8vo, 21 illustrs., orig. 4to, 273pp., orig. cloth, d.w. torn. printed wrappers. This work deals with well over 2,000 books, listed under Exhibition staged for the benefit of the Grolier Club’s 52 German towns; no detail has been spared in the visit. description of type-faces, borders, devices, initials and other characteristics of the printers and publishers 495. MATTHEWS (William) Compiler. British concerned. This was the last part the author completed of Autobiographies. An Annotated Bibliography of his great index of early printed books. British Autobiographies Published or Written Before 1951. University of California Press. 1984. £15 xiv,376pp., orig. cloth. This bibliography contains more than 6,000 entries.
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505. ROBERTS (S.C.) A History of the Cambridge 513. TAYLOR (Archer) Book Catalogues: Their University Press 1521-1921. Cambridge University Varieties and Uses. Revised by Wm. P. Barlow. St Press. 1921. £25 Paul’s Bibliographies. 1987. £25 First Edition, xvi,190pp., frontis., 27 plates, orig. Second Edition, revised, xxxviii,284pp., limited to buckram, uncut, d.w. 500 copies, frontis., orig. cloth. The fullest of the histories put out by the Press during the Concerned with catalogues mostly prior to 1800 that lists interwar years, has appendixes of the University Printers printed books owned by private persons, institutions, 1521-1750, and of the books printed at the Press during booksellers and publishers. Great attention is paid to the those years. list of private library catalogues - probably the most frequently consulted section of the book. 506. RÖTTINGER (Dr. Heinrich) Das alte Buch und seine Ausstattung vom XV. bis zum XIX. 514. TAYLOR (John L.) Golf Collectors Price Guide. Jahrhundert. Buchdruck, Buchschmuck und St. Giles Publications Ltd. 1983. £14 Einbände. Gerlach & Wiedling, Wien. [1915]. £30 First Edition, vi,294pp., numerous illustrs., orig. 4to, [viii],148pp., over 1300 illustrs., of cloth, d.w. bookbindings, title-pages, type specimens, woodcuts, etc., loose in orig. portfolio, lacks spine. 515. TOMKINSON (G.S.) A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in 507. RUPPEL (Dr. Aloys) Stanislaus Polonus ein Great Britain & Ireland. With an introduction by polnischer Frühdrucker in Spanien. Oficyna B.H. Newdigate. Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Warszawska, [Warsaw]. 1946. £30 Francisco. (Reprint of the 1928 Edition) 1975. £20 4to, 84,[3]pp., with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, 4 xxiv,[ii],238pp., illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth. plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. decorated wrappers, Still a very useful reference giving full listings of the uncut. major presses (Ashendene, Kelmscott, Vale, Doves, Eragny etc.) and much information on the middle and lower ranks. 508. RYAN (Lawrence V.) Roger Ascham. Stanford
University Press. 1963. £25 516. TWYMAN (Michael) Compiler. A Directory of First Edition, xii,352pp., orig. cloth, d.w. London Lithographic Printers 1800-1850. Printing Full-length study of the life and writings of Roger Ascham, Latin secretary to Mary Taylor and Elizabeth I, Historical Society. 1976. £16 and one of the founders of English literary prose. First Edition, vi,56pp., 6 folding maps, orig. cloth.
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