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Catalogue 115 A selection of books pertaining to the book arts, particularly relating to bookbinding, printing, bookselling & library history Including books from the library of Howard M. Nixon OBE (1909-1983), who held high office in the British Library and was a world authority on bookbinding Forest Books Autumn 2017 FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 115 MAJOR ABBEY’S COPY, MARKED WITH COST PRICES 1. ABBEY (Major J. R.) An Exhibition of Modern English and French Bindings from the Collection of Major J.R. Abbey. London: The Arts Council,1949. £110 4to (247 x 168 mm), 31pp., 16 plates, Major J. R. Abbey’s copy, against each of the 131 bindings described Abbey has noted a cost price and date of purchase, a running total per page has been added with an overall cost inside rear cover, orig. printed wrappers. A collection of modern English and French bindings by some of the best contemporary binders of the time, all commissioned by Abbey. 2. ADAMS (Thomas F.) Typographia: or, the Printer’s Instructor; a Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art, with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office, Hints to Authors, Publishers, &c. Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co.,1861. £95 8vo (190 x 120 mm), viii, [7]-286pp., some light spotting, illustrs., orig. green embossed cloth, head and foot of spine slightly frayed otherwise a very good copy. A comprehensive manual abridged from Johnson and Hansard, and the second practical printing manual issued by an American author. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 373. Ownership signature of W. J. Blume; bookplate of J. J. Petrie; bookplate of Jackson Burke. 3. AGRICULTURE. Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. London: Royal Agricultural Society of England,1918. £125 First edition, 4to, [2], iv, 386pp., orig. buckram, gilt. A very good copy of an extremely scarce comprehensive agricultural library now dispersed. 4. ALDINE PRESS. Catalogue of a Most Important Collection of Publications of the Aldine Press, 1494-1595. Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.,1929. £45 Small 4to (235 x 175 mm), 80pp., frontis., 11 plates, cont. buckram. 5. ALEMBIC PRESS. BOLTON (Clare) The Compton Marbling Pattern Book. Illustrated with Twenty Seven Samples of their Specially Hand Made Paper. Winchester: The Alembic Press,1986. £145 4to (273 x 195 mm), [46]pp., one of 96 numbered copies, 27 tipped in marbled paper samples, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut. Showcase for the marblers Solveig Stone and Caroline Mann, both learned their trade at the Alembic Press. 6. ALEMBIC PRESS. [BOLTON (Clare)] Payhembury Marbled Papers Sampler. Winchester: The Alembic Press,1987. £160 4to (270 x 195 mm), [44]pp., limited to 145 copies, 26 tipped-in marbled paper samples, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut. Describing the work of marbler Katherine Davis. 7. ANDREWS (John) Catalogue de Livres Français et Italiens, du Cabinet Littéraire de J. Andrews, No. 167, New Bond Street... contenant les ouvrages des auteurs les plus approuvés dans toutes les branches de la littérature, auquel seront régulièrement ajoutés les nouvelles publications. London: G. Schelze,1828. £85 8vo (205 x 130mm), [4], 83, [1]pp., orig. publisher’s wrappers, title printed within a decorative border on upper wrapper, conditions of sale on lower, a nice copy. A rare catalogue of 954 titles (numbered 7000-7954), mostly French, with retail prices offered by J. Andrews' British and Foreign Subscription Library. Cambridge University copy only on Copac. FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 115 ONE OF 32 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER 8. ANDREWS (William Loring) An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.,1906. £450 First Edition, xvii,59,[1]pp., limited to 157 copies of which this is one of 32 copies printed on Imperial Japanese paper, elegant title page designed and engraved on copper by Sidney Smith of Boston, 16 photogravures and 7 page reproduction of Gosden’s 1825 Catalogue of engravings and books on angling and field sports, leather bookplate on front paste-down, gilt decorated paper boards with green corners and trim, uncut, dust-wrapper, a very nice copy. A scarce biography of Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), English bookbinder, book collector, bookseller, and publisher, known as the “sporting binder” because most of his bindings were of books devoted to sports. The peculiarity of his style and the reason he is remembered is that he used tools cut in the forms of fish, reels, rods, baskets, and sportsmen. 9. AUSTIN (Gabriel) The Library of Jean Grolier. A Preliminary Catalogue. With an Introductory Study “Jean Grolier and the Renaissance” by Colin Eisler. New York: The Grolier Club,1971. £40 4to, (280 x 215 mm), viii, 137pp., colour frontis., 8 plates (5 of bindings), orig. two-tone cloth, t.e.g. The introductory essay is followed by: bibliography of recent reference material and and bibliography contemporary references to Grolier; Catalogue of books from the library of Jean Grolier. Provenance: anonymous sales; anonymous private collections; owners past and present; institutional collections; religious houses. 10. BACHAUS (Theodore) [Pseud. of Henry Morris] The World’s Worst Marbled Papers. Being a collection of ten contemporary San Serriffean marbled papers showing the lowest level of technique, the worst combinations of colors, and the most inferior execution known since the dawn of the art of marbling. Collected by the author during a five year expedition to the Republic of San Serriffe. Port Clarendon [North Hills]: San Serriffe Publishing Company [Bird & Bull Press,]1978. £50 4to (273 x 185 mm), 16pp., no. 1 of 400 numbered copies (all copies designated no. 1!), 10 double-page samples of ‘the world’s worst marbled papers’, orig. blue wrappers, spine slightly faded. A whimsical publication produced by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. 11. BAILLIÈRE (J. B.) A Catalogue of Books, in Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy, Physiology, Natural History, Botany, Chemistry, Pharmacy, &., Sold by J. B. Baillière, French, German and Italian Bookseller, to the Royal College of Surgeons, 3, Bedford Street, Bedford Square, London. Paris: J. B. Baillière,1830. £95 8vo (215 x 130 mm), 104pp., text slightly browned, recent boards, spine title label. Jean-Baptiste Baillière founded a bookselling and publishing company in Paris. His brother, Hippolyte Baillière, owned a bookshop in Regent Street, London, also became a publisher, running the business until his death in 1870. The business, later Baillière, Tindall & Cox, became prominent in medical publishing. 12. BAKER (C. H. Collins) Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures in the Possession of Lord Leconfield. London: The Medici Society,1920. £125 First edition, 4to (265 x 200 mm), xiv, 146pp., limited to 250 copies for private circulation, a very good ex-library copy, numerous plates throughout, orig. printed wrappers, a little worn, uncut. 13. BAKER (George) A Catalogue of the Very Choice and Select Library of the Late George Baker... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... on Monday, June 6, 1825, and Two Following Days... [London: J. Compton, Printer,] 1825. [6], [3]-43, [1]pp. [Bound with:] A Catalogue of the Highly Valuable Collection of Prints and Drawings, the Property of the Late George Baker... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... on Thursday, the 16th June, 1825, and Nine Following Days... [London: J. Davy,]1825. £395 FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 115 [6], [3]-71, [1]pp. 2 Vols., in one, 8vo (225 x 145 mm), the first catalogue is ruled in red and priced throughout in manuscript with buyers’ names, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt. Auction catalogue of 855 lots including a number of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press “of the works issuing from which, [Baker] was, it is said, the largest collector”—Quaritch. He was the first to attempt to write a bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, printed in 20 copies only and a copy of this work appears here as lot 837. Baker was an avid collector and was lampooned by Dibdin in his Bibliomania where he appears as Quisquilius. Quaritch, Dictionary, p.26. PRIVATELY PRINTED 14. BAMBURGH CASTLE LIBRARY. A Catalogue of the Library at Bamburgh Castle, in the County of Northumberland, divided into three alphabetical parts. I. English: II. Latin and other antient languages. III. French and other modern languages. With a table of references to each. Published by order of the trustees of the estates of the right honourable Nathanael late Lord Crewe, and Lord Bishop of Durham. Durham: Printed by L. Pennington,[1794.] £1695 4to (255 x 220 mm), [120]pp., interleaved with blank pages, cont. quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum tips, upper joint cracked, spine rubbed but still a very good copy. The Bamburghe Castle Library was collected by three generations of the Sharp family, beginning with John Sharp, Archbishop of York (1644-1714), who had been collecting books from about 1660. The Sharp family were also successively Trustees of Lord Crewe’s Charity and curates of Bamburgh. Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, had purchased Bamburgh Castle in the early eighteenth century. One of the result of the bequests made by Lord Crewe was the purchase in 1779 of the library of Thomas Sharp (1725-72) to form the nucleus of a library for the use of the alternating resident Trustees. This rare first catalogue of the library at Bamburgh Castle was prompted by the gift of the library of John Sharp (1723-92) Archdeacon and Prebenary of Durham which was added to the collections formed by his brother Thomas and earlier members of the family. The bequest was made on the understanding that the library was to remain at Bamburgh Castle. Indeed, it remained there until 1958, when it was deposited with the university library in Durham.