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CATALOGUE 107
BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKBINDING & REFERENCE
1. ABBEY (J.R.) Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860. Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Navy and Army, Panoramas etc. From the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. Dawsons. (Reprint of 1953 Edition) 1972. £165 Large 4to, xxi,[i],428pp., coloured frontis., 32 plates, 50 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
2. 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. Dawsons. (Reprint of the 1952 Edition) 1972. £150 Large 4to, xx,399pp., coloured frontis., 34 plates, 54 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
3. ADAM (Paul) Der Bucheinband. Seine Technik und seine Geschichte. E.A. Seeman, Leipzig. 1890. £195 First Edition, [vi],268pp., with the bookplate of Albert Dressel, 194 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. red morocco by C.W. Vogt & Sohn, Berlin, marbled sides, five raised bands, spine ruled in gilt, a.e.g. extremities slightly rubbed otherwise a very nice copy. An important bookbinding manual, the author was director of the Düsseldorf Technical School of Artistic and Practical Bookbinding. Includes chapters on techniques, gold tooling, different styles of binding, etc.
4. AERONAUTICS. MAGGS BROS. A Descriptive Catalogue of Books, Engravings and Medals Illustrating the Evolution of the Airship and the Aeroplane. Catalogue No. 545. Maggs Bros. 1930. £75 4to, [ii],iv,184pp., frontis., 14 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. wrappers, rebacked, 677 items.
5. ALDINE PRESS. RENOUARD (Antoine-Augustin) Annales de l’Imprimerie des Alde ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de Leurs Editions. Oak Knoll Books. 1991. £50 Thick 8vo, 688pp., orig. cloth. Reprint of the third edition which was originally published in Paris in 1834 in only 350 copies. This famous bibliography of the output of the Manutius family and their Aldine Press, 1494-1598, has remained the standard work on the subject and has been praised as a classic of its kind. Over 1,500 entries given.
6. ALEMBIC PRESS. [BOLTON (Claire)] The Compton Marbling Portfolio The Alembic Press, Oxford. 1992. £85 4to, number 28 of 150 copies handset in Kennerley type and printed on Rivoli paper, 17 samples of Compton marbled paper tipped-in with a leaf of explanatory text, loose as issued in the orig. portfolio, with silk ties.
7. ALEMBIC PRESS. MacFARLANE (Nigel) Handmade Papers of the Himalayas. The Alembic Press, Winchester. 1986. £100 Oblong portfolio, 60pp., one of 108 numbered copies, printed on nine sheets of different paper from Nepal and Bhutan, contained in a cloth-backed portfolio with matching red ties.
8. ALEMBIC PRESS. MacFARLANE (Nigel) Handmade Papers of India. The Alembic Press, Winchester. 1987. £65 First Edition, oblong 8vo, one of 150 numbered copies printed on Jute and cotton paper, 11 tipped-in samples of Indian handmade paper, orig. cloth-backed boards. Designed to complement Handmade Papers of the Himalayas.
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9. ALEXANDER (J.J.G.) & DE LA MARE (A.C.) The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J.R. Abbey. Faber & Faber. 1969. £65 4to, coloured frontis., plates throughout (many coloured), orig. cloth. The majority of the manuscripts are of the fifteenth century, but they range in date from the early twelfth to the late sixteenth century.
10. ALEXANDER (William) A Catalogue of the Entire and Very Valuable Library of the Late William Alexander, Esq. F.S.A. and L.S. of the British Museum. Consisting of a very fine Collection of English Topography; Biography; Antiquities; Voyage and Travels; Chronicles, &c. Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... on Monday, 25th of November, 1816, and Five Following Days. Wright and Murphy, Printers. 1816. £95 [ii],63,[3]pp., title-page soiled with two splash marks and light water staining throughout, 1383 lots, recent marbled paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover.
11. ALSTON (R.) & HILL (B.S.) Compilers. Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library. The British Library. 1996. £40 First Edition, coloured frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth.
12. AMEILHON [Hubert Pascal] Éclaircissemens sur l’Inscription Grecque du Monument Trouvé à Rosette. Contenant un décret des prêtres de l’Égypte en l’honneur de Ptolémée Épiphane, le cinquième des rois Ptolémées. Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Institut National, Paris. 1803. £375 First Edition, 4to, [iv],121pp., 1 large folding plate of hieroglyphics, orig. wrappers, spine defective, uncut.
13. AMERICANA. HARMSWORTH TRUST LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Collection of Rare and Valuable Books... the Renowned Library of the late Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth. [A Complete Set of the Catalogue Relating to Americana; Parts One-Eighteen]. Sotheby & Co. 1948-53. £125 18 Parts bound in two, illustrs., list of prices and buyers’ names to first 9 parts bound-in, orig. printed wrappers, nicely bound in calf by BookEnds, contrasting morocco labels to spine. A complete sets of the catalogues relating to Americana, ten of which are illustrated, the other are the un- illustrated version.
14. ANGLO (Sydney) Editor. The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster. A Collotype Reproduction of the Manuscript. With a Foreword by Sir Anthony Wagner. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1968. £75 2 Vols., large 8vo and atlas folio, 28 double-page plates, of which 4 are in brilliant colour with tissue guards, orig. cloth, d.w’s, lightly soiled. On New Year’s Day 1511, a prince was born to Katharine of Aragon and Henry VIII. To celebrate the event a tournament was held at Westminster, and this was commemorated pictorially on a very large vellum roll—the Great Tournament Roll of Westminster, now preserved at the College of Arms. The present work provides a photographic reproduction of the roll. The tournaments of Henry VIII are described, and the work concludes with an analytical account of the manuscript, together with other relevant documentary records.
15. ART. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. South Kensington Museum. Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the 1870-77 Edition) 1968. £75 3 Vols., large 8vo, 1030;1158;655pp. orig. cloth (vol. 2 shows very slight signs of water staining). Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, mosaics, enamels, archaeology, coins, anatomy, and photography; also includes books on history, criticism, and instruction in the practice of art.
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DE LUXE COPY WITH 22 COLOURED PLATES 16. ASHBURNHAM LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Printed Books the Property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Ashburnham. First-[Third Portion]. [Bound with:] Catalogue of Valuable Books Returned from the Sales of the Ashburnham Library, Having been found to be imperfect. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. 1897-98. £345 4 Parts bound in one, each part complete with the printed list of prices and buyers’ names, de luxe copy with 22 chromolithographed plates (a couple with slight abrasions), the Thomas Thorpe of Guildford copy, prices, buyers & codes scatted throughout in pencil, some light soiling, recent quarter morocco. Illustrated de luxe copy with the 22 coloured plates depicting exquisite bindings. This highly important collection comprised, amongst other bibliophile gems, no less than 24 Caxtons, two copies of the Gutenberg or Mazarine Bible (lot 436, one copy printed on vellum), a Biblia-Pauperum (lot 419) and a copy of the 1462 Bible (lot 437, printed on vellum). 4751 lots, sold for over £64,000.
“Jones’s most sumptuous publications” 17. ASTLEY (Constance) Catalogue of the Library of Constance Astley at Brinsop Court, Herefordshire. [Privately Printed by George W. Jones, Hereford]. [1928]. £395 First Edition, folio, xii,286pp., printed on hand-made paper in Linotype Granjon Old Face, title-page and section headings in Civilite type, title in red and black, the boarder designs and headings are recut on wood from those use by Simon de Colines, orig. half parchment, lightly soiled, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g. A lavish production particularly strong in press books - Ashendene, Daniel, Doves, Eragny, Essex House, Kelmscott and Vale Presses. “This is one of Jones’s most sumptuous publications, probably carried out at Mrs Astley’s wishes, with cost of secondary importance. Her library was rich in fine private press books and both the general stock and natural history sections are high quality. The book was shown at Linotype’s exhibition of printed books at the Imperial Institute, London, in 1930, cat no30. Although there is no statement of limitation it is likely that very few copies were printed.”—Rgerson, George W. Jones. 12.
18. [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. £145 First Edition, xii,108pp., a very good ex-library copy, orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly torn, 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.
19. BAIN (Iain) Albert Schloss’s Bijou Almanacs 1839-1843. Reprinted from the Original Plates with an Introduction by Iain Bain. Nattali & Maurice Ltd. 1969. £65 First Edition, 4to, one of 125 numbered copies, an impression taken direct from the plate for 1843 has beeen tipped-in at the back of the book, 18 full page facsimiles, orig. vellum-backed boards, d.w. slightly torn and repaired. Schloss’s English Bijou Almanacs are amongst the finest of miniature books. This reprint makes use of the still surviving engraved steel plates for the five annual issues published between 1839 and 1843. Each is presented in its original sheet form, showing all 64 pages to view. The introduction covers new ground in giving an account of the production of the Almanacs and hitherto known facts concerning the career of their publisher.
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20. BANDINEL (Rev. Dr.) Catalogue of the Very Extensive and Valuable Assemblage of Books and Tracts, Illustrative of the Times of Charles the First & Second, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, Formed by the Late Rev. Dr. Bandinel, of the Bodleian, Oxford... S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson. 1861. £45 [ii],125pp., orig. printed wrappers, 1372 lots. A scarce auction catalogue of the library of Bulkely Bandinel, Bodley’s librarian from 1813 to 1860. He was responsible for acquiring the Douce and Malone collections.
21. BARTLETT (Henrietta C.) & POLLARD (Alfred W.) A Census of Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto 1594-1709. Yale University Press, New Haven. 1939. £95 Revised and Extended Edition, 4to, v,[i],165,[1]pp., one of 500 copies, orig. cloth, d.w. Descriptions of every known copy of each edition and issue of the Quarto’s.
22. BATESON (Mary) Editor. Catalogue of the Library of Syon Monastery, Isleworth. Cambridge University Press. 1898. £125 First Edition, xxx,262pp., 1 folding plate, slightly foxed, orig. buckram, head of spine slightly frayed, uncut.
23. BEARMAN (Frederick A.) KRIVATSY (Nati H.) & MOWERY (J. Franklin) Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger Shakespeare Library. 1992. £75 First Edition, 4to, 272pp., 244 illustrs., 14 plates in colour, orig. cloth, d.w. The Folger Shakespeare Library presents a selection of its finest bookbindings, from the 15th century to the present. Includes more than 150 examples of the binder's craft, each fully annotated by the curatorial staff of the Folger Library. An extremely sumptuous book, now out of print.
24. BEASLEY (Jerry C.) Compiler. A Check List of Prose Fiction Published in England 1740- 1749. The University Press of Virginia. 1972. £60 First Edition, orig. cloth. Provides as complete and systematic a record as possible of all the novels published in England during the years 1740-1749, including reprinted native works and foreign fiction in translation.
25. BEAUCLERK (Topham) Bibliotheca Beauclerkiana. A Catalogue of the Large and Valuable Library of the Late Honourable Topham Beauclerk, F.R.S. Deceased; Comprehending an Excellent Choice of Books, to the Number of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Volumes, in Most Languages, and Upon Almost Every Branch of Science and Polite Literature: Which will be Sold by Auction... by Mr. Paterson, On Monday, April 9, 1781, and Forty-Nine Following Days... Samuel Paterson. 1781. £475 2 Parts in one, xiv,231,137,[1]pp., several very small faint stamps (hardly noticeable), prelims and final leaf foxed, slight spotting throughout, recent half calf, marbled sides, spine ruled in gilt with a leather label. Topham Beauclerk (1739-1780) was a close friend of Doctor Johnson and the owner of a good general library of upwards of thirty thousand volumes, housed, as Horace Walpole remarks, in a building “that reaches half-way to Highgate.” The catalogue, which is classified, list a rich selection of Elizabeth and later English plays and contains an important section, ‘English Poetry and Miscellanies,’ including Chaucer, 1532, sold at £1. 11s.6d and Surrey, ‘Songs and Sonettes,’ 1567 which fetched £3. De Ricci, p.52.
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26. BERKOVITS (Ilona) Illuminated Manuscripts from the Library of Matthias Corvinus. Corvina Press, Budapest. 1964. £45 First Edition, 4to, 48 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. The Bibliotheca Corviniana which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-1490), collected in his Buda palace was one of the largest and most magnificent libraries of the times. Out of the original Corvinian collection 43 manuscripts and two incunabula are preserved in Hungary, and the present work is a discussion of them.
27. BIBLE FACSIMILE. Die Bibel von Moutier-Grandval, British Museum ADD.MS.10546. [Text by Johannes Duft, Bonifatius Fisher, Albert Bruckner, Ellen J. Beer, Alfred A. Schmid, Eva Irblich & & Hermann J. Frede]. Verein Schweizerischer Lithographiebesitzer, Bern. 1971. £795 Large Folio, 207pp., no. 155 of 1020 numbered copies, with 103 illustrs., 42 coloured plates showing mss. leaves and details of the elaborate capitals or other illuminations, heavy boards, vellum spine.
A splendid manuscript facsimile, often known as the ‘Alcuin Bible’, since it was once claimed, by a vendor who hoped to sell it to the King of France, to be the Bible that Alcuin produced for the coronation of Charlemagne.
28. BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE. Miracles de Notre Dame. Reproduction des 59 Miniatures du Manuscript Français 9198 [73 Miniatures du Manuscript Français 9199 ]de la Bibliotheque Nationale. Berthaud Freres, Paris. 1906. £55 2 Vols., [ii],13pp., followed by 59 plates; [ii],15pp., followed by 73 plates, loose as issued in orig. cloth- backed boards, a nice set.
29. BIRD & BULL PRESS. BLISS (Carey S.) A Pair on Printing. Atkyns’ ‘The Original and Growth of Printing’ & William Caslon and the First English Type Specimen Book. Reproduced in Facsimile with Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa. 1982. £35 137-[141]pp., one of 500 copies, orig. cloth, printed paper label on spine.
30. BIRD & BULL PRESS. MORRIS (Henry) Omnibus. Instructions for Amateur Papermakers with Notes and Observations on Private Presses, Book Printing and some People who are Involved in these Activities. By Henry Morris, Proprietor of the Bird & Bull Press. The Bird & Bull Press, North Hills. 1967. £145 121pp., one of 500 numbered copies, numerous illustrs., a actual paper samples, orig. quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorated paper covered boards, uncut.
31. BLACKMER (Henry Myron) The Library of Henry Myron Blackmer II. Sotheby’s. 1989. £75 4to, coloured frontis., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, 1,515 lots. Auction catalogue of the very important Blackmer collection of Greek and Levantine studies.
32. BLOGIE (Jeanne) Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes de Livres Imprimes. Catalogues... Appartenant a la Bibliotheque Royale Albert Ier. Brussels. 1982-97. £520 5 Vols., 4to, limited edition, orig. cloth. Vol. 1. Catalogues Belges. 1982. Vol. 2. Catalogues Francais. 1985. Vol. 3. Catalogues Britanniques. 1988. Vol. 4. Catalogues Neerlandais. 1992. Vol. 5. Catalogues Allemands. 1997. The volume on Dutch catalogues is due shortly. Describes all the Belgium, Frence, British, Dutch and German auction book catalogues held by this Belgium library.
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33. BODONI PRESS. TASSO (Torquato) Aminta, Favola Boschereccia. Impresso co’ Caratteri Bodoniani, Crisopoli. 1789. £495 4to, [xii],14,[2],142pp., engraved portrait on title and 1 engraved headpiece, nineteenth century half calf by Corfmat, marbled covers, spine gilt, t.e.g. uncut, a good copy in nice condition. The second of two editions published in 1789, though according to Brooks it was actually published in 1792. It is almost identical to the first 1789 edition which Renouard described as “l’une des plus belles éditions de Bodoni.” Beautifully printed, partly in italic type. Brooks 379.
34. BOGENG (G.A.E.) Die Grossen Bibliophilen. Geschichte der Buchersammler und Ihrer Sammlungen. Georg Olms, Hildesheim. (Reprint of the 1922 Edition, 1984. £85 3 Vols., in 2, numerous plates, orig. cloth. A well illustrated bibliography of book collectors and book collecting.
35. BOHATTA (Hanns) Bibliographie der Breviere 1501-1850. Karl W. Hiersemann, Liepzig. 1937. £85 First Edition, small 4to, viii,349,[3]pp., cloth. The standard bibliography of breviaries, including Roman breviaries and those of the various orders. Containing 2,891 entries on chronological arrangement. Indexes by title, date, printer or publisher, and place of publication.
36. BÖHMER (Günter) Die Welt des Biedermeier. Kurt Desch, Munich. 1968. £35 First Edition, 4to, numerous illustrs., throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
37. BOHN (Henry George) Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, and Art Books, Collected During the Last Fifty Years. Privately Printed. 1884. £55 Small 4to, xv,[v],325,[1 blank],114,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy, presentation copy, orig. vellum, a little soiled. The catalogue of the pictures etc. was the product of the last years of his life, and reflects an indefatigable zeal for collecting; the book catalogue was of a part only of his library at Twickenham.
38. BOOKBINDER. Caricature of a Binder. Hand-Coloured Lithograph. S. Marks and Sons, London. [c.1860]. £295 230 x 170mm, hand-coloured lithograph, 8 lines of verse linking binders with inebriation:
The animal whose skin, You have bound that book in, Could not be by half, Like you so great a calf, Nought else you understand Then binding volumes grand. But to lazy at that, More often in the Tap. This was original described and illustrated in the first catalogue of ‘Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding’ as being “Extremely rare, possibly unique”. However, the second ‘Highlights’ catalogue notes that another copy has been located in the John Jaffray Collection. Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding, 1989. No. 20; Highlights, 2000. No. 15.
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JUST PUBLISHED 39. BOOKBINDING. ALBERT (Neale M.) The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. A Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club. Photographs by Tom Grill. Printed for the Grolier Club at the Piccolo Press, New York. 2006. £48 Oblong 4to, xii,212pp., frontis., portrait, with 762 colour photographs by Tom Grill of 250 miniature books in designer bindings, cloth, coloured photo mounted on upper cover, slip-case. Each exquisite book is illustrated in its actual size and is represented by several photos. The bindings are Catalogue of Neale Albert's collection, and exhibition at The Grolier Club. With a Preface by Albert and an Essay by Priscilla Juvelis. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press.
40. BOOKBINDING. BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of Bookbindings. Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1891. £38 First Edition, 4to, lxi,[iii],132pp., half red morocco, marbled paper boards. Unillustrated issue of this famous and important catalogue, with a long introduction by Sarah Prideaux and Gordon Duff.
41. BOOKBINDING. HANNOVER (Emil) Kunstfaerdige Gamle Bogbind indtil 1850. Det Danske Kunstindustri-Museums Undstilling 1906. Lehmann and Stages, Copenhagen. 1907. £85 Small 4to, 164,11,[1]pp., one of 500 copies, 144 photogravure plates, cloth-backed boards. The first important bookbinding exhibition held in Scandinavia. Mejer 386.
42. BOOKBINDING. LOUBIER (Hans) Der Bucheinband von seinen Anfangen bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts zweite, umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig. 1926. £45 First Edition, 4to, 272pp., 232 illustrations in the text (mostly of bindings), first and last few leaves foxed, orig. cloth, head of spine slightly frayed. In the series “Monographien des Kunstgewerbes”, Band XX1/XX11.
43. BOOKBINDING MATERIALS. Illustrated Catalogue of Bookbinding Materials, and Specimens of Brass Types and Handle Letters, Manufactured by H.W. Caslon & Co., Letter Founders, 22 & 23, Chiswell Street, London. H.W. Caslon & Co. [1901]. £295 Small 4to, 84pp., black endpapers, orig. cloth, red edges, upper cover blocked in gilt, a little faded and stained. Including Borders, Ornaments, Bookbinding Equipment, Gold-Blocking, Marbling, Presses, Tools etc., etc.
44. BOSCH (Gulnar) & CARSWELL (John) & PETHERBRIDGE (Guy) Islamic Bindings & Bookmaking. A Catalogue of an Exhibition. The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago. 1981. £145 First Edition, 4to, xii,235pp., presentation inscription from the author, 100 illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers. The Oriental Institute’s collection of Islamic bookbindings was acquired in 1929 from the German Orientalist and Arabic scholar Dr. Bernard Moritz. This study examines the Moritz collection in detail, and includes comparative material also once owned by Moritz and now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Islamic Museums of East and West Berlin. A scarce book.
45. BRAGGE (William) Bibliotheca Nicotiana; A Catalogue of Books About Tobacco, Together with a Catalogue of Objects Connected with the use of Tobacco in all its Forms. Collected by William Bragge. Privately Printed. 1880. £275 4to, [vi],248,[3]pp., large paper, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, part one (printed books) interleaved with blank pages, some light foxing more so to endpapers, cont. half morocco, uncut.
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46. BREWHOUSE PRESS. CAVE (Roderick) & WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) Typographia Naturalis. Brewhouse Press, Wymondham. 1967. £165 First Edition, 4to, [viii],36,4]pp., one of 330 numbered copies, a hop leaf design blocked in gold on title, 1 original nature print, 4 tipped-in plates, quarter morocco, the upper board has a skeleton magnolia leaf laminated between it and a sheet of Japanese silk, then gold-tooled, new spine. Nature printing, a process by which objects are so impressed on a soft metal plate as to engrave themselves, copies being then taken for printing.
47. BRITISH LIBRARY. Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed Elsewhere in Europe before 1601 now in the British Library by D.E. Rhodes. The British Library. 1989. £50 Orig. cloth.
48. BRITISH LIBRARY. Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Spanish Books in the British Library by H. Whitehead. The British Library. 1994. £150 3 Vols., orig. cloth.
49. BRITISH LIBRARY. PAISEY (D.) Catalogue of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries and of German Books Printed in other Countries 1601-1700. The British Library. 1994. £295 5 Vols., orig. cloth.
50. BRITISH MUSEUM. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German-Speaking Countries and German Books Printed in other Countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum. British Museum. 1962. £55 viii,1224pp., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
51. BRITWELL COURT LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Magnificent Series of Early Works Relating to America from the Renowned Library at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks. The Property of S.R. Christie-Miller, Esq. Being the Finest Collection of Americana ever Offered for Sale by Auction in this Country. Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... On Tuesday, 15th of August, 1916, and Two Following Days. Dryden Press. 1916. £50 4to, [iv],122pp., 14 plates (3 folding), some light water staining to lower margin, orig. printed wrappers, re-backed with a strip of cloth, 346 lots. “Messrs Sotheby catalogued the extremely valuable Americana for sale, which was scheduled to take place on 15 August of that year. Before that date, the whole contents of the catalogue (346 lots) were purchased, it is said for £40,000, by George D. Smith, of New York, acting for the late Mr Henry E. Huntington, who chose what he wanted and sold the rest by auction (New York, 24 January 1917).”—De Ricci, p.110.
52. 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. £195 132 + 5pp., of adverts, browned and soiled throughout, some prices supplied in a cont. hand, recent cloth, leather label, 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.
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53. BROOKS (H.C.) Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane. Tipografia Barbera, Florence. 1927. £275 First Edition, 4to, xvi,357,[3]pp., limited to 750 copies, portrait, 59 facsimiles, half morocco by Bayntun Rivière, marbled sides, red morocco to spine, t.e.g. a nice copy. Still the most comprehensive bibliography of Bodoni’s works, giving detailed collations for 1,417 books produced by the two presses with which he was connected.
54. BRUNET (Gustave) La Reliure Ancienne et Moderne. Recueil de 116 Planches de Reliures Artistiques des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles, ayant Appartenu a Grolier, Henri II, François Ier, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois, Louis XIII, Mazarin, etc., et Exécutées par le Gason, Clovis et Nicolas Eve, Hardy Mennil, Bauzonnet, Belz-Niédrée, Etc. Introduction par Gustave Brunet. Paul Daffis, Paris. 1878. £145 First Edition, 4to, [iv],viii,8pp., 116 coloured and plain plates, loose as issued, enclosed in the original portfolio with title stamped in gilt on upper cover, spine renewed.
55. BRUNET (Jacques Charles) Manuel du Libraire et de l’Amateur de Livres... Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, Paris. 1860-1865. £325 Fifth and best edition, 6 vols., (without the 2 supplements published in 1880), large 8vo, cont. morocco, marbled paper boards, a nice set. Vols. I-V: AA-Z; Vol. VI: Table Methodique. 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.
56. CABINET OF USEFUL ARTS. The Cabinet of Useful Arts and Manufactures: Designed for the Perusal of Young Persons. Printed by Thomas Courrtney, Dublin. 1821. £275 12mo, [viii],[9]-180pp., 10 wood engraved plates, a couple of gatherings becoming loose, cont. calf, hinges cracked, head and foot of spine chipped. First published in 1820 by Christopher Bentham of Dublin. Contents include the manufacture of glass, silk and porcelain, wool, hats, leather, paper, salt, sugar, plus the art of calico printing, the type founder, bookbinding, brewing, the copper plate printer, watch making etc. Pollard & Potter, Early Bookbinding Manuals. 96.
57. CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Vol. I. 1840-46. The University Press, Cambridge. 1846. £75 4to, cont. calf, rubbed, upper hinge cracked. Contents: 1. A Catalogue of the Books which were given the Library of St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, by Dr Woodlark. By the Rev. G.E. Corrie. 1840. 11pp. 2. Abbreviata Cronica ab Anno 1377, usque ad annum 1469. By the Rev. J.J. Smith.1840. 1 Plate, 22pp. 3. An Account of the Rites and Ceremonies which took place at the Consecration of Archbisop Parker, with an introductory preface and notes. By the Rev. J. Goodwin. 1841. 27pp. 4. An application of Heraldry to the Illustration of various University and Collegiate Antiquities, Parts I. and II. By the Rev. M. Cowie. 1841. 4 Plates, 92pp. 5. A descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts and scarce books in the Library St John's College, Cambridge. Parts I. and II. By the Rev. M. Cowie. 1842. 162pp. 6. A description of the Sextry Barn at Ely, lately demolished. By R. Willis. 1843. 4 Plates, 8pp. 7. Architectural Nomenclature of the Middle Ages. By R. Willis. 1844. 3 Plates, 86pp. 8. Roman and Roman-British Remains, at and near Sefford, Co. Beds. By Sir H. Dryden. 1845. 5 Plates, 24pp. 9. Specimens of College Plate. By the Rev. J.J. Smith. 1845. 13 Plates, 18pp. 10. Roman-British Remains. On the Materials of two Sepulchral Vessels found at Warden, Co. Beds. By the Rev. J.S. Henslow. 1846. 2 Plates, 4pp.
58. CANNON (Carl L.) American Book Collectors and Collecting from Colonial Times to the Present. The H.W. Wilson Company, New York. 1941. £38 First Edition, orig. cloth.
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59. CAREW (Thomas) The Poems of Thomas Carew, sewer in Ordinary to Charles I. and a Gentleman of his Privy Chamber. Now First Collected and Edited with Notes from the Former Editions and New Notes and a Memoir by W. Carew Hazlitt. Printed for the Roxburghe Library. 1870. £75 Small 4to, lv,[i],245,[1]pp., portrait frontis., orig. quarter roan, head and foot of spine a little chipped, uncut.
ONE OF 153 COPIES 60. [CARNARVON (George Edward Stanhope, Earl of)] Catalogue of Books Selected from the Library of An English Amateur. For Private Circulation Only [Leadenhall Press]. 1893-97. £145 First Edition, 2 vols., [2],49,[1];[2],57,[1]pp., limited to 153 copies on handmade paper, title in red and black, 21 plates (mostly of bookbindings, 2 in full colour), uncut in the original slightly soiled wrappers. This part of the magnificent library of the eminent Egyptologist comprises mainly French editions of either French or classical Greek and Latin Authors. Many descriptions include interesting anecdotal information, and the plates demonstrate the superb quality of the bindings of these books. De Ricci, p. 174. “In 1904 the Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923) who formed a small but choice library of French books of the eighteenth century, sold to the Paris bookseller Edouard Rahir, from whom he had purchased many of the finest items”.
61. CARTER (J.) & MUIR (H.) Compilers. Printing and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization During Five Centuries. With an Introductory Essay by Denys Hay. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1967. £55 First Edition, 4to, xxxvi,280pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. 424 full descriptions of books etc., which, for the ideas that they brought to the world for the first time, are of prime importance to the mind of man.
62. CARTER (John) Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900. Bibliographia Series No. VI. Constable & Co. Ltd. 1932. £110 First Edition, limited to 500 copies, xviii,172pp., frontis., 13 plates, printed on blue paper, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, lower spine bumped with slight tears to lower hinges, uncut. Tracing the history of the development of the bindings with emphasis on how detective work can often yield interesting conclusions on the priority of issue for both the bibliographer and collector. Carter’s comments on method of dating bindings, library bindings, jobbing and remainder publishers, and other curious aspects of publishers’ bindings are essential in the study of this subject.
63. CARTER (John) Collecting Detective Fiction. Aspects of Book-Collecting. Constable & Co., Ltd. [c.1938]. £35 ii,33-63pp., orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly faded.
64. CARTER (Thomas Francis) The Invention of Printing in China and its Spread Westward. Revised by L. Carrington Goodrich. The Ronald Press Co., New York. 1955. £45 Second Edition, revised, xxiv,293pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth. An important book on Chinese origins of printing.
65. CAXTON. Paris and Vienne. Thystorye of the Noble Ryght Valyaunt and Worthy Knyght Parys/ and of the Fayr Vyenne the Daulphyns Doughter of Vyennoys. From the Unique Copy Printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year M.CCCC.LXXXV. With a Preface, Glossary, and Notes. Printed for the Roxburghe Library [by Whittingham and Wilkins]. 1868. £75 Small 4to, xii,100,[2pp., of adverts], one folding facsimile, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, slightly rubbed, unopened, uncut.
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66. CAXTON CLUB. WILKINS (Ernest Hatch) The Trees of the ‘Genealogia Deorum’ of Boccaccio. The Caxton Club, Chicago. 1923. £145 4to, [xii],24pp., one of 160 copies printed on hand-made Fabriano paper, 24 plates (3 in colour), orig. half vellum, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. a fine copy.
67. CHALMERS (George) Catalogue of the Very Curious, Valuable and Extensive Library of the Late George Chalmers... Author of Caledonia Antiqua, Life of Mary Queen of Scots, and Various Literary and Commercial Works... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Evans... on Monday, September 27, and Eight Following Days. Printed by W. Nicol. 1841-42. £395 3 Vols., in one, [ii],141,[1]; [ii],105,[1]; [ii],errata slip,137,[1]pp., part I; ruled in red with prices and buyers’ names supplied in a neat cont. hand, Part II; some prices and buyers’ names supplied, part III; unpriced, quarter morocco, spine ruled in gilt, marbled boards, vellum tips, uncut, upper hinges a little cracked otherwise a very nice copy. George Chalmers (1742-1825) was a British historian, civil servant, antiquarian, and author. He was born at Fochabers, Moray, Scotland, educated at the parish school at Fochabers and at King’s College Aberdeen. He went on to study law in Edinburgh and moved to Maryland in 1763 to practice law in Baltimore. As a devout loyalist, he returned to London in September of 1775 when revolutionary discontent grew in the American colonies. He was appointed chief clerk of the committee of the Privy Council for trade and foreign plantations. He held this post for 40 years, a position that allowed for abundant leisure time to devote to his studies, writings, and antiquary interests. He devoted his life to writing books about Ireland, affairs of America and the British monarchy. He collected a vast library of books, original manuscripts, notes, and manuscript copies of documents used in his research. George Chalmers never married. When he died in London in 1825, his extensive library was bequeathed to his nephew. Upon the nephew’s death in 1841, the library was sold in three parts between September 1841 and November 1842.—Houghton Library.
68. [Charlotte Sophia, Queen Consort of King George III] A Catalogue of the Genuine Library, Prints, and Books of Prints, of an Illustrious Personage, Lately Deceased. Which will be Sold by Auction, on Wednesday the 9th of June, 1819, and the Following Days, by Mr. Christie. Printed by W. Bulmer & Co. 1819. £365 Two works in one, [iv],152,[1]-30pp., (final 30pp., catalogue of prints etc. with separate title-page, pagination and signatures), first two leaves have minimal archival paper repair to upper and lower blank margin, both catalogues priced throughout in the same cont.hand, recent cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on upper cover. Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a tiny German dukedom, married King George III in 1761 and during his insanity was given charge of his person by Parliament. Though she has been considered insignificant historically, her catalogue reveals her as highly educated and interested in many subjects treated in several languages. The sections of poetry and prose contained many works by German eighteenth and early nineteenth century authors, though none by Goethe and Schiller; among numerous English authors Jane Austen was represented by seven novels. The library consists of 4515 lots followed by 563 lots of prints.
NO OTHER COPY LOCATED 69. CHARNLEY (William) A Catalogue of Valuable Books, Many of them in Elegant Bindings, which will begin to be Sold, at the Prices Fixed, On the 26th June, 1794, at W. Charnley’s, Bookseller, in the Groat-Market, Newcastle. Printed by Hall and Elliot, Newcastle. [1794]. £1,295 [ii],[1]-30pp., title and final leaf a little soiled, stitched as issued, uncut. William Charnley (1727-1803), one of the most eminent of Newcastle booksellers, had a chequered career. Served his apprenticeship with Martin Bryson, a respectable bookseller residing on the bridge in Newcastle. In May, 1751, he was taken into partnership by Bryson and succeeded to the business on Bryson’s retirement in 1755. In 1757 he added a circulating library to the business, but all did not go well. In 1771 his shop was destroyed in the flood that washed away the Tyne Bridge and by 1773 he was declared bankrupt, his stock sold, and his circulating library in the hands of Richard Fisher. Unperturbed he was back in business within a year and by 1777 had taken over premises in the Groat Market. From this time, until his death in 1803, his bookselling operation was probably the biggest in Newcastle. Although never a printer, other related trades such as stationer, bookbinder, publisher and paper manufacturer were part of his business. Major works such as Hutchinson's View of Northumberland and Dodd’s Report on inland navigation from Newcastle to Carlisle (1795) were published by him. As far as printing
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was concerned Thomas Saint seems to have been a favourite. He was succeeded by his widow, Elizabeth and his son, Emerson Charnley. We have been unable to locate another copy of this catalogue. Hunt notes that during the latter period Charnley issued many printed catalogues; however, not a single copy is listed in ESTC, but Copac does list four catalogues for William Charnley held at Durham University Library. Hunt, The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860. pp.21-22.
70. [CHARTERIS (Laurence)] Catalogues of Scottish Writers. [With an Introductory Notice by James Maidment]. Thomas Stevenson, Edinburgh. 1833. £110 First Edition, xxiv,168pp., one of 100 copies, orig. boards, re-backed, uncut.
“The Catalogues of Scotish writers which form the chief portion of the present volume, are preserved in a MS. volume in the possession of the Faculty of Advocates, and which formerly belonged to, and is in the hand writing of, the Rev. Robert Wodrow.”—Introduction. Contents: Introductory notice, A short account of Scots divines, A catalogue of Scottish writers, Account of the learned men and writers of Aberdeen, Literary correspondence, 1698-1723, Index.
71. CHEVILLIER (Andre) L’Origine de l’Imprimerie de Paris. Dissertation Historique, et Critique. Divisee en Quatre Parties. Dans la I. on voit son etablissement qui fut fait par des gens de l’Université... avec l’histoire d’Ulric Gering le premier imprimeur de Paris. La II. contient des reflexions sur les livres imprimez par Gering, & quelques remarques curieuses touchant les imprimeurs, & sur la matiere d’imprimerie. La III. découvre l’origine de l'impression Grecque & Hébraïque, qui fut établie à Paris par le soin des professeurs de l’Université. Dans la IV. on fait voir les Droits que l’Université a eus sur la Librairie de Paris, devant & aprés la découverte de l’imprimerie. Jean de Laulne, Paris. 1694. £975 First Edition, 4to, [viii],448pp., cont. calf, hinges cracked, head and foot of spine chipped with loss, spine tooled in gold, morocco label. One of the earliest full-length accounts of early Parisian printing, including an extensive discussion of relations between printers and university faculties, and the introduction of printing in Greek and Hebrew. Andrew Chevillier was an eminent French writer, born at Pontoise 1636 and died in 1700. A nice clean copy which is unusual for this book as it is often found to be badly foxed. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.133.
72. CHURCH (Elihu Dwight) A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America Forming a Part of the Library of E.D. Church. Compiled and Annotated by George Watson Cole. (Reprint of the 1907 Edition). 1998. £165 5 Vols., limited to 100 sets, numerous illustrs., orig. cloth. A monumental work which includes 1,385 entries of books about America, arranged chronologically by date of publication from the earliest period to 1884, with author and title index. Includes full collations with many facsimiles of title-pages, colophons, etc.
73. CIRCULATING LIBRARY, BISHOP AUCKLAND. Rules to be Observed by those who Read Books Belonging to M. Fair’ Circulating Library, Bishop Auckland. [S.n.]. [1820-1833]. £65 121 x 87mm, single sheet printed on one side only.
Peter Fair first established his circulating library in 1820. In 1833 it was renamed Bishop Auckland Book Club. Rules include subscription fee (16 shillings each year, 2 shillings per month), non-subscriber fee (two pence for each volume) and restrictions on lending books to non-subscribers.
74. CLARK (John Willis) The Care of Books. An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. 1909. £110 4to, xxvi,352pp., frontis., numerous plates and illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, uncut. A classic of library literature on the development of libraries and their fittings.
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75. COBHAM (The Rt. Hon. Viscount) & WOOD (Sir Henry Trueman) Editor. Report of the Committee on Leather for Bookbinding. George Bell & Sons. 1905. £110 Second Edition, 4to, [viii],120,[2]pp., coloured frontis., 10 coloured plates showing various forms of deterioration of leather etc., illustrs., in the text, 12 samples of leathers prepared in accordance with the conclusions of the Committee’s report, orig. cloth, gilt. The Committee was appointed with the view of ascertaining why modern bookbinding leathers decay. The report contains valuable information of leather for bookbinding, hints to owners and keepers of libraries, and the fading of colour from dyed leathers, as well as specifications for binding books.
76. COCKERELL BINDINGS. Cockerell Bindings 1894-1980. An Exhibition of Bindings and Conservation of Manuscripts and Printed Books. Adeane Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1981. £40 First Edition, frontis., 27 plates (of which 4 are coloured), orig. marbled wrappers. This exhibition is a salute to the services of Douglas Cockerell and of his son Sydney to manuscripts and rare books.
77. COCKERELL (Sir Sydney) & Others. Editors. Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts. Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1908. £375 Large folio, xxviii,[iv],135pp., from the library of Brian S. Cron with a couple of notes in his hand, 162 full-page monochrome plates, some slight foxing, orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g. “Its range is from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and it may be confidently asserted that so many splendid examples of the illuminator’s art, and so various in their excellence, have never been shown in a single room.” — Introduction.
78. COCKERELL (Sydney C.) The Gorleston Psalter. A Manuscript of the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century in the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Described in Relation to other East Anglian Books of the Period. Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1907. £365 Folio, [viii],49,[1]pp., ex-library, mounted coloured frontis., 21 full-page collotype facsimile plates, some very light spotting, original cloth-backed boards, corners rubbed, soiled. This handsome volume, though primarily, as the title announces, a detailed description and history of the magnificent fourteenth century manuscript, known as the Gorleston Psalter, is at the same time a carefully written monograph of the East Anglian school of miniature painting and ornamentation of manuscripts of the period.
79. COCKERELL (Sydney C.) Old Testament Miniatures. A Medieval Picture Book with 283 Paintings from The Creation to The Story of David. Preface by John Plummer. Phaidon Press Ltd. 1970. £45 First Edition, folio, 208pp., 46 full-page coloured plates, orig. cloth.
80. COLERIDGE (K.A.) Compiler. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Oxford University Press. 1980. £45 First Edition, 60 facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. This catalogue provides extensive bibliographical descriptions of 224 editions and translations of Milton’s works printed before 1801, as well as less detailed descriptions of 223 other works, the more important Miltoniana in the library.
81. COMPANY OF STATIONERS, GLASGOW. Regulations of the Company of Stationers of Glasgow, Agreed at a General Meeting, July 8th, 1814. Printed by W. Lang, Glasgow. 1817. £95 [v],6-16pp., with half-title, stitched in modern decorated wrappers. Begun in 1740 as the Bookbinders’ Society, but to be called now the ‘Stationers’ to include Booksellers etc. The final two pages lists the names of members.
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82. COMPANY OF STATIONERS, LONDON. On Tuesday the 18th instant [crossed out in ink and replaced with “of November”] will be published, The following Almanacks for the Year 1784. Printed and published by the Company of Stationers, and sold by John Wilkie, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street... [S.n.]. [1783]. £375 225 x 170mm, single sheet printed on one side only, several old fold lines, two small wholes, one slightly effecting a single word of text, annotated and signed in ink by John Wilkie, Oct 8, 1783. Listed, in two columns, are first the titles of fifteen London Almanacks, with a further fifteen County Almanacks. This is then followed by the following statement:
A CAUTION. Whereas Persons in various Parts of the Kingdom have piratically printed and circulated certain Almanacks, art- fully imitating those published by the Company of Stationers, whereby the Public is imposed upon: it is thought proper to inform the Purchasers, That all Almanacks printed for the Company of Stationers are to be known by the follow- ing Words: “Printed for the COMPANY of STATIONERS”, “And sold by JOHN WILKIE, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street.” N.B. Country Shopkeepers, Hawkers, and Retailers of Almanacks may be supplied at the said Hall, for ready Money, or good Bills at a short Gate, at the same Price as the London Dealers.
John Wilkie (d. 1785) a much respected bookseller, in St. Paul’s church-yard, and treasurer of the company of stationers. Publisher of the ‘Ladies Magazine’ in 1759, the ‘London Chronicle’ and ‘The Bee’, a weekly paper for which Goldsmith wrote. No other copy located.
83. CONJURING. FINDLAY (J.B.) Catalogue of the J.B. Findlay Collection of Books and Periodicals on Conjuring and the Allied Arts. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1979-80. £35 3 Parts, numerous plates and illustrs., prices and buyers’ names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 1,565 lots.
84. [COPINGER (Walter Arthur)] Hand List of what is Believed to be the Largest Collection in the World of “The Imitation” of Thomas à Kempis. Consisting of a Considerable Number of MSS., and over 1,500 Printed Editions, in Fifty Different Languages, Together with more than 120 Works in Connection with this Work and its Authorship. Privately Printed [Manchester?]. [c.1908]. £125 98pp., 4 plates, orig. printed wrappers, uncut, spine slightly torn otherwise a nice copy. The collection, formed by W.A. Copinger, incorporates that of Edward Waterton; it was acquired by Harvard College Library in 1922. A very scarce catalogue.
85. COPSEY (Tony) Book Distribution and Printing in Suffolk 1534-1850. A.T. Copsey, Ipswich. 1994. £110 First Edition, 525pp., one of 150 copies, orig. cloth, d.w. Contains details of over 500 Suffolk booksellers, binders, printers, and stationers who were active from 1534 until 1850 and beyond. Also a catalogue of nearly two-thousand five hundred books that were printed in the towns and villages of Suffolk 1534-1850; complete with full title, imprint, size and pagination and their locations.
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86. CORDEAUX (E.H.) & MERRY (D.H.) A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1968. £40 First Edition, xxvii,809pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little soiled. This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life and institutions and comprises more than 10,000 entries.
87. COSENS (Frederick William) Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library of Printed Books, Engravings & Drawings of Frederick William Cosens... Comprising Spanish and Portuguese Literature... Works on Wine and the Wine Trade... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. 1890. £50 [ii],286pp., orig. printed wrappers, light staining to lower wrapper, 4995 lots.
88. COUTTS (Henry T.) & STEPHEN (Geo. A.) Manual of Library Bookbinding, Practical and Historical. With an Introduction by Douglas Cockerell. Libraco Limited. 1911. £75 First Edition, ex-library, stamp on title-page covered with tipex, 24 actual samples of leather and cloth, 46 illustrs., orig. buckram. Includes details on different materials for bindings, a historical sketch of bindings and gives various prices on contemporary binding work with guidelines for instructing the binder.
89. COX (Edward Godfrey) A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel. Including Voyages, Geographical Descriptions, Adventures, Shipwrecks and Expeditions. New York. (Reprint of the 1935-49 Edition) 1997. £140 3 Vols., orig. cloth. Lists in chronological order, from the earliest date ascertainable down to and including the year 1800, all the books on foreign travels, voyages, and descriptions printed in Great Britain, together with translations from foreign tongues and Continental renderings of English works.
90. CRANE (W.J.E.) Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools and Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for their Effective use. L. Upcott Gill. [c.1903]. £45 156 Illustrs., in the text, orig. decorated cloth, a nice copy.
COLLECTION OF UNPARALLELED IMPORTANCE 91. CRAWFORD (James Ludovic, Earl of) Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of the Printed Books Preserved at Haigh Hall, Wigan, Co. Pal. Lancaster. [Vols., I-IV]. The Aberdeen University Press. 1910. [With:] Bibliotheca Lindesiana. A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns and other Published under Authority 1485-1714. With an Historical Essay on their Origin and use by Robert Steele. [Vols., V-VI (volume 6 lacking the final 2 leaves of index)]. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1910. £875 Together 6 vols., large 4to, limited to 200 copies, orig. buckram, gilt, some repairs to head and foot of spines. One of the most magnificent catalogues of a private collection ever produced, the catalogue of the printed books giving numerous collations. De Ricci, p. 162. “About 100,000 volumes, forming a general reference collection of unparalleled importance”.
92. CROCKER (Alan) Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne. A History of Paper Making in a Surrey Valley 1704 to 1875. The Tabard Private Press, Oxshott. 1988. £60 First Edition, oblong 4to, xii,77,[3]pp., one of 195 numbered copies, 15 plates, orig. cloth, uncut.
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93. CROSS (Wilbur L.) The History of Henry Fielding. Yale University Press. 1918. £75 First Edition, 3 vols., frontispieces, 33 plates, orig. cloth. Contains the best bibliography of Henry Fielding.
94. CULOT (Paul) & SORGELOOS (Claude) Quatre Siecles de Reliure en Belgique 1500-1900. Preface de Michel Wittock. Eric Speeckaert, Brussels. 1988-93. £85 2 Vols., 4to, 316; 404pp., limited edition, illustrations throughout (some coloured), orig. wrappers. Sale come exhibition catalogue of some 330 examples of fine Belgium bookbindings formed by Antiquarian Bookseller Eric Speeckaert of Brussels.
95. CURRIE COLLECTION. Five catalogues privately printed by Bertram Wodehouse’s son, Lawrence Currie, of the collections in the familial residences of Coombe Warren, Richmond Terrace, and Minley Manor, provide a record of the eldest Currie’s collection.
A. HUMPHREYS (Arthur L.) Compiler. Catalogue of the Library of Laurence Currie, Minley Manor, Hants. [Privately Printed]. 1901. 4to, [ii],184pp., printed on handmade paper, title printed in red and black, full vellum by Hatchards (signed on turn-in), title in gilt to spine and upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy. Copac lists just the British Library copy.
B. HUMPHREYS (Arthur L.) Compiler. Catalogue of the Library of Laurence Currie, 1 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall. [Privately Printed]. 1901. 4to, [ii],91,[1]pp., printed on handmade paper, title printed in red and black, full vellum by Hatchards (signed on turn-in), title in gilt to spine and upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy. Copac lists just the British Library copy.
C. CURRIE (Laurence) & FINCH (Pearl) Compilers. Catalogue of the Collection of Works of Art at Minley Manor. Printed for Private Circulation. 1908. 4to, x,154pp., printed on handmade paper, presentation inscription by Laurence Currie to Harry Hoare, frontis., 21 plates, title printed in red and black, vellum-backed boards by Hatchards (signed), uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy. British Library and Bodleian copies only on Copac.
D. CURRIE (Laurence) & FINCH (Pearl) Compilers. Catalogue of the Collection of Works of Art at Coombe Warren. Printed for Private Circulation. 1908. 4to, xii,104pp., printed on handmade paper,14 plates, title printed in red and black, vellum-backed boards by Hatchards (signed), uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy. Bodleian Library copy only on Copac.
E. CURRIE (Laurence) & FINCH (Pearl) Compilers. Catalogue of the Collection of Works of Art, &c., at 1 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall. Printed for Private Circulation. 1909. £895 4to, xii,96pp., printed on handmade paper, 21 plates, title printed in red and black, vellum-backed boards by Hatchards (signed), uncut, t.e.g. a very nice copy. Bodleian Library copy only on Copac.
Published as a permanent record of the collection of this wealthy English banking family who built Minley Manor and Coombe Warren, both designed by George Devey. Started by Raikes Currie (1801-1881), with the core of the collection being formed by Bertram Wodehouse Currie (1827-1886) between the years 1877 and 1890 and added to by Laurence Currie (1867-1934). Major purchases were made at such sales as those of Strawberry Hill, Blenheim & Hamilton Palace.
Laurence Currie and his sister-in-law, Miss Pearl Finch, have painstakingly recorded the art collection in detail. The library, which has been catalogued by Mr. A.L. Humphreys, contains a good collection of French eighteenth century books and engravings, amongst the latter being the illustrations, by J.M. Moreau, of the works of Voltaire and Rousseau.
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96. D’ENGHIEN (H. Dubois) La Reliure en Belgique au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle. Essai Historique suivi d’un Dictionnaire des Relieurs. Alex Leclercq & Paul van der Perre, Brussels. 1954. £65 First Edition, large 8vo, 251,[5]pp., limited edition, frontis., 15 plates orig. cloth. Historical survey of the styles and techniques of Belgium bookbinding during the 19th century. From page 109 onwards there is an extensive biographical dictionary of binders working in Belgium in the 19th Century.
97. DAVENPORT (Cyril) English Embroidered Bookbindings. Edited by Alfred Pollard. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd., 1899. £85 First Edition, large 8vo, coloured frontis., 52 plates of bindings (some coloured), orig. buckram, slightly worn, uncut, t.e.g. With 4 chapters; Introduction, Books Bound in Canvas, Books Bound in Velvet and Books Bound in Satin.
98. DAVIDS (Thaddeus) The History of Ink, Including its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography. Thaddeus Davids & Co., New York. [c.1860]. £445 First Edition, 72,4,[6]pp., with an elaborate chromolithographed half-title, 14 lithographed plates (1 coloured), final leaf a little creased, re-cased, orig. terra-cotta embossed cloth, gilt decoration and lettering on upper cover, extremities slightly rubbed, t.e.g. An early and handsome history of ink produced by an ink merchant in New York City, whose attractive advertisements adorn the rear of the book. The lithographers were Snyder, Black and Strum and Set in a rather unusual American script type printed by Francis Hart, with whom the young Theodore DeVinne apprenticed. Not in Bigmore & Wyman.
99. 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. £75 First Edition, x,[ii],707,[1]pp., frontis., 267 text illustrs., orig. cloth, a little worn. 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.
100. DAVIES (J.H.) Compiler. A Bibliography of Welsh Ballads Printed in the 18th Century. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorium. 1908. £45 First Edition, 4 parts, 257,xxxipp., from the library of Owen Morris, orig. printed wrappers (a little browned), uncut. Full descriptions of 759 Welsh ballads of the eighteenth-century.
101. DAY (Maurice) A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Worcester Cathedral Library. Printed by E. Baxter, Oxford. 1880. £40 [ii],226pp., with the bookplate of Wells Cathedral library, some light foxing, orig. printed boards, slightly stained, lower hinge split. Cambridge University Library & Bodleian Library copies only on NSTC.
102. DE BELDER (Robert) A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books. Being the Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Library formed by Robert de Belder. Sotheby’s. 1987. £45 4to, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 388 lots. The finest botanical colour-plate library to be sold at auction since the Arpad Plesch sales.
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103. DE BURY (Richard) Philobiblon, Richard De Bury. The Text and Translation of E.C. Thomas. Edited with a Foreword by Michael MacLagan. Published for the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford. 1960. £85 4to, lxxxiii,[i],191pp., one of 500 numbered copies (of 1,000 printed) on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper with a portrait drawing by H.A. Freeth for private circulation only, text in Latin and English, half morocco, pattern paper covered boards, uncut, t.e.g. This edition of the ‘Philobiblon’ was prepared in honour of the seventieth birthday of Sir Basil Blackwell by his sons and colleagues.
104. DE RICCI (Seymour) A Census of Caxtons. Illustrated Monographs No. XV. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford. 1909. £125 First Edition, 4to, xv,[i],196pp., frontis., 10 plates of facsimile types, title in red and black, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. As well as describing, in great detail, each work from Caxton’s press it also includes some early imprints of Wynkyn de Worde, printed immediately after Caxton’s death.
105. DELISLE (Léopold) Notice sur un Manuscrit Mérovingien de la Bibliothèque d’Épinal Communiquée a l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres le 14 Septembre 1877. H. Champion, Paris. 1878. £45 4to, 19pp., followed by 3 facsimile plates each accompanied by transcription on opposite page, presentation inscription from the author to Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, lacks printed wrapper, spine strengthened with brown paper. Sir Edward has excised part of plate 4 to illustrate it in his ‘Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, 1912’ (see facsimile 131 p.366).
106. DESENFANS (Noel) A Descriptive Catalogue (With Remarks and Anecdotes Never Before Published in English) of some Pictures, of the Different Schools, Purchased for His Majesty the Late King of Poland; Which will be Exhibited Early in 1802, At the Great Room, No. 3, in Berners Street, The Third Door on the Right, from Oxford-Street. Printed by Exton. 1801. £325 First Edition, 2 vols., in one, iv,178,[1]; [ii],260,[2]pp., cont. half calf, rubbed, hinges cracked and almost detached. Only the British Library and V & A copies located.
ONE OF 32 LARGE PAPER COPY 107. DIBDIN. LESNÉ [(Mathurin Marie)] Lettre d’un Relieur Francais a un Bibliographe Anglais. L’Imprimerie de Crapelet, Paris. 1822. £745 First Edition, royal 8vo (272x170mm), 28pp., half-title, printer’s device on title, one of 32 large paper copies, the Lefferts copy, with his small gilt morocco book label on front paste down, intermittent foxing, orig. rose boards, peeling at extremities, uncut. Reply to statements made by Dibdin (in the thirtieth letter of his ‘A Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Vol. II, 1821) when he suggested English binders might take a trip to Paris to instruct their French counterparts; Lesné took exception to the remarks.
Lesné (1777-1841) was a self taught binder with an enthusiasm for conservation, who took up binding at the age of 27, and worked in Paris from 1804 until his death.
Jackson, 53; Windle & Pippin, D10. Provenance: Marshall C. Lefferts (1848-1928) collected English literature and Americana; his Alexander Pope collection was purchased en bloc by Harvard.
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108. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) Engraved Portrait of ‘Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin.’, ‘Painted by Henry Edridge. Engraved by Henry Meyer.’ Published Feb. 12, 1816, by Lackington Allen & Co., London. £225 Dimensions of portrait (excluding text) 140 x 115mm, dimensions of plate 280 x 200mm, on piece of paper 335 x 255mm, good clean image, on lightly aged paper, with some small damage to extremities, but none within the plate. A half-length study of a youthful Dibdin with his right hand to temple and right elbow resting of a volume of ‘Bibliotheca Spenceriana’. Windle & Pippin E 4b.
109. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) Engraved Portrait of ‘T.F. Dibdin, D.D. Engraved for the New Edition of the Tour.’, ‘Painted by T. Philips Esqre. R.A. Engraved by J. Thomson.’ Published June, 1829, by R. Jennings, Poultry. £195 Dimensions of portrait (excluding text) 115 x 95mm, on piece of India paper 240 x 160mm, mounted on thicker piece of paper 330 x 245mm, good clean image, on lightly aged paper, with minor spotting to border and mount. Shows Dibdin seated at his desk, on which is a quill pen in an inkstand, in front of a bookcase with draperies, with his right arm leaning on a leatherbound book. ‘The Tour’ is Dibdin’s ‘Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany’ (1821; 2nd ed., 1829). Windle & Pippin E 6b.
110. [DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall)] The Director; A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographiana. Account of Rare and Curious Books, and of the Book Sales in the Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited for Sale, with the Names of the Purchasers. Printed by William Savage. 1807. £450 First Edition, 2 vols., [iv],[3]-379,[1]+4[list of subscribers]; [iv],[1]-183,[184],[193]-336,347- 385,[1],[6]pp., (pp.185-192 and pp.337-346 are omitted in the pagination with text and collation continuous), half-titles, without the additional title to number one which is found in some copies, cont. cloth-backed boards, uncut. This weekly magazine, which Dibdin claims he wrote two-thirds in his ‘Reminiscences’, lasted for only 24 numbers, each number consisting of four half sheets or 32 pages. “The Philanthropist Thomas Bernard and Dibdin were associated together in this publication, which clearly reflected the interests of the two men.”—Windle & Pippin. Jackson 9; Windle & Pippin A 6.
111. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) [MORE (Sir Thomas)] A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty Work of the best State of a Public Weal, and of the new Isle called Utopia; Written in Latin by the Right Worthy and Famous Sir Thomas More, Knight, and translated into English by Raphe Robinson. A.D. 1551. A new Edition; With copious Notes, (including the whole of Dr. Warner’s) and a Biographical and Literary Introduction. By the Rev. T.F. Dibdin. Printed by William Bulmer, at the Shakspeare Press. 1808. £245 First Edition, 2 vols., viii,clxxx,141,[1]; [iv],320pp., engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Thomas More, nineteenth-century half-calf, spines gilt, slip-case, a nice copy. Jackson 12; Windle & Pippin A 9a.
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ONE OF 18 LARGE PAPER COPIES 112. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) Bibliomania; or Book Madness: A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts. Illustrated with Cuts. Printed for the Author, by J. McCreery. 1811. £2,750 Second Edition, greatly enlarged, 2 vols., 4to, ix,[iii],275,[1]; [vi],281-782,[2]pp., one of 18 large paper copies printed on thick paper, with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Dibdin, 1 engraved plate, a few illustrations and decorative borders in the text, extra-illustrated with 48 engravings, full contemporary russia calf by C. Lewis, covers with a triple gilt border, repeated in each spine compartment, bands tooled with a matching design, coat of arms of John Trotter Brockett on both upper and lower covers, doubles with a wide triple gilt border, one hinges expertly repaired, other cracked and a little weak, a.e.g. overall a very nice set. The extremely rare large paper copy, with the engraved portrait of the author, in a clerical habit, engraved by Freeman after J.J. Masquerier, of this plate only 25 were printed and the plate destroyed (see Windle & Pipin E 1), engraved portrait after Edrige of Dibdin (see Windle & Pippin E 4b) placed as frontispiece to vol. II, extra illustrated with 48 engraved portraits, including: Joseph Ritson, Hans Holbein, Alexander Pope, Michael Maittaire, Joseph Ames, John Guttenberg, William Herhert, Voltaire, William Caxton, etc. Jackson 18; Windle & Pippin A 11b.
Provenance: John Trotter Brockett (sold at the auction of his library in 1823, lot 1102, bought by Pickering for £33.12s); Holbrook Jackson (signed by and with his bookplate); Elkin Mathews’ catalogue of the library of Holbrook Jackson [catalogue 119, 1951]; Arnold Yeats.
113. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Bibliographical Decameron: or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography. Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Press. 1817. £645 First Edition, large 8vo, 3 vols., half-titles, [vi],vi,[ii],ccxxv,[1],410,[2]; [iv],535,[2]; [iv],544,[4]pp., 37 of 38 engraved plates (without plate 9 which was not ready at time of publication and only occurs in a few copies, its absence does not render a copy imperfect, note also that plate called for at Vol. III p.303 was bound in Vol. II p.303), numerous woodcuts engravings, full polished tan calf by Rivière & Son, hinges very slightly cracked, gilt border on covers, spines have five raised bands, 2 panels have gilt lettered morocco labels and the remaining panels elaborately gilt, spines darkened to brown, minor rubbing, all edges gilt, overall a clean tight copy in very good condition. “It is perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin’s works... Dibdin states that over £4500 was spent on its production, the composition alone amounting to six guineas a sheet. Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania. On the 9th of December 1817 Dibdin gave a dinner in celebration of the publication of this book to which he invited a dozen of his Roxburghe Club friends...” - Jackson. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28.
DIBDIN’S REFERENCE LIBRARY 114. [DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall)] A Catalogue of the Library on an Eminent Bibliographer, Containing a Most Interesting and Curious Collection of Bibliography and Literary History. Also, The Boke of Eneydos, Compyled by Vyrgyle, reduced into Englysse, and imprynted by Caxton, and The Lyf of Saint Katherin of Sernis, with the Revelacions of Saynt Elyzabeth, the Kynges doughter of Hungarye. Imprynted by Caxton. The Books are all in fine condition, and principally bound by Lewis, and other eminent binders. They will by Sold by Auction, By Mr. Evans, at his House, No. 26, Pall-Mall, on Thursday, June 26, and Two following Days. [Printed by W. Bulmer]. 1817. £2,995 [ii]35,[1]pp., with the inserted slip for lot 770, as published, prices and buyers’ names in ink in a neat hand, with some additions and corrections, some light browning to the text, cont. quarter calf, slightly rubbed, vellum tips, head and foot of spine slightly chipped. The extremely rare auction catalogue of Dibdin’s reference library, sold to help raise funds for his most famous book The Bibliographical Decameron.
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“Catalogues of bibliographical libraries have always been my favourite reading and I have long marvelled at the range and quality of T.F. Dibdin’s reference books, dispersed under duress in 1817. The sale catalogue of ‘the library of an eminent bibliographer’ is very uncommon. In the course of many years of recording locations of auction catalogues only four copies have come my way, in the British Library, the Bodleian, Harvard University Library and at the Grolier Club, New York. It therefore seemed to me appropriate in a volume produced in a bibliographer’s honour to provide an edition of this catalogue of a library so rich in the tools of bibliographer’s trade.”—A.N.L. Munby, Dibdin’s reference library (article in ‘Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard’, 1975).
Jackson 43; Windle & Pippin A32. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature of H. Broadley at head of title, who evidently attended the sale and has supplied the prices and buyers’ names in ink in a neat hand, with some additions and corrections.
115. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical; Preached in King Street, Brompton; Quebec, and Fitzroy Chapels. Printed by John M’Creery. 1820. £225 First Edition, viii,515,[1]+11,[1]pp., of adverts (‘Works Published by the Author of the Foregoing Sermons’ and ‘Preparing for Publication’), with the armorial bookplate of R.H.S. Truell, cont. full diced calf, boards and spine compartments decorated in blind, hinges cracked (upper more so), turn-ins with gilt rolled pattern, rolled edges, a.e.g. Jackson 47; Windle & Pippin A 35.
PRESENTATION ‘PICKED COPY’ FROM DIBDIN 116. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany. Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, Shakspeare Press. 1821. £1,200 First Edition, small 4to, [iv],xxv,[vii],462,lxxix,[i]; [iv],555,[1]; [iv],622,lxiipp., half-titles to vols., II & III, with the full compliment of 83 copperplates after drawings by G.R. Lewis, plus the 64 engraved prints on india paper which are mounted in the text, this set is extra-illustrated with all 52 engraved plates form George Lewis’ ‘A Series of Groups, Illustrating... People of France and Germany’, 1823 (see Jackson 40; Pippin & Windle A 44), full contemporary russia calf by J. Clarke, boards with an outer gilt dog tooth rolled pattern, with three inner single line fillets, five raised bands to spine, compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, turn-ins with gilt rolled pattern, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. a handsomely bound set. Tipped-in are two A.L.s from Dibdin to Robert Ray (who was to later lodge a writ against Dibdin to sequester his Marylebone living to the extent of £483), the first presenting this book, “I forward your copy of my ‘Tour’—48 hours before the day of publication… It is a picked copy… and I will venture to affirm, enough in these volumes on the score of art to make them very desirable in the choicest cabinet. I have risked everything upon them—and the utmost success will not assure me a thousand pounds. The Engravings and Drawings alone cost £4,000…”, dated 15th May 1821, the second letter p refers to the extra plates which were issued at a later date. This set then passed to Holbrook Jackson and was included in Elkin Mathews’ catalogue of his library [catalogue 119, 1951]. From there is was bought by Arnold Yeats, included is a T.L.s from Elkin Mathews Ltd. to Mrs. Yates apologising for the delay in sending the books. Jackson 48; Windle & Pippin A 38a.
Provenance: Robert Ray (Pymme’s Library bookplate); Holbrook Jackson (bookplates); Elkin Mathews Ltd; Arnold Yeats.
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LARGE PAPER COPY FINELY BOUND 117. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) 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. 1824. £795 First Edition, 2 vols., [iv],li,[i],400; [ii],512pp., large paper copy, with the armorial bookplates of Charles Barclay (1780-1855) of Bury Hill, High Sheriff for Surrey, finely bound in cont. full dark-blue morocco, lightly faded, covers tooled with a double fillet outer border, mitred to a inner single fillet panel which is enclosed in a double blind tooled border, flower petal tool in each corner, spine divided into six panels, lettered in two, the others elaborately tooled in gilt, turn-ins with gilt rolled pattern, rolled edges, a.e.g. a nice copy. “Jackson states that large-paper copies sold at 5 guineas in two volumes, the number printed not recorded. Brunet states that there were 100 copies on large-paper”.—Windle & Pippin. Jackson 63; Windle & Pippin A 50a.
118. [DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall)] Thomas à Kempis. Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ, Translated from the Latin Original. Ascribed to Thomas à Kempis; with an Introduction and Notes by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin. William Pickering & John Major. 1828. £45 First Edition, clvii,[iii],389,[3], engraved frontis., 5 engravings laid-down on india paper, cont. calf, re- backed with the original spine laid down, corners bumped. Jackson 70; Windle & Pippin A 53a.
119. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Sunday Library; or, the Protestant’s Manual for the Sabbath-Day: Being a Selection of Sermons from Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly within the last Half Century; with Occasional Biographical Sketches and Notes. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1831. £195 First Edition, 6 vols., small 8vo, ix,[iii],369,[1]; vi,[ii],330; vi,[ii],332; iv,348; vi,[ii],368; x,[ii],372pp., engraved frontispiece to each volume, all frontispieces waterstained, cont. half calf, rubbed, upper cover to vol. I detached, lacks labels. Jackson 78; Windle & Pippin A 56a.
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED 120. [DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall)] Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade. In a Letter Addressed to the Author of the Bibliomania. By Mercurius Rusticus. With Notes by Cato Parvus. Henry Bohn. 1832. £975 First Edition, 8vo extended to 4to, 102pp., title mounted, extra-illustrated with approximately 170 mounted plates inserted at the relevant place according to the text (most engraved, a few woodcut, fourteen hand-coloured taken from Ackermann’s Oxford, many others also of Oxford), 4 letters, 3 sketches, cut signature and note by Rev. Dr. Bandinel, rebound in half calf. The engraved portraits include: Revd. Thomas Frognall Dibdin (Windle & Pippin E 4a), Thomas Hearne, John Duke of Roxburghe, Earl Spencer, Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Horace Walpole, James Brindley, Thomas Grenville, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Duke of Devonshire, etc. Two of the autograph notes are from George John Spencer, one dated 21 August 1824 to William Ford, the Manchester bookdealer and acquaintance of Dibdin, returning a paper which was shown to him by Dibdin and saying that neither he nor his friend Thomas Grenville would be interested in purchasing it, the other include a letter from Longman, Hurst & Co. and another relating to Dulau & Co. Jackson 82; Windle & Pippin A 60.
121. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) Lent Lectures; Preached in the Church of St. Mary, Bryanston Square. Printed for the Author. T. and W. Boone. 1833. £265 First Edition, 2 vols., xii,389,[3]; [iv],435,[1]+8pp., of adverts, with errata leaf, bookplate and signature of W.M. Herchmer, nineteenth-century cloth (none-uniform; vol. I blue cloth, vol. II brown cloth), hinges torn, corners worn, gilt stamped morocco labels chipped with loss. Jackson 83; Windle & Pippin A 61.
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LARGE PAPER COPY, FINELY BOUND BY HAYDAY FOR EYTON 122. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland. Printed for the Author by C. Richards. 1838. [Bound with:] Notes, Chiefly Correctory, on Dr Dibdin’s Tour Through Scotland. [S.n.]. [1838]. £4,975 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, large paper copy printed on thick paper, xv,[i],[vi list of subscribers],[iv],436; [vi],[339]-814; [ii],815-1090,xxx,[ii]; [ii],[3]-16pp., 42 engraved portraits and plates (some occasional off-setting), numerous mounted vignettes within the text, many on india paper, finely bound by Hayday for Joseph Walter King Eyton of Leamington, dark red morocco extra, boards and spine most sumptuously inlaid with various coloured leathers, superbly and elaborately tooled, design repeated on doublers, vellum fly-leaves, a.e.g. a fine copy. The ‘Notes, Chiefly Correctory’ (which is inlaid to size) has been commonly attributed to William B.D.D. Turnbull, the Edinburgh lawyer who edited texts for both the Maitland Club, of which he was a member, and the Abbotsford Club between 1835 and 1847. It is a vicious and trivial attack on Dibdin, pointing out inaccuracies within his ‘Tour’. Jackson states only six copies printed, but Windle & Pippin sited ten and give a probability of more.
James Hayday was a London binder whose name first appeared in the directories in 1825 and who died in 1872, aged 76. He bound a number of books for Eyton, some of them very elaborate productions, this being a magnificent specimen of the skill and taste of the binder. Jackson 89 & 90; Windle & Pippin A 65 & D 19.
Provenance: J. W. King Eyton (sold at the auction of his library in 1848, lot 412, bought by William Pickering for £20.5s).
123. [DORRINGTON (C.)] Composing Room Lectures; A Manual for Young Printers. By an Old Printer. Published by the Author at the Press News Office, London. 1881. £65 Third Edition, 28pp., orig. printed wrappers detached. St. Bride copy only in the UK. One copy in North America (University of Iowa Libraries).
ONE OF 35 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPAN PAPER 124. DU BOIS (Henri Pène) American Bookbindings in the Library of Henry William Poor. Illustrated in Gold-leaf and Colors by Edward Bierstadt. George D. Smith, Marion Press, New York. 1903. £345 First Edition, small 4to, [xvi],77pp., limited to 238 copies, this being no. 10 of 35 numbered copies on Imperial Japan paper, 39 coloured plates (some offsetting), bookplate of Frederick Norton Finny, re- cased, orig. cloth, gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, uncut. George D. Smith produced this elaborate catalogue for Poor, whose collection of bindings was one of the most important ever formed by an American. The sale of the Poor library took place in 1908-09 and the catalogue is illustrated with over 100 plates. This catalogue is beautifully produced and many of the plates are printed with as many as ten colours.
125. DU RIETZ (Rolf) Bibliotheca Polynesiana. A Catalogue of some of the Books in the Polynesiana Collection formed by the late Bjarne Kroepelien and now in the Oslo University Library. Privately Published by the Heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien, Oslo. 1969. £110 First Edition, limited to 800 copies, large 4to, portrait, orig. cloth. 1,368 Items described in full.
126. DUFF (E. Gordon) Notes Upon a Unique Collection of Books, Manuscripts, and Letters from the Library of Count Hoym. Printed for J. Pearson & Co. 1913. £75 First Edition, small 4to, 83,[1]pp., one of 50 copies, a very good ex-library copy, library name crossed out in ink, 4 chromolithograph plates of bindings, cont. quarter morocco, hinges slightly cracked, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, uncut. Navari, Catalogues issued by the firm of J. Pearson & Co. Ltd. 104.
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127. DUNSTER (Charles) A Catalogue of the Entire Remaining Library of the Rev. Charles Dunster, M.A. Deceased, Rector of Petworth, in the County of Sussex; Consisting of a Good Collection in Divinity and Theology... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby... on Monday, the 11th of November, 1816, and Five Following Days. Wright and Murphy, Printers. 1816. £95 [ii],55,[3]pp., 1493 lots., some light staining, recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover.
128. DUVEEN (Denis I.) Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Cognate Subjects in the Library of Denis I. Duveen. (Reprint of the 1949 Edition) 1998. £65 [vi],669pp., 16 plates, orig. cloth. The most fundamental bibliography on the subject, comprising the catalogue of the library of a most eminent collector in the field.
129. ECKEL (John C.) The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values. A Bibliography. Maurice Inman, Inc., New York. 1932. £155 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, frontis., 28 illustrs., and facsimiles, cont. half morocco, t.e.g. uncut, d.w.
130. ECKHEL (Joseph) Catalogus musei Caesarei Vindobonensis numorum veterum: distributus in partes II quarum prior monetam urbium, populorum, regum, altera Romanorum complectitur. Sumptibus Joannis Pauli Kraus, Vienna. 1779. £575 First Edition, folio, 2 vols., in one, [xxxvi],292,[14]+6 leaves of engraved plates; [iv],562,[2]pp.,+2 leaves of engraved plates, first three leaves a little creased, some light browning, nineteenth-century half calf, slightly rubbed and peeling. Joseph Eckhel (1737-98) was a celebrated Austrian numismatist who is considered one of the founding figures of modern classical numismatics and their classification.
131. EDWARDS (Edward) Free Town Libraries, their Formation, Management, and History; in Britain, France, Germany, & America. Together with Brief Notices of Book-Collectors, and of the Respective Places of Deposit of their Surviving Collections. Trubner and Co. 1869. £85 First Edition, xvi,371,[1],262,[2]+20pp., of adverts, orig. cloth, unopened, uncut, a nice copy. Detailed for England and America, brief for other countries. The best account of the early history of public libraries.
132. ELLENPORT (Samuel B.) An Essay on the Development & Usage of Brass Plate Dies; Including a Catalogue Raisonne from the Collection of The Harcourt Bindery. The Harcourt Bindery, Boston, Mass., 1980. £50 First Edition, large 4to, one of 500 copies, coloured frontis., 32 pages of text, 99 plates with accompanying notes, orig. cloth, leather label on spine. An excellent account of a method of hand-binding where the design is pressed on the book from single brass plate in one procedure.
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SEMINAL TREATISE ON LITHOGRAPHY 133. 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. £1,200 Second Edition, [iv],90,[8]pp., with lithographed half-title, title-page and 13 plates (2 folding), some light spotting, orig. decorated wrappers, small tear to lower wrapper, spine chipped. 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. Rare in the original wrappers.
134. EROTICA. NORDMANN (Gérard) Bibliothèque Érotique Gérard Nordmann. Livres, Manuscrits, Dessins, Photographies du XVIe au XXe Siècle. Première [-Seconde Partie]. Christie’s, Paris. 2006. £125 2 Vols., 4to, 295; 305pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers, 998 lots. The world’s largest and most prestigious collection of erotic art ever assembled.
135. EVELYN LIBRARY. Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Wills of J.H.C. Evelyn, deceased and Major Peter Evelyn, deceased. Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd. 1977-78. £45 4 Vols., frontispieces (2 coloured, 1 folding), plates and illustrs., in each volume (some in colour), printed list of prices and buyers’ names loosely inserted, orig. printed boards, slight tear to upper spine, 1,737 lots.
136. EYRE (Charles, Archbishop of Glasgow) The History of St. Cuthbert: or, an Account of his Life, Decease, and Miracles; of the Wanderings with his Body at Intervals During CXXIV. Years; of the State of his Body from his Decease until A.D. 1542; and of the Various Monuments erected to his Memory. Burns & Oates, Limited. 1887. £45 Third Edition, large 8vo, xvi,363pp., folding frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt decorated, uncut, t.e.g.
137. FABRICZY (Cornelius von) Italian Medals. Translated by Mrs. Gustavus W. Hamilton. Duckworth and Co. 1904. £55 First Edition, 4to, viii,224pp., frontis., 40 plates, orig. cloth, head of spine bumped, uncut.
138. FELL (John) Specimens of Books Printed at Oxford with the Types Given to the University by John Fell. [Edited by Robert W. Chapman]. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1925. £245 First Edition, folio, xii,127,[1]pp., one of 550 copies, numerous specimens tipped-in, a very nice ex- library copy with a few small neat unobtrusive stamps, orig. buckram, gilt, uncut. Part I: Illustrations in Type-Facsimile 1674-1778. Part II: Illustrations in Tye-Facsimile 1890-1925. Part III: Miscellaneous Pieces.
139. FERGUSON (John) Bibliotheca Chemica. A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris. Derek Verschoyle. (Reprint of the 1906 Edition) 1954. £75 2 Vols., 4to, xxiv,487; [ii],598pp., orig. cloth. A rich collection of early works with detailed bibliographical descriptions.
140. FERGUSON (Munro) The Printed Books in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. A Catalogue Prepared by Mungo Ferguson. With a Topographical Index by David Baird Smith. Jackson, Wylie & Company, Glasgow. 1930. £110 Folio, xxii,396pp., title in red and black, ex-library, orig. cloth.
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Osler 7069, 3024 - “The Hunterian alone remains of the important 18th century libraries collected by physicians. Before deciding that a book not in the B.M. or Bodley in not in Gt. Britain it is always well to consult (this) catalogue”.
141. FERRARA (Mario) La Bibbia Savonaroliana di S. Maria Degli Angeli. L’unica Bibbia con Postille Autografe del Savonarola. Leo S. Olschki, Florence. 1961. £35 First Edition, folio, 52,[2]pp., 20 plates, orig. cloth, gilt.
142. [FISHER (Richard)] Catalogue of a Collection of Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts. [Privately Printed by John C. Wilkins]. 1879. £85 First Edition, 4to, x,352,[1]pp., printed on handmade paper, numerous illustrs., title and sectional titles within ornamental borders, orig. quarter morocco, slightly rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. Levis, p.218. “This is a beautifully printed volume, with many illustrations of rare prints, title pages, initials, etc. The prints are described or identified by the usual references to Batsch, etc., and there is an interesting biographical note of each artist. It is arranged by schools, the artist of each being listed alphabetically.”
143. FLEECE PRESS. WOOLNOUGH (C.W.) A Pretty Mysterious Art: A Lecture by C.W. Woolnough to the Royal Society of Arts. Introduced by Barry McKay and New Marbled Samples by Ann Muir. The Fleece Press, Huddersfield. 1996. £70 51,[5]pp., one of 300 copies, 11 actual samples of marbled paper tipped-in, orig. cloth-backed decorated paper boards, enclosed in a cloth clamshell box.
NO OTHER COPY LOCATED 144. FLETCHER (J[ames]) A Catalogue of Books, Containing Several Valuable Collections Lately Purchased... Which Will be Sold Very Reasonable (The Prices Printed in the Catalogue) at J. Fletcher’s, in The Turle, Oxford, on Monday, June 15th, 1789. Catalogues to be had Gratis at the Place of Sale, and at Mess. Rivingtons, St. Paul’s Church Yard, London. [Oxford]. [1789]. £995 [ii],201,[1]pp., stitched as issued, with orig. marbled paper backstrip, a couple of minor spots to title otherwise a nice copy in the original state. A very rare fixed price booksellers catalogue of some 8,495 items, the majority of the books are from the eighteenth-century but the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries are also well represented.
James Fletcher, junior (1731-1798) bookseller of St. Paul’s Churchyard, and The Turl, Oxford, son of James Fletcher, senior (1710-1795) bookseller and publisher of The Turl, 1730-95. James Fletcher, Jr., first started out in business with James Rivington at St. Paul’s Churchyard until the latter’s bankruptcy in 1759. He was taken into his fathers business in 1769 and continued to trade until his death in 1798. We have been unable to locate another copy of this catalogue; ESTC lists several other Fletcher catalogues, most recorded by a single copy.
145. FLETY (Julien) Dictionnaire des Relieurs Francais Ayant Exerce de 1800 a nos Jours. Editions Technorama, Paris. 1988. £95 225pp., 60 plates (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers.
146. FOGELMARK (Staffan) Flemish and Related Panel-Stamped Bindings: Evidences and Principles. Bibliographical Society of America, New York. 1990. £50 First Edition, 4to, illustrs., orig. cloth. A distinguished and highly original contribution to bookbinding history. Presenting a new and pathbreaking approach to the study of panel-stamped bindings.
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147. FORBES (David W.) Compiler. Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900. Volume I: 1780-1830 & Volume II: 1830-1850. University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu. 1999 £110 2 Vols., 4to, xxii,527; xvi,599pp., orig. cloth. The definitive comprehensive bibliography spanning all publications dealing with the Hawaiian Kingdom 1780 to 1900. Compiled and annotated by one of the foremost historians and bibliographers in the nation. A further two volumes carrying the work up to 1900 have been published.
148. FRATI (Carlo) Dizionario Bio-Bibliografico dei Bibliotecari e Bibliofili Italiani dal sec. XIV al XIX. Raccolto e Pubblicato da Albano Sorbelli. Leo S. Olschki, Firenze. 1933. £95 First Edition, 4to, x,705,[3]pp., with a 4 page T.L.s from Sorbelli loosely inserted, cont. red morocco, marbled sides, extremities slightly rubbed otherwise a nice copy. Carlo Frati’s Dizionario covers book collectors, librarians and most anyone who was involved in book and manuscripts collecting from the Renaissance to the 19th century, among them numerous famous scholars, especially from the 18th century (for example, Antonio Muratori and Girolamo Tiraboschi), who also held library offices. Here, too, the primary literature is given less emphasis than secondary literature, which derives from the most remote sources. An index of place names refers to the libraries described in the articles. Frati’s work remains on standard work on this subject. The treatment is exhaustive with exhaustive references to related works. There are approximately 6000 citations to other works.
149. FREEMAN (Janet Ing) The Postmaster of Ipswich. William Stevenson Fitch; Antiquary and Thief. The Book Collector. 1997. £50 First Edition, 177pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. Fitch is today remembered for a handful of monographs and his valuable local history collections, some sixty volumes of which remain in the Suffolk Record office. Fitch was also a persistent and unrepentant thief of books, broadsides and manuscripts who betrayed scholarly access and personal trust, enriching both his own shelves and those of other collectors at the expense of unwary custodians.
150. FREEMAN (R.B.) The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist. Archon Books. 1977. £45 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, frontis., 235pp., orig. cloth. Lists some 1600 items, including a complete list of all reprints and editions, with a publishing history of each book.
151. GAUTIER (Henri) L’Art de Laver oder: Die Kunst zu Tuschen, das ist: die allerneueste Manier Vestungen und andere Risse mit gehorigen Farben zu mahlen und zu tuschen... ; nunmehr ins Teutsche ubers. / von H. Gautier de Nismes. Monath, Nurnberg. 1745. [xiv],96pp., 2 engraved plates (one large folding). [Bound with:] BOSSE (Abraham) Gründliche Anweisung zur Radier- und Etz-Kunst: Nemlich: wie man mit Scheid-Wasser in Kupfer und andere Metalle etzen, das Wasser, wie auch den harten und weichen Etzgrund bereiten solle; Ferner, Wie die Kupffer-Platten abzudrucken; die Drucker- Presse zu machen, und was man sonsten dabey in acht zu nehmen hat; Diesem ist als Anhang beygefügt: H. Gautier de Rismes Kunst zu Tuschen, Beede mit hierzu dienlichen Kupffern versehen. Monath, Nurnberg. 1746. £595 [xiv],209,[7]; engraved frontispiece, 18 engraved plates. 2 works bound in one, neat stamp to title of first work otherwise plates and text are nice and clean in both volumes, recent full vellum. The first work, originally published in 1687, was one of the earliest European works on the techniques of using watercolours. The second, a treatise on engraving, when first issued in 1645, the work was “notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on the art”—Bigmore & Wyman I, p.72.
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152. GENGARO (Maria Luisa) & GUGLIELMETTI (Gemma Villa) Inventario dei Codici Decorati e Miniati (secc. VII-XIII) della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Storia della Miniatura Studi e Documenti 3. Leo S. Olschki, Florence. 1968. £40 4to, coloured frontis., 109 illustrs., orig. cloth.
153. GIBSON (R.W.) Francis Bacon. A Bibliography of his Works and of Baconiana to the year 1750. The Scrivener Press, Oxford. 1950. £85 First Edition, 4to, frontis., facsimiles throughout, endpapers spotted, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. 680 items with extensive descriptions.
154. GIBSON (Strickland) Early Oxford Bindings. Illustrated Monographs No. X. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford. 1903. £95 First Edition, 4to, [viii],69,[1]pp., ex-library, 40 plates, library buckram. Concerned only with stamped and rolled bindings, it includes a chronological list of Oxford binders from 1180- 1640.
155. GILMOUR (Pat) Editor. Lasting Impressions: Lithography as Art. Alexandria Press. 1988. £35 4to, 364 illustrs., (48 in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. a little worn. Details the scope and significance of lithography from 1800 to the present day.
156. GOLDSCHMIDT (Adolph) German Illumination. The Pantheon, Florence. 1928. £195 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, bookplate on pastedowns, 200 collotype plates each preceded by descriptive text, orig. cloth, spines gilt. Translated from the German, this work is a standard reference because of the two hundred excellent plates. Volume 1 deals with the Carolingian period, volume 2 with Ottonian.
157. GOLDSMID (Edmund) Bibliotheca Curiosa. A Complete Catalogue of all the Publications of the Elzevier Presses at Leyden, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht, with Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix Containing a List of all Works, Whether Forgeries or Anonymous Publications, Generally Attributed to their Presses. Privately Printed, Edinburgh. 1885-88. £85 First Edition, 3 vols., in one, ex-library, one of 75 large paper copies, orig. cloth, uncut.
158. GRAESSE (Jean George Théodore) Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique... G.G. Gorlich, Milan. (Reprint of the 1858-69 Edition) 1950. £325 4to, 8 vols., orig. cloth, hinge to index volume repaired. Describes more than 100,000 rare books and is particularly strong in German titles, thus supplementing Brunet. Brunet and Graesse between them constitute the main key to noteworthy antiquarian books published during the first four centuries of printing.
159. GREG (W.W.) A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. The Bibliographical Society. 1970. £145 4 Vols., 4to, 1752pp.,138 plates, orig. cloth. Very detailed; essential reference.
160. GREG (W.W.) Editor. English Literary Autographs 1550-1650. Selected for Reproduction and Edited by W.W. Greg in Collaboration with J.P. Gilson, Hilary Jenkinson, R.B. McKerrow & A.W. Pollard. Printed at the Oxford University Press. 1925-32. £395 3 Vols., plus supplement, folio, [278]pp., 110 leaves of facsimile plates, one of 250 sets, each part with a general title-page and list of plates, loose as issued in the orig. portfolio.
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A complete set of this important study of English handwriting. The text consists of biographical notes on the authors, with description and transcription of the facsimiles. Contents: Part I. Dramatists; Part II. Poets; Part III. Prose writers & appendix; Supplement: Scholars & archaeologists.
161. GRENDLER (Paul F.) The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press, 1540-1605. Princeton University Press, Princeton. 1977. £75 First Edition, xxiv,375pp., frontis., 17 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Considers the effectiveness of censorship imposed on the Venetian press by the Index of Prohibited Books enforced by the Inquisition.
162. GROSVENOR (Charles) An Iconography: The Portraits of T.E. Lawrence. The Otterden Press. 1988. £35 First Edition, 144pp., limited edition signed by the author, frontis., 65 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
163. GRUEL (Léon) Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l’Amateur de Reliures. Gruel & Engelmann, Paris. 1887. £245 First Edition, 4to, [vi],185,[1]pp., one of 700 copies on velin de Reves, 66 plates (several in chromolithograph), cont. half morocco by Cedric Chivers of Bath, five raised bands to spine, gilt decorations to compartments, hinges at top of spine cracked, extremities rubbed, uncut. Still a useful reference work by the celebrated bookbinder and bibliophile Léon Gruel (1841-1923). With an historical survey of bookbinding, an alphabetical list of famous binders with long biographical sketches and plates showing their work. Also contains a seven page bibliography of bookbinding. A second volume was published in 1905.
164. GRUYS (J.A.) The Early Printed Editions (1518-1664) of Aeschylus. A Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship. B. de Graaf, Nieuwkoop. 1981. £45 viii,359pp., 9 plates, orig. cloth. This study deals with the Aeschylus editions published between 1518 (editio princeps) and 1664 (the last edition published before the end of the 18th century which had scholarly value) from two points of view: Bibliography and History of Scholarship. Emphasis is on the latter element. “This book is an ideal example of what can be achieved when bibliographic science is combined with expertise in another field; by the harmonious marriage of a sound bibliographic technique with a thorough knowledge of the history of classical scholarship - and particularly, of the textual tradition of Aeschylus - Gruys’s book makes important contributions to both fields” (Fred Schreiber).
165. GUIGARD (Joannis) Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile Guide de l’Amateur des Livres Armoriés. Émile Rondeau, Paris. 1890. £395 Second Edition, much enlarged, large 8vo, 2 vols., xvii,[iii],390.[2]; [iv],494,[2]pp., titles in red and black, with the armorial bookplate of Allan Heywood Bright, numerous illustrations of arms, half red morocco by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool, marbled sides, spines heavily tooled in gold, five raised bands, uncut, t.e.g. a nice set. Still one of the most useful studies of armorial bindings with hundreds of illustrations of armorial designs. Including special sections on French and foreign royalty, ecclesiastics and women collectors.
166. GUTENBERG. LICHTENBERGER (J.F.) Histoire de l’Invention de l’Imprimerie pour servir de défense a la ville de Strasbourg contre les pretentions de Harlem, avec une preface de M.J.G. Schweighaeuser. Jean-Henri Heitz, Strasbourg. 1825. £75 First Edition, viii,100pp., frontis., portrait of Gutenberg, 8 wood-engravings, being facsimiles of Gutenberg types, title, prelims and final leaves foxed, text a little browned, later cloth-backed boards. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p.438. “Lichtenberger states that the first attempts were made by Gutenberg at Strasburg, and perfected by him at Mayence. The claims of Koster and Haarlem he rejects as a fable.”
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167. GUTENBERG. SCHELTEMA (Jacobus) Bericht und Beurtheilung des Werkes von Dr. C.A. Schaab, betitelt : Die Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst, durch Johann Gensfleisch, genannt Gutenberg, zu Mainz. Sulpke, Amsterdam. 1833. £65 iv,228pp., orig. printed wrappers, small stamp on upper wrapper, uncut, a nice copy. Translated from the Dutch by H. Pfaff. Bigmore & Wyman, II. p.307.
168. GUTENBERG. VRIES (A. de) Eclaircissemens sur l’Histoire de l’Invention de l’Imprimerie, Contenant: Lettre a. M. A. D. Schinkel, ou réponse a la notice de M. Guichard sur le Speculum Humanae Salvationis; - Dissertation sur le nom de Coster et sur sa prétendue charge de sacristains; - Recherches faites a L’occasion de la quatrième feste séculaire a Haarlem en 1823. A.D. Schinkel, The Hague. 1843. £50 First Edition, xlii,[ii],275,[1]pp., orig. printed wrappers, uncut. Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.58.
169. GUTENBERG. WESTREENEN (W.H.J. van) Verhandeling over de Uitvinding der Boekdrukkunst; in Holland oorspronkelijk uitgedacht, te Straatsburg verbeterd en te Mentz voltooid. P. van Daalen Wetters, The Hague. 1809. £125 First Edition, [vi],181,[3]pp., orig. stiff decorated paper wrappers, uncut, spine chipped otherwise a nice copy. Supporting Laurens Janszoon Coster of Haarlem as the inventor of printing and he claims that this invention was copied by Gutenberg. Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.79.
170. HAIN (L.F.T.) Repertorium Bibliographicum, in que Libri Omnes ab Arte Typographical Inventa Usque ad Annum MD, Typis Expressis Ordine Alphabetico vel Simpliciter Enumerantur vel Adcuratius Recensentur. Stuttgart and Tubingen: J.G. Cotta and J. Renouard, Paris. 1826-38. £375 First Edition, 4 vols., [ii],594,[2]; [iv]563,[1]; [iv],558; [iv],548pp., cont. calf signed by Lewis, spines gilt-extra, contrasting leather labels, a nice set. “If a bibliography has ever achieved immortality, it is Hain. Simply quoted as Hain (or by his initial H only), his work is the basic bibliography to which anyone working on fifteenth-century books refers or is referred to...”— Breslauer & Folter, 124.
171. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J.O.) The Visits of Shakespeare’s Company of Actors to the Provincial Cities and Towns of England, Illustrated by Extracts Gathered from Corporate Records. For Private Circulation and for Presents only, Brighton. 1887. £95 First Edition, 47,[1]pp., presentation inscription from the author to Sir Theodore Martin, heavily annotated by Sir Theodore, orig. cloth, uncut, re-backed otherwise a very nice copy.
172. HANNETT (John) An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients; with a History of the Art of Bookbinding, from the Times of the Greeks and Romans to the Present Day; Interspersed with Bibliographical References to Men and Books of All Ages and Countries. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., & Mozley and Son, Derby. 1843. £245 New Edition, 12mo, iv,212pp., frontis., 13 plates (one of the plates reproduces a cathedral binding designed by embossing), woodcuts in the text, some light foxing, modern boards retaining the orig. printed upper and lower covers. Pollard & Potter. 100. “This formed the basis of A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some Account of the Books of the Ancients’, edited by W.S. Brassington, London, 1894, which contains a memoir of John Hannett. The first American manual, James B. Nicholson's Manual of the art of bookbinding, Philadelphia, Henry Cavey Baird & Co., 1856 was also based on it.”
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173. HANSARD (T.C.) The Art of Printing. Its History and Practice from the Days of John Gutenberg. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh. 1851. £110 vii,235pp., illustrs., in the text, 2 folding plates of facsimiles, 1 folding plate of a printing-machine, orig. cloth, faded and worn, re-backed. Written by Thomas Curson Hansard, eldest son of the author of ‘Typographia’, of the same name. Includes a section on lithography written by William Nichol. First issued in 1841 under the title ‘Treatise on Printing and Type-Founding’ from the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Bigmore & Wyman I, pp.305.
174. HASSALL (W.O.) The Holkham Bible Picture Book. The Dropmore Press. 1954. £245 Small folio, vii,[3],191,[3]pp., presentation inscription from Hassall to his son, 84 plates (8 coloured), cont. red half morocco over decorated vellum boards, five raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, a nice copy. Complete reproduction in facsimile of the 14th century MS with its important corpus of illustrations of English medieval life, formerly owned by the Earl of Leicester and now in the British Library. The facsimile, printed on hand made paper by O.U.P., was originally intended for publication by the Roxburghe Club.
WILLIAM PICKERING’S COPY 175. 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]. 1834-37. £5,995 13 Volumes bound in five, large 8vo printed on good wove paper, [iv],388; xii,363,[1]; [iv],295,[1]; vii,[iii],355,[1]; [iv],257; [iv],314; [iv],306; [iv],170; [iv],195,[1]; [iv],117,[1]; [iv],189,[1]; [iv],83[1]; [iv],82,[2]pp., an extraordinary association copy of this complete set of the English sale catalogues of the library of Richard Heber (the 13th volume is notoriously rare), with the ownership signature of William Pickering on the endpaper of this first volume, also his initials in volumes 3 and 5, Pickering obviously followed parts of these sales very closely, and his notes—including prices, buyers, and even a few corrections—appear in the margins, he was especially interested in Heber’s incredible collection of Shakespeare quartos—some unique—and his manuscript coded annotations (using Greek letters: obviously indicating how much he was ready to bid) appear next to about two dozen lots, of which he bought two (first editions of King Lear and The Merchant of Venice), the notes, prices and buyers’ are sporadic, and as far as we can tell are in Pickering’s hand, about half the lots in the first two volumes are annotated, particularly those relating to English Literature, the others are less annotated, although here and there there are runs of perhaps 100-200 consecutive lots with annotations, a bit of occasional minor internal spotting, final leaf of part 1 and title of part 5 repaired with archival paper, else fine and bright, recently bound in quarter vellum and marbled boards, titles on spine in calligraphy, a nice set with good margins and uncut. 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, a bibliomaniac if there ever was one... From 1800 to 1830, he purchased at every London sale... He thought nothing of securing whole libraries... When he died, his books filled two houses in London, one at Hodnet, one at Oxford, one at Ghent and one at Paris, not to speak of smaller stores at... other Continental cities. The total number of volumes in his library must have been between two and three hundred thousand, and it is doubtful whether any private individual has ever owned so large a library... The London sales produced £56,744, for books which had cost their late owner over £100,000. The market was absolutely glutted and there were practically no new buyers... The Heber catalogues, although... arranged in the most inconvenient manner, are daily consulted by every bibliographer... His series of Continental books, early Italian and Spanish works, later Latin poetry, humanistic treatises... were unrivalled... The real strength...was, however, in the field of early English literature... For thirty years he... purchased nearly every item which came on the market”.—De Ricci, p.102.
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were held in 1834, 1835, 1836 & 1837. Sotheby’s managed the sale for parts 1- 3 and 9 - 10; R. H. Evans, for parts 4 and 6 - 8 and 11; B. Wheatley, parts 5 and 12-13.
176. HEIJBROEK (J.F.) & GREVEN (T.C.) Sierpapier. Marmer-, Brocaat- en Sitspapier in Nederland. De Buitenkant, Amsterdam. 1994. £35 Oblong 8vo, 158pp., illustrs., of marbled and decorated paper throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth.
177. HENREY (Blanche) British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800. Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Earliest Times until 1800. Oxford University Press. 1975. £145 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, 3 frontispieces of which 2 are coloured, 30 coloured plates, 208 illustrs., orig. cloth, covers slightly marked. Awarded the Triennial bibliographical prize of the international league of antiquarian booksellers.
178. HESSELS (J.H.) Haarlem: the Birth-place of Printing, not Mentz. Elliot Stock & Co. 1887. £45 First Edition, large 8vo, xiv,85,[1]pp., orig. cloth, uncut. Hessels seems to write Gutenberg out of the history of printing, and to replace him with the traditional Dutch favourite, Laurens Janszoen Coster.
179. HIGGS (Henry) Bibliography of Economics 1751-1775. EMO Press. (Reprint of the 1935 Edition) 1990. £40 750pp., orig. cloth. A comprehensive, chronologically arranged, catalogue of literature of economic interest. This volume contains about 7,000 items embracing Agriculture, Fisheries, Shipping, Manufactures, Commerce, Colonies, Finance, Social Conditions, Transport, Topography, etc., with numerous annotations.
180. HINGLEY (Sheila) & SHAW (David) Catalogue of the Law Society’s Mendham Collection; Lent to the University of Kent at Canterbury and Housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library. The Law Society. 1994. £75 4to, cliv;500pp., 21 plates (11 coloured), orig. cloth. The catalogue is preceded by four essays: Grayson Ditchfield Joseph Mendham: collector and controversialist, Jacqueline Eales The Mendham Collection: the contents and their historical context, Sheila Hingley Bindings in the Mendham Collection, and Nigel Ramsay Mendham’s collection of manuscripts, and supported by indices of printers and provenances. Mendham was an Anglican clergyman of Sutton Coldfield and the author of books and pamphlets on the controversy with the Church of Rome, 1820-1850. This catalogue, which represents most of his library, consists of nearly 5000 books and pamphlets on the religious and political controversies of the 16th to 19th centuries including officially printed Roman Catholic ephemera. There are rare editions and versions of ecclesiastical works and some early printed books of great interest. Four incunables appear to be unique and several others have only one alternative published location. Published at £120.
ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED ON THICK PAPER 181. HOARE (Sir Richard Colt) A Catalogue of Books Relating to the History and Topography of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. Compiled from his Library at Stourhead, in Wiltshire. Printed by William Bulmer and Co. 1815. £1,895 First Edition, large 8vo, viii,361,[1]pp., one of 25 copies printed on thick paper, half-title, engraved frontispiece, the limitation leaf has a neat presentation inscription in ink from Sir Richard to Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, cont. red morocco by J. MacKenzie, double gilt border to both upper and lower covers, spine gilt, small split to foot of upper hinge, a.e.g. a nice copy. An extremely rare catalogue printed for private distribution. Many of the books were printed on large paper and bound by the most eminent binders of the time. When the library was sold by auction in 1883-87 the prices obtained for many of the books were exceptionally high.
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“Sir R.C. Hoare possessed a noble library at Stourhead. The foundation of it no doubt was laid by his grandfather, Henry Hoare, whose bookplate occurs on many of the volumes, but it was Sir R.C. Hoare who brought together the magnificent collection of books on British topography, which was probably the finest private one ever formed”.—Fletcher, English Book Collectors, p.315.
182. HOBSON (Anthony) Renaissance Book Collecting. Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings. Cambridge University Press. 1999. £85 xix,[i],275,[1]pp., coloured frontis., 86 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly soiled. Studies, and compares, two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier’s was a bibliophilic ‘cabinet’ of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a catalogue of the latter’s printed books is provided for the first time. The final chapter studies the principal binding shops of Venice in the mid- sixteenth century. Lists of their work are provided.
183. HOBSON (G.D.) Thirty Bindings. Selected from the First Edition Club’s Seventh Exhibition, held at 25 Park Lane, by Permission of Sir Philip Sassoon, Bart. The First Editions Club. 1926. £165 First Edition, 4to, presentation inscription from A.J.A. Symons to Lord Horder, one of 600 copies, 30 plates (18 in colour), orig. red buckram stamped in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. The strength of the Exhibition lay chiefly in the series of English bindings, and particularly in the bindings of 1660 to 1700.
184. HODGSON (William) A Catalogue of the Entire, Choice, and Very Valuable Library of the Late William Hodgson, Esq. F.R.S. of Hoddesden, Hertfordshire... Which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Sotheby... On Monday, March 1, 1824, and Five Following Days. [J. Crompton]. 1824. £95 38 + 6pp., of adverts, browned and soiled throughout, recent cloth, leather label, 1335 lots.
185. HORBLIT (Harrison D.) One Hundred Books Famous in Science. Based on an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club. The Grolier Club, New York. 1964. £345 First Edition, 4to, limited edition, numerous plates throughout, orig. two-tone cloth, t.e.g. slip-case. Examples of early scientific works in theoretical, experimental, and applied science, including technology. Full bibliographical descriptions with facsimiles of title pages, and with brief notes on the importance of these books in the history of science.
186. HUESO ROLLAND (Francisco) Exposición de Encuadernaciones Españolas Siglos XII al XIX. [Blass], Madrid. 1934. £225 First Edition, large 4to, 249pp., ex-library, 61 plates (some coloured), illustrs., in the text, upper inner hinges split, orig. decorated cloth, spine slightly soiled, uncut. Splendid publication on Spanish Bookbinding from the earliest times to the 19th century. The plates reproduced very fine specimens of Spanish bindings and provide extensive material for the study of a subject on which there has been little authoritative research. Many of these bindings may indeed be compared to the best work of the greatest binders of other European countries.
187. HUNT (Arnold) MANDELBROTE (Giles) & SHELL (Alison) Editors. The Book Trade & its Customers 1450-1900. Historical Essays for Robin Myers. Introduction by D.F. McKenzie. St Paul’s Bibliographies. 1997. £40 First Edition, xviii,316pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. These essays uncover the connection between the book trade and their customers in the learning and transmission of knowledge. They show how the processes and materials involved paved the way for larger economic and social issues.
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188. HUNTER (Dard) The Literature of Papermaking 1390-1800. Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the 1925 Edition) 1971. £75 Folio, 48pp., facsimiles, orig. two-tone cloth. The standard bibliography on the subject of papermaking before 1800.
189. HUNTER (Dard) Papermaking. The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Pleiades Books. 1947. £45 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, xxiv,611,[1],xxxvii,[i]pp., frontis., 317 illustrs., folding map at rear, orig. cloth, d.w. torn. One of the most important books on papermaking.
190. INCUNABULA. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Herausgegeben von der Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig. 1925-92. £745 10 Vols., large 4to, from the library of Wilfred Merton with his bookplate, orig. cloth, spines gilt, a nice 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.”
191. ISAAC (Frank) English and Scottish Printing Types 1501-35 * 1508-41 [Vol. 2: 1535-38 * 1552-58]. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford. 1930-32. £65 2 Vols., 4to, ex-library, 269 facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, spines water stained, uncut. Essential reference work for dating English books of the 16th century through typographic variations.
192. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts other than Oriental in the Library of King’s College, Cambridge. The University Press, Cambridge. 1895. £110 First Edition, large 8vo, x,87,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy, blind-stamp to title-page and library label on rear endpaper, buckram, spine lettered in gilt.
193. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Jesus College, Cambridge. The University Press, Cambridge. 1895. £110 First Edition, large 8vo, viii,122pp., a very good ex-library copy, blind-stamp to title-page and library label on rear endpaper, orig. buckram, spine lettered in gilt.
194. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Queen’s College, Cambridge. The University Press, Cambridge. 1905. £95 First Edition, large 8vo, vi,29,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy with the Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, blind-stamp to title-page and library label on rear endpaper, orig. cloth, gilt.
195. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the College Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The University Press, Cambridge. 1909. £110 First Edition, large 8vo, x,[ii],59,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy with the Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate, blind-stamp to title-page and library label on rear endpaper, orig. cloth, gilt.
196. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press. 1912. £195 4to, xxxii,410pp., from the library of Brian S. Cron with his signature, 108 photogravure plates, orig. buckram, gilt, uncut.
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197. JESSOP (T.E.) A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour. Russell & Russell, New York. (Reprint of the 1938 Edition) 1966. £85 xiv,201pp., orig. cloth.
198. JONES (E. Alfred) Compiler. Catalogue of Plate Belonging to the Duke of Portland... at Welbeck Abbey. The Saint Catherine Press. 1935. £35 4to, one of 200 numbered copies, 21 plates, orig. buckram, title in gilt on upper cover, uncut, t.e.g. a fine copy. A nicely produced catalogue of this notable collection of historic plate.
199. JONES (Ifano) A History of Printing and Printers in Wales to 1810, and of Successive and Related Printers to 1923, also, a History of Printing and Printers in Monmouthshire to 1923. William Lewis (Printers) Limited, Cardiff. 1925. £35 First Edition, 4to, [x],367pp., with the bookplate of A.N.L. Munby, from the library of Owen Morris, inner hinges shaken, gatherings a little loose, orig. cloth, lower cover stained, uncut.
200. JONES (Thomas) The Gregynog Press. A Paper Read to the Double Crown Club on 7 April 1954 by Thomas Jones. Oxford University Press. 1954. £40 Limited to 750 copies, 4 engravings (taken from the original blocks), spare label tipped in, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly worn. Contains a 16 page bibliography of the 42 books issued by the press from 1923 to 1940.
201. KARPEL (Bernard) Editor. Arts in America: A Bibliography. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 1979. £110 First Edition, 4 vols., large 4to, orig. cloth. Volume I. Art of the Native Americans, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Design, Sculpture and Art of the West. Volume II. Painting and Graphic Arts. Volume III. Photography, Film, Theatre, Dance, Music, Serials and Periodicals, Dissertations and Theses and Visual Resources. Volume IV. Index.
202. KENYON (F.G.) Editor. Classical Texts from the Papyri in the British Museum. Including the Newly Discovered Poems of Herodas. British Museum. 1891. £38 4to, vi,[ii],122pp., 9 autotype facsimiles of manuscripts, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut, a nice copy.
203. KENYON (Frederick G.) Editor. Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum. The British Museum. 1900. £55 First Edition, folio, ex-library, 25 different specimens reproduced in collotype facsimile, with transcriptions and descriptive text, orig. cloth.
204. KER (N.R.) & PIPER (A.J.) Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1969-2003. £225 4 Vols., orig. cloth. Vol. I: London. xxxviii,437pp., 10 plates. Vol. II: Abbotsford-Keele. xlii,999pp. Vol. III: Lampeter-Oxford. xxxvi,735pp. Vol. IV: Paisley-York. xl,826pp., small stamp on front endpaper, lower cover slightly creased. “These catalogues aim to give full descriptions of manuscripts which have not been adequately listed before, and references to other published catalogues where these exist. Provenances are recorded in the descriptions.”— Pearson, Provenance Research in Book History. p. 243. Vol. V: Indexes and Addenda. 516pp., 2002. This volume can be supplied at the new price of £185.
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205. KEYNES (G.) William Pickering Publisher. A Memoir and a Check-List of his Publications. The Galahad Press. [1969]. £45 Revised Edition, small 4to, frontis., 37 title-page facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. browned. This second a best edition includes descriptions of the devices used by Pickering.
206. KEYNES (Geoffrey) Blake Studies. Notes on his Life and Works in Seventeen Chapters. Rupert Hart-Davis. 1949. £50 First Edition, small 4to, 48 plates, orig. buckram, uncut, d.w. In these studies Keynes unravels many of the parts of Blake’s life and works which remained obscure.
207. KÖNIG (Georg Matthias) Bibliotheca Vetus et Nova, in qua Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Syrorum, Arabum, Persarum, Aegyptiorum, Graecorum & Latinorum per Universum terrarum orbem Scriptorum, Theologorum, JCtorum, Medicorum. Philosophorum, Historicorum, Geographorum, Philologorum, Oratorum, Poetarum, &c. Patria, Aetas, Nomina, Libri..., a prima Mundi origine ad Annum usque MDCLXXIIX. Ordine Alphabetico digesta... recensentur ... Altdorff, impensis W. Mauritii & haeredum J. A. Endterorum. 1678. £795 First Edition, folio, [xii],888pp., some light staining to blank fore-edge, text slightly browned, recent calf, leather label. A universal bibliography covering the Oriental as well as the Western world of learning, listing some 15,000 authors and approximately 35,000 titles, set out in alphabetical order. Compiled by König (1616-1699), Professor of History and Greek and later librarian of the Altdorff University. Besterman, The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography. p.48.
208. KOOPS (Matthias) Historical Account of the Substances which have been used to Describe Events, and to Convey Ideas, from the Earliest Date to the Invention of Paper. Printed on Paper Manufactured Solely from Straw. Printed by Jaques and Co., 1801. £975 Second Edition, [ii],vi,[7]-273,[1]pp., the variant “printed on paper manufactured solely from straw”, appendix (15pp.,) printed “on paper made from wood alone”, engraved frontis., cont. half calf, rubbed, spine and hinges cracked. Landmark in the history of papermaking. Koops, having been granted patents from George III, set out to manufacture a paper made from an alternative to rag in the hope of solving England’s paper crisis. The work treats the various materials used as substances upon which to write, the art and history of papermaking, and the author’s experiments. This is the rarest of the three editions of this notable work. “Another Printing of this [second] edition, the rarest of the three, was issued in 1801, and unlike the regular second edition, was printed on paper made from straw. Only a limited number of these copies were published.” - Hunter, Papermaking p.332-340. Bigmore & Wyman. I. p.399; Schlosser 22.
209. KYSTER (Anker) Bookbindings in the Public Collections of Denmark, Vol. I [All Published] The Royal Library Copenhagen. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen. 1938. £165 First Edition, 4to, 128pp., one of 250 copies, coloured frontis., 54 plates (6 in colour), 2 illustrs., in the text, orig. morocco-backed buckram, covers slightly stained. Anker Kyster, the well-known bookbinder and book repairer, has selected the bindings and has written very valuable notes on their construction.
210. LACKINGTON (James) Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington... Written by Himself, in Forty-Seven Letters to a Friend... Printed for the Author. [1791]. £95 Thirteenth Edition, corrected and much enlarged, xix,[ii],22-352pp., engraved portrait frontis., cont. calf, rubbed. “Written in the guise of forty-seven letters and first published in 1791, this work recounts the life of one of England’s most enterprising booksellers. He showed his mercantile talents early; at the age of ten he undertook to sell pies for a baker in financial difficulties and soon made the baker prosperous. At the age of fourteen, he was
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apprenticed to the shoemaker George Bowden. In 1774 he set up his own bookstall, which he combined with a shoemaking shop. Five years later, he issued his first book catalog, listing 12,000 volumes, and by 1791 he claimed to sell 100,000 books a year that earned him 4,000 annually. Among his innovations in the book trade was the sale of remainders to the public at reduced cost; previously such books had been sold cheaply only to other dealers, who destroyed most of the copies and sold the rest at the regular price. By the end of the eighteenth century, Lackington’s Temple of the Muses at Finsbury Square was England’s largest bookshop.”—Rosenblum, A Bibliographic History of the Book. pp.374-5.
211. LACKINGTON (James) The Confessions of J. Lackington, Late Bookseller, at the Temple of the Muses, in a Series of Letters to a Friend. To which are Added Two Letters on the Bad Consequences of having Daughters Educated at Boarding-Schools. Printed and Sold by Richard Edwards. 1804. £85 Second Edition, viii,212,[4]pp., recent half calf, marbled sides, morocco label to spine, uncut. A sequel to Lackington’s ‘Memoirs’.
212. LALANDE (Joseph Jérôme Le Français de) Die Kunst Papier zu Machen. Aus dem Franz. der Descriptions des arts & metiers der Pariser Academie übers. und mit Anm. vers. von Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi. Johann Heinrich Rudigern, Berlin. 1762. 4to, [ii],[3]-190, 14 folding engraved plates, one plate with a six inch clean tear, a couple of other with minor clean tears, some minor browning. [Bound with:] ----. Die Kunst Pappen zu Machen... Johann Heinrich Rudigern, Berlin. 1764. £1,395 4to, [ii],[3]-38pp., one folding engraved plate, some minor browning. 2 Vols., in one, recent antique half calf. This first German edition is extremely rare, it was translated by Justi from the French edition of 1761. “The classic treatise on the subject... so influential in its time that it was translated in its entirety, into German and partially into English and Italian a year after publication.”—Bidwell. “This is one of the most important technical works of the eighteenth century on papermaking and is more complete than any book of the period. There are fourteen large engravings showing the entire process of the craft from sorting and cutting the rags to wrapping the finished paper.”—Hunter, The Literature of Papermaking. p.33.
213. LANDWEHR (John) Emblem and Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries 1542-1813: A Bibliography. Hes Publishers, Utrecht. 1988. £75 Third revised and augmented edition, 444pp., illustrs., orig. cloth.
214. LANGLÈS (Louis-Mathieu) Catalogue des Livres Imprimés et Manuscrits, Composant la Bibliothèque de feu M. Louis-Mathieu Langlès. J.-S. Merlin, Paris. 1825. £195 [iv],xviii,558pp., recent blue wrappers, uncut. Auction catalogue of the library of Louis-Mathieu Langlès, one of the leading orientalists of his day and Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts at the then Bibliothèque du Roi, with a preface by Édouard Gautier and a summary of Langlès’ writings. It consists of 4,364 lots in Oriental history, linguistics, and literature. This copy is without the post-sale 89-page index of Authors and Anonymous Titles or the printed list of prices realized. North, Printed Catalogue of French Book Auctions in the Library of the Grolier Club. 589.
215. [LARKIN (S.M.)] A Catalogue of the Library of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. Spottiswoode & Co. 1880. £40 First Edition, large 8vo, viii,334pp., with the bookplate of Wells Cathedral library, orig. cloth gilt.
216. LE PETIT (Jules) Bibliographie des Principales Editions Originales d’Ecrivains Francais du XVe au XVIIIe Siecle. Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the 1888 Edition) 1966. £50 4to, small book stamp on front-free endpaper, 300 facsimiles of title pages, orig. cloth. Facsimiles of the title pages with long detailed descriptions of original editions.
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217. LE ROUX DE LINCY (Antoine J.V.) Recherches sur Jean Grolier sur vie et sa Bibliothèque suivies d’un Catalogue des Livres qui lui ont Appartenu. L. Potier, Paris. 1866. £295 First Edition, large 8vo, xlix,[iii]491,[1]pp., 6 plates, including 5 chromolithographs, mostly folding or double-page, half morocco by Victor Champs, marbled sides, five raised bands, tooled in gilt in compartments, lightly rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy. First edition of the classic monograph on Grolier’s life and his library. Breslauer, The uses of Bookbinding Literature, p.16. “The first classic of bookbinding literature”.
218. LEE PRIORY PRESS. BRYDGES (Sir Egerton) Speeches Delivered to Queen Elizabeth, on Her Visit to Giles Brydges, Lord Chandos, at Sudeley Castle, in Gloucestershire. With a Preface by Sir Egerton Brydges. Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory; by Johnson and Warwick, [Ickham]. 1815. £225 4to, [x],52,[8],[6],27,[5]pp., one of 100 copies printed, uncut wide margin copy, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, title vignette, 8 engraved plates on india paper, with tissue guards, text printed within borders, later calf-backed boards, spine rubbed. Beautifully printed, complete with arrangement leaf and list of the works printed at the private press of Lee Priory.
219. LEIDINGER (Dr. Georg) Meisterwerke der Buchmalerei aus Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, München. Hugo Schmidt, Munich. 1920. £165 Large folio, 33pp., limited edition, 50 coloured plates heightened with gold, orig. half vellum, decorated boards, a little faded, spine slightly torn.
220. LEMOINE (Henry) Typographical Antiquities. History, Origin, and Progress, of the Art of Printing, from its First Invention in Germany to the End of the Seventeenth Century; and from its Introduction into England, by Caxton, to the Present Time... its Progress in the Provinces; with Chronological Lists of Eminent Printers in England, Scotland, and Ireland... also a Particular and Complete History of the Walpolean Press, Established at Strawberry Hill; with an Accurate List of Every Publication Issued Therefrom, and the Exact Number Printed Thereof... a Curious Dissertation on the Origin of the use of Paper... a Complete History of the Art of Wood-Cutting and Engraving on Copper... Printed and Sold by S. Fisher. 1797. £325 First Edition, 12mo, 156pp., nineteenth-century half calf, spine gilt, a nice copy. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.431. Lemoine was a translator and compiler for various London publishers. For some time he was also a bookseller in Bishopsgate Churchyard, in the city of London. Bound with: Prospectus for The English Version of the Polyglott Bible... Samuel Bagster. 1816. 28pp., plus advert leaf.
221. LESSER (Friedrich Christian) Typographia Ivbilans: das ist: Kurtzgefasste Historie der Buchdruckerey, worinnen von dieser edlen Kunst Ursprunge und Anfange, Ausbreitung, Verbesserung, Zierrathen, Nutzen, wie nicht weniger von der Buchdrucker Eigenschafften und Pflichten... gehandelt; bey dem dritten Jubelfest derselben... entworffen. Michael Blochberger, Leipzig. 1740. £845 First Edition, [xvi],412,[28]pp., text lightly browned and spotted as usual, nineteenth-century half vellum, marbled sides, morocco label to spine, a nice copy. Lesser, 1692-1754, was an eminent German scientist and wrote an excellent entomological study. His ‘History of Printing’, occasioned by the 300th anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention, attributes the mysterious origin of the German master. The work, despite its strong Teutonic flavour, is of considerable interest as the author had at his disposal documents and early works relating to the subject long since lost. The chapters treat the origin of printing at Strassburg and Mainz, its dissemination in Germany and the continent, the decoration of early books, the lives of individual craftsmen, curious information relating to the publication of certain works, anonymous and pseudonymous literature, etc. A very rare work. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.435.
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222. LEWIS (John) Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent; The First Printer in England. In Which is Given an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Pryntyng in England, During his Time, till 1493. [N.p.]. 1737. First Edition, xxii,156,[1, errata],[1, blank]pp., frontis., 2 plates of watermarks, one of 150 copies printed on fine heavy paper, a very good copy of a scarce book. [Bound with:] GILPIN (William) The Life of Bernard Gilpin. Printed for John and James Rivington. 1753. £1,100 Second Edition, [ii],311pp., engraved frontispiece and title-page, cont. half calf, rubbed, marbled paper sides, hinges cracked, leather labels on spine. “Caxton’s reputation in the eighteenth century as England’s first printer, and the first printer in the English language, went from strength to strength. Middleton’s Dissertation of 1735 was very rapidly followed by a more extensive work, The Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton by the Rev. John Lewis (1675-1747) which appeared only two years later, in 1737. Unlike Middleton’s work Lewis’s book was a full-scale biographical study, and as there was at the time very little known about Caxton apart from what can be learned from his books, what Lewis presented was more in the nature of a bibliography. Lewis listed the Caxton editions that were known to him, and reconstructed from them an outline of Caxton's life” - Lotte Hellenge, Caxton in Focus, p.25. “Only 150 copies of this work have been printed, it is of rare occurrence and of high value...” - Bigmore & Wyman I, p.436-37.
223. LICHTENBERGER (Johann Friedrich) Initia Typographica. Treuttel et Würtz, Strasburg. 1811. £165 First Edition, 4to, viii,[2]259 + [1, errata]pp., bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard including the words “Gift of The Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas of Octertyre, 1877”, full calf, burn mark on upper cover, spine rubbed. “Johann Friedrich Lichtenberger was a professor in the Academy of Strasburg. His works maintain the claims of Gutenberg at the first printer, and are characterised by much patient research.” - Bigmore & Wyman I, p.438.
224. LIPPERHEIDE (Franz Joseph, Freiherr von) Katalog der Freiherrlich von Lipperheid’s schen Kostumbibliothek. (Reprint of the 1896-1905 edition) 1996. £75 2 Vols., 646;840pp., illustrs., orig. cloth. Together with Colas, Lipperheide forms the classic reference work on costume books. Lists over 5,000 titles with full collations.
225. LITTLE (A.D.) Editor. Franciscan History and Legend in English Mediaeval Art. British Society of Franciscan Studies Vol. XIX. Manchester University Press. 1937. £40 First Edition, small 4to, xix,[i],119pp., with a A.L.s. by the author to Eric G. Millar, numerous plates, orig. buckram.
PRINTED ON THICK PAPER 226. LLOYD (Thomas) A Catalogue of the Rare and Curious Collection of Books of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. Consisting of a Very Large Collection of Tracts Relating to the Civil War, Early English Poetry, Voyages, Chronicles, County and Scottish History, Biography, Heraldry, &c. Together with a Small Collection of Ancient Manuscripts... Which will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... on Tuesday, July 8, 1819, and Five Following Days. J. Crompton, Printer. 1819. £375 [ii],70pp., printed on thick paper, prices and buyers’ names supplied in a neat cont. hand, 1470 lots, red half morocco, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g. A particularly nice copy of this rare book auction catalogue.
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227. LOUBAT (J.F.) The Medallic History of the United States of America. Published by the Author, New York. 1878. £295 First Edition, folio, lxix,[i],478; xvipp., 86 engraved plates by Jules Jacquemart, presentation inscription from the author, title printed in red and black, orig. cloth, small blemish to upper cover of vol. II, spine slightly stained otherwise a very nice set, uncut, t.e.g.
228. LOWE (E.A.) English Uncial. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1960. £95 First Edition, folio, [viii],28,[2]pp., 60 plates, some light spotting, orig. cloth, d.w. A collection of facsimiles, most of manuscripts reproduced from Bebe’s monastery, which give examples of English Uncial hand including the oldest and best manuscript of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the Codex Amiatinus, which has been described as ‘perhaps the finest book in the world.’ In his introduction Dr. Lowe’s discusses the origins, development, a significance of the English Uncial hand and securely claims for English scribes the penmanship of the Codex Amiatinus.
229. LOWE (E.A.) & RAND (E.K.) A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger. A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York. Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1922. £40 4to, vi,67pp., 20 plates (some double-page), orig. printed wrappers.
230. LOWRY (Martin) Venetian Printing. Nicolas Jenson and the Rise of the Roman Letterform. With an Essay by George Abrams. Edited, Introduced and Translated into Danish by Poul Steen Larsen. Poul Kristensen, Herning. 1989. £210 Folio, 104,[8]pp., text in English and Danish, with the bookplate of Pera Sjögren and signed presentation inscription from Abams, 8 coloured plates, limited to 850 copies, this being one of 135 numbered copies printed on Hahnemühle Bütten paper and bound by Ole Olsen in orig. morocco- backed boards, spine gilt, morocco tips slightly bumped, uncut, t.e.g. The two essays, from slightly differing viewpoints, both focus on Nicolas Jenson as a central figure as well in the history of book publishing during Renaissance, as in the history of letterforms right down to the present day.
231. LUNN (William Henry) Classical Library, Soho-Square, London. A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Books, now on Sale, Containing Several in the Infancy of the Typographic Art, and many of the most Esteemed Critical Editions of the Classics; Including, Specimens from the Presses of Aldus, Janson, Juntas, H. Stephans, R. Steph. Froben, Plantin, Turnebus, Elzevir, Baskerville, Foulis, Bodini, Bensley, Ritchie and Sammels, Bulmer, and various other Celebrated Printers, both Ancient and Modern. Those, with many Thousand others, are Comprehended in W. H. Lunn’s Collection, which Consists of one of the most General and useful Assemblage of Books in the Learned Languages, that were ever Exhibited for Public Sale. They have been Principally Imported, at unbounded Expence from various Parts of the Continent...... Printed by W. S. Betham, London. 1802. £495 3 parts in one, [4],41,[1]; [2],50; 51-52,3-29,[1]pp., title browned, parts II and III have separate titles, last 3 leaves foxed, modern boards. Part. I. Books lately imported from the Continent including all Sizes under One Alphabet. Part II. Greek and Latin Classics. Biblia, Psalteria, Liturgia, Heb. Gr. Lat. &c. Missals illuminated on Vellum. Part. III. Books published by W. H. Lunn. Foreign Editions of the Classics, &c. English Books. A note at the bottom of the Index notes that “Mr. Lunn has many thousand volumes of Greek and Latin Books in his Collection, that are not inserted in this Catalogue, and that may be examined at his Library, in Soho Square, any of which will be charged on liberal terms.” Part I. has separate signatures and pagination. parts II and III have continuous signatures and irregular pagination but the text is continuous.
No copy of this catalogue in the NSTC, OCLC, RLIN or COPAC, although OCLC and COPAC find the same copy of a later (1807) Lunn catalogue at Wellcome; Wellcome, III, p.561.
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232. LUTTRELL PSALTER. The Luttrell Psalter: A Facsimile. With a Commentary by Michelle P. Brown. 2006. £295 Folio, 688pp., 624 illustrations, orig. cloth. 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. This is a huge book in every sense: it measures over 7 cm in depth (and 36 cm long by 24.5 cm wide), and weighs just over 5 kilos. The volume also contains a 64-page scholarly commentary by leading medieval manuscripts expert Michelle P. Brown, which details the history of the manuscript and includes a folio-by-folio description.
233. MacGILLIVRAY (J.R.) Keats: A Bibliography and Reference Guide with an Essay on Keats’ Reputation. University of Toronto Press. 1949. £40 First Edition, ex-library, orig. cloth.
234. MADAN (Falconer) Editor. The Lewis Carroll Centenary in London 1932. Including a Catalogue of the Exhibition, with Notes; an Essay on Dodgson’s Illustrators by Harold Hartley; and Additional Literary Pieces (Chiefly Unpublished). Messrs. J & E. Bumpus, Ltd. 1932. £40 First Edition, one of 400 numbered copies, frontis., 5 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. 643 Items described.
235. MAGGS BROS. Books Printed in Spain and Spanish Books Printed in Other Countries. Catalogue No. 495. Maggs Bros. 1927. £35 Small 4to, 869pp., frontis., 4to, 48 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, 1,358 items. Compiled by Sarah de Laredo. It includes a copy of the first edition of Don Quixote (priced at £3,800). During the preparation of this catalogue the Maggs Brothers were appointed Booksellers to His Majesty Alfonso XIII of Spain.
236. MAGGS BROS. A Selection of Books, Manuscripts, Engravings and Autograph Letters Remarkable for their Interest & Rarity. Being the Five Hundredth Catalogue Issued by Maggs Bros. Maggs Bros. 1928. £35 Folio, frontis., coloured plate, 122 other plates and illustrs., in the text (some in red & black), gatherings loose, orig. stiff printed wrappers, 223 items. A Special folio catalogue.
237. MAGGS BROS. Bibliotheca Nautica Part I [-IV (complete)]. Books, Prints and Manuscripts Relating to Naval Battles and the Science of Naval Warfare, Shipbuilding and the Art of Navigation, Pirates, Buccaneers, and Privateers, Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea. (Comprising Catalogues 508,534,585 and 654). Maggs Bros. 1928-38. £350 4 Vols., bound in one, 812pp., frontispieces, 104 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. upper wrappers bound in, half morocco, a nice copy. 3,000 Items.
238. MAGGS BROS. One Hundred Spanish Books Selected from the Stock of Maggs Bros. Maggs Bros. 1929. £50 Folio, 8 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers, 100 items. Folio special catalogue 11.
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239. MAGGS BROS. Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World. Vol. 1-5. A Descriptive Catalogue. Maggs Bros. 1942-1962. £550 5 Vols., numerous plates, general indices to each volume, orig. buckram, spines gilt with two contrasting morocco labels, a very nice set. 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.
240. MAGGS BROS. Bookbindings of Great Britain, Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Catalogue No. 845. Maggs Bros. 1957. £40 Small 4to, frontis., 65 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 222 items.
241. MANUSCRIPTS. First [-Second] Report of the Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts. Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1870-71. £45 Folio, 2 parts in one, xiii,133; xxii,349pp., with the bookplate of Thomas Edward Winnington, slight spotting throughout, cont. half calf.
242. MARDERSTEIG (Giovanni) The Officina Bodoni. An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited and Translated by Hans Schmoller. Edizioni Valdonega, Verona. 1980. £110 First Edition, 4to, one of 1,500 copies, facsimiles (some printed in two colours), orig. cloth. A detailed illustrated catalogue of all of the editions produced at this world-famous press, with the introduction forming an important account of Mardersteig as scholar, printer and publisher.
243. MARGOLIOUTH (G.) Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum. British Museum. 1899-1905. £110 2 Vols., folio, [viii],283; [viii],492pp., 19 collotype plates, slight signs of damp, orig. cloth, unopened, uncut, a very good ex-library copy.
244. MARSHALL (Julie G.) Britain and Tibet 1765-1947. The Background to the India-China Border Dispute. A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Material in European Languages. La Trobe University Library, Bundoora. 1977. £35 4to, xxiv,372pp., two cancel stamps, orig. printed wrappers.
EARLY ACCOUNT OF BOOKBINDING 245. MARTIN (Thomas) [pseudonym of John Farey] The New Circle of the Mechanical Arts; Containing Practical Treatise on Architecture, Bricklaying, Cabinet Making, Carpentry, Joinery, &c. &c. Illustrated with Twenty-Eight Engravings. Printed for J. Bumpus. 1819. £395 4to, [ii],210pp., 28 engraved plates (5 having 2 per plate), some browning and spotting to text and plates, cont. ink signatures on title, cont. cloth, head and foot of spine frayed with upper hinge slightly torn. First published in 1813 with a second edition issued in 1818. This ‘New Circle of the Mechanical Art’ has a completely different worded title page and covers architecture, baking, basket-making, block-making, book- binding, brewing, bricklaying, brickmaking, brushmaking, buttonmaking, cabinetmaking, carpentry and joinery. The section on bookbinding (pp. 74-84) is of particular interest for “this is the first English book to give detailed account of the forwarding processes and of gold tooling. It also describes the tools and equipment used. The sections on colouring book edges and marbling covers are taken from Minshall’s ‘Whole Art of Bookbinding.”— Pollard & Potter. Pollard & Potter, Early Bookbinding Manuals, 90. This edition not listed on Copac; OCLC finds copies at V&A Museum and New York Public Library.
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246. MEERMAN COLLECTION. PHILLIPPS (Sir Thomas) Bibliotheca Phillippica: A Catalogue of the Phillipps Manuscripts, Numbers 1388 to 2010. [Printed for T. Fenwick], Cheltenham. 1886. £110 [90]pp., orig. light green paper wrappers, text stapled as issued, slight rust marks from the staples. The manuscripts were those of the Meerman collection, purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps in 1824, “the most fortunate acquisition I made” (cf. Phillipps Studies I, p.19), here presented by Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick, Phillipps’s grandson and legatee, in an expanded version of Phillipps’s descriptions. Hoping to sell the collection en bloc, Fenwick planned to send the catalogue to a number of libraries, but the Royal Library of Berlin, which had already made inquiries after the collection, learned of the offering first, and made the acquisition. Hozenberg, 24.
247. MERRYWEATHER (F. Somner) Bibliomania in the Middle Ages; or, Sketches of Bookworms - Collectors - Bible Students - Scribes - and Illuminators, from the Anglo-Saxon and Norman Periods, to the Introduction of Printing into England; with Anecdotes Illustrating the History of the Monastic Libraries of Great Britain, in the Olden Time. Merryweather. 1849. £40 First Edition, ex-library, text a little browned, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, worn.
248. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. A List of Books. Chiefly printed at Middle Hill. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [c.1859]. £55 Folio, 316 x 185mm, single sheet, printed on one side only in double-column on bluish paper, disbound. Listing 73 items with no place of publication given. The last book recorded is Juan de Tovais’s (i.e. Tovar’s) ‘History of Mexico’ which was published in 1860 and is here described as ‘in press’. Holzenberg 16.
249. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. A List of Books. Chiefly printed at Middle Hill. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [c.1859]. £55 Folio, 316 x 185mm, single sheet, printed on one side only in double-column on bluish paper, disbound. This is a slightly later version of the above, recording 83 items along with place of publication. Holzenberg 18.
250. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. EDWARDS (James) MSS. in Edwards’s Sale 1815. With the Purchasers Names. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [1861]. £45 171 x 97mm, single sheet, printed on both sides, disbound. List 42 of the more important manuscripts with buyers’ names and most prices paid. The top price was £210 for a Biblia Pauperum purchased by Dibdin. Holzenberg 42.
251. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. PHILLIPPS LIBRARY. Guildford MSS. (MSS. Ph. 4912). [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [c.1830’s]. £35 Folio, 342 x 207mm, single sheet, printed on both sides in double-column, disbound. An index to the contents of the manuscripts which Phillipps bought from the Earl of Guilford, comprising Phillipps MSS. 4912,413,4925 & 5222. Holzenberg 10.
252. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. PHILLIPPS LIBRARY. Catalogus Manuscriptorum Frederici, Comitis de Guildford. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [c.1834]. £50 4pp., folio, 330 x 210mm, printed in double-column, disbound. The manuscripts were bought by Sir Thomas whilst he was living abroad. The catalogue lists 212 manuscripts mostly in Italian and they came originally from the libraries of Mattei, Marefoschi, Marini, Foscarini and others. Holzenberg 7.
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253. MIDDLETON (Bernard C.) A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. The British Library. 2000. £35 Fourth Edition, revised and expanded, frontis., 14 plates, 102 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. A classic work that charts the history of English bookbinding in all its technical aspects.
254. MILITARY. MILNE (S.M.) Catalogue of the Well-Known Extensive and Valuable Collection of Books, Engravings & Drawings (Mostly in Colours) Formed by the late S.M. Mile, Esq. of Calverley House, Leeds. Illustrating British & Foreign Military Costumes; Important Battle Scenes... Together with a Long Series of Military Portraits... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson Hodge... London. 1913. £35 Large 8vo, 80pp., title lightly spotted, lacks wrappers, 691 lots.
255. MILLAR (Eric G.) English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century. [With:] English Illuminated Manuscripts from the XIVth and XVth Centuries. G. van Oest, Paris & Brussels. 1926-28. £445 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, xii,145,[3]; [xii],106,[2]pp., coloured frontispieces, vol. 2 has a presentation inscription from the author, 200 collotype plates, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut, a nice set. Standard work on English illumination, tracing its history from the first revival after the Danish invasions down to the year 1500.
256. MILLAR (Eric G.) La Miniature Anglaise du Xe au XIIIe Siècle. [With:] La Miniature Anglaise aux XIVe et XVe Siècles. G. van Oest, Paris. 1926-28. £495 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, xiii,162,[2]; x,113,[3]pp., coloured frontispieces, 200 plates in collotype reproducing exquisite miniatures, marbled endpapers, cont. half red morocco, five raised bands, marbled boards, very light rubbing, spine of volume 2 slightly faded, uncut, t.e.g. a nice set. Standard work on English illumination, tracing its history from the first revival after the Danish invasions down to the year 1500. With scholarly notes on the illustrations and decorations, and their historical significance.
257. MILNE (H.J.M.) Editor. Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum. British Museum. 1927. £38 4to, xvi,243,[1]pp., 12 collotype plates, orig. cloth, a nice copy.
258. MIQUEL Y PLANAS (Ramón) Ensayos de Bibliofilía. Reunidos y Publicados con Motivo de los XXV Años de Vida Editorial del Autor. Casa Miquel-Rius, Barcelona. 1929. £165 4to, [iv],59,[4]pp., frontispiece portrait etching by Jose Torne, printed on Japan paper, 48 coloured plates, loose in art nouveau printed wrappers designed by Figuerola, unopened. First and only edition of this scarce work consisting of three parts, published in celebration of 25 years (1904- 1928) of editorial accomplishment by this noted Catalán author. First is a bibliography (in Catalán) of his published works, accompanied by 48 multi-coloured plates, showing reproductions of many of the title pages and text illustrations used in his books. Then follow two essays given as lectures (in Spanish) on the art of the book: La Formación del Libro [= The Making of the Book] and El Arte de la Ilustración en el Libro [= The Art of the Illustration in the Book].
259. [MIRABEAU (Honore Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de)] Errotika Biblion. De l’imprimerie du Vatican, Rome. 1783. £275 First Edition, iv,192pp., woodcut vignette on title, final gathering loose, orig. blue wrappers, lacks lower wrapper, uncut. “This book was written while he was serving a prison sentence ‘for the abduction of a married woman’. In fact, he had eloped with... Sophie de Ruffay, the wife of the sexagenarian Marquis de Monnier, but the outraged husband was unable to appreciate the distinction, and had Mirabeau confined in the notorious Donjon de Vincennes... The first edition of 1783 published at either Paris or Neuchatel but with the false imprint ‘A Rome, de l’imprimerie du Vatican’... it was pursued with such vigour by the authorities that only fourteen copies of the first edition are supposed to have survived... The reason for this great interest in the ‘Erotika biblion’ by the authorities seems obscure. As a compendium of curiosities culled from the pages of ancient writings it is possibly one of the most
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peculiar books ever put together, and shows vividly the sort of eccentric bypaths the erudition and emotion can sometimes take when strangled by the confines of prison..” — Kearney, History of Erotic Literature.
260. MITCHELL (William Smith) A History of Scottish Bookbinding 1432 to 1650. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. 1955. £40 First Edition, 48 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. torn. This book is the first detailed survey of any period of Scottish bookbinding.
261. MOLNAR (John Edgar) Compiler. Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin’s Dictionary of Books Relating to America. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen. 1974. £110 3 thick vols., vi,1070; [iv],1071-2218; [iv],2219-3196pp., orig. cloth, a nice set. An essential index to be used with Sabin’s Dictionary.
262. MORISON (Stanley) & CARTER (Harry) John Fell, The University Press and the ‘Fell’ Types. The Punches and Matrices Designed for Printing in the Greek, Latin, English, and Oriental Languages Bequeathed in 1686 to the University of Oxford by John Fell, D.D. Oxford University Press. 1967. £145 First Edition, folio, xvi,[ii],278,[2]pp., limited to 1,000 copies printed on rag-paper from hand-set type cast at the Press in the matrices given by Fell, a very good ex-library, coloured portrait of Fell, 22 plates, numerous facsimiles and illustrs., orig. buckram, gilt, uncut. Nicholas Barker, The Book Collector. - ‘There will never be another book like this... No other material has enjoyed a revival in the same romantic circumstances... no other work of this nature is likely to be set by hand and printed in types of 16th and 17th century origins by the same press that purchased the equipment for making the types. It is the last and greatest work on the history of printing types by Stanley Morison... It is not without errors and blemishes; no work of this magnitude could escape some mistakes. But it is one of the greatest works of typographical history of this century.’
263. MORRIS (Owen) Publications of Evan Griffiths (Ieuan Ebblig) (1795-1873) Printed in Swansea Between 1828 and 1867. In the Collection of Owen Morris. Owen Morris, Taltreuddyn Fawr. 1987. £65 4to, 117pp., of typescript with the author’s additions and corrections, from the library of Owen Morris, loose in envelope. Published in 1989 in ‘The National Library of Wales Journal’.
264. MORRIS (Owen) The Learned Doctor Price and the Respublica Litteraria. Owen H. Morris. 1995. £95 4to, 92pp., of typescript, with numerous additions added in the author’s hand (either in the text or on inserted leaves), frontispiece and 1 plate, orig. cloth. As far as we can ascertain this has never been published.
265. MUNBY (A.N.L.) Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors; An Essay. Printed for Private Circulation by William H. Robinson Ltd. Christmas, 1948. £45 First Edition, 32pp., 8 tipped-in plates, orig. wrappers, printed paper label on upper front cover. An essay on caricatures of book collectors from the 15th century to 1948.
266. MURRAY (Charles Fairfax) Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Rare Early Printed German Books Collected Chiefly for their Illustrations, and Mostly in Fine Bindings Including Five Block-Books... [Second Portion] Comprising Early Printed Books of Fance, Italy and Spain... Publications of the Kelmscott Press. Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods. London. 1917-18. £125 2 Parts, large 8vo, 128; 144pp., frontispieces, numerous plates (some folding), orig. printed boards, a little worn and rubbed, 1,330 lots.
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“A friend of William Morris and Burne Jones, he owned the finest set of Kelmscott books in any library. His collections of early German, French, and especially Italian books, were among the largest and choicest in private hands.”—Re Ricci, p.178.
267. MYNORS (R.A.B.) Compiler. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1963. £75 First Edition, lvii, 401pp., with the book label of Bernard M. Rosenthal, orig. cloth, d.w. All manuscript volumes in Balliol College library apart from college archives are described. Most of the 450 items are Latin MSS of the late Middle Ages or early Renaissance; there are separate lists of lost MSS and those now in other libraries. The introduction contains a detailed account of the history of the library.
268. NARKISS (Bezalel) Hebrew Manuscripts in the British Isles. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts. Oxford University Press. 1982. £50 2 Vols., 4to, 171 plates (some coloured), orig. cloth, gilt, decorated slip-case.
269. NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM. Catalogue of the Library. Atlases & Cartography. Volume 3: Parts One & Two. H.M.S.O. 1971. £145 2 Vols., 4to, xii,654; ix,655-1166pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little rubbed. This is the third volume of the library catalogue of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. These volumes are complete in themselves as they consist of the remarkable collection of Atlases which have been catalogued in detail, with each map and chart being listed.
270. NAVARI (Leonora) Greece and the Levant. The Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts. Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1989. £1,345 First Edition, folio, one of 300 copies, xii,446,[2]pp., frontis., 16 coloured plates, orig. boards, slightly rubbed. The publication of Henry Blackmer catalogue is an important event in Greek and Levantine studies. Never has such an extensive collection been catalogued in such detail. There are over 1800 entries, mainly printed books but including manuscripts, photographs and drawings.
271. NICHOLSON (James B.) A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding: Containing Full Instructions in the Different Branches of Forwarding, Gilding and Finishing: also, the Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper. The Whole Designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-Collector. Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia. 1902. £110 318 + 32pp., of adverts, 6 marbled paper samples, 12 plates of designs for bindings, 13 text illustrs., of machines, etc., orig. embossed cloth, a nice copy. First published in 1856 this was the first practical manual of bookbinding by an American.
272. NIXON (Howard M.) English Restoration Bookbindings: Samuel Mearne and his Contemporaries. British Museum Publications Ltd. 1974. £60 First Edition, small 4to, 48pp., coloured frontis., 126 plates, orig. cloth, gilt. The forty years following the Restoration of King Charles II to his throne in 1660 were the golden age of English bookbinding.
273. NORMAN (Haskell F.) One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine. The Grolier Club, New York. 1995. £85 4to, xlii,396 pp., 33 color and 150 black and white illustrs., orig. cloth, leather spine label, slip-case. An overview of key books, manuscripts, and images chronicling the evolution of medical knowledge from antiquity to the invention of the CAT scan. Detailed bibliographical descriptions were contributed by 23 experts in their fields. A reference book in the tradition of One Hundred Books Famous in Science.
274. NORTON (F.J.) Italian Printers 1501-1520. An Annotated List. Cambridge University Press. 1958. £35 First Edition, tall 8vo, xxxiv,177pp., 11 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, small nick to head of spine.
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275. [O’CASEY (Ian V.) & MANEY (A.S.)] The Nature and Making of Papyrus. The Elmete Press, Barkston Ash. 1973. £95 xvi,69,[3]pp., one of 495 numbered copies, signed by the author, 9 paper samples (one of which is of genuine papyrus), prospectus tipped-in, orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g. 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.
276. OFFICINA BODONI. Ippolito e Lionora. From a Manuscript of Felice Feliciano in the Harvard College Library. Officina Bodoni, Verona. 1970. £225 117,[3]pp., one of 200 number copies, including 24 pages of facsimiles executed by offset at the Stamperia Valdonega, orig. vellum-coloured Linson boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. slip-case, a fine copy. Italian text of the ‘novella’ sometimes attributed to Leon Battista Alberti, transcribed by Fraco Riva from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library, MS. Typ. 24, written by Felice Feliciano. With textual notes by Franco Riva and an English translation and a bibliography by Martin Faigel. Preface by Philip Hofer and an essay ‘On Felice Feliciano’ by G. Mardersteig.
277. ORCUTT (William Dana) The Book in Italy During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Shown in Facsimile Reproductions from the Most Famous Printed Volumes. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1928. £95 First Edition, folio, 220,[2]pp., limited to 750 number copies, prelims slightly foxed, coloured frontis., 128 plates (of which 3 are coloured), orig. quarter vellum, corners a little bumped, uncut, t.e.g.
278. ORIGINAL LEAVES from Famous English Books comprising 12 original leaves individually window-mounted on thick grey card, with description leaf, put together by The Folio Society. The Folio Society. [1961]. £595 Large folio, limited to 200 copies, loose as issued in folio cloth box with lightly rubbed leather label on spine. Original leaves:
Pynson’s ‘Froissart’, 1523. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1575. The King James Bible, 1611. The Second Folio Shakespeare, 1632. Clarendon’s ‘History’, Oxford 1701-4. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary, 1756. The Baskerville ‘Virgil’, 1757. The Foulis Press ‘Pope’, 1785. Bulmer’s ‘History of the River Thames’, 1794-6. Chiswick Press: Book of Common Prayer, 1844. Kelmscott Press: The Well at the World’s End, 1896. The Doves Press ‘Milton’, 1902-5.
The leaves are mounted separately and to uniform size so that they can be easily framed, when their graphic elegance shows up to great effect. Each mount is embossed with the appropriate title.
279. ORLANDI (Pellegrini Antonio) Repertorium Sculptile-Typicum: Or a Complete Collection and Explanation of the Several Marks and Cyphers by which the Prints of the best Engravers are Distinguished. With an Alphabetical Index of their Names, Places of Abode, and Times in which they lived. Translated from the Abcedario Pittorico of Pellegrini Antonio Orlandi. Printed by S.G. for Sam. Harding. 1730. £225 First Edition, 69,[1]pp., cont. calf-backed marbled boards, a little rubbed. The earliest book in English devoted to the subject of engravers’ marks. Containing 160 marks or monograms, the initial letters used by engravers for their marks and an alphabetical index of the Christian names and Surnames of the engravers, etc.
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280. 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. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. (Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 2000. £38 4to, xxxv,785pp., orig. cloth, d.w. One of the greatest physicians of his day, Sir William Osler (1848-1919) was also a bibliophile with an outstanding library of some 7,000 volumes that reflect literary and antiquarian as well as scientific interests. Completed posthumously to Osler’s idiosyncratic plan, the catalogue begins with the ‘Bibliotheca Prima’ containing seminal scientific works arranged chronologically from Hippocrates to Röntgen. Seven further sections, among them a fine collection of literary works relating to medicine, revert to alphabetical ordering. Particularly valuable for its annotations.
281. PALAEOGRAPHY. The Palaeography Collection. University of London Library. G.K. Hall & Co., Boston. 1968. £125 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, iv,579; [iv],668pp., orig. cloth. The twin strengths of the collection are the catalogues of manuscripts and the published facsimiles of Manuscripts. Giving bibliographical details, with author and subject index.
282. PARKES (M.B.) Compiler. The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford. A Descriptive Catalogue with Summary Descriptions of the Greek and Oriental Manuscripts. Scolar Press. 1979. £65 First Edition, 4to, 193 plates (17 in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. An important collection comprising of 71 Western, 5 Greek and 13 Oriental manuscripts, together with a number of fragments.
283. PARKINSON (Ethel M.) & LUMB (Audrey E.) Compilers. Catalogue of Medical Books in Manchester University Library 1480-1700. Manchester University Press. 1972. £60 First Edition, 4to, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. The bibliographical information is always comprehensive and on occasion definitive.
284. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Hansard’s Catalogue and Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1696-1834. Reprinted in Facsimile with an Introduction by P. & G. Ford. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 1953. £40 Folio, ex-library, orig. cloth.
PRINTED ON THE PARLOUR PRESS 285. PARLOUR PRESS. [ENGLEHEART (Nathaniel Brown)] Attempts in the Art and Mystery of Printing. By an Amateur. [Specimens of Amateur Printing. These Specimens of Amateur Printing were Effected by means of the Ingenious Little Press Invented by Mr. Cowper; and Manufactured by Messrs. Holtzapffel & Company...]. [Nathaniel Brown Engleheart, Blackheath]. 1840. £1,245 4to, [x],51,[1]pp., orig. cloth, spine slightly spotted otherwise a fine copy. The first specimens of amateur printing to be produced on a Parlour press. “The matter, like that of much English private printing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, is antiquarian: ‘The Chronicle of the Kings of England’ and ‘The Memoir of Guy, Earl of Warwick’, transcribed by the printer ‘from a Monkish Manuscript’. A disarming note asks the reader to bear in mind ‘that this little Volume is ushered into existence, not as a Specimen of Antiquarian Research; but as one of Amateur Printing’. The first leaf of the book, a kind of prefatory half-title... shows that Engleheart handled the types and ornaments supplied by Holtzapffel with great charm and skill.”— Introduction to the reprint of ‘Holtzapffel’s Printing Apparatus for the Use of Amateurs’, PLA. 1971. Copac Lists copies at the British Library & Wellcome Institute; OCLC adds the Grolier Club, Yale University Library, Newberry Library & University of Wisconsin.
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PRINTED ON THE PARLOUR PRESS 286. PARLOUR PRESS. [ENGLEHEART (Nathaniel Brown)] Omnium Gatherum, Consisting Chiefly of a Selection of Odds and Ends from an Old Portfolio; and Comprising the Useful, the Amusing, and the Curious. [Nathaniel Brown Engleheart, Blackheath]. [1864]. £1,100 4to, 48ff. printed on one-side only (many of puzzles and diagrams), title within an ornamented border, orig. embossed decorated green cloth, re-backed with part of the orig. spine laid-down, all edges gilt, a nice copy. An extremely rare compilation of puzzles and oddities designed to occupy the mind during the ‘blank hours of life’. Printed at the home of Nathaniel Brown Engleheart of Blackheath, on the little Parlour press, the author gives “An Apology in lieu of a Preface. Kind Reader! be not severely censorious. — This little book has the production of the ‘lighter’ hours of a nearly ‘worn out’ mind that prays your lenience. — It has been the result of endeavours to escape idleness, and to occupy those blank hours of life which in a greater or lesser degree assail all. In this respect its purpose has been fulfilled. — It entertains no hope of ‘Approval’, it aspires only to ‘Indulgence’.”. The only other copy located is that of the British Library.
287. PARLOUR PRESS. [HOLTZAPFFEL (Charles)] Printing Apparatus for the Use of Amateurs, Containing Full and Practical Instructions for the use of Cowper’s Parlour Printing Press. Also the Description of Larger Presses on the same Principle, and various other Apparatus for the Amateur Typographer. The Whole Manufactured and Sold Only by Holtzapffel & Co. Published by Holtzapffel & Co. 1846. £595 Third (and only known) edition, greatly enlarged, iv,[5]-79,[1]pp., orig. pebble-grained embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, a little faded with slight wear to extremities. Full and practical instructions for Cowper’s Parlour Printing Press. Cowper’s was the first small press designed for use by the amateur, its appearance was the cause of popularity of printing as a Victorian middle class pastime.
The work is divided into four sections: Section I. Cowper’s Parlour Printing Press an Apparatus; Section II. Folio Foolscap Printing Press and Apparatus, on the Principle of Cowper’s Parlour Press, but made of Increased Size; Section III. Cases for Type; Section IV. Specimens of Types, &c. (these include numerous specimens of plain and ornamental types, brass rules, checks, borders, ornaments, corners, arms, etc.).
This book was first published in 1839 and the only known copy, listed in the St Bride Printing Library catalogue, has since been lost. The second edition is unknown.
This third edition was reproduced by the Private Libraries Association in 1971 with a full introduction and notes.
288. 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. £225 4to, vii,33pp., one of 300 numbered copies, followed by 38 fine chromolithography plates, orig. cloth, a little worn, uncut.
289. PEARSON, J. & CO. LTD. Les Femmes Bibliophiles. Catalogue of a Collection of Books Bound by Famous Binders for Royal and Distinguished Ladies from Marguerite de Valois to the Empress Eugénie. J. Pearson & Co. 1919. £225 4to, [iv],64pp., printed in red and black, 60 half-tone plates (many folding), orig. printed wrappers bound-in, upper corner slightly creased, with the bookplate of Julia Parker Wightsman, half morocco, spine gilt, marbled sides, a nice copy. 70 Books listed with lengthy descriptions accompanying each book. Navari, The Bookseller’s Art. 55.
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290. PEIGNOT (Gabriel) Essai Historique et Archéologique sur la Reliure des Livres, et sur l’État de la Libraire chez les Anciens. Victor Lagier, Dijon. 1834. £375 First Edition, 84pp., with half-title, limited to 200 copies, 2 engraved plates, cont. quarter calf, marbled boards. An account of bookbinding styles and the book trade during classical times. Arguably the first history of bookbinding preceding Hannett’s ‘Bibliopegia’ by three years.
291. PERKINS (Henry) The Perkins Library. A Catalogue of the Very Valuable and Important Library Formed by... Comprising many Splendid Illuminated Manuscripts of the Highest Class, A Remarkable Collection of Ancient Bibles, Examples of Printing on Vellum of the Greatest Beauty and Rarity... which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Gadsden, Ellis & Co. in the Great Library at Hanworth Park on Tuesday, June 3rd, and three following days. [London]. [1873]. £110 4to, 99,[1] + 8pp., of printed price list, with the bookplate of John Tricks Spalding, some light browning, 11 plates (one folding), cont. half calf, marbled sides, morocco label to spine, rubbed, 865 lots. The small but very select library of Henry Perkins (1778-1855) a wealthy brewer, was begun at the Sykes sale of 1824 and augmented at the Dent sale of 1827; it comprised illuminated manuscripts, a remarkable collection of bibles (including 2 copies of the Gutenberg Bible, 1 on vellum), the four folio editions of Shakespeare, examples of printing on vellum, etc. The sale realised a total of nearly £26,000. De Ricci, p.96. “A remarkably well-chosen library...”
292. PFISTER (Kurt) Die Mittelalterliche Buchmalerei des Abandlandes. Holbein-Verlag, Munich. 1922. £35 First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 39 plates (3 coloured), orig. decorated cloth-backed boards.
293. PFUHL (Ernst) Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen. F. Bruckmann, Munich. 1923. £110 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, [xvi],503; [iv],505-918; [vi],[921]-981pp., 350 plates, loose orig. printed wrappers as issued, torn a slightly defective, uncut. Chamberlin 1204. “The definitive scholarly work on Greek painting and drawing”.
294. PHILIP (Alex. J.) The Business of Bookbinding. Bookbinding from the Point of View of the Binder, the Publisher, the Librarian and the General Reader. With Chapters on the Manufacture of Binder’s Leather and Cloth, and a Description of a Working Bindery, Together with a Glossary of Terms used in Leather and Cloth Manufacture and Bookbinding. Stanley Paul & Co. 1912. £85 First Edition, small 8vo, frontis., 11 plates, 2 folding pages with 23 samples of acid free leather samples from Edward & Charles Richardson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a double folding page with 30 samples of cloths in colours and different grains, from The Winterbottom Book Cloth Co. Ltd., orig. cloth, small nick to upper hinge. Includes chapters on the manufacture of binders’ leather and cloth, a description of a working bindery and a glossary of terms.
295. PICCARD (Gerhard) Wasserzeichen Frucht. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart. 1983. £45 Folio, 310pp., 765 illustrs., of watermarks, orig. cloth. Die Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard im Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Findbuch XIV.
296. PICOT (Émile) Bibliographie Cornélienne ou Description Raisonnée de Toutes les Éditions des Ouvers de Pierre Corneille, des Imitations ou Traductions qui en ont été Faites, et des Ouvrages Relatifs a Corneille et a ses Écrits. Anton W. van Bekhoven, Naarden. (Reprint of the 1876 Edition) 1967. £50 Orig. cloth.
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ONE OF 25 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND 297. PLOUGH PRESS. DOCKER (Frances) John Paas & James Cook, Provincial Bookbinding in the Eighteen Thirties. The Plough Press, Loughborough. 1978. £175 4to, [32]pp., no. 6 of 25 numbered copies specially bound, 10 plates, orig. quarter morocco, marled paper boards. Relates the story of the murder of the binding tool producer, John Pass by the the bookbinder, James Cook.
ONE OF 23 COPIES 298. PLOUGH PRESS. WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) Plates to Accompany Victorian Book Illustration. The Plough Press, Loughborough. 1974. £445 Folio, 44 leaves, one of 23 numbered copies printed in black and brown on Barcham Green Ann Badger and Maidstone hand-made papers, 20 original specimen plates mounted, each with a descriptive leaf of text opposite, hand bound by Ivor Robinson and Gemma O’Connor of Oxford in Oasis goatskin and French handmade marbled boards, dark green Ingress endpapers, contained in the original marbled paper slip-case. This work was produced to accompany Wakeman’s book ‘Victorian Book Illustration, The Technical Revolution’ which was commercially published by David & Charles in 1973 (a copy is supplied with this plate volume). The 20 plates are each taken from an original Victorian book and each uses a different printing method - etching, lithography, chromolithography, photogravure, natural illustration (an actual grass), steel engraving etc. An extraordindinarily rare book, only 23 copies were printed and this is number 20.
299. PLOUGH PRESS. WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) Printing Relief Illustrations, Kirkall to the Line Block. The Plough Press, Loughborough. 1977. £295 4to, 32pp., one of 100 numbered copies, six actual inserted specimens of illustrations to demonstrate the qualities of the different techniques used to print them, 3 line-block illustrs., in the text, orig. orange buckram, paper label, lettered in gilt, on the spine.
300. PLOUGH PRESS. WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) English Marbled Papers. A Documentary History. The Plough Press, Loughborough. [1978]. £375 4to, 32pp., followed by 26 original mounted marbled paper samples including some nineteenth century examples, no. 44 of 112 copies, printed in black and blue on Zerkall Elfenbein Halbmatt paper, text printed by Skelton’s Press, the remainder at the Plough Press on a Golding Pearl platen press, bound by Weatherby Woolnough in quarter blue morocco with cloth sides, tile lettered in gilt on spine. An important historical review of marbling. The samples are beautiful, from the workshops of some of the foremost marblers, in some cases showing variations of a specific pattern executed by different marblers.
301. POIDEBARD (W.) BAUDRIER (J.) & GALLE (L.) Armorial des Bibliophiles de Lyonnais, Forez, Beaujolais et Dombes. Siege de la Societe, Lyon. 1907. £395 First Edition, large thick 4to, [viii],771,[5]pp., one of 320 copies, 42 plates, with numerous armorial illustrs., orig. printed wrappers bound in, some light spotting, half blue morocco, marbled sides, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, a fine copy.
302. [POLLARD (A.W.) & PROCTOR (R.G.C.)] Three Hundred Notable Books added to the Library of the British Museum under the Keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Printed by T. and A. Constable for the Editors and Subscribers. 1899. £95 First Edition, 4to, viii,184pp., one of 250 copies, portrait frontis., 60 illustrs., prospectus tipped-in, orig. quarter red morocco, uncut, t.e.g. Includes a monogram by Laurence Housman and a portrait specially etched by William Strang.
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303. POLLARD (Alfred W.) Compiler. Catalogue of Books Mostly from the Presses of the First Printers Showing the Progress of Printing with Movable Metal Types Through the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century. Collected by Rush C. Hawkins, Catalogued by Alfred W. Pollard and Deposited in the Annmary Brown Memorial at Providence, Rhode Island. Printed at the University Press, Oxford. 1910. £375 First Edition, 4to, xxxv,[i],339,[1],19,[1]pp., printed on hand-made paper, frontispiece, orig. cloth, re- backed with the original spine laid-down, uncut. Hawkins acquired 540 books that illustrated the beginnings of printing in the different countries and cities of Europe. Eventually he was able to acquire specimens of the work of the first printers in every important city, and in many of the smaller places also. Pollard not only describes the 540 books in the collection; he also provides an invaluable introduction to the life and work of each of the printers. In all, approximately 60 of the first printers are discussed in detail.
304. POOLE (Monica) The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh. Gresham Books. 1985. £35 First Edition, folio, coloured frontis., wood engravings throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
305. PREMCHAND (Neeta) Off the Deckle Edge. A Paper-Making Journey through India. Ankur Project, India. 1995. £35 First Edition, oblong 4to, 127,[1]pp., numerous coloured illustrs., examples of hand-made paper, orig. cloth, d.w. Neeta Premchand visits the simple villages which sometimes know no other craft, listens to men and women who have for generations spent their lives making the looms, weaving the mats and treading the pulp to make the simple sheets of paper that we take so much for granted.
306. PRINTING. Caxton Celebration, 1877. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities, and Appliances Connected with the Art of Printing. Edited by George Bullen. The Elzevir Press. 1877. £42 First Edition, presentation copy, orig. cloth, expertly re-backed with orig. spine laid down. 4,734 items described.
307. PRINTING & BOOKBINDING MACHINERY CATALOGUE. Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Printers, Bookbinders’ & Stationers’ Machinery & Materials... Harrild & Son [1892]. £395 4to, [iv],122pp., decorative title-page printed in several colours and highlighted in gold, illustrated throughout, some light spotting, orig. cloth, ‘Bird’s Eye View of the Works’ on lower cover, title in gilt on upper, a nice copy. A rare and well illustrated trade catalogue from this prolific firm of manufactures of printing and bookbinding machinery. Only 2 copies located (St Bride Library & Newberry Library); Not listed on Copac.
308. PRINTING INKS. Albert Nathan & Co’s Printing Inks, Varnishes and Bronze Powders. American Type Founders Company. [c.1898]. £145 Oblong 8vo, 116 [i.e. 120] leaves, title and specimens printed in different coloured inks, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, title stamped in gilt with a decorative boarder on upper cover. “The Ink Specimens shown in the book were each printed with a single impression... they truthfully present the actual results obtainable with these Inks by every printer who uses ordinary judgement in the selection of the proper grades of Ink for the work in hand...”—Introduction. A catalogue of 120 examples of different inks available from Albert Nathan & Co. and printed by the American Type Founders Company.
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309. PRINTING PRESS. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Celebrated Model Printing Press. The Model Press Company, Philadelphia. [c. 1893]. £95 34,[20]pp., orig. pictorial wrappers, small repaired tear to blank margin of first 4 leaves, otherwise a nice copy. A handbook to the portable hand-inking model press designed for use in the home. With samples of its work, specimens of type, general price-list of material, &c. &c.
310. PROTHERO (G.W.) A Memoir of Henry Bradshaw. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1888. £50 First Edition, [xii],447pp., frontis., 1 facsimile letter, orig. cloth.
311. PUTNAM (George Haven) Censorship of the Church of Rome and Its Influence upon the Production and Distribution of Literature. A Study of the History of the Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, Together with some Consideration of the effects of Protestant Censorship and of Censorship by the State. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York. 1906. £45 First Edition, 2 vols., xvi,375; viii,510pp., inner hinges slightly shaken, orig. cloth, head and foot of spine lightly frayed.
312. QUARITCH (Bernard) A Catalogue of Medieval Literature Especially of the Romances of Chivalry and Books Relating to the Customs, Costume, Art, and Pageantry of the Middle Ages. Bernard Quaritch. 1890. £75 4to, 88pp., 19 plates of which 16 are fine chromo-lithographs heightened with gold, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. quarter roan, hinges cracked, spine rubbed, 461 items described. Only a very few copies were issued of this beautiful series of plates selected from the complete series of Quaritch’s illustrations, illustrating romances of chivalry mediaeval literature, costume, etc.
WILLIAMS-CURRER LARGE PAPER COPY BOUND BY CLARKE 313. QUINTILIAN. M. Fabii Quintiliani De institutione oratoria libri duodecim. ad codicum veterum fidem recensuit et annotatione explanavit Georg. Ludovicus Spalding. Sumtibus Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii, Lipsiae. 1798-1816. £775 4 Vols., royal 8vo, lxxxvi, 628,[4]; viii,652,[2]; xii,646,[2]; [2],xviii, [2],718,[2]pp., large paper copy, from the libraries of the Rev. Theodore Williams and Frances Mary Richardson Currer, with her armorial bookplate in each volume, bound for the Rev. Williams by J. Clarke in dark blue morocco extra, with Williams’ crests stamped in gilt on both covers of each volume, showing his initials T.W. in a small oval, five raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, inner dentelle multi gilt border, all edges gilt, a nice set. Contents: Vol. 1. continens libros I-III; vol. 2. continens libros IV-VI; vol. 3. continens libros VII-IX; vol. 4. continens libros X-XII.
With a fine provenance: Rev. Theodore Williams’ library was well-known for its books printed on vellum and volumes on large or largest paper bound in blue or green morocco; Frances Mary Ricardson Currer (1785-1861) was England’s earliest female bibliophile and was described by Dibdin as the “head of all female book collectors in Europe.”.
Two further volumes were issued in 1829 & 1834, but never accompanied this set.
314. RAHIR (Édouard) Livres dans de Riches Reliures des Seizième, Dix-Septième, Dix- Huitième et Dix-Neuvième Siècles. Damascène Morgand (Rahir Successeur), Paris. 1910. £95 Small folio, [iv]95,[1]pp., 50 plates, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. quarter morocco, marbled boards, a little rubbed, uncut. A catalogue of 378 bookbindings “which makes very small beer indeed of all other bookseller’s catalogues devoted to bindings”. This collection was catalogued by Édouard Rahir who had succeeded Damascène Morgand and taken over the name of the firm in 1897.
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315. REED (R.) Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers. Seminar Press. 1972. £145 First Edition, ix,331pp., previous owners name in ink on endpaper, 22 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. The story of animal skin products and why it has been used as a writing and binding material from early Egyptian times to the present day. A scarce book.
316. REES (Eiluned) & PARRY (Charles) Libri Walliae: A Catalogue of Welsh Books and Books Printed in Wales 1546-1820. [With:] Supplement. The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 1987-2001. £125 First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, limited to 500 copies, xii,517; [v],518-923,lxxxx; xiv,249pp., from the library of Owen Morris, illustrs., orig. buckram, vols., I & II housed in slip-case. The most comprehensive catalogue to date of Welsh books and books printed in Wales before 1820. The catalogue is a record of books and pamphlets printed in Wales, regardless of language, and of works wholly or partly in the Welsh language printed outside Wales from 1546 to 1820.
317. REID (John) Bibliotheca Scoto-Celtica; or, an Account of all the Books which have been Printed in the Gaelic Language. With Bibliographical and Biographical Notices by John Reid. John Reid & Co., Glasgow. 1832. £85 First Edition, lxxii,178 + 4pp., of adverts, title vignette, cont. half calf, slightly rubbed, marbled paper sides, a nice copy.
318. RENDORP (John) Bibliotheca Splendidissima Rendorpiana. The Entire, Very Elegant and Valuable Library of the Late Learned John Rendorp, Esq. Of Marquettae and Amsterdam: Containing some Highly Interesting Specimens of Xylography, Early Typography and Rare Books of the Fifteenth Century; Ancient Manuscript Romances, on vellum, most Splendidly Illuminated... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby... On Monday, February 28, 1825, and Seven Following Days. [J. Crompton]. 1825. £225 69 + 7pp., of adverts, browned and soiled throughout, recent cloth, leather label, 1334 lots.
319. RENOUARD (Ant. Aug.) Annali delle Edizioni Aldine. Con notizie sulla famiglia dei Giunta e repertorio delle loro edizioni fino al 1550. In appendice: Carlo Ramazzotti, descrizione di due libri stampati da Aldo. (Bologna 1852). Riproduzione anastatica. Fiammenghi, Bologna. 1953. £75 Small 4to, 582,lxviiipp., orig. cloth, slightly rubbed. Despite the title being in Italian this is actually a reprint of the French third and best edition of 1834.
320. RHODES (Dennis E.) Silent Printers. Anonymous Printing at Venice in the Sixteen Century. The British Library. 1995. £65 First Edition, xix,286pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly faded. A detailed and pioneering study, identifying for the first time the printer of over 250 different volumes, each of which is fully described, in the holdings of the British Library.
321. RHODES (Dennis E.) Editor. Bookbindings and other Bibliophily. Essays in Honour of Anthony Hobson. Edizioni Valdonega, Verona. 1994. £75 First Edition, 4to, frontis., illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. On the occasion of Anthony Hobson’s seventieth birthday, twelve contributors provided essays on bookbinding and the history of books. The subjects range from great collectors like Grolier, Mahieu, Anne de Montmorency, to bookbinding techniques and the book trade. This book itself is a notable contribution to the history of books, bookbinding, and the book trade.
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322. RICHARDSON (Brian) Print Culture in Renaissance Italy. The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600. Cambridge University Press. 1994. £45 First Edition, xvi,266p., orig. cloth, d.w. This volume examines the Renaissance production and reception of works by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and others, and explores the impact of new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture.
323. ROBERTS (W.) Memorials of Christie’s. A Record of Art Sales from 1766 to 1896. George Bell and Sons. 1897. £45 First Edition, 2 vols., neat library stamp on verso of title, frontispieces, plates throughout, orig. buckram, library number at foot of spine, uncut, t.e.g.
324. ROBINSON (P.R.) Editor. Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1660 in London Libraries. The British Library. 2003. £95 2 Vols., 4to, 360pp., illustrs., orig. cloth. New. This catalogue, with 285 illustrated entries and 318 original-size photographs, provides an invaluable conspectus of histories and chronicles, legal and medical manuscripts, Livery Companies' Ordinance Books, as well as literary works in a number of languages. It is the fourth British contribution to an international series of illustrated catalogues of dated and datable manuscript books written in western European handwriting of the medieval and Renaissance periods. It is a companion volume to the Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Library (currently out of print) as it covers all other institutional libraries in London.
325. ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de) De Praecipuis Caussis: et momentis neglectae a nonnullis hebraicarum litterarum disciplinae. Disquisitio elenchtica. Augustae Taurinorum: Ex Typographia Regia. 1769. £195 First Edition, 4to, [viii],207,[9]pp., title vignette, two old small neat stamps, half calf, marbled sides, slightly rubbed.
326. ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de) De Hebraicae Typographiae Origine ac Primitiis seu Antiquis ac Rarissimis Hebraicorum Librorum Editionibus seculi XV Disquisitio Historico- critica... Ex Regio Typographeo, Parma. 1776. First Edition, [viii],100pp., blank top right-hand corner of title clipped. [Bound with:] ----. Specimen ineditae et Hexaplaris Bibliorum versionis Syro-Estranghelae cum Simplici atque utriusque fontibus Graeco et Hebraeo collatae cum duplici Lat. vers. ac notis. Ex Regio Typographeo, Parma. 1778. £295 First Edition, [16]pp. Small 4to, 2 vols., in one, both titles with portion cut away (where library stamp removed?) and repaired, cont. vellum, new leather labels to spine.
327. ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de) De Typographia Hebraeo-Ferrariensi commentarius historicus quo Ferrarienses Iudaeorum editiones Hebraicae, Hispanicae, Lusitanae recensentur et illustrantur. Ex Regio Typographeo, Parma. 1780. £225 First Edition, xvi,112pp., orig. stiff paper wrappers.
328. ROSSI (Giovanni Bernardo de) Sinopsi della Ermeneutica Sacra o dell’ arte di ben interpretare la Sacra Scrittura. Dalla Stamperia Ducale, Parma. 1819. £95 First Edition, 84pp., small neat stamp to title, orig. quarter vellum, marbled paper sides, uncut.
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329. ROXBURGHE CLUB. The Book of Life: A Bibliographical Melody. [Manuscript copy of the original printed work, issued for the Roxburghe Club]. London. 1820 [but after 1885]. £275 8pp., of copper plate handwriting on Whatman paper dated 1885, wrappers with calligraphic title on front cover, loosely inserted are three letters relating to the work: the first is a letter of presentation from Christopher S.A. Dobson to Sir Charles Clay (“I do not think my Grandfather did this manuscript copy, though he may have done”); the other two are from Sir Charles’ daughter regarding the return of the manuscript after her fathers death. The whole enclosed in a folding cloth slip-case.
A manuscript copy of ‘The Book of Life’, originally printed in 50 copies on paper and 2 on vellum. It is no.30 in Nicolas Barker’s bibliographical table and he says of it “Another, ‘The Book of Life; a Bibliographical Melody’, was something of an oddity: it was presented to the Club not by a member but by Richard Thomson, described by Haselwood as ‘the illuminator of Fenchurch Street’. It was printed by John Johnson and may well have been designed by him to draw the Club’s attention to himself.”
330. ROXBURGHE CLUB. Chronological List of Members; Catalogue of Books; Rules and Regulations. [Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons]. 1855 [i.e. 1875]. £55 4to, [xii],14,3,[1]pp., Henry Arthur Bright’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, corners bumped, spine lettered in gold.
PRINTED ON VELLUM 331. ROXBURGHE CLUB. The Apocalypse of S. John the Divine. Represented by Figures Reproduced in Facsimile from a MS. in the Bodleian Library. Printed for the Roxburghe Club [With an Introduction by the Rev. H.O. Coxe]. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by Nichols and Sons. 1876. £3,445 4to, PRINTED ON VELLUM, [xiv],xxviiipp., followed by 46 lithographic facsimile plates on 23 leaves, mostly two illustrations to the page, all finely hand-coloured, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title-page, with Henry Arthur Bright’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. red gilt-lettered cloth, orig. Roxburghe quarter calf pull-off case, a fine copy. “...the Club’s ‘The Apocalypse of St John’, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library (1876), which is the real precursor of the modern series of manuscript facsimiles. It was edited by Henry Octavius Coxe, and without doubt the conception and execution of the complete facsimile were due to him... Revolutionary books generally cause difficulty in going through the press, and the ‘Apocalypse’ was no exception. On 30 June 1875 Coxe exhibited the Plates of the Apocalypse now in progress, stating that a further sum of upwards of £100 would render them perfect copies of the originals... he was empowered to have them made perfect as he suggested, at an expense not exceeding £200. When it was ready, in time for the anniversary meeting in 1876, it proved to be well worth the extra expense. The forty-six pages of fully coloured plates are extraordinary faithful copies of the originals, the human faces being, despite the fine lines, exactly copied. Sadly, no other record of the printing, not even the name of the firm, appears to have been preserved.”—Barker, 103.
Vellum copies of Roxburghe Club publications are extremely rare and were printed in only a very few copies. The vellum surface takes the water-colour paint particularly well, resulting in faithful reproductions of the 13th-century English illustrations in Bodleian MS.Auct.D.4.17.
332. ROXBURGHE CLUB. Two Tracts. Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan Prose Version of Il Ninfale Fiesolano by Giovanni Boccaccio and News and Strange Newes from St. Christophers by John Taylor the Water Poet. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1946. £345 4to, facsimiles, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Presented by C.H. Wilkinson. Barker, 207.
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333. ROXBURGHE CLUB. List of Members 1812-1991; List of Books 1814-1990. Printed for the Roxburghe Club. 1991. £50 36pp., one of the copies specially bound for members, this being Lord Wardington’s copy but with no form of ownership, orig. maroon cloth.
334. ROXBURGHE CLUB. ALEXANDER (Jonathan J.G.) The Towneley Lectionary. Illuminated for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Manuscript 91. The Roxburghe Club. 1997. £495 Large folio, [viii],99pp., 12 full-page coloured facsimiles, 17 illustrs., orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, device stamped in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Presented to members of the Roxburghe Club by Sir Simon Towneley; contributions by C. Wainwright on the binding of c.1809-1810, and by N. Barker on the script.
335. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BARKER (Nicolas) Bibliotheca Lindesiana. The Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres. Printed for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and Published by Bernard Quaritch. 1978. £50 First Edition, 4to, xviii,415,[1]pp., 24 plates, Lord Wardington’s bookplate at rear, orig. buckram, t.e.g.
336. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BARKER (Nicolas) The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian. A Facsimile from the Manuscript in the Wormsley Library. With a Study by Nicholas Barker. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club. 2000. £1,945 Royal folio, 2 vols., xix,[i],181,[3]; [viii]pp., followed by 312 full-page coloured facsimile plates, 160 illustration, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. red Roxburghe morocco, spines lettered in gilt, vellum corner tips, slip-cases. Only a few of the coloured illustrations and some of the black-work embroidery designs have ever been reproduced but here Sir Paul Getty has commissioned a magnificent two-volume monograph by Nicholas Barker with many full-size colour reproductions for presentation to his fellow members of the Roxburghe Club. The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian is also a tribute to the work of the printers and binders who have given it form. Like the original it is bound in two volumes. Over 300 of the pages of the ‘Great Book’ have been reproduced in superb facsimile by John Parfitt at the Westerham Press, using up to twelve different colours to achieve a faithful likeness to the original. These have been supplemented with 160 further illustrations, reproduced in black and white and colour, showing the manuscripts, prints, and books, from which Trevilian drew his inspiration, and the embroidery, surviving and preserved in contemporary portraits, analogous to his patterns. The text has been set in Caslon’s Great Primer, cast by Gloucester Typesetting Services, and printed in red and black throughout by Susan Shaw at the Merrion Press.
337. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BARKER (Nicolas) Editor. The York Gospels. A Facsimile with Introductory Essays by Jonathan Alexander, Patrick McGurk, Simon Keynes & Bernard Barr. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club. 1986. £195 4to, 135pp., followed by 334 coloured facsimile plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine a little soiled and faded, t.e.g. A complete facsimile of this major Anglo-Saxon manuscript with a full codicological description, history and bibliography. The manuscript was probably written and illuminated in the south of England but (apart from a brief period during the civil war) has been at York since it was acquired by Archbishop Wulfstan in 1020.
338. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BARKER (Nicolas) Editor. Two East Anglian Picture Books. A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian MS Ashmole 1504. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club. 1989. £475 Large folio, xvii,[i],100,[2]pp., with 136 pages in full colour and 61 plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. green quarter Roxburghe morocco gilt, vellum-tipped corners, t.e.g. Presented to the Members of The Roxburghe Club by Paul Mellon.
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339. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BARNFIELD (Richard) The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1876. £225 4to, [xii],14,xlv,240pp., frontis., title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Henry Arthur Bright’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, corners bumped, spine lettered in gold. Contents: The affectionate shepheard, 1594; Hellens rape, or, A light lanthorne for light ladies; Cynthia, with certaine sonnets, and The legend of Cassandra, 1595; Lady Pecunia, or, The praise of money, 1605; The complaint of Poetrie for the death of Liberalitie, 1598; The combat, betweene Conscience and Covetousnesse in the minde of man, 1598; Poems: In divers humors, 1598; From a ms. in the possession of Sir Charles H. Isham, Lamport hall, Northamptonshire. Barker, 102.
340. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BATHO (Gordon R.) & CLUCAS (Stephen) Editors. The Wizard Earl’s Advices to his Son. A Facsimile and Transcript from the Manuscripts of Henry Percy Ninth Earl of Northumberland at Petworth House. Printed for the Roxburghe Club. 2002. £260 Folio, lxii, with 136 pages of manuscript in facsimile and 9 plates (1 coloured), Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter morocco, devices stamped in gilt on covers, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Presented to the Members by Lord Egremont.
341. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BIGHAM (Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Clive) The Roxburghe Club: its History and its Members 1812-1927. Printed for The Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1928. £595 First Edition, 4to, [xiv],156,[1]pp., frontis., 10 plates, Lord Wardington’s bookplate at rear, title printed in red and black, orig. half Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Presented to the Members by Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Clive Bigham. Barker, 188.
342. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BOSWELL (James) James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck 1782-1795. Edited by The Viscountess Eccles Gordon Turnbull. Presented to Members of the Roxburghe Club. 1995. £245 Folio, xi,[i],225,[3]pp., with 68 pages of manuscript in facsimile, and 17 plates, title printed in red and black, frontis., Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, device stamp in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g.
343. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BRIGHT (Henry A.) Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby’s Papers, in the Possession of Henry A. Bright. [Edited with an Introduction and Portrait by H.A. Bright]. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by Nichols and Sons. 1877. £145 4to, [vi],vi,[ii],51,[1]pp., title printed in red and black, 2 portraits, 1 facsimile plate, with Henry Hucks Gibbs’ name printed in red in the roll of members, with the Aldenham armorial bookplate, Henry H. Gibbs’ signature (1877), presentation inscription from Allan H. Bright to Allardyce Nicoll (1939), orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 104.
344. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BROWN (T. Julian) Editor. The Stonyhurst Gospel of Saint John. With a Technical Description of the Binding by Roger Powell and Peter Waters. Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1969. £695 4to, vii,[i],62pp., 194 pages of collotype facsimile plates, Christopher S.A. Dobson’s name printed in red in the roll of members, cont. quarter red morocco, uncut, t.e.g. A complete facsimile of the MS. produced at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, possibly before 698, and currently preserved at the library of Stonyhurst College. 80 copies only were available for distribution when new. Barker, 233.
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345. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BUCKLEY (Rev. W.E.) Editor. Cephalus and Procris. Narcissus. by Thomas Edwards. From the Unique Copy in the Cathedral Library, Peterborough. Edited by Rev. W.E. Buckley. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by Nichols and Sons. 1882. £195 4to,[x],xxxv[1],187,[5],ix,[1],[189]-350,[8]pp., title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Henry Arthur Bright’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. Roxburghe morocco, head of spine slightly chipped. Barker, 105.
346. ROXBURGHE CLUB. [BUCKLEY (Rev. W.E.) Editor] Quatuor Sermones. Reprinted from the First Edition Printed by William Caxton at Westminster. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1883. £195 4to, [vi],vii,[i],64pp., 1 facsimile plate, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title-page, Henry Arthur Bright’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold and slightly chipped. Barker, 111.
347. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BURTON (Richard) The Search for the Source of the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton’s unpublished East African Letter Book; Together with other Related Letters and Papers in the Collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. Now First Printed for the First Time. Edited, with a Bibliographical Commentary, by Donald Young; and with a Preface by Quentin Keynes. The Roxburghe Club. 1999. £150 Large 8vo, xxxi,[i],207,[1]pp., deluxe edition, tipped-in frontis., and one facsimile plate, one folding map, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, full blue morocco tooled in blind, figure in gold on upper cover, t.e.g.
348. ROXBURGHE CLUB. BUTLER (Geoffrey G.) Editor. The Edmondes Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Envoy from Queen Elizabeth at the French Court. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1913. £345 4to, xxxiv,451pp., frontis., 9 plates, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher, orig. Roxburghe quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Important series of papers covering the period 1592-99. Barker, 164.
349. ROXBURGHE CLUB. CAREWE (Sir Nicholas) The Voyage of Sir Nicholas Carewe to the Emperor Charles V in the Year 1529. Edited [from the Egerton MS. 3315] with Introduction and Notes by R.J. Knecht. Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge. 1959. £375 4to, x,116pp., 5 plates of facsimiles, including a double-page map and a portrait, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name denoted in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. half Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, slightly faded, vellum-tipped corners, uncut, t.e.g. Barker, 225.
350. ROXBURGHE CLUB. CHALKHILL (John) The Works of John Chalkhill. Edited with an Introductory Essay, Commentary, and Appendices by Charles Ryskamp & Scott D. Westrem. The Roxburghe Club. 1999. £220 4to, [iv],xiv,220pp., 20 plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold.
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351. ROXBURGHE CLUB. COOK (Jean) & MASON (John) Editors. The Building Accounts of Christ Church Library 1716-1779. A Transcription with an Introduction and Indices of Donors and Craftsmen. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1988. £145 Folio, [xii],120pp., coloured frontis., 10 plates, Lord Wardington’s name highlighted in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, coat of arms stamped in gold on upper cover.
352. ROXBURGHE CLUB. COXE (H.O.) Editor. Poema quod dicitur Vox Clamantis, necnon Chronica Tripartita, auctore Johanne Gower. Nunc primum edidit H.O. Coxe, M.A. Impensis Societatis Roxburgensis. E Typographeo Gulielmi Nicol. 1850. £325 4to, [xii],11,[1],lxiii,[i],427,[1]pp., title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Rev. Philip Bliss’ name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 69.
353. ROXBURGHE CLUB. FREZZI (Federico) Il Quadriregio. With an Essay by B.H. Breslauer. The Roxburghe Club. 1998. £245 4to, 37pp., introduction followed by 214pp., of facsimile text illustrated with woodcuts, orig. quarter morocco. A handsome facsimile edition, based on the edition printed in Florence by Piero Pacini in 1508. Frezzi’s poem, first published in Perugia in 1481, is beautifully interpreted by some of the most outstanding woodcuts created by fifteenth century Florentine artists. A scholarly essay by B.H. Breslauer carefully documents the history of the early Florentine woodcut as well as that of the Quadriregio. This volume includes a preface by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres who presented the volume to members of the Roxburghe Club.
354. ROXBURGHE CLUB. FURNIVALL (Frederick J.) Editor. A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides. Edited from the unique MS. of John Tollemache. Roxburghe Club. Printed for Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. by Stephen Austin, Hertford. 1865. £345 4to, xxxvi,334,[2]pp., title printed in red and black, presentation inscription from Henry H. Gibbs to Henry A. Bright, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 85.
355. ROXBURGHE CLUB. [GIBBS (Henry Hucks) Editor]. The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and other Rare Pieces; Collected into One Book by Samuel Pepys, and Forming Part of the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1873. £495 4to, [vi],lxvii,[i],240,[2]pp., folding coloured frontispiece, 1 chromolithograph plate, numerous facsimile plates (of which 20 are coloured), title printed in red and black, intermittent foxing, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. “This is something of a ‘tour de force’, employing almost every method of reproduction then available. The editor was Henry Hucks Gibbs, and it is not improbable conjecture that the revival of interest in reproducing appearance as well as text was, like much else, due to him, and to the stir which this book must have caused.”—Barker, 96.
356. ROXBURGHE CLUB. GRAHAM (Rose) A Picture Book of the Life of Saint Anthony the Abbot. Reproduced from a Manuscript of the Year 1426 in the Malta Public Library at Valletta, with Supplementary Plates of Related Subjects. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1937. £895 Folio, viii,[ii],144pp., coloured frontis., heightened in gilt, 68 fine collotype plates printed by Emery Walker, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Barker, 201.
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357. ROXBURGHE CLUB. GRIFFITHS (Jeremy) & EDWARDS (A.S.G.) Editors. The Tollemache Book of Secrets. A Descriptive Index and complete Facsimile, together with Catherine Tollemache’s Receipts of Pastery, Confectionary &c. The Roxburghe Club. 2002. £325 4to, 301pp., including 137 facsimile pages, full facsimiles of both manuscripts plus introduction, transcriptions of the texts and a translation of the ‘Treatise of Fishing with an Angle’, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, quarter tan morocco, blue cloth sides with Tollemache arms in gilt on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. The earliest known treatise in English on angling is contained in the Tollemache Book of Secrets which was written before the famous text in The Boke of St Albans (1946). A remarkable manuscript written at the turn of the fifteenth century, the Book of Secrets is a miscellany of practical instructions assembled for the use of the Tollemache household at Helmingham. Written predominantly in Middle English, this fascinating record of everyday life in early modern England gives advice and directions for domestic tasks and pastimes including gardening, fishing, lacemaking, carving, creating medicines for humans and hawks, mixing dyes, ink and glue, making charms and prognostications, restoring dovecotes and shirt-making.
Catherine Tollemache’s Receipts of Pastery, Confectionary &c. gives Lord Tollemache’s book a balance as there is little pertaining to cookery in the Book of Secrets. The Receipts dates from around the beginning of the seventeenth century and includes some superb jam, marmalade, fruit and pastry recipes all of which are easy to follow from the Middle English transcriptions as is an extraordinary early recipe for biscotti.
358. ROXBURGHE CLUB. HASSALL (W.O.) Editor. The Holkham Library. Illuminations and Illustrations in the Manuscript Library of the Earl of Leicester. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1970. £695 Folio, xii,48pp., 160 plates (12 coloured), title in red and black, Christopher S.A. Dobson’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, quarter Roxburghe morocco, uncut, t.e.g. The Earl of Leicester’s Roxburghe volume and a suitably lavish production in keeping with the outstanding collection described.
359. ROXBURGHE CLUB. JACKSON (John Edward) Editor. Liber Henrici de Soliaco, Abbatis Glaston, et vocatur A. An Inquisition of the Manors of Glastonbury Abbey, of the Year M.C.LXXXIX. From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Marquis of Bath. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1882. £175 4to, xiv,[ii],193,[1]pp., title printed in red and black, intermittent foxing throughout, Henry Arthur Bright’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold, had and foot of spine frayed and a little chipped. Barker, 108.
360. ROXBURGHE CLUB. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) Vulgaria by William Horman, Fellow and Vice-Provost of Eton College. First Printed by Richard Pynson in 1519. Now Reprinted, with an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1926. £675 Folio, xxx,455pp., frontis., title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, slightly rubbed, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Presented to the Members of The Roxburghe Club by Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Barker, 184.
361. ROXBURGHE CLUB. LAMPORT GARLAND. A Lamport Garland from the Library of Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Bart. Comprising Four Unique Works Hitherto Unknown. [Edited with Introductions by Charles Edmonds]. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1881. £265 4to, [240]pp., title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Henry Arthur Bright’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, corners bumped, spine lettered in gold.
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The poems are printed in facsimile of the original editions, on large paper, with woodcut designs at top and bottom of text, reproductions of the original title-pages and of the coats-of-arms of the persons in whose honor they were written. Contents: Emaricdulfe [sonnets], by E. C. 1595; Celestiall elegies, by Thomas Rogers [in honor of Frances, countess of Hertford]. 1598; Vertues due by T. P. [i.e. Thomas Powell, in honor of Catherine Howard, countess of Nottingham]. 1603; A commemoration on Sir Christopher Hatton, by John Phillips. 1591. Barker, 109.
362. ROXBURGHE CLUB. MACRAY (Rev. W.D.) The History of Grisild the Second: A Narrative in Verse, of the Divorce of Queen Katharine of Arragon. Written by William Forrest, Sometime Chaplain to Queen Mary I., and now Edited, for the First Time, from the Author’s MS. in the Bodleian Library, by Rev. W.D. Macray. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by Whittingham and Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press. 1875. £195 4to, xxviii,199pp., title printed in red and black, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 101.
363. ROXBURGHE CLUB. MARKHAM (Clements R.) Editor. A Tract on the Succession to the Crown (A.D. 1602). By Sir John Harington, Kt., of Kelston. Printed for the First Time from a Manuscript in the Chapter Library at York, and Edited with Notes and an Introduction by Clements R. Markham, C.B. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1880. £295 4to, xiv,14,[4],xiv,[ii],128pp., portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, with an additional engraved title, Henry Arthur Bright’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. This copy has the additional portrait of Sir J. Harington, presented by F. Ouvry, which is listed as No. 107 in Barker’s ‘The Publications of the Roxburghe Club 1814-1962’. Also tipped in is a A.L.s “Mr. Frederic Ouvry asks the Members of the Roxburghe Club to do him the honor to accept a Portrait of Sir John Harington copied from the Frontispiece of his translation of Ariosto 1591 as an additional illustration of the tract by Sir John recently printed by the Club.” Barker, 106 & 107.
364. ROXBURGHE CLUB. MILLAR (Eric George) The St. Trond Lectionary. A MS. from the Abbey of St. Trond. Described by Eric George Millar. With an Account of the Abbey to 1180 Based on its Monastic Chronicle. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1949. £825 4to, [xii],120,[2]pp., coloured frontis., heightened in gilt, 14 plates (of which 12 are fine collotype plates), with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Barker, 211. “Dr Eric Millar has produced five splendid manuscripts facsimiles in the tradition of James, among them... his St Trond Lectionary”. Presented to the members by Dr. Eric George Millar.
365. ROXBURGHE CLUB. OAKESHOTT (Walter) Some Woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair. Printed as an Appendix to the Fourth Part of Le Relationi Vniversali di Giovanni Botero, 1618. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1960. £225 4to, xiv,56pp., 5 plates, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, slightly faded, uncut, t.e.g. Presented by Dr. Walter Oakeshott. Barker, 227.
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366. ROXBURGHE CLUB. PARTONOPE OF BLOIS. A Fragment of Partonope of Blois, from a Manuscript at Vale Royal, in the Possession of Lord Delamere. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by J.B. Nichols and Sons. 1873. £225 4to, [vi],ii,[2],16pp., one folding facsimile plate, title printed in red and black, additional engraved title- page, Ralph Nevile Grenville’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. Barker, 98.
367. ROXBURGHE CLUB. POPE (Alexander) An Essay on Man. Reproductions of the Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Houghton Library. With the Printed Text of the Original Edition. Introduction by Maynard Mack. Printed for Presentation to Members of The Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1962. £375 First Edition, large 4to, 101 pages of facsimiles, with the bookplate of Viscount Esher and his name printed in red in the roll of members, title printed in red and black, orig. half Roxburghe morocco, slightly faded, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. Barker, 228. “...a full-dress textual treatment of a major literary work... with collotype facsimiles... of both the surviving manuscripts.” Presented to the Members by Henry S. Morgan.
368. ROXBURGHE CLUB. RANSOME (D.R.) Editor. Sir Thomas Smith’s Misgovernment of the Virginia Company. By Nicholas Ferrar. A Manuscript from the Devonshire Papers at Chatsworth House. For Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge. 1990. £75 Folio, xxii,16pp., with 14 pages of manuscript in facsimile, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, slight signs of water staining, a little soiled, vellum tips.
369. ROXBURGHE CLUB. RATCLIFF (S.C.) Elton Manorial Records 1279-1351. With a Translation by D.M. Gregory and a Preface by Granville Proby. Privately Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge. 1946. £625 Folio, lxxv,[i],456pp., Sir Sydney Cockerell’s copy, signed and dated by him on front free endpaper, frontis., title printed in red and black, text in Latin and English, Sir Sydney’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. half Roxburghe morocco, slightly rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. Presented to the Members of The Roxburghe Club by Granville Proby. Barker, 208.
370. ROXBURGHE CLUB. ROBINSON (John Martin) Remembrances of Things Worth Seeing in Italy Given to John Evelyn 25 April 1646 by Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel. Edited with Notes, Introduction, and an Extract from Evelyn’s Diary by John Martin Robinson. The Roxburghe Club. 1987. £50 Small 4to, 43,[3]pp., tipped-in frontis., and 2 plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, cont. quarter Roxburghe morocco, covers slightly water stained and peeling. Privately printed at the Stouton Press and presented to the members by The Duke of Norfolk.
371. ROXBURGHE CLUB. SCOTT (Kathleen L.) Introduction by. The Mirroure of the Worlde. MS Bodley 283 (England c. 1470-1480). The Physical Composition, Decoration and Illustration. With an Introduction by Kathleen L. Scott. Printed for the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1980. £295 Folio, xiii,[i],68pp., with 21 coloured facsimile leaves, 20 plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, red quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, decorated in gilt, t.e.g.
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372. ROXBURGHE CLUB. SKELTON (R.A.) & SUMMERSON (John) A Description of Maps and Architectural Drawings in the Collection made by William Cecil, First Baron Burghley now at Hatfield House. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club. 1971. £495 Large Folio, xv,[1],96pp., followed by 24 plates (6 coloured), some double-page, frontis., title printed in red and black, Christopher S.A. Dobson’s name is printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter morocco, uncut, t.e.g.
373. ROXBURGHE CLUB. SKINNER (David) Introduced by. The Arundel Choirbook. London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS I. A Facsimile and Introduction. Privately Printed for the Duke of Norfolk for presentation to the Roxburghe Club. 2003. £350 Large folio, [xii],26,[2]pp., followed by 190 coloured facsimile plates, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco over bevelled boards, device stamped in gold on upper cover. A handsome monograph on this spectacular manuscript of medieval church music commissioned by Edward Higgons, Master of Arundel College in Sussex.
374. ROXBURGHE CLUB. SMITH (Alan G.R.) Editor. Mary, Queen of Scots. The Last Years of Mary, Queen of Scots. Documents from the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House. Edited and with an Introduction by Alan G.R. Smith. Printed for the Roxburghe Club. 1990. £95 Folio, x,97,[1]pp., with 4 coloured portraits and 4 plates of facsimiles, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter morocco, a little soiled, slight signs of water staining giving text leaves a slight waver, spine gilt, vellum tips. Dedicated and presented to the President and Members of the Roxburghe Club by the Marquess of Salisbury.
375. ROXBURGHE CLUB. VANBRUGH (Sir John) & PEARCE (Sir Edward Lovett) Architectural Drawings in the Library of Elton Hall. Edited by Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig. [With a Foreword and a Short Account of the Allens of Stillorgan by Sir Richard Proby]. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford. 1964. £595 4to, lvi,40pp., with portraits of Lord and Lady Allen and 80 plates, many containing 2 illustrations, title printed in red and black, Christopher S.A. Dobson’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter blue Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g.
376. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WAGNER (Anthony) BARKER (Nicolas) & PAYNE (Ann) Medieval Pageant. Writhe’s Garter Book. The Ceremony of the Bath and the Earldom of Salisbury Roll. Printed for the Roxburghe Club. 1993. £425 Large folio, xxi,[i],100,[2]pp., with 78 facsimile plates in full colour, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, vellum corner tips, t.e.g.
377. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WILLIAMS (F.) & NIXON (Howard M.) Editors. The Gardyners Passetaunce [c.1512]. Printed for Presentation to Members of The Roxburghe Club. 1985. £110 4to, xvi,75pp., A.L.s of presentation from Mrs Nixon to Lord Wardington on his new membership to the Club, Lord Wardington’s bookplate at rear, image of a bust of Henry VIII by Torrigiani as frontispiece, facsimiles of the Pynson edition in full and the existing fragments of the Goes edition, images of bindings and other fragments in the text, one of the special copies bound in the orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gold. With notes on the two unique editions in Westminster Abbey Library, descriptions of the bindings in which they were preserved, and the other items found in these bindings by Howard M. Nixon.
The Gardyners Passetaunce is a propaganda poem promoting the newly formed Holy League which was proclaimed on 4 October 1511. It is a simplified version of a densely written Latin tract by James Whytstons which discusses the nature of a just war, the merit of fighting in defence of the Pope and compares Louis XIII of
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France to various tyrants and persecutors of religion. Pynson, the king's printer, published this 'tabloid' poetic version at the behest of the King and Court to spread the propaganda to a wider less academic public, a second edition appeared, probably in the same year, printed by Goes and Watson. The poem is anonymous but Nixon's essay on the poem’s history does provide all the available evidence on the subject and draws his conclusions... An excellent book published by the Roxburghe Club in honour of Howard M. Nixon after his death.
378. 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]. £145 Square 8vo, [ii],82,[6]pp., Lord Wardington’s copy but with no form of ownership, orig. cloth, leather label on upper cover. Published especially for the annual dinner held at Wormsley for members of the Roxburghe Club only.
379. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WRIGHT (William Aldis) Editor. Femina. Now First Printed from a Unique MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. [Printed for The Roxburghe Club] at the University Press, Cambridge. 1909. £125 4to, xv,[i],159,[1]pp., with the bookplate of Viscount Esher, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, rubbed, head of spine chipped, t.e.g. A treatise prepared for the instruction of English children in French. Its date approximately is about 1515. Presented by the editor. Barker, 152.
380. SADLEIR (Michael) XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record based on his own Collection. Cooper Square Publications, New York. (Reprint of the 1951 Edition) 1969. £115 2 Vols., 4to, xxxiii,[i],399; [viii],195pp., 48 plates, bookplate on front pastedowns, orig. cloth, slightly worn. 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.
381. SAUNDERS (O. Elfrida) English Illumination. The Pantheon, Florence. 1928. £165 First Edition, 2 vols., folio, bookplate on pastedowns, 129 collotype plates, orig. cloth, spines gilt. Saunders begins with Celtic illumination and proceeds through the fifteenth century. The study traces changes in styles from Celtic to Anglo-Saxon, then to Romanesque and Gothic. It finds that throughout the thousand years covered, English art tended to be more decorative that representational. Saunders also makes the point that though British illuminators produced no manuscripts to rival those commissioned by Duc de Berry, they retained a high level of excellence through the Middle Ages.
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THE SYSTON PARK LARGE PAPER COPY 382. SAVAGE (William) Practical Hints on Decorative Printing, with Illustrations Engraved on Wood, and Printed in Colours at the Type Press. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1822. £8,775 First and only edition, folio, 380 x 260mm, the Syston Park large paper copy printed on thick paper, with the Syston Park bookplates, f.1 printed title in red and black within typographic border, f.1 extra decorative title printed in gold and colours, f.1 colour printed armorial dedication on india paper, ff.2 ‘List of Subscribers’, ff.2 ‘Preface’, f.1 ‘Address’, f.1 ‘Contents’, [1]-118pp., ff.2 ‘Index’, f.1 [the extremely rare prefatory leaf issued with part one], 51 plates, many printed in colours, or gold and colours, some on india paper, plus 3 additional text leaves interspersed (Ode to Mercy, Jerusalem Delivered and Cavern of Despair), 6 coloured printed headpieces, some light foxing as always with this book, contemporary full aubergine morocco by S. Ridge of Grantham (with his ticket on endpaper), wide richly gilt-rolled border with corner-pieces, inner-blind tooled border, central blind-tooled lozenge enclosing an inner gilt-tooled lozenge, spine divided into six panels, lettered in two, all richly tooled in gilt, wide heavily gilt-rolled turn-ins, green silk doublures and endpapers, a.e.g. a very nice copy. A magnificent large paper copy, bound like most of Sir John Hayford Thorold’s collection by Ridge of Grantham. It is, I would say, an unrivalled copy of that work which was itself the single most influential nineteenth-century book in English on colour printing.
As early as 1815 Savage announced his plans to publish a book on printing in colours with his newly devised method. He had developed coloured printing inks using resins and soaps and therefore avoided the problems of oil-based colours, which had previously caused deterioration of the paper in colour-printed books. George Baxter and Edmund Evans followed his methods, but it was Savage’s experiments that made their work possible.
The book is a demonstration and explanation, with many examples to show different states by which his effects were achieved, and the variety of results he could manage, including his process of wood block printing using as many as twenty-nine different colours in one image.
Savage proposed the book to be published by subscription, as was usual with any expensive work at that time, and guaranteed no second edition would be printed and all the blocks were to be destroyed. He originally intended to publish an edition of 325, but found only 227 subscribers. Savage's determination to print the entire colour work himself, on his own iron hand-press, lead to long delays. After three years of constant inquiries from the subscribers, he decided to issue what he had ready as Part I. The work was finally completed in 1823, more than seven and a half years after his announced plans of publication. The plates were destroyed/cancelled and several impressions from the defaced blocks are included to support the fact. Bigmore & Wyman II, pp.297-301; Abbey, Life, 233; Burch, Colour Printing, pp. 115-21.
Provenance: Syston Park; Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosethal (bookplate).
383. SAVAGE (William) A Dictionary of the Art of Printing. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1841. £110 First Edition, [vi],815pp., lacking half-title, illustrs., in the text, later cloth. Bigmore & Wyman II, p.297. “One of the standard English works on printing”.
384. SCHÄFER (Otto) Festschrift Otto Schäfer. Zum 75. Geburtstag am 29. Juni 1987. Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Stuttgart. 1987. £50 First edition, 4to, frontis., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt.
385. 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. £40 3 Vols., in one, un-illustrated edition, with the bookplate of Geo. H. Brook, buckram, 2,493 lots. An important collection, Schiff bought together one of the finest collections of French 18th and 19th century bindings ever put together by a single collector. HOBSON. The Literature of Bookbinding. p.11. “Probably the most learned sale catalogue ever produced.”
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386. SCHMIDT-KUNSEMULLER (Friedrich Adolf) Die Abendlandischen Romanischen Blindstempeleinbande. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart. 1985. £125 First Edition, 4to, viii,334,[2]pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, corners slightly bumped. Each of the 138 blind-stamped bindings are described and illustrated along with a catalogue of the stamps used, each one illustrated from a photograph or rubbing.
387. SCHUNKE (Ilse) Leben und Werk Jakob Krauses. Im Insel Verlag, Leipzig. [1943]. £65 First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 30 plates, numerous illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth-backed marbled boards. A study of the noted 16th century bookbinder.
388. SCRIPTORIUM. Revue Internationale des Etudes Relatives aux Manuscrits. International Review of Manuscript Studies. Gregg Press Limited. (Reprint of the 1946-62) 1966-67. £395 16 Vols., in 15, 4to, numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth. An important periodical dealing with the study of manuscripts.
389. 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. £985 First English Edition, 4to, xxviii,[iv],342pp., coloured frontis., lithograph portrait, 12 lithographed plates (one folding), orig. boards, re-backed with new printed paper label to spine, 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.
390. SHABERMAN (Raphael B.) George MacDonald: A Bibliographical Study. St. Paul’s Bibliographies. 1990. £38 First Edition, one of 500 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. This highly individual work presents for the first time a comprehensive account of the writings of George MacDonald by an author who has studied his work for over twenty years.
FIRST REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM 391. SHAKESPEARE (William) Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. [Printed by E. & J. Wright]. [1807]. £725 Folio (370 x 215mm), an extremely good ex-library copy with only a small faint stamp to verso of title, several small neat repairs to title-page, engraved portrait on title, very light browning throughout, cont. blind-stamped calf, expertly re-backed, library call number at base of spine. “Edited by Francis Douce. This, the first reprint of the first edition in its original form, was executed by J. Wright, St. John’s Square, Ln. Wm. Upcott discovered errors, and set to work to collate it with the original. After one hundred and forty-five days’ attention, he compiled a list of 368 errors. This fact coming to the notice of John and Arthur Arch, the Cornhill booksellers, two promoters of the supposed facsimile, they importuned him to sell the list to them. Eventually he consented, expecting fair remuneration for his five months’ close work. All he received was a copy of the reprint, published at five guineas.” — Jaggard. Jaggard, p.510.
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392. SHAW (Henry) The Hand Book of Mediaeval Alphabets and Devices. Henry Bohn. 1856. £35 Large 8vo, [x]pp., 36 plates in various colours, prelims spotted, orig. cloth, faded and rubbed, re-backed.
393. SHAW (Henry) The Handbook of the Art of Illumination, as Practised During the Middle Ages. With a Description of the Metals, Pigments, and Processes Employed by the Artists at Different Periods. Bell and Daldy. 1866. £95 First Edition, 4to, viii,66pp., engraved and printed title-pages and 15 plates, orig. cloth, decorated in gilt, re-backed with the original spine neatly laid down, a nice copy.
394. SIMON (Andre L.) Bibliotheca Bacchica. Bibliographie Raisonnée des Ouvrages Imprimes avant 1600 et illustrant la soif humaine sous tous ses aspects, chez tous les peuples et dans tous les temps. The Holland Press. (Reprint if the 1927 Edition) 1972. £110 2 Vols., in one, large 4to, frontis., illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. Volume 1 lists books printed from 1450 to 1500 and volume 2 covers 1501 to 1600, over 700 entries described in detail.
FORGERY 395. SIMONIDES (Constantine) Fac-Similes of Certain Portions of the Gospel of St. Matthew, and of the Epistles of Ss. James & Jude, Written on Papyrus in the First Century, and Preserved in the Egyptian Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq, Liverpool, with a Portrait of St. Matthew, from a Fresco Painting at Mount Athos, edited and illustrated with notes and historical and literary prolegomena ... Trübner & Co. 1861 [i.e. 1862]. £495 First Edition, folio, 79,[1],8pp., engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, presentation copy from the author to the Anthropological Society of London, inscribed in green ink on the title and colophon, 19 plates, occasional browning, orig. marbled boards, calf re-back with new corners. Each facsimile of the ‘Codex Mayerianus’ (p.[37]-59) is accompanied by a transcription which has the missing parts supplied from the Bohn edition of the Greek Testament, followed by an English version.
“Constantine Simonides was one of the most controversial figures of his time in museum and scholarly circles. Already a convicted forger, Simonides issued this manuscript facsimile of papyri texts which he claimed to have discovered in a private collection. It was denounced immediately as a forgery because of his controversial past; however, it has never been definitely proven to be one of Simonides’s forgeries”.—Frank Tober Collection, University of Delaware.
396. SINGER (Dorothea Waley) Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland Dating from before XVI Century. Maurice Lamertin, Brussels. 1928- 31. £110 3 Vols., xxiii,[iii],326; viii,[iii],332-755; [ix],760-1179pp., with the book label of Bernard M. Rosenthal, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cloth, printed paper label on spines, uncut. A systematic list of more than one thousand manuscripts with detailed descriptions, some transcripts, and a general survey of the Latin literature on the subject.
397. SMITH (Sir Frederick) The Early History of Veterinary Literature and its British Development. J.A. Allen & Co. (Reprint of the 1919-1933 edition) 1976. £145 4 Vols., plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth. Vol. I. From the earliest period to A.D. 1700; Vol. II. The eighteenth century; Vol. III. The nineteenth century, 1800-1823; Vol. IV. The nineteenth century, 1823-1860.
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398. SOLON (M.L.) Ceramic Literature: An Analytical Index to the Works Published in all Languages on the History and the Technology of the Ceramic Art; also to the Catalogues of Public Museums, Private Collections, and of Auction Sales in which the Description of Ceramic Objects Occupy an Important place; and to the most Important Price-lists of the Ancient and Modern Manufactories of Pottery and Porcelain. Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd. 1910. £85 First Edition, 4to, xviii,[ii],660pp., later buckram, morocco label to spine.
399. SOTHERAN. Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica: Catalogue of Works in Many Tongues on Exact and Applied Science, with a Subject-Index. Compiled by H. Z[eitlinger] H.C. S[otheran]. Henry Sotheran and Co., & Kraus Reprints. 1921-80. £465 6 Vols., including 1st, 2nd & 3rd supplements, numerous plates throughout, orig. cloth, volumes 1 & 2 slightly shaken. Compilation of a first-rate antiquarian bookseller’s catalogues, most items annotated. Heavily technical, starting with the earliest printed works. There are 17,397 entries and many illustrations; very good subject index. First Supplement was issued in 1932 (7,198 titles); Second Supplement in 1937 (2 vols., 22,943 titles); and Third Supplement in 1952 (5,951 titles). An extremely valuable work.
400. SPARKE (Archibald) Bibliographia Boltoniensis: Being a Bibliography, with Biographical Details of Bolton Authors, and the Books Written by them from 1550 to 1912; Books about Bolton; and those Printed and Published in the Town from 1785 to Date. The University Press, Manchester. 1913. £65 First Edition, 4to, xvi,211pp., 300 numbered copies (this being out-of-series), a little foxing throughout, orig. printed wrappers, slightly chipped, uncut.
LARGE PAPER COPY 401. SPENCE (Rev. Joseph) Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr. Pope, and other Eminent Persons of his Time. Now First Published from the Original Papers, with Notes, and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. W.H. Carpenter. 1820. £375 First Edition, folio (372 x 273mm), large paper copy, xxxiv,[i],501,[1 errata leaf]pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, crease to title-page, cont. half calf, rubbed. Large paper copies of this book are extremely rare. “Without his notes much of the literary history of the eighteenth century, and especially of that of Pope, his immediate circle, and his antagonists, would have been irretrievably lost. The conversational gleanings of his Italian tour are also interesting; and altogether the book presents an admirable view of the dominant literary and critical tendencies of the eighteenth century.”—DNB.
PRIVATELY PRINTED 402. STEPHENS (James Francis) Bibliotheca Stephensiana; Being a Catalogue of the Entomological Library of the Late James Francis Stephens, Esq., F.L.S., which has been Preserved Entire, and is now Removed to Mountfield, Lewisham, where it may be Consulted by any Entomologist, Every Wednesday Evening, at Heretofore. [With a Memoir of J. F. Stephens, signed: H. T. S., i.e. Henry Tibbats Stainton]. [Privately Printed], London. 1853. £345 4to, 48pp., title and final leaf a little browned and spotted otherwise a fine copy, orig. embossed decorated cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover. James Francis Stephens, 1792-1852, entomologist. He was employed in the Admiralty office from 1807 to 1845. In 1818, at the request of the trustees of the British Museum, Stephens was granted leave from his office to assist Dr. William Elford Leach in arranging the insect collection. From that time forth he devoted himself more especially to British insects, and prepared a catalogue and a descriptive account of them. On his death in 1852, his library was purchased by Henry Tibbats Stainton who published this privately printed catalogue.
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403. STEVENS (Henry) Stevens’s Historical Collections. Catalogue of the First [-Second] Portion of the Extensive and Varied Collections of Rare Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of America... and Henry Stevens’s Franklin Collection. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. [The Dryden Press]. 1881-86. £195 2 Parts, v,[i],1-160,160A-160L,161-229,[1]; iv,79,[1]pp., frontispiece, prices supplied in ink in a cont. hand, part I in cont. cloth, lower spine defective, orig. printed wrappers bound in, some foxing to endpapers and first and last leaves, part II is bound in recent wrappers with printed paper label on upper cover. Auction catalogue Stevens’ Americana collection of 2228 numbered items. Pages 159-160, 160A-160L, 161-176 includes Stevens’ ‘Franklin Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Books all written by or in some way relating to Dr Benjamin Franklin’ offering the collection as lot 1269 for seven thousand pounds. This collection was withdrawn from the auction and sold to the Library of Congress in 1881.
404. STOWER (C.) The Printer’s Grammar; or, Introduction to the Art of Printing: Containing a Concise History of the Art, with the Improvements in the Practice of Printing, for the Last Fifty Years. B. Crosby and Co. 1808. £745 First Edition, xviii,530, + type specimens [32] + index [16]pp., frontis., 6 plates (2 folding), some random foxing, new antique half calf, a nice copy. With a history of printing mostly taken from Moxon and Lucombe with the addition of some new text and a practical discussion of all facets of producing the printed book. Includes 29 pages of printer’s flowers by Fry & Steel (designed by Hazard of Bath). Also at the end of the volume are 32 pages of type specimens by Fry & Steel, Caslon and Catherwood with a note regretting that Mr. Figgins did not have his specimens ready. Stower also has sections on printing ink, the different types of printed presses, list of typefounders, printer’s joiners and an abstract of acts relative to printers. Its chapters on rates of pay and the pricing of printing work are of considerable interest to the historian of printing. Bigmore & Wyman II, p.403; JPHS, E6; Birrell & Garnett 225; Berry & Johnson p.23,47-8.
405. [TALLEYRAND PÉRIGORD (Charles Maurice de)] Bibliotheca Splendidissima. A Catalogue of a Superlatively Splendid and Extensive Library, Consigned from the Continent... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby... Wednesday, May 8, 1816, and Seventeen Following Days... Knight and Murphy. 1816. £195 [vi],198,pp., title-page land prelims damp stained, text a little browned, 3465 lots, recent cloth, leather label on spine. Talleyrand’s library was originally bought in 1814 by Alexander Baring and his brother-in-law M. Labouchere. Unable to agree on how to divide the collection, they consigned the entire library to Sotheby’s, who sold the bulk of the contents in this sale and the remaining books in a miscellaneous pamphlet sale in 1817. De Ricci, p.92.
406. TAUBEL (Christian Gottlob) Allgemeines theoretisch-praktisches Wortebuch der Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiesserey, in welchem alle bey der Ausiibung derselben vorkommende und in die damit verwandten Kunste, Wissenschaften und Gewerbe einschlagende Kunstworter, nach alphabet. Ordnung deutlich und ausfuhrlich erklart werden. Christian Gottlob Taubel, Vienna. 1805. £795 First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, [ii],vi,152; [ii],vi,88,40,[148],[4]pp., engraved frontispieces, 8 engraved plates, 27 folding tables, wide-margin copy, orig. marbled paper wrappers, unopened, uncut, a very nice set. “Arranged as a dictionary, defining printing terms and containing much practical matter. A collection of diagrams and folding sheets shows presses and tools, type-founding utensils and moulds, type-specimens, case-lay, and imposition. Several poems in praise of printing precede a form of ceremony for reception of a new member of a printers’ guild.”—A List of Printers’ Manuals to 1850. JPHS, No. 4, 1968. Without the third volume which was published four years later in 1809. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p.2.
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407. TAYLOR (Louise Marion) Compiler. Catalog of Books on China in the Essex Institute. The Essex Institute, Salem. 1926. £50 First Edition, xi,[i],392pp., orig. cloth, a fine copy. This major subject bibliography describes 3,500 books on all aspects on Chinese life. It is an excellent reference for collectors, easy to use, and provides a broad exposure to books in any given subject. The collection is based on the collection of Thomas Hunt, a merchant who gained his fortune in China during the middle of the 19th century. A lifelong collector, Hunt gave his collection to the Essex Institute, where it is currently housed. The Library contains about 4000 volumes. It was with the purpose of increasing the library's usefulness to scholars that the current catalog was compiled. Subjects are Chinese in America, Jews in China, Buddhism, folklore, secret societies, and dozens of others.
408. 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., 12 original pages reproduced on 6,000 facsimiles, orig. cloth. 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.
409. THOMAS (Marcel) Les Grandes Heures de Jean Duc De Berry. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Thames and Hudson. 1971. £65 First Edition, folio, 110 full-page coloured plates, 22 monochrome illustrs., orig. cloth, gilt, slip-case a little worn.
410. THOMPSON (Henry Yates) Catalogue of Twenty-Eight Illuminated Manuscripts and Two Illuminated Printed Books, the Property of Henry Yates Thompson... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... On Tuesday, the 3rd June, 1919. Dryden Press. 1919. £45 4to, [vi],61,[1]pp., 41 plates (some folding), presentation inscription by Thompson on upper cover, orig. printed wrappers, spine strengthened, 30 lots. “In 1919 our collector decided to part with his hundred manuscripts, but after three prodigious sales [this being the first], totalling nearly £150,000, for seventy manuscripts and twenty-five books printed on vellum, he stopped, retaining about one-third of his great collection of manuscripts and nearly all his printed books.”—De Ricci, p.110.
411. THOMPSON (Henry Yates) Catalogue of Fourteen Illuminated Manuscripts and Fifteen Early Printed Books (Including Five Pigouchet Horae on Vellum), Togther with the Credo of Charles V in Gold & Enamel Case, and a Picture of the Battle of Cannae, Ascribed to Jean Foucquet... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Wednesday, 22nd of June, 1921. London. 1921. £65 4to, vi,[143]-207,[1]pp., coloured frontis., 44 plates (some double-page), printed list of prices and buyers’ names, gathering a little loose, cont. buckram, uncut, 32 lots. The third sale from this highly important collection of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.
412. THOMPSON (R. Campbell) The Prisms of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal Found at Nineveh, 1927-8. British Museum. 1931. £50 4to, 36pp., 18 plates, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt, a nice copy.
413. THOMPSON (Sir Edward Maunde) An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1912. £145 First Edition, xvi,600pp., 250 facsimiles, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut, a nice copy. A highly important work. Includes chapters on the history of Greek and Roman alphabets, materials and writing implements, forms of books, abbreviations, contractions, and numerals.
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ONE OF THIRTEEN COPIES PRINTED 414. [THOMSON (Richard)] Historical Notes and other Literary Materials now First Collected Towards the Formation of a Systematic Bibliographical Description of Mediaeval Illuminated Manuscripts of Hours, Offices, and other Books of Devotion; and Also for Ascertaining their Completeness or Imperfection. To which is Added a Descriptive Catalogue of a Series of Illuminated Manuscripts, Illustrative of the Proposed System of Collation. [Not Published], London. 1858. £175 Large 8vo, [iv],77,[1]pp., one of 13 copies printed, some little foxing, orig. cloth, slightly worn, a very good ex-library copy.
415. THÜLEMEYER (Heinrich Günther von) Tractatio de Bulla Aurea, Argentea, Plumbea et Cerea in Genere, nec non in Specie, De Aurea Bulla Caroli IV Imperatoris. Joannis Melchioris Bencard, Frankfurt. 1697. £795 First Edition, folio, [xii],76,38,[98],40,32,23,20,13,[1]pp., additional engraved title-page, title printed in red and black and with lower margin folding, head and tail pieces, 1 large folding plate, 47 finely engraved plates of miniatures, cont. vellum-backed boards. One of the earliest printed works to reproduce the art of manuscript illumination. Concerned with the diplomatica of Emperor Charles IV, it contains splendidly engraved reproductions of miniatures copied from the illuminated manuscript Bulls of the monarch. Page format, printing, and miniature engravings are so skilfully executed that the work conveys the beauty of the original manuscript and hence forms an interesting contribution to textual illustration.
416. TIDCOMBE (Marianne) Editor. Twenty-Five Gold-Tooled Bookbindings. An International Tribute to Bernard C. Middleton’s Recollections. Oak Knoll Press, Delaware. 1997. £55 First Edition, 4to, one of 200 number copies signed by Bernard Middleton, frontis., 25 coloured plates, orig. cloth. Fine bookbinding and gold-tooling enthusiasts will enjoy this exhibition catalogue of designer bindings, illustrated in full colour, honouring respected craftsman and noted bookbinding historian, Bernard Middleton. Each of the 25 gold-tooled contemporary bindings have been executed by some of the world’s most talented bookbinders.
417. TIELE (P.A.) Memoire Bibliographique sur les Journaux des Navigateurs Neerlandais... N. Israel, Amsterdam. 1969. £40 xii,[ii],372pp., orig. cloth. Descriptive bibliography of 322 journals of Dutch navigators published 1599-1668.
418. TODD (Henry John) Some Account of the Deans of Canterbury; From the New Foundation of that Church, by Henry the Eighth, to the Present Time. To Which is Added a Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Church Library. Printed and Sold by Simmons, Kirkby, and Jones, Canterbury. 1793. £65 First Edition, xvi,298pp., inner hinges loose, re-backed with later boards, panel cut out of spine to show orig. label, uncut.
419. TOUP (J[onathan]) A Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late J. Toup, A.M. Author of ‘Emendationes in Suidam’, and Editor of ‘Longinus’, &c. &c. Containing a fine Collection of Classical, Historical and Miscellaneous Books; many of them with MS. Notes by Mr. Toup. Most of them in good Condition, and some of them on Large Paper. To which are added, The Spanish Books collected by the Reverend Dr. Robertson, when he was engaged in writing the ‘History of America’. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby, Booksellers, at their House in York-Street, Covent Garden, On Wednesday, May 10, 1786, and to continue the Five Following Days... [London]. [1786]. £295 [ii]56pp., p.13/14 with outer top corner torn away affecting 3 lines of text, stitched as issued, a little creased and dog-eared.
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Jonathan Toup (1713-1785), English classical scholar and critic, was born at St Ives in Cornwall, and was educated at a private school and Exeter College, Oxford. Having taken orders, he became rector of St Martin’s Exeter, where he died on the 19th of January 1785. Toup established his reputation by his ‘Ernendationes in Suidam’, 1760-1766, and his edition of Longinus,1778.
William Robertson (1721-1793) Scottish historian, born at Borthwick, Mid Lothian, was the eldest son of the Rev. William Robertson. He was educated at the school of Dalkeith and the university of Edinburgh. In 1777 he published his ‘History of America’, a renowned success.
ESTC lists 2 locations (BL & Sutro Library, San Francisco).
420. [TOURNEUR (Victor) & GASPAR (Camille)] Editors. Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique. Exposition de Reliures. I. Du XIIe Siecle a la fin du XVIe. II. Du XVIIe Siecle a la fin du XIXe. Ministere des Sciences et des Arts, Brussels. 1930-31. £48 First Edition, 2 vols., 251; 312pp., frontispieces, 25 plates of bookbindings, orig. printed wrappers, slightly soiled, unopened, uncut.
421. TOVEY (Charles) The Bristol City Library: its Founders and Benefactors; its Present Position in connexion with the Library Society; and its Future Prospects; to Which is Added, Plans and Estimates for Converting the Building into a Free Library; with a Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Citizens. H.C. Evans, Bristol. 1853. Frontis., engraved half-title, 4 plans, disbound, 120pp. [Sold with:] TOVEY (Charles) A Free Library for Bristol: with a History of the City Library, Its Founders and Benefactors. H.C. Evans, Bristol. 1855. £40 26pp., disbound.
422. TSCHICHOLD (Jan) Meisterbuch der Schrift. Ein Lehrbuch mit vorbildlichen Schriften aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart für Schriftenmaler, Graphiker, Bildhauer, Graveure, Lithographen, Verlagshersteller, Buchdrucker, Architekten und Kunstschulen. Otto Maier, Ravensburg. 1965. £42 Second Edition, 4to, illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
NO OTHER COPY LOCATED 423. TYPE SPECIMEN. Select Specimens of Modern Printing Types, Plain and Ornamental. Stephenson, Blake & Co. Sheffield. [c.1860]. £595 4to, title followed by 49 leaves of specimens, blind stamp to several leaves, a few small tears to margin, orig. brick red pin head decorated cloth, tile in gilt on upper cover, edges bevelled, hinges a little torn, extremities rubbed. The firm of Blake, Garnett & Co. was founded in 1819 with the purchase of the foundry of William Caslon IV, whose father William Caslon III had left the Caslon firm in 1792 and set up on his own. About 1830 it became Blake & Stephenson, and in 1841 it took the name of Stephenson, Blake & Co. We have been unable to locate another copy of this extremely rare specimen of printing types.
424. TYPE SPECIMEN. Specimens of Printing Types of the Caslon Letter Foundry. H.W. Caslon & Co. [c.1870]. £475 Small 4to, 8 preliminary leaves followed by 334 unnumbered leaves (15 folding), printed on one side only, title printed in purple and gold, price lists, numerous specimens printed in different colours, with large folding examples, one leaf has several letters excised and one of the folding leaves lacks the lower third, orig. half green calf, rubbed, head and foot of spine frayed. “The following selection of new specimens has been arranged with a view to facilitate an easy reference to each distinct class of type suitable for Books, News, or Ornamental Printing”.—Introduction. Copac listed the Cambridge University Library copy only.
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425. TYPE SPECIMEN. The Roman and Italic Printing Types in the Printing House of Theodore L. De Vinne & Co. 12 Lafayette Place. The De Vinne Press, New York. 1891. £275 Large 8vo, 145 pages of type specimens, most with decorative initial printed in two or three colours, inner hinges cracked, orig. cloth, gilt, upper hinge slightly torn. “We take pleasure in presenting to our customers a complete Specimen Book of various sizes and faces of types suitable for books, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and circulars. An effort has been made to contrast the old style and modern cuts of letter on opposing pages... Initials have been inserted to show how an otherwise unattractive page may be brightened.” — Preface.
426. TYPE SPECIMEN. MARCEL (Jean Jacques) Oratio Dominica CL Linguis Versa, et Propriis Cujusque Linguae Characteribus Plerumque Expressa. Typis Imerialibus, Paris. 1805. £2,745 4to, xvipp., 150 (i.e. 156) ff. all leaves are with a fine red typographical border printed on both the recto and verso, presentation inscription from the famous Jewish philanthropist Moses Montefiore to Sir Culling Cardley, a nice clean wide margin copy, pink silk endpapers, cont. black morocco, flat spine tooled in gold, gilt ornamental border on sides, gilt edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, corners slightly bumped but otherwise a nice copy. This type specimen is printed throughout in types cut by Marcel, it consists of 150 different types in 150 different languages, with the Lord’s Prayer being chosen as the text. The book is divided into four parts, the first for Asian languages (946 different types), the second for the European languages (73 different types), the third for African languages (12 different types), and the fourth for American languages, that is the indigenous languages of the Indians, (19 different types).
Jean Jacques Marcel (1776-1854), “He was a distinguished Oriental scholar, and a member of the Science commission, which went with the French army to Egypt in 1798. There he was placed in charge of the printing press, which followed the army. He himself founded the type for much of the Oriental printing that was done there. In 1803, two years after he returned to France, he was placed in charge of the Imprimerie Nationale, which he organised for the first time on a remunerative basis.”—Birrel and Garnett, p.24.
427. TYPE SPECIMENS. Fry and Steele’s Specimen of Printing Types. [Barnard and Farley, Printers]. [1819] 8pp., in double-column. [Bound with:] Specimens of Printing Types by Alexander Wilson & Sons, Letter Founder, Glasgow. [n.p.]. [1819]. £275 8pp., in double-column. 4to, these two type specimens are taken from Rees’ ‘Cyclopaedia’, 1819, vol. xxviii, cont. half calf, re- backed with new printed label to spine. Berry & Johnson, Specimens of Printing Types, p.48 & p.55; Mosley, British Type Specimens, 133 & 217.
428. TYPE SPECIMENS. [Title from front cover] Charles Thurnam & Sons’ Specimens of Ornamental Printing Types, Borders, Book Founts, &c., &. Printed at the Offices of C. Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle. 1860. £595 8vo, letterpress fly-title followed by 21 leaves of type specimens, printed on rectos only, original buff printed wrappers, title within a decorative border, neat new matching paper backstrip.
The specimens are numbered from 1 through to 165; book founts, decorative and display types, decorative borders, ornaments and so on. The firm was originally founded in Carlisle in 1816 by Charles Thurnam and initially comprised of a Circulating library and the selling of journals, periodicals, and even patent medicines. The follow year they ventured into printing, stationery and bookselling and soon established themselves as the foremost printers in Cumbria. Copac listing Cambridge University Library copy only.
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429. TYPE SPECIMENS. Specimen des Types Divers de l’Imprimerie Nationale. Types Etrangers. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. 1878. £395 4to, [iv],138ff. (i.e. 151) includes supplementary leaves 23a, 23b, 29a, 40a, 40b, 75a, 75b, 95a, 103a, 103b, 104a, 122a & 134a, all printed on recto only, recent cloth, leather label on spine. The specimens of type include, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, Samaritan, Sanskrit etc. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p357. “These types comprise an assortment that is probably unrivalled at the present time.”
430. TYPE SPECIMENS. CASLON (Henry) Specimen of Printing Types by Henry Caslon, Letter-Founder, Chiswell Street, London. [London]. [1844]. £1,895 8vo, title-page, price-list, advertisement, ff. 286 of specimens (5 folding), price-list dated 1st Jan.1844, a couple of leaves with slight fraying to blank margins, orig. embossed cloth, re-backed.
Historically important, as it marks the revival of the famous Caslon old-style typeface which had fallen out of popularity for nearly half a century, during which time they had been replaced by the onslaught of the “modern” Didot and Bodoni typefaces.
Credit for reviving Caslon’s types goes to Charles Whittingham and his Chiswick Press. In several books in the 1840s, Whittingham flew in the face of fashion and used the Caslon types on title pages, and in 1844 he published the first new book set entirely in Caslon, ‘The Diary of Lady Willoughby’.
Although none of the romans and italics of Wm. Caslon are shown in this book, they were returning to favour as indicated by an advertisement on the leaf following the title: “The printers are respectfully informed, that, in addition to the contents of the following Modern Specimens, this Foundry includes the Works of the justly celebrated William Caslon, by whom it was originally established... Specimens of the original Caslon Foundry may be seen in Chiswell Street; but, being nearly out of print, cannot be generally circulated”.
The specimen leaves are are printed on one-side only and are variously marked with the names: Caslon, Son, and Livermore; H. Caslon; Caslon and Livermore; Caslon. The only other copy of this specimen book we have located is that of the Saint Bride Library.
431. TYPE SPECIMENS. ILLINOIS TYPE FOUNDING COMPANY. Specimen Book and Price List, Illinois Type Founding Company. Nos. 200 & 202 Clark Street, Chicago. Illinois Type Founding Co., Chicago. 1886. £445 8vo, 210pp., of type, type equipment, etc., orig. cloth-covered paper boards (slightly creased), title stamped in gold (which has faded) on upper cover, the date is given as 1887 here. The company operated from 1872 to 1892 and was a branch of the Bruce Foundry of New York. Not listed in Annenberg; OCLC locates 2 copies (University of Chicago & Fairleigh Dickinson University).
CIRCULATING LIBRARIES 432. VARMA (Devendra P.) The Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge. Consortium Press, Washington. 1972. £145 First Edition, xviii,225pp., coloured frontis., numerous facsimiles, orig. imitation morocco, a.e.g. Chapters include: Seeds and Saplings: Origins and Growth of the Circulating Libraries. Selected Facsimiles from Extant Catalogues. Book-labels and Book-plates. An inventory of Circulating Libraries in London, Provincial Towns, Watering Places and Spas etc. Very scare.
433. VERVLIET (Hendrik D.L.) Editor. The Book Through Five Thousand Years. Introduction by Herman Liebaers. Afterword by Ruari McLean. Phaidon Press Limited. 1972. £125 First Edition, 4to, 496pp., coloured frontis., numerous coloured and monochrome plates and illustrs., (some mounted), orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
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A richly illustrated history covering four continents and tracing the development of the written and printed word from the incised clay tablets of Mesopotamia to the finely illustrated limited editions, as well as the mass-produced books of our time.
434. VICAIRE (Georges) Bibliographie Gastronomique. The Holland Press. (Reprint of the 1890 Edition) 1978. £38 Orig. cloth, d.w. This classic bibliography of works on food, drink, cooking, kitchens, gourmets, gastronomes and everything that centres on the pleasures of eating and drinking, is a unique compilation, and the most important book of its kind.
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. £275 2 vols., xxii,501; xxii,632pp., portrait and 182 plates, with the bookplate of William & Marianne Salloch, orig. cloth, d.w’s a little worn. 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. VOGELS (Henr. Jos.) Editor. Codium Novi Testamenti Specimina. Paginas 51 Ex Codicibus Manuscriptis et 3 Ex Libris Impressis Collegit ac Phototypice Repraesentatas. Sumptibus P. Hanstein, Bonn. 1929. £35 4to, 13pp., 54 plates, orig. cloth, a nice copy.
437. VOYAGES & TRAVELS. MAGGS BROS. Voyages and Travels. Being a Selection of One Thousand Books Relating to all Parts of the World. Catalogue No. 562. Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1931. £40 Large 8vo,128pp., orig. printed wrappers, rebacked, 1,000 items.
THE FIRST AMERICAN WORK ON BOOKBINDING 438. WALKER (Edward) The Art of Book-Binding, Its Rise and Progress; Including a Descriptive Account of the New York Book-Bindery. E. Walker & Sons, New York. 1850. £945 First Edition, [i]-viii,13-49,[50 blank],51-64 [adverts]pp., engraved vignette on title, engravings within the text, orig. embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover with a highly gilt decorative boarder, re-cased with orig. spine laid-down, a nice copy. The first separately published American work on bookbinding, and the foundation for any collection of the history of bookbinding in America. Much of its material is culled from nineteenth century English bookbinding manuals, and the author was English too, although long a resident of New York City where he was a prominent trade binder and publisher. He personally trained his two sons who officially joined the firm the same year this work was published. It’s thought to have been a promotional gift for Walker’s clients, intended to enlighten them somewhat of the history and craft of bookbinding, and to introduce them to the products and operations of the firm.
439. WALLIS (R.V. and P.J.) Biobibliography of British Mathematics and its Applications 1701- 1760. Epsilon Press, Letchworth. [1986]. £325 4to, xxiii,[i],502pp., facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth. Covers mechanics, astronomy, navigation, surveying, architecture and commerce, as well as pure mathematics. Each biography is followed by details of all the author’s mathematical works, including many books and articles. 1,090 authors, over 8,000 books, illustrations and indexes. A scarce bibliography. A further part was planed but never issued.
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440. WALPOLE (Horace) A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole. George Robins. 1842. £245 4to, xxiv,86,[2],[89]-90,97-250pp., lithographed frontis., portrait, engraved and printed title, prices and buyers’ names for a good half of the lots supplied in a cont. hand, orig. wrappers bound in, buckram, spine neatly lettered in gilt. 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, 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).
This is a later printing of the catalogue - there were apparently seven in total, and those from the fifth onwards did not contain the days 7-8 - the print sales - which were sold at a later date. These pages are not present in this copy (explaining the gap in pagination), replaced by a single page note explaining that they will be sold later, in smaller lots, and that a new catalogue will be printed shortly for these lots. However, for those interested in the books, this later printing is of greater value, since the first five days (book sales) are expanded from 68 pages to 86, with many of the ‘and others’ listed in the earlier editions now properly expanded to include titles.
441. WANTRUP (Jonathan) Australian Rare Books 1788-1900. Horden, Sydney. 1987. £65 First Edition, 4to, x,[ii],468pp., signed by the author, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. It includes an extensive bibliographical checklist detailing the 260 major printed sources discussed in the text, together with a glossary and a general index as well as a special index of artists and engravers.
442. WARDINGTON LIBRARY. The Wardington Library: Important Atlases & Geographies. Part One: A-K [-Part Two: L-Z]. Sotheby’s. 2005-06. £195 2 Vols., 4to, 347;368pp., numerous plates and illustrations throughout (many coloured), list of price realized, orig. decorated cloth. “The collection of printed atlases and associated books assembled by the late Lord Wardington. is, in my view, the finest collection in private hands. In Sotheby’s two-part sale over 650 individual items have been catalogued spanning the years from 1472 to the late twentieth century. There are some interesting incunabula containing maps, an example of the first atlas to be printed - the 1477 Bologna atlas by Claudius Ptolemaeus - with some maps as proof sheets, and a further two dozen Ptolemaic atlases up to the early eighteenth century. There follows a very wide range of atlases - Dutch, French, German, English, and others, including a strong array of holdings from the twentieth century; indeed with fresh acquisitions up to a year or so ago. It is unlikely that an offering such as this to the open market will be repeated!”—Introduction.
443. WARNER (Sir George) Miniatures and Borders from a Flemish Horae. British Museum Add. Ms. 24098 Early Sixteenth Century. Reproduced in Honour of Sir George Warner. Printed for the Subscribers. 1911. £45 Frontis., 43 plates (2 coloured), from the library of Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate, orig. morocco- backed cloth, spine defective, uncut, t.e.g.
444. WEALE (W.H. James) Bookbindings and Rubbings of Bindings in the Victoria and Albert Museum. H.M.S.O. 1894-95. £75 First Edition, 2 vols., cl; iv,329pp., illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, uncut. This pioneer work on bookbinding has long been recognised as a fundamental work of reference. Over 900 bindings are described and numerous line reproductions of rolls, panel-stamps, binders’ initials and ciphers are included.
445. WEAVER (William D.) Editor. Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift of Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. With Introduction, Descriptive and Critical Notes by Brother Potamian. American Institute of Electrical Engineers, New York. 1909. £145 First Edition, 2 vols., frontispieces, numerous facsimiles, orig. cloth. An important catalogue and one of the finest collections in the field. Full collations for over 7,000 titles.
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446. WEIMANN (Christopher) & PATRON (Susan) Marbled Papers: Being a Collection of Twenty-Two Contemporary Hand-Marbled Papers, Showing a Variety of Patterns and Special Techniques. Dawson’s Book Shop, Los Angeles. 1978. £295 Folio, 61,[3]pp., one of 200 numbered copies signed by the authors, 22 mounted marbled paper samples, title-page device and ornaments for chapter headings by Fitz Eberhardt, orig. half brown Oasis morocco, lettered in gold on spine, a fine copy. Printed at the Bird & Bull Press on Ingres-Buttenpapier. FINAL AND CONCLUDING VOLUME
447. WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY. A Catalogue of Printed Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Vol. 5. Books printed from 1641 to 1850, R-Z. Wellcome Historial Medical Library. 2006. £85 First Edition, 4to, orig. cloth. Catalogue of one of the World’s finest collections of medical literature, an indispensable work of reference.
448. [WEST (William), Bookseller] Fifty Years’ Recollections of an Old Bookseller; Consisting of Anecdotes, Characteristic Sketches, and Original Traits and Eccentricities, of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the Periodical Press for the Last Half Century... [Part II. Three Hundred and Fifty Years Retrospection of An Old Bookseller; Containing an Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing, Type Founding, and Engraving, in their Various Branches; also the Origin of the Earliest Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Reviews, Periodical Essays and Newspapers; with Biographical Anecdotes, and Portraits]. Printed by and for the Author; [Printed by and for the Author, Cork, (Part II)]. 1837; [1835, part II]. £295 2 Parts in one, [viii],[9]-92,[15],102-200pp., separate title to the second part, lithograph portrait frontis., to part one, with a further 9 lithographed portraits, 4 plates, woodcuts in the text, orig. cloth, re-backed with the original spine laid-down, title lettered in gilt on upper cover. An appealingly eccentric work, full of curious information. In the first part of the work, the text proceeds to page 92 before suddenly breaking pagination to incorporate Francis Grose’s ‘Rules for Drawing Caricaturas’ & ‘An Essay on Comic Painting’. A second title is then inserted, but then continues with the sequential pagination the preceded the second title.
“It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title... It is an extremely curious and amusing work and deserves more attention than it has received” — Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.77.
449. WHITPAIN LIBRARY COMPANY. The Act of Incorporation, Bye-Laws, and Catalogue of Books, of the Whitpain Library Company. Printed by D. Sower, Jr. Norristown. 1826. £245 16pp., library call number in ink on title, text a little browned, new marbled paper wrappers. The Whitpain Library Company was formed in 1818, the first 12 pages cover the act of incorporation and bye-laws followed by a list of names of the members and a catalogue of books. The library consisted of c.200 titles, subjects include Americana, Novels, Poetry, Travel etc. Singerman, American Library Book Catalogues, 1801-1875. 2950 (cites the American Antiquarian Society copy only); RLIN also records just the AAS copy; not on OCLC or in Shoemaker.
450. WHITTINGTON PRESS. CAVE (Roderick) Chinese Ceremonial Papers. An Illustrated Bibliography. The Whittington Press, Risbury. 2002. £225 Folio, [vi],62,[4]pp., one of 200 numbered copies printed on Butten mould-made papers, 38 ceremonial papers mounted, in envelope at end and separate folder, two-tone cloth, uncut, with the orig. slip-case.
451. WHITTINGTON PRESS. McKITTERICK (David) A New Specimen Book of Curwen Pattern Papers. The Whittington Press, Andoversford. 1987. £195
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4to, xii,105,[3]pp., one of 335 copies, 32 mounted original pattern paper samples, 8 plates (4 coloured), illustrs., in the text, an excellent copy in orig. quarter buckram, Curwen paper sides, uncut, slip-case. A history of these wonderful papers together with Nash’s introduction to the 1928 specimen book. The examples display work by Edward Bawden, Harry Carter, Claud Lovat Fraser, Elizabeth Friedlander, E.O. Hoppe, Margaret James, Thomas Lowinsky, Enid Marx, Paul Nash, Sarah Neckamkin, Eric Ravilious, Michael Rothenstein, Albert Rutherston, Graham Sutherland, Diana Wilbraham and Althea Willoughby.
WILBY-SKEET LIBRARY 452. WILBY (Frederick) A Catalogue of the Books, Chiefly First Editions and Works Illustrated by the Celebrated Artists. [Printed for Private Circulation]. 1895. Large 8vo, [iv],114pp., printed on hand-made paper, orig. cloth, printed paper label on spine. [Sold with:] SKEET (Major Francis J.A.) Catalogue of a Valuable Library of English Illustrated and other Works of the XIX Century... The Property of Major Francis J.A. Skeet, Syon House, Angmering-on-Sea, Including the Collection Formed by the late Frederick Wilby, Esq., Westfield House, Bishop’s Stortford, Comprising Fine Series of the Novels of Charles Dickens and of W.M. Thackeray... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messers. Sotheby & Co... on Monday, 8th of February, 1926, and Two Following Days. Printed by J. Davy & Son. 1926. £245 Large 8vo, [ii],69pp., frontis., 1 plate, Major Skeet’s own copy, priced throughout, tipped-in are correspondences from Sotheby’s regarding lots returned, results of sale, final account for the sale, etc., newspaper cuttings pasted on front endpapers, cont. half red morocco by Riviere & Son, t.e.g. The auction catalogue also has bound in the back three Sotheby’s catalogues of 1925-26 relating to Water Colour Drawings, Old English Porcelain & Modern Jewellery, each containing further property of Major Skeet.
The rare private library catalogue of Frederick Wilby, along with Sotheby’s auction catalogue in which it was sold. Major Skeet was the nephew of Wilby and inherited the library on his death.
453. WILKES (John) A Catalogue of the Very Valuable Library of the Late John Wilkes, Esq. M.P. Alderman and Chamberlain of the City of London; Which will be Sold by Auction, By Leigh, Sotheby, & Son, on Monday, November 29, 1802, and Six Following Days,. Printed by T. Burton. 1802. £185 Additional engraved portrait frontispiece, [ii],51,[1]pp., occasional price added in a cont. hand, text browned, 1478 lots, recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. Wilkes first library was auctioned by Samuel Baker in 1764 while he was exile in Paris. The present catalogue represents his library as he left it at his death in 1797. The 1478 lots in this sale comprise a large classical library with a smattering of politics, travel, etc.
454. WILLETT (Ralph) A Memoir on the Origin of Printing. In a Letter Addressed to John Topman, Esq. Printed by and for S. Hodgson, Newcastle. 1820. £210 Second Edition, iv,72pp., one of 150 copies, vignette of title page, a little and light occasional foxing, recent quarter calf, uncut, t.e.g. Willett, 1719-95, English book collector, discusses the origin of printing; the work of Gutenberg and Caxton, the Coster legend, etc., and favours the claims of Mainz to the invention.
455. [WILMSHURST (Thomas Benjamin)] Bibliothecae Ecclesiae Cicestrensis Librorum Catalogus in duas Partes Divisus. Pars Prima: Librorum per Classes Dispositorum Catalogus. Pars Altera: Librorum Catalogus Alphabeticus. 1871 E. Typis Wilmshurstii, Cicestriae. 1871. £35 4to, [iv],42,45-86pp., presentation copy, with the bookplate of Wells Cathedral library, orig. cloth- backed marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover.
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456. WING (Donald) Compiler. Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries. (Reprint of the 1945-1951 Edition) 2000. £160 3 Vols., large 8vo, orig. cloth.
457. WISE PIRACY. RUSKIN (John) Two Letters Concerning “Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds” Addressed to the Rev. F.D. Maurice, M.A. in 1851. With Forewords by F.J. Furnivall. Printed for Private Distribution Only. 1890. £395 [vii],8-30,[2]pp., one of 40 copies, crushed brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, inner gilt dentelles, hinges cracked, head of spine slightly chipped, a.e.g.
458. WISE (Thomas J.) Book-collector, Bibliographer, Editor and Forger, 1859-1937). Autograph Letter Signed to Constance Fletcher. dated 30th October, 1932. £445 4to, 2pp., folds, slight browning, The Shakespeare Head Bronte notepaper, dated 30th October, 1932, on a Hone piracy, “...You will find the Byron pamphlet you describe fully dealt with in its proper place in the second volume of the Bibliography. I printed the 7th & 11th editions of this particular piracy which is one of a series of such unhallowed productions. Hone was a notorious pirate, & an impudent one. But in the issuance of this pamphlet he was free to have his own way, for the public feeling against Byron in 1816 was such that it would have been hopeless for Murray to have applied to the Courts for an injunction...”.
THE FIRST IMAGINARY BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE 459. WITT (Jan de) Catalogus Van Boecken Inde Byblioteque Van Mr. Jan de Wit, Door zijn Discipel den Pensionaris Vivien, [The Hague, 1672]. £375 Small 4to, 12pp., disbound, seventy items listed. Catalogue of imaginary books from the library of Jan de Witt (1625-1672), the famous Dutch statesman. The purported books are in fact vicious attacks on him. He was dead before the fictitious sale date of September 1672, murdered along with his brother Cornelius by a bloodthirsty mob. An appendix was also issued in the same year (not present here).
460. WOOD TYPE SPECIMENS. Specimens of Wood Letter, Borders and Ornaments. Designed and Cut by Stephenson, Blake & Co. and Sir Charles Reed & Sons. Stephenson, Blake & Co., Sheffield. [1911]. £145 4to, [vi],118pp., with price list dated June 30th, 1911, includes several specimens in colour, orig. limp cloth, lettered in gilt.
461. WOOD TYPE SPECIMENS. Haddon’s Poster Book. A Selection of Up-to-Date Types, Ornaments and Rules, for Poster Work of Every Description. [Cover Title: Haddon-Caxton List of Poster Wood-Letters Ornament and Rules John Haddon & Co. [1911]. £195 4to, [vi]pp., 64ff. printed on one side only, entirely printed in green ink throughout, with price list dated 1st October, 1911,orig. limp cloth, lettered in gilt.
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462. STOURBRIDGE TOWN LIBRARY, 1790-1868. ITEM ONE.
Manuscript volume entitled ‘A Register of the Rules and Orders, with the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Society, instituted at Stourbridge in the year 1790, for the support of a Permanent Library’. Containing:
A. Signed minutes of the Stourbridge Library Society, and of the Town Library, 1790-1869; & B. Accounts of the Society and Library, 1790-1868.
Folio: 208 leaves (416 pages). On foxed, discoloured paper, with some damp staining at foot. Loosely bound, with a handful of leaves detached, and others worn at extremities. In original calf binding, with ‘STOURBRIDGE LIBRARY 1790’ in gilt on red leather label on front board. Binding heavily worn, stained and lacking spine. Several leaves have been detected as lacking: six in the accounts (see B below) and an indeterminate number at the end of the minutes (see A below). Other leaves may be absent.
A. The minutes.
[title, within rules on loose leaf with closed tear repaired with tape] A Register | of | The Rules and Orders | With the minutes of the Proceedings | Of the Society | instituted at Stourbridge in the year | 1790. | For the support of a Permanent Library.
Covering 135 leaves (270 pp, one of which is blank). Begins with a three-page description of the resolutions reached at a meeting, on 13 April 1790, by Rev. Robert Foley [a member of the family whose Ruxley Lodge library was sold in celebrated circumstances in 1919 (see A. and J. I. Freeman, Anatomy of an Auction (1990), p.9)], Rev. John Pattinson [Minister of St Thomas’s Church, Stourbridge, 1782-1808], Rev. James Scott, Mr William Scott and Samuel Parkes, Junior, to discuss the foundation of a subscription library for Stourbridge, signed by the five parties. The first resolution reads: ‘That the establishment of a permanent Library consisting of the most valuable English books, upon general and particular History, Biography, Political Oeconomy, Philology, Antiquities, Arts & Sciences, Natural History, Natural and Moral Philosophy, together with the works of the best Poets, the most approved Voyages and Travels, and Books upon every subject of general use and information, is a very desirable object, and that a subscription be immediately opened for this purpose.’ They excluded ‘technical’ books and ‘controversial theology’.
The minutes of meetings follow, beginning 29 April 1790 and ending 4 January 1869. The final entry is unsigned and ends abruptly, suggesting loss of subsequent matter.
The earliest entries describe the meetings, at the Talbot Inn in Stourbridge, to establish the Stourbridge Library Society, with the appointment of Parkes as President, and the formation of an initial Committee of twelve individuals, all of whose signatures are present. By the fifth meeting the Committee are ordering books, with 21 titles listed. The titles of numerous books subsequently resolved by the Committee to be ordered or ‘sent for’ are given in subsequent minutes. Also present are occasional signed memorandums by subscribers transferring their shares.
The minutes give a valuable insight into the day-to-day running of the Library. On 7 December 1790 it is ‘Ordered [...] that Dr Rees edition of the Cyclopedia shall not be delivered to subscribers, but remain in the Room for the use of those who attend to consult it.’ And on 7 August 1820 a list is given of ten ‘Valuable Books improper to be sent to Subscribers without the Consent of the Committee for the time being’. In December 1819 the annual subscription is advanced from fifteen to one pound, ‘to enable the Committee to Purchase an additional number of new Books; - Also, that the Committee meet in future, once in the month, instead of Quarterly’. And in February 1820 it is ‘unanimously resolved [...] that All Books belonging to the Library shall be Called in, and no Books to be issued for one month from the First of March, for the Sake of preparing a new Catalogue which is very much wanting’.
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By 1845 the Library appears to have fallen into disarray, and a restructuring began at a meeting of 12 March of that year, with resolutions to repeal ‘the existing Laws and Regulations of the Stourbridge Library’ and to undertake the ‘perfecting and printing [of] a new catalogue’ [see ITEM TWO below]. At the same meeting it was also resolved that ‘a list of the Missing Books be sent to each Subscriber, with a request that they will give all possible assistance in searching for them, and sending in any that may be found to the Librarian’.
‘An Important Committee Meeting of the Stourbridge Town Library’, 26 March 1860, resolves that ‘it is desirable to amalgamate with the Union Book Club’. Tipped in on the page facing this entry are two printed one-page 12mo handbills. The first, headed ‘STOURBRIDGE TOWN LIBRARY, | APRIL 9th, 1860.’, announces that ‘it appears that the necessary authority for removing the Books to Mr. Broomhall’s as proposed, cannot be obtained’, and gives the Committee’s resolution on the subject, and their results: ‘By the plan established by the foregoing Resolution Subscribers of One Guinea per annum, will have not only the use of the Books in the Town Library, but also of such as may be hired from Mr. Mudie [...] the Committee earnestly solicit your attention to the superior advantages which this proposal possesses over any mere Book Club [...]’. The second handbill, dated 1 May 1860, is headed ‘STOURBRIDGE TOWN LIBRARY, No. 90, High Street. ESTABLISHED 1790.’ It describes the ‘arrangements [the Library Committee have made] with Mr. Mudie for a supply of Books from him’, and gives details of subscription and opening hours. The further decline of the Library is indicated by the entry for the annual general meeting, 18 January 1864, when the President R. P. Turner writes that the meeting had to be adjourned since ‘No member was present but myself’. Eleven days later it is resolved that ‘a proposal will be made to sell the Library, and wind up its affairs, or to amalgamate with some of the Books Societies in the Neighbourhood’. The last entry in the book, 4 January 1869, reads ‘Resolved that the arrangement made with Mr Broomhall be confirmed subject to a stipulation <...>’. For the purchase of the Library by the Stourbridge printer and publisher Robert Broomhall (not in BBTI, but COPAC lists a handful of works issued by him between 1864 and 1891), see ITEM TWO.
B. The accounts.
On turning the volume upside-down, and beginning at the other end, we find the Library’s account book, a double-entry general ledger, covering 72 leaves (140 pp, four of which are blank), and written in a variety of hands. This commences in April 1790, and ends with the cash account for 1868. There is no account for 1863, and six leaves - covering 1841 to 1845, and parts of 1840 and 1846 - have been removed.
The cash book contains a variety of interesting information. From it we learn that on its foundation in 1790 the Library received ten guineas from the Earl of Stamford, that it employed a joiner named Edward Walker and a carpenter named Thomas Caddick to build bookcases, and an engraver named James Howe [of Birmingham; BBTI: 1784-1800], presumably to work on the stationery and bookplate; that it was supplied with books by the celebrated London bookseller James Lackington (1746-1815; DNB), receiving a 10% discount amounting to £4 17s 6d on the purchase of ‘two parcels of books’ for £48 15s 0d. In 1790 books were also bought from Harry Court and Samuel Parkes. (From the accounts the Library’s main suppliers in its early years appear to have been the Stourbridge booksellers Joseph Rollason [BBTI: 1795-1829] and Joseph Heming [BBTI: 1801-1845].) On its foundation in 1790 the Library had 75 subscribers, each paying an annual subscription of a guinea; by 1862 the number of subscribers, still paying a guinea a year, had fallen to 18, but there were also 21 members who paid a pound a year. In 1790 the first librarian, John Steventon, received an annual salary of six guineas; by 1862 the librarian’s annual salary had risen to twenty guineas a year. The individual purchases are rarely noted: among them are Nash’s History of Worcestershire, bought from ‘Mr. Evans’ for the substantial sum of £3 6s 0d in 1792, and O’Meara’s ‘Napoleon’, purchased from ‘Mr Wrightson (Birmingham)’ [Robert Wrightson; BBTI: 1807-1850] for £1 4s 0d thirty years later. A puzzling entry notes that in 1791 the Rev. Pattinson received 15s for ‘Statistical Tables’.
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ITEM TWO.
A CATALOGUE | OF | THE BOOKS | IN THE | STOURBRIDGE LIBRARY, | FOUNDED A.D. 1790, | WITH A | LIST OF THE MEMBERS, | AND | A copy of the Laws. | [rule] | Stourbridge: | PRINTED AT J. HEMING’S OFFICE, HIGH STREET. | [rule] | 1845.
[12mo: [92] pp, paginated [i]-xi [1-3] [13]-90. Interleaved. Rebound in brown cloth, with original front printed wrap laid down on front board.]
Good and tight, in worn and faded binding. Scarce (no copy on COPAC). The catalogue is preceded by: a ‘List of the Committee for the Year 1845’ and ‘List of Members’ (pp.iii-iv); by the twenty-two ‘Laws and Regulations of the Stourbridge Library’ (pp.v-xi); by a ‘List of Members who have given Books to the Stourbridge Library’ (p.[2]); and an announcement to Members from the Committee, dated June 1845 (p.[3]). The announcement reads ‘The Committee of the Stourbridge Library regret that so great a delay should have occurred in laying before you their revised and corrected edition of the Laws and Catalogue. The number of books missing, the disorderly state of the Library, together with the numerous mistakes in the catalogue of 1820, rendered the task both a tedious and a difficult one. The present edition, will, it is hoped, be found generally free from faults, that is should be altogether free is, under the circumstances, scarcely to be expected.’
In manuscript on a flyleaf following the catalogue: ‘Received from the Proprietor of the Stourbridge Town Library the several books mentioned in this Catalogue except those which are crossed off and have the initials R.B (Robert Broomhall) and J.U. (James Underwood) set against them | Stourbridge | 1st March 1869. | [signed] R Broomhall | P.S. Many of these books received in bad condition RB’.
Note in pencil on rear endpaper: ‘See The Story of Stourbridge Institute by H E Palfrey (1948) p.46 | Rupert Deakin <...> reported to the Institute Committee in Nov. 1894 that Stourbridge Town Commissioners wanted the Town Library to be transferred to them by the trustees of the late Robert Broomhall (printer <...> bought the library) & suggested that the Institute put in a claim for the books. The Town Library (Broomhall’s) was offered for sale for £20 but after prolonged negotiations the matter was dropped | [signed] H Jack Haden’.
The catalogue, containing in excess of 1500 titles, is divided into nine classes: CLASS A. (theology, ecclesiastical history, and moral philosophy) c.115 books. CLASS B. (mathematics, natural and experimental philosophy, botany, geology, mineralogy, natural history, arts, sciences, agriculture, trade and commerce) c.65 books. CLASS C. (antiquities, biography, general history, and chronology) c.325 books. CLASS D. (geography, topography, voyages, travels, and tours) c.162 books. CLASS E. (political economy, politics, law, chemistry, medicine, and surgery) c.76 books. CLASS F. (education, rhetoric, polite and general literature) c.66 books. CLASS G. (poetry, music, painting, and the drama) c.124 books. CLASS H. (novels, tales, and romances) c.515 books. CLASS I. (miscellaneous works, essays, letters, poems, and pamphlets) c.84 books.
The items in the catalogue are either ticked or scored through and initialled by Broomhall and Underwood. Occasional corrections in manuscript on the page or the facing interleaved page. The occasional missing item is marked as ‘Found’.
Both volumes are contained in a custom-made folding box; item B in a sunken recess below item A. £2,750
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463. ALSTON (R.C.) A Bibliography of the English 471. BOOKBINDING. A Catalogue of Fine Old Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year Bookbindings, Including Examples of Many Styles 1800. Volume 4: Spelling Books. Printed for the and of Many Periods. On Sale by Messrs. Ellis. Author by Ernest Cummins, Bradford. 1967. £30 London. [1926]. £18 First Edition, 4to, limited to 500 copies, orig. cloth. Small 8vo, 52pp., 5 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 220 items. 464. ASHTON (Charles) Llyfryddiaeth Gymreig o 1801 I 1810. Cymdeithas Yr Eisteddfod. 1908. £20 472. BOOKBINDING. Bogbind, Reliures Anciennes, First Edition, [iv],272pp., text in Welsh, from the Bookbindings. Katalog XII. Branners Bibliofile library of Owen Morris, orig. buckram. Antikvariat, Copenhagen. 1951. £15 Listing 834 items. 91,[1]pp., 19 illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers, 245 items described. 465. BALLINGER (John) & JONES (James Ifano) Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh 473. BOOKBINDING. Modern British Bookbinding - Department. Cardiff Free Libraries. The Free La Reliure Moderne Britannique - De Moderne Libraries Committee, Cardiff. 1898. £25 Britse Boekband. [Exhibited at] Bibliotheca Small 4to, one of 500 large paper copies, 559,[1]pp., Wittockiana, Brussels & Koninklijke Bibliotheek, from the library of Owen Morris, orig. buckram, The Hague. 1985. Designer Bookbinders. 1985. £12 spine slghtly frayed, uncut. 4to, 44pp., text in English, French & Flemish, 50 coloured illustrs., orig. decorated wrappers. 466. BARRETT (Timothy) Japanese Papermaking: Traditions, Tools, and Techniques. With an 474. BOOKBINDING. [BRUMMEL (L.)] Boekbanden Appendix on Alternative Fibers by Winifred Lutz. in de Nationale Bibliotheek. The Hague. 1941. £15 Weatherhill, New York. 1983. £25 xvi,70pp., 7 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. First Edition, 4to, x,317,[1]pp., 3 specimens of Japanese paper, 165 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. 475. BOOKBINDING. HABERLE (Alfred) Das A handy working manual and reference tool, ‘Japanese Winterthurer Buchbinderhandwerk von den Papermaking’ will appeal to all those eager to understand Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart. the workings of the craft or to try making this beautiful Buchbindermeisterverein Winterthur. 1982. £25 paper themselves. First Edition, 174pp., 3 illustrs., orig. cloth. 467. BELL (H. Idris) & SKEAT (T.C.) Editors. Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and other Early 476. BOOKBINDING. KEYSER (Marja) Compiler. Christian Papyri. British Museum. 1935. £30 The Gold-Tooled Bookbinding: Amsterdam Bookbinders from the Second Half of the 4to, x,63pp., 5 plates, orig. cloth, a nice copy. Seventeenth Century. Catalogue of an Exhibition
Held at the Amsterdam University Library. 468. BLADES (William) The Biography and Universiteits Biotheek Amsterdam. 1997. £24 Typography of William Caxton, England’s First Printer. Trübner & Co. 1882. £32 Large 8vo, 69,[1]pp., illustrs., orig. paper wrappers, d.w. Second Edition, numerous plates and illustrs.,
throughout, orig. decorated cloth. 477. BOOKBINDING. LINDEN (Fons van der) In All the books at the time known to have been issued from Caxton’s press are described, and remarks made upon Linnengebonden. Nederlandse uitgeversbanden van them. 1840 tot 1940. Met Medewerking van Albert Struik. Gaade, Veenendaal. 1987. £18 469. BLOOM (J. Harvey) English Tracts, Pamphlets First Edition, xii,170,[2]pp., frontis., illustrated and Printed Sheets: A Bibliography. Vol 1. (Early throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth. Period) 1473-1650. (Suffolk). Wallace Gandy. 1922. £32 478. BOOKBINDING. SMITH (Philip) The Book: Art Vol. 1 only, ex-library otherwise a nice copy, & Object. [Philip Smith] Merstham. 1982. £15 frontis., 7 plates, orig. cloth. First Edition, 4to, 68pp., 155 illustrs., (mostly of 1,009 items described. bookbindings, some coloured), orig. pictorial wrappers. 470. BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE. A Catalogue Contains 8 articles by Philip Smith including a lengthy of the Valuable Library [Mr. Preece’s Estate]of one on recent developments in bookbinding art. Books, in Excellent Condition, and Handsomely Bound; Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. J.P. 479. BOOKBINDING. STROM VAN LEEUWEN Bradford, at the Large Room, at the King’s Arms (Jan) Vorstelijke Boekbanden uit de Koninklijke Inn, Leominster, On Wednesday, the 2nd of April, Bibliotheek. Museum van het Boek. 1978. £15 1845. Printed by Francis Went and Son. 1845. £30 Large 8vo, 83pp., 8 full-page plates, orig. decorated 8pp., stitched as issued, 169 lots. wrappers.
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480. BOOKBINDING. STROM VAN LEEUWEN 488. CLAUDIN (A.) The First Paris Press. An Account (Jan) 100 Tresors de la Reliure Neerlandaise du of the Books Printed for G. Fichet and J. Heynlin in XVIIIe Siecle. Exposition Presentee a l’Occasion de the Sorbonne 1470-1472. Illustrated Monographs la Visite des Membres de l’Association No. VI. Printed for the Bibliographical Society at Internationale de Bibliophile. Bibliotheque Royale, the Chiswick Press. 1898. £32 The Hague. 1997. £16 First Edition, 4to, vi,100pp., ex-library, frontis., 10 Large 8vo, 80,[2]pp., illustrs., orig. paper wrappers, facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut. d.w. 489. COCKERELL (Sir Sydney) The Incomparable 481. BOOKBINDING. VAN DER BOM (F.L.) Iets Collection of the Kelmscott Press and William Over den Boekband in den Loop der Eeuwen. Morris Formed by Sir Sydney Cockerell. Together Amsterdamsche Grafische School, Amsterdam. with his Distinguished Collections of the Ashendene 1932. £25 Press and the Dove Press with Books by other First Edition, large 12mo, 51pp., followed by 88 Esteemed Printers. Sotheby & Co. 1956. £28 leaves of plates, orig. cloth, gilt, a nice copy. 64pp., 4 plates, orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly A general history of bookbinding focusing mainly on torn, 258 lots. Northern Europe. 490. [COLLIER (J.)] The Literature Relating to New 482. BRECKNOCKSHIRE. A List of Brecknockshire Zealand. George Didsbury, Wellington. 1889. £30 Manuscripts and Records in the National Library of First Edition, ex-library, modern buckram. Wales. The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 1935. £25 491. CURRAN (Henry E.) & ROBERTSON (Charles) 4to, printed title followed by 40pp., of typescript Compilers. Ex Bibliotheca Hugh Frederick Hornby. printed on verso only, from the library of Owen Catalogue of the Art Library Bequeathed by Hugh Morris, orig. printed boards. Frederick Hornby, Esq., of Liverpool to the Free Public Library of the City of Liverpool. Liverpool 483. BROOMHEAD (Frank) The Book Illustrations of Reference Library, Liverpool. 1906. £32 Orlando Jewitt. Private Libraries Association. First Edition, printed on Dutch handmade paper, 1995. £30 orig. buckram, t.e.g. uncut, a nice copy. First Edition, 4to, limited edition, frontis., illustrs., An extensive art library catalogue with full pagination, throughout, orig. cloth. plate details and occasional notes.
484. BROXBOURNE LIBRARY. Catalogue of 492. DUCHARTRE (Pierre Louis) The Italian Comedy. Valuable Printed Books from the Broxbourne The Improvisation Scenarios Lives Attributes Library Illustrating the Spread of Printing, the Portraits and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of Property of John Ehrman. Sotheby Parke Bernet & the Commedia dell’ Arte. Authorized Translation Co. 1977-78. £25 from the French by Randolph T. Weaver. George G. 2 Vols., price lists loosely inserted, numerous Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1929. £30 illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed boards, 698 First Edition, 4to, 331pp., illustrated throughout, lots. orig. cloth, d.w. torn. Includes a 12pp., bibliography. 485. BUTTRESS (F.A.) Compiler. Agricultural Periodicals of the British Isles, 1681-1900, and their 493. DUTTON (Meiric K.) Historical Sketch of Location. School of Agriculture, University of Bookbinding as an Art. The Holliston Mills, Inc. Cambridge. 1950. £20 Norwood. 1926. £25 16pp., orig. printed wrappers. First Edition, orig. cloth, gilt, uncut, t.e.g. A scarce reference work of agricultural periodicals. Five chapters: Beginnings of binding, Binding in Italy, France, England and America. 486. CARTER (John) Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Printed Books... Sotheby’s. 1976. £15 494. ESPOSITO (Enzo) Annali di Antonio de Rossi 78pp., frontis., 1 plate, facsimiles, orig. printed Stampatore in Roma (1695-1755). Leo S. Olschki, wrappers, 356 lots. Florence. 1972. £30 Large 8vo, 648pp., 46 plates, orig. printed wrappers, 487. CELTIC STUDIES. Celtic Studies. New Series. unopened, uncut. Catalogue 23. Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., Dublin. 1968. £20 146pp., orig. decorated wrappers. A booksellers catalogue of 1720 items on Celtic subjects.
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495. ESSLEMONT (David) & HUGHES (Glyn Tegai) 502. GODENNE (Willy) Les Reliures de Plantin. W. Compiler. Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Godenne, Brussels. 1965. £25 Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990. First Edition, 26pp., 11 plates (5 folding), orig. Gwasg Gregynog. 1990. £30 printed wrappers. First Edition, 4to, limited to 900 numbered copies, 88pp., illustrs., (some tipped-in), orig. printed 503. GRANT (Donald M.) Compiler. Talbot Mundy: wrappers, uncut. Messenger of Destiny. Donald M. Grant, Rhode A complete list of books and booklets, smaller published Island. 1983. £12 works, commissions and ephemera printed at Gregynog First Edition, 4to, 253pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. since 1970. A bio-bibliography.
496. EVANS (H. Turner) A Bibliography of Welsh JUST PUBLISHED Hymnology to 1960. Welsh Library Association. 504. GROLIER CLUB. From Almeloveen to 1977. £30 Whittington: Book & Manuscript Catalogues 1545– 4to, 206pp., of typescript, from the library of Owen 1995. From the Collection of George Ong. The Morris, orig. cloth. Grolier Club, New York. 2007. £12 72 pp., one of 1000 copies, frontis., 17 illustrs., orig. 497. FABES (Gilbert H.) D.H. Lawrence. His First decorated wrappers. Editions: Points and Values. First Editions and their Introduction by George Ong, followed by detailed Values. W. and G. Foyle Limited. 1933. £25 descriptions of 87 items on display at the Grolier Club, First Edition, limited to 500 copies, presentation January 24-March 9, 2007. inscription from the author to John Lowe, orig. cloth. 505. GUITERMAN (Helen) & LLEWELLYN (Briony) Compilers. David Roberts. Phaidon 498. FILBY (P.W.) & HOWARD (Edward G.) Press. 1986. £15 Compilers. Star-Spangled Books. Books, Sheet 4to, 221 illustrs., (some coloured), orig. pictorial Music, Newspapers, Manuscripts, and Persons stiff wrappers. Associated with “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. 1972. £25 506. HATIER (A.) Editor. An Illustrated History of First Edition, limited edition, 4to, frontis., 54 plates, French Literature. Translated from the French by orig. cloth. Louise Morgan Sill. Librairie Hatier. 1921. £25 Frontis., 956pp., numerous illustrs., throughout, 499. FOCILLON (Henri) Giovanni-Battista Piranesi, cloth. Essai de Catalogue Raisonne de son Oeuvre. Reprint of the 1918 Edition) New York. 1998. £25 507. HENRY (John Frazier) Early Maritime Artists of [ii],74,[2]pp., one of 100 copies, orig. cloth. the Pacific Northwest Coast, 1741-1841. University This bibliography covers the works of the great Italian of Washington Press. 1984. £15 engraver and architect and is the standard work on First Edition, 4to, 240pp., 16 coloured plates, Piranesi. With over 900 entries including an index illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. arranged alphabetically. 508. HERDEG (Walter) & RENKER (Armin) Art in 500. FOOT (Mirjam) Bookbinders at Work. Their Roles the Watermark - Kunst im Wasserzeichen - L’Art du and Methods. The British Library. 2005. £30 Filigrane. Walter Herdeg, Zurich. 1972. £20 162pp., illustrs., orig. cloth. 4to, 103,[1]pp., text in English, German & French, The role of the bookbinder in the production of saleable 363 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth. books and the significance of the binding in all its details, both structural and decorative, have often been disregarded or marginalised by bibliographers. In this 509. HODNETT (Edward) Francis Barlow: First Master book, Dr. Mirjam Foot sets out to reverse the trend by of English Book Illustration. University of establishing working binders, and their materials and tools California Press. 1978. £30 as an essential part of the production cycle. She reveals the First Edition, large 8vo, 107 illustrs., orig. cloth, inadequacy of bibliographical descriptions that lack d.w. essential binding information. The first substantial study of the greatest English book illustrator before Blake. 501. FULLER (M.J.) The Watermills of the East Malling and Wateringbury Streams. Christine Swift, 510. HOLLAND (Vyvyan) Hand Coloured Fashion Maidstone. 1980. £15 Plates 1770 to 1899. B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1955. £32 4to, xii,98pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 128 illustrs., Deals with many aspects of the mills on two small Kentish (some coloured), orig. cloth. streams where corn-milling and papermaking were the A work of reference which will be essential for anyone chief trades. collecting fashion plates.
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511. HORNE (Herbert P.) The Binding of Books. An 520. KASER (David) A Book for a Sixpence. The Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Binding. Circulating Library in America. Bet Phi Mu, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1894. £30 Pittsburgh. 1980. £30 First Edition, frontis., 12 plates, 2 illustrs., orig. First Edition, 5 illustrs., orig. cloth-backed boards. cloth, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, uncut. This has a preface on bookbinding literature followed by 521. KENYON (Sir Frederic) Papyrus. Alte Bucher und chapters on Italian, French and English bindings. Moderne Entdeckungen. Rudolf M. Rohrer, Leipzig. 1938. £10 512. HOUGHTON (Arthur A.) Books and Manuscripts 32pp., 2 folding plates, orig. wrappers. from the Library of Arthur A. Houghton, Jnr. Christie’s. 1979-80. £22 522. LORING (Rosamond B.) Decorated Book Papers. 2 vols., coloured frontispiece, plates and facsimiles Being an Account of their Designs and Fashions. throughout, with prices and buyers’ names loosely Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 1973. £18 inserted, orig. boards, 553 lots. Second Edition, xxxv,[i],171,[1]pp., 16 Very useful as full collations are supply with each lot. reproductions of decorated book papers, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. 513. HOWARD-HILL (T.H.) British Bibliography and Textual Criticism: A Bibliography. Clarendon 523. McNAIR (Philip) Peter Martyr in Italy. An Press, Oxford. 1979 £30 Anatomy of Apostasy. The Clarendon Press, 2 Vols., xxvi,732; viii,488pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Oxford. 1967. £25 Volumes IV & V in the ‘Index to British Literary First Edition, xxii,325pp., frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. Bibliography’ series. A study of a theologian who had a profound effect upon
the English Reformation. 514. HUDSON (Derek) Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York. 524. MAGGS BROS. Australia and the South Seas. 1977. £30 Catalogue No. 491. Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1927. £25 First Edition, large 8vo, illustrs., throughout, orig. Disbound, frontis., 28 plates, orig. printed wrappers, cloth, d.w. 1,927 items.
515. HUNTER (Dard) Hand Made Paper and its Water 525. MAGGS BROS. A Collection of French XVIIIth Marks: A Bibliography. Burt Franklin, New York. Century Illustrated Books with Plates After Moreau (Reprint of the 1916 Edition) 1967. £18 le Jeune, Boucher, Choffard, Cochin, Coypel, ii,22pp., orig. cloth. Marillier, Eisen, Fessard, Greuze, St. Aubin, Gravelot, Monnet in Superb Contemporary Bindings 516. IRWIN (Raymond) The Origins of the English by Derome, Bisiaux, Douceur, Padeloup, Bozerian, Library. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1958. £30 Tessier, Mouillie, Meslant and other Masters. Maggs First Edition, orig. cloth, d.w. Bros. Ltd. 1930. £32 Studies the background against which our libraries have Folio, 6 coloured plates and many other illustrs., developed since classical times. (mostly of bindings), orig. stiff printed wrapper,
soiled and stained, 271 items. 517. JAMES (E. Wyn) & ROBERTS (Brynley F.)
Gomer, John Evans, A Swp o Ffigys, Daniel Evans. [Off-print from ‘The National Library of Wales JUST PUBLISHED Journal’, Vol. XXV, No. 3, Summer 1988]. [The 526. MANDELBROTE (Giles) Editor. Out of Print & National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth]. 1988. £15 Into Profit. A History of the Rare & Secondhand 4to, 313-340pp., text in Welsh, from the library of Book Trade in Britain in the 20th Century. British Owen Morris, with a presentation inscription and Library. 2006. £30 T.L.s from Roberts, orig. printed wrappers. 384pp., illustrs., orig. cloth. Published to mark the centenary of the Antiquarian 518. JAMES (M.R.) Lists of Manuscripts Formerly in Booksellers, Association, this is the first book to map out Peterborough Abbey Library. Supplement to The the history of the rare book trade in the 20th century - the Bibliographical Society’s Transactions No. 5. The end of this period broadly coinciding with the end of an Bibliographical Society, Oxford. 1926. £30 era in traditional bookselling and the arrival of the First Edition, 104pp., orig. printed wrappers, Internet. Twenty contributors describe and explain the unopened, uncut. ways in which booksellers acquired their stock and sold books to customers, bringing to life the personalities in 519. JONES (Rev. Charles W.F.) A Catalogue of the this most individualistic of trades, and offer many insights into changes in taste and fashion in book collecting, during Books in the Bangor Cathedral Library, Containing what was also a formative period for many of the world's Upwards of 1400 Volumes on Various Subjects... most important research libraries, especially in North Printed and Published by Nixon & Jarvis, Bangor. America. Bibliographical scholars write alongside well- 1872. £30 known experts from the book trade itself, drawing on a 4to, viii,[ii],58pp., presentation copy, with the wide range of sources, including unpublished archives, bookplate of Wells Cathedral library, orig. printed marked sets of catalogues and the memoirs (published and wrappers, spine defective. unpublished) of members of the antiquarian book trade FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 107
itself. The book will appeal to historians of the book, and 533. MYERS (Robin) The British Book Trade from of 20th-century cultural and intellectual life, as well as to Caxton to the Present Day. A Bibliographical Guide. everyone interested in the world of buying and selling rare Andre Deutsch. 1973. £25 books, either as booksellers themselves or as readers and First Edition, xvi,406pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. collectors. cloth, d.w. Consists of a classified and annotated selection of works, 527. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. LILLE LIBRARY. A from the invention of printing to the present day, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Archives at indicating the way in which the book trade has evolved. Lille, 1828. Dans les Archives de la Prefecture d’Arras, A.D. 1828. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill 534. NATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC CO. Report of the Press]. [c.1828]. £30 Board of Directors of the National Typographic Co., Folio, 335 x 204mm, single sheet, printed on both and of the Board of Trustees of the Mergenthaler sides in double-column, disbound. Printing Co., 154 Nassau St., New York City: Copies are also found bound up with the ‘Bibliothecae Submitted to Stockholders’ Meetings, March 19, urbis Constantinopolitanae...’. 1892, and Ordered Printed. [S.n.]. 1892. £25 Holzenberg 32; Martin p.451 - “Fifty-four copies were printed”. Drop-head title, 6pp., slight tear along old fold line. Folding 6-page stock report brochure for this company; 528. MIDDLE HILL PRESS. ORMSBY-GORE delineating sales of patents, licenses, treasurer’s report, by L.G. Hine (President). (William) Manuscripts at Porkington, the Seat of William Ormsby Gore Esq. Near Oswestry, co. 535. PHILLIPS (D. Rhys) The Romantic History of the Salop. [Middle Hill, Middle Hill Press]. [c.1830]. Monastic Libraries of Wales, from the Fifth to the £25 Sixteenth Centuries (Celtic and Mediaeval Periods). Folio, 333 x 195mm, single sheet, printed on both [Reprinted, with additions, from ‘The Library sides in double-column, pp.9-10, disbound. Association Record’ for July and August, 1912]. Also published as pp.10-11 of ‘Catalogus manuscriptorum Published by the Author at Beili Glas, Swansea. Magnae Britanniae’. [1912]. £18 Holzenberg 21; Martin p.455 - “Fifty-three copies were printed”. Large 8vo, 62pp., from the library of Owen Morris, orig. printed boards (slightly faded), uncut. 529. MINIATURE BINDINGS. 35 Miniature Books in Designer Bindings. Anne & David Barbier, Boston. 536. PITMAN (Isaac) A Manual of Phonography; or, 1987. £32 Writing by Sound: A Natural Method of Writing by Square 12mo, [80]pp., 35 coloured illustrs., orig. Signs that Represent the Sounds of Language, and printed wrappers, enclosed in the original clear Adapted to the English Language as a Complete plastic case, hinge of case a little loose. System of Phonetic Short Hand. Samuel Bagster and Printed at the Nimrod Press for Anne & David Barbier, the Sons. 1845. £30 collection was sold en bloc prior to this publication. Small 8vo, 64+36pp., 1 folding plate, numerous illustrs., lacks front free endpaper, cont. calf, rubbed, 530. MORRIS (Owen) Llyfryddiaeth Ieuan Ebblig: A a.e.g. Checklist of the Publications of Evan Griffiths, Swansea between 1830 and 1867. [Off-print from 537. PUBLISHER’S CATALOGUE. Catalogue of ‘The National Library of Wales Journal - XXVI]. Books Relating to Practical Science, Published and The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. 1989. Sold by E. & F.N. Spon. E. & F.N. Spon. 1870. £20 £20 68,[8]pp., orig. printed wrappers. 4to, [59]-221pp., the author’s copy with a few notes Not listed on the NSTC. in pencil within the text, orig. printed wrappers. 538. RICHES (Phyllis M.) Compiler. An Analytical 531. MORTON (Leslie T.) A Medical Bibliography Bibliography of Universal Collected Biography. (Garrison & Morton). An Annotated Check-List of Comprising Books Published in the English Tongue Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine. J.B. in Great Britain and Ireland, America and the British Lippincott Company. 1970. £32 Dominions. The Library Association. 1934. £25 Third Edition, lower inner hinge shaken, orig. cloth, 4to, viii,[2],709,[1]pp., ex-library, orig. cloth. d.w. This work provides in a convenient form a chronological 539. ROBERTS (Brian) Chronological List of Antarctic bibliography of the most important contributions to the Expeditions. Reprinted from the Polar Record, world literature on medicine and its ancillary sciences. Volume 9, 1958. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. [1958]. £20 532. MUSIC. Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Large 8vo, [ii],97-239pp., orig. printed wrappers. Museum. Accessions: Part 53—Music in the Hirsch Library. British Museum. 1951. £25 First Edition, 4to, [iv],438pp., orig. cloth.
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540. ROWLANDS (Rev. William) Cambrian 548. SCHYNS (Jos.) & Others. 1500 Modern Chinese Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Novels & Plays. Present Day Fiction & Drama in Printed in the Welsh Language, or Relating to China by Su Hsueh-Lin. Short Biographies of Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Authors by Chao Yen-Sheng. Gregg. (Reprint of the Eighteenth Century; with Biographical Notices. 1948 Edition) 1970. £25 Edited and Enlarged by the Rev. D. Silvan Evans. Large 8vo, 484pp., orig. cloth. John Pryse, Llanidloes. 1869. £25 First Edition, 4 parts, xxii,754pp., from the library of 549. SHORTER (Alfred H.) Paper Making in the Owen Morris, with orig. upper printed wrapper to British Isles. An Historical and Geographical Study. part one only. David & Charles. 1971. £32 First Edition, 16 plates, 32 illustrs., in the text, orig. 541. ROXBURGHE CLUB. GRIFFITHS (Jeremy) cloth, d.w. Translator. Speculum Peccatorum. ‘The Mirror of An excellent survey of British paper mills. Sinners’ Printed in London by Wynkyn De Worde. With an Introduction and Translation by Jeremy 550. SPECIMEN PAGES. A Book of Specimen Pages. Griffiths. Printed for Presentation to the Members Showing Faces and Founts of Type Appropriate for of the Roxburghe Club, Cambridge. 1992. £32 Books and a few Typical Illustrations. Robert Small 8vo, 64,[2]pp., followed by 16pp., of Maclehose & Co. Ltd., Glasgow. 1929. £32 facsimiles, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red Numerous specimen pages throughout, orig. cloth, in the roll of members, orig. quarter Roxburghe uncut, d.w. morocco, lower cover water stained. Contains specimen pages showing types which are adapted particularly for book printing. 542. RUSSELL (John) A History of the Nottingham Subscription Library more Generally known as 551. STEVENSON COLLECTION. Robert Louis Bromley House Library. Derry & Sons, Ltd. 1916. Stevenson: A Catalogue of the Henry E. Gerstley £30 Stevenson Collection of Victorian Novelists, and First Edition, small 4to, frontis., 10 plates, orig. Items from other Collections in the Department of cloth-backed boards, a little worn and stained, Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton printed paper label on spine, unopened, uncut, t.e.g. University Library. Princeton University Library. 1971. £30 543. SALAMAN (Malcolm C.) British Book Illustration 4to, 11 facsimiles, orig. cloth. Yesterday and To-day. Edited by Geoffrey Holme. The Studio. 1923. £30 552. SYMINGTON (J. A.) Bibliography of the Works First Edition, 4to, 135 plates (16 coloured), orig. of All Members of the Bronte Family and of decorated wrappers, slightly torn. Bronteana. Ian Hodgkins & Co. 2000. £25 A detailed survey of British Book Illustration from First Edition, [viii],210pp., orig. cloth. Bewick to 1923, with special reference to late 19th century A definitive bibliography of the works of all members of and 20th century work. the Brontë family and of Brontëana. Originally written to be the 20th volume in a series on the Brontë family 544. SALMI (Mario) Italian Miniatures. Collins. 1957. published by Shakespeare Head in the 1930s, and now £30 issued to correspond in physical appearance to that set.
First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 74 tipped-in 553. TOOLEY (R.V.) English Books with Coloured coloured plates, orig. cloth, slightly spotted. Plates 1790 to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of An important study in which Salmi has gathered works of all schools of miniature painting, much of which had never the Most Important Books Illustrated by English been published before. Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography. Batsford. (Reprint of the 1954 Edition) 1987. £30 545. SANDGREN (August) Bogbinder August Revised Edition, 4to, viii,424pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Sandgren 1893-1934. Sandgren-Klubben, Mr. Tooley’s definitive bibliography and collations Copenhagen. 1949. £30 represents a necessary standard work. First Edition, frontis., 13 plates of bindings, quarter calf, orig. decorated boards. 554. TROYER (Howard William) Ned Ward of Grubstreet. A Study of Sub-Literary London in the 546. SCHOLES (Jas. C.) Bolton Bibliography, and Eighteenth Century. Harvard University Press. Jottings of Book-lore; with Notes on Local Authors 1946. £30 and Printers. Henry Gray, Manchester. 1886. £30 First Edition, frontis., 7 plates, ex-library, orig. First Edition, vii,247pp., orig. cloth. cloth, uncut. The book is carefully documented and contains a complete bibliography of Ward's writings. 547. SCHRAMM (Prof. Dr. Albert) Bucheinbände Aller Zeiten und Volker. Festgabe zur 100-jahrigen 555. TYPE SPECIMEN. Type Specimen Book. Feier des Borsenvereins... Gustav Fritzsche, Leipzig. American Book Bindery, Stratford Press, New York. [c.1910]. £12 1931. £32 First Edition, small 8vo, one of 300 copies, 22 xii,[ii],648pp., orig. black cloth, decorated in gilt. plates, orig. decorated boards, upper hinge cracked. FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 107
556. UNTERKIRCHER (F.) Le Livre du Cueur 564. ZAEHNSDORF LTD. A Short History of d’Amours Espris. The National Library, Vienna. Bookbinding and a Glossary of Styles and Terms Thames and Hudson. 1975. £25 used in Binding. With a Brief Account of the 4to, limited edition, 16 colour plates, orig. cloth, gilt, Celebrated Binders and Patrons of Bookbinding slip-case. from whom the Various Styles are Named, Description of Leathers, etc. The Chiswick Press. 557. VALSECCHI (Felice) Editor. Incunaboli 1913. £32 dell’Ambrosiana. [A only]. Neri Pozza Editore. 38pp., 9 Illustrs., in the text, orig. printed wrappers. 1972. £25 A reprint of the 1895 edition (the title-page carries this 4to, 106pp., limited edition, presentation copy from date) with newly designed wrappers. the author, 200 facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers. 250 items fully described.
558. VAULBERT DE CHANTILLY (Marc) Robert Harding Evans of Pall Mall. Auction Catalogues 1812-1846: A Provisional List. The Vanity Press of Bethnal Green. 2002. £15 xii,60pp., limited to 250 numbered copies, orig. printed wrappers. 487 catalogues listed; the introduction discussing Evans’s position as the greatest of all auctioneers of literary property; 22-page biographical index with a great deal of new information.
559. WINSTEDT (E.O.) Juvenalis Ad Satiram Sextam in Codice Bodl. Canon. XLI Additi Versus XXXVI. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1899. £30 3 Folded sheets making up 2pp., of printed text and 2pp., of plates, loose in grey printed wrappers as issued, a nice copy.
560. WISE (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of the Members of the Bronte Family. Dawsons of Pall Mall. (Reprint of the 1917 Edition) 1972. £30 Numerous facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. faded. Besides the bibliographies of the three sisters, the work contains a bibliography of their father the Rev. Patrick Bronte and a discussion of the manuscripts of their brother Patrick Branwell Bronte.
561. WISE (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Dawsons. (Reprint of the 1918 Edition) 1970. £30 Frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w.
562. WORRINGER (Wilhelm) Die Altdeutsche Buchillustration. R. Piper & Co., Munich. 1919.£30 4to, frontispiece, l04 illustrations in the text (some full-page), orig. printed boards.
563. YOST (Karl) A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. With an Essay in Appreciation by Harold Lewis Cook. Introductions and Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York. 1937. £32 Item 313 First Edition, orig. cloth, uncut, a nice copy.