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Catalogue 109 Bibliography, Bookbinding & Reference CATALOGUE 109 BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKBINDING & REFERENCE 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. FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 109 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. FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 109 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. FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 109 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.”.
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