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Catalogue 108

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FOREST BOOKS CATALOGUE 108

430. YEMENIZ (Nicolas) Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de M.N. Yemeniz. Precede d’une Notice par M. Le Roux de Lincy. Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris.1867. £165

Large 8vo, lxiv,823pp., some light foxing, priced throughout in a cont. hand, orig. cloth-backed marbled boards, rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down.

The sale catalogue was based on Yemeniz’s “Catalogue de mes livres”, Lyons, 1855-56, of which only 100 copies were printed. One of the most important libraries of French literature ever assembled, consisting of 3954 lots.

ONE OF 50 COPIES

431. YOUNG (Sir Charles George) Catalogue of Works on the Peerage and Baronetage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In the Library of Chas. Geo. Young, York Herald. [Privately printed by S. and R. Bentley].1827. £245

48,[2],49-87,[1]pp., one of 50 copies, presentation inscription to Robert Lemon the archivist, from the library of the Public Records Office with their stamp, later buckram, uncut.

“The following pages present a catalogue of such printed works as can be designated Peerages, and occur in the library of the collector; they will be found to contain nearly all that have issued from the press, to the year 1827.”—Preface. Extremely rare. Copac locating just two copies; Glasgow University and the Bodleian Library.

Martin, Privately Printed Books. p.355.

432. ZACCARIA (Francesco Antonio) Bibliotheca Ritualis. Concinnatum opus ac duos in Tomes Tributum, Quorum alter de Libris ipsis Ritualibus, alter de illorum Explanatoribus agit. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1776-1781 Edition). £85

3 Vols., small 4to, orig. cloth.

Important work on the history of the liturgy with an extensive historical bibliography arranged by author. Zaccaria (1714-1795) succeeded Muratori as keeper of the ducal library in Modena. Contents: Vol. I. De libris ad sacros utriusque ecclesiæ orientalis et occidentalis ritus pertinentibus; Vol. II., Part I. De librorum ritualium explanatoribus; Vol. II., Part II. Supplementa continens, praemisso Joannis Maldonati inedito de caeremoniis tractatu. Cui praeter adnotationes adcedit gemina editoris dissertatio.

Besterman 5402.

433. ZAEHNSDORF (Joseph W.) The Art of Bookbinding. George Bell & Sons.1880. £165

First Edition, xxiv,[ii],187,[1]pp., with a A.L.s by Zaehnsdorf relating to the book pasted onto front endpaper, frontis., 9 full page photo-lithographs of bindings in the author’s collection, 51 woodcuts in the text, orig. cloth, uncut, spine slightly faded, a nice copy.

A manual by one of the greatest craft-binders. The work is in three parts, the first comprising twenty-two chapters on forwarding, the second on finishing and the third on general information mostly concerning repair and restoration. This is the standard first edition, it is often mistakenly catalogued as being one of the large paper copies.

434. ZAHN (Otto) On Art Binding: A Monograph. S.C. Toof & Co., Memphis.1904. £55

First Edition, small 8vo, [ii],54,[1]pp., limited and signed by the author, coloured frontis., 11 half-tone plates of bindings designed and bound by Toof & Co., orig. printed wrappers, upper wrapper defective, small stab marks affecting prelims, uncut.

435. ZIMMER (John Todd) Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Arno Press.(Reprint of the 1926) 1974. £50

2 Vols., in one, 706pp., orig. cloth.

The best ornithological bibliography.

CATALOGUE 108

BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKBINDING & REFERENCE

1. ABRAMS (George) The George Abrams Collection [Fifteenth-Century Books].

Sotheby’s.1989. £25

4to, coloured frontis., numerous illustrs., (some coloured), prices and buyers, orig. cloth, 236 lots.

2. ALLAN (George) A Catalogue of the Interest Library of the Late George Allan, Esq. In which will be found the few remaining copies of various tracts, printed at his private press at Darlington, also several works, with manuscript notes and memoranda by Mr. Allen... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby, on Monday March 18, 1822, and Two following Days. [J. Crompton].1822. £295

[3],4-22 + 2pp., of adverts, recent marbled paper boards, 695 lots.

The extremely rare auction catalogue of the library of George Allan (1736-1800). Allan set up a private press at Blackwell Grange, Darlington, with which he produced local topographical works as well as printing many of the manuscripts from his collection.

3. AMERICANA. Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of Books Relating to the History and Literature of America. Sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. [Compiled by Henry Stevens]. Puttick and Simpson. 1861. 2 Parts, [vi],134;[ii],137-273pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in. A most carefully prepared auction catalogue containing 2,415 lots, with collations, etc., These books were in fact those Stevens used in compiling his American bibliography ‘Historical Nuggets’. [Bound with:] Catalogue of a Very Extensive, Curious and Valuable Library, Comprising a Larger Collection than has Hitherto ever been Offered in One Sale of Rare, Curious, and Important Works in Anglo-American Literature... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs, Puttick and Simpson. Puttick and Simpson. 1859. [ii],iv,256pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in, 3,272 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of an Extensive and Valuable Collection of Rare and Interesting Books and Tracts Wholly Relating to America and the West Indies... Being a Second Portion of the Entire and Extensive Collection of Books, Formed by Mr. G.E. Mason, Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. Puttick and Simpson. 1860. [ii],134pp., orig. printed wrappers bound in, 1,672 lots. [Bound with:] Catalogue of a Collection of Extremely Curious, Interesting, and Rare Books, in which is Comprised the Library of the Late Dr. Moradei of Florence: The Collection being Particularly Rich in Italian and Spanish Literature... Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. Puttick and Simpson.1860. £145

[ii],72pp., cont. quarter morocco, slightly worn, 953 lots.

4. AMERICANA. Rare Americana. A Catalogue of Historical and Geographical Books, Pamphlets & Manuscripts Relating to America. With Numerous Annotations Bibliographical and Descriptive. Offered for Sale by Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles. Harding & Curtis Ltd., Bath.[1927]. £45

Large 8vo, vii,578,10pp., 12 plates, 35 facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, spine chipped, 2156 items.

A valuable and sought-after catalogue with bibliographical details and many notes.


5. AMES (Joseph) A Catalogue of the Genuine and Entire Collection of Scarce Printed Books, and curious Manuscripts, of Mr. Joseph Ames, F.R.S. and Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, Lately Deceas’d; Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr Langford... On Monday the 5th of this Instant May 1760, and the Seven following Evenings. [London].1760. £1,750

[ii]97,[1]pp., prices realised entered in margin in ink in a contemporary hand for the first 142 lots, final two words at foot of title partially cropped, title a little soiled and age toned, some minor light foxing, expertly rebound in a contemporary style.

The rare sale catalogue of the library of the bibliographer Joseph Ames (1689-1759). In compiling his magnum opus, ‘Typographical Antiqiuties’ (1749), his was “the first attempt ever made to list scientifically all books printed in England before the year 1600. For this remarkable work, he not only drew upon the vast stores of the Harleian library, but also depended largely on his own collection, which was sold after his death (London, 20 February 1760).” —De Ricci. Consisting of some 1350 lots, mostly early printed books, with a few manuscripts interspersed.

De Ricci, p.49. ESTC records only 7 location in the British Isles (L (2); C; MRu; Llp; O (2)) and 2 copies in North America (NN; CLU-S/C).

6. ARBER (Professor Edward) The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.; With a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A.D. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne. Edited... by Professor Edward Arber... Edward Arber, Privately Printed.1903-06. £175

First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, xvi,576; x,664; x,742pp., orig. cloth with some minor staining, gilt.

7. ARCHITECTURE. BERLIN CATALOGUE. Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1939 Edition) 1968. £50

2 Vols., large 8vo, xvi,398; xvi,399-782pp., plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth.

A reprint of the 1939 edition which has become an indispensable tool of the art historian, dealer and collector, listing over 5,500 books with collations.

8. ARCHITECTURE. [FOULC (Edmond)] Catalogue d’une très Importante Collection de Livres d’Architecture Recueils d’Ornements propres à la décoration des Édifices et aux Arts industriels par les maîtres Ornemanistes Français et Étrangers des XVIe, XVII et XVIIIe siècles. Livres Illustrés du Xve au XVIIIe Siècle comprenant notamment une remarquable série de livres a figures sur bois Italiens. Albert Besombes, Paris.1914. £65

Large 8vo, viii,183,[9]pp., 20 plates, the majority of prices supplied in pencil, orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly torn, uncut.

Auction catalogue of the famous Foulc collection of architecture and Italian woodcut books, the auction consisted of some 683 lots.

9. ARMITAGE (F.D.) The Cause of Mildew on Books and Method of Prevention. Printing, Packaging and Allied Trades Research Association, Leatherhead.1949. £12

[ii],14pp., presentation inscription, 4 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers.

10. ARMSTRONG (Elizabeth) Robert Estienne, Royal Printer. An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus. Cambridge University Press.1954. £55

First Edition, 4to, 8 plates, 15 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth.

Full-length study of this important and admirable figure.

Item 2 Item 5

Item 8 Item 12


11. ARRIGONI (Paolo) & BERTARELLI (Achille) Ritratti di Musicisti ed Artisti di Teatro Conservati nella Reccolta delle Stampe e dei Disegni, Catalogo Descrittivo. Tipografia del Popolo d’Italia, Milan.1934. £75

First Edition, 4to, xvi,454,[4]pp., 30 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

A catalogue of over 5,000 Italian, French and British portraits of theatrical notabilities.

PRIVATELY PRINTED

12. [ASHBURNHAM (Bertram, Fourth Earl of)] A Catalogue Alphabetically Arranged of the more Rare and Curious Printed Books in the Library at Ashburnham Place. [S.l. : s.n.].1864. £795

4to, [194]pp., with the bookplate of Sotheby & Co., printed on fine paper, endpapers lightly browned, cont. half calf, rubbed, rebacked, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g.

The excessively rare privately printed catalogue of the more important printed books at Ashburnham Place. “He had a wonderful collection of incunabula including some thirty Caxtons and two copies of the Mazarin Bible, one on vellum and one on paper, an exceptional quantity of books printed on vellum, a splendid series of English Bibles and liturgies, and a large number of the handsomest old bindings. These printed books, of which he had compiled a brief and not very satisfactory catalogue, were sold by auction twenty years after his death in a series of memorable sales.”—De Ricci. COPAC locating the Cambridge & Bodleian copies only.

De Ricci, p.132.

13. ATABEY (Sefik E.) The Ottoman World: The Library of Sefik E. Ataby with a Supplement. Sotheby’s.2002. £95

3 Vols., 4to, 246; 238; 234pp., prices realized loosely inserted, orig. decorated stiff wrappers, 1629 lots.

14. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & GREEK AND LATIN MANUSCRIPTS. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Autograph Letters of Distinguished Persons, Original Documents, &c... To which is added, A Valuable Collection of Greek and Latin Manuscripts, Consigned from Germany. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, on Friday, May 20th, and following Day. [London].1831. £65

[ii],34pp., priced with buyers’ names in a neat cont. hand, several small stamps, disbound, enclosed in custom-made folder, 418 lots.

15. BALE (John) Anecdota Oxoniensia. Index Britanniae Scriptorum... John Bale’s Index of British and other Writers. Edited by Reginald Lane Poole with the help of Mary Bateson. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1902. £40

4to, xxxvi,579,[1]pp., ex-library, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth-backed boards, worn and soiled.

16. BALSTON (J.N.) The Elder James Whatman: England’s Greatest Paper Maker. [With:] The Whatmans and Wove Paper; Its Invention and Development in the West. Research into the Origins of Wove Paper and of Genuine Loom-Woven Wire-cloth. J.N. Balston.1992-98. £145

3 Vols., 4to, limited to 350 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w’s.

A comprehensive and carefully integrated account of the economic, political, geographical and technological factors that affected the paper industry in what was perhaps the most important centre of White paper manufacture in 18th Century Britain.


17. BAMBURGH CASTLE LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Library at Bamburgh Castle, in the County of Northumberland. Printed by Order of the Trustees of the Right Hon. and Right Rev. Nathanael, Lord Crewe, Lord Bishop of Durham. Gilbert and Rivington, Printers.1859. £295

2 Vols., 4to, iv, 592; iv, 534pp., with a generic presentation from the then Curate of Bamburgh on each front pastedown, orig. half calf, red and green morocco labels, slightly rubbed.

Crewe purchased Bamburgh Castle in 1704 after his marriage to Dorothy Forster, whose family had lost it through bankruptcy, and he bequeathed it together with other revenues from the area to the charitable trust he founded. This catalogue was edited by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson and records practically all the items now present in the library which is on indefinite loan to Durham University, apart from the music now in Durham Cathedral. See The Book Collector, Spring 1959, pp. 14-24.

18. BARBIER (A.A.) & DESESSARTS (N.L.M.) Nouvelle Bibliotheque d’un Homme De Gout, Entierement Refondue, Corrigee et Augmentee... Arthus Bertrand, Paris.1815. £75

5 Vols., some light water staining, cont. half, rubbed, some spines defective, a very good working copy.

19. BARETTI (Giuseppe) The Italian Library. Containing an Account of the Lives and Works of the most Valuable Authors of Italy. With a Preface, Exhibiting the Changes of the Tuscan Language, from the Barbarous Ages to the Present Time. Printed for A. Millar.1757. £195

First Edition, xcvi,345,[25]pp., some browning to first and last leaves, cont. calf, re-backed, worn.

Baretti was a lexicographer, translator, literary scholar, poet and travel writer. He is mainly remembered in England as a friend of Dr. Johnson and as the author of ‘A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages’, a classic which first appeared in 1760 and was often reprinted and for which Dr. Johnson wrote the dedication. The 94 page history of the Italian tongue in this book covers the language development from the twelfth to the mid-eighteenth century. The rest of the book is a valuable and interesting guide describing in bibliographical detail those Italian books which Baretti deemed to be important. Dr. Johnson contributed the first paragraph to the preface of this work.

ONE OF A FEW COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM

20. [BARLOW (William) Bishop of Asaph] A proper dyaloge betwene a gentillman and a husbandman, eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of clergye, with A compendious olde treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe. Hans Luft, 1530. Reproduced in facsimile with an introduction by Francis Fry Willis and Sotheran, Lasbury, Bristol.1863. £895

Large 8vo, printed on vellum,16pp., followed by 33 leaves of facsimile, 4pp., of adverts, recent quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, uncut.

“The work... here presented to the reader, is a reproduction of the only known copy, which is in the library of Lord Arthur Hervey, Archdeacon of Sudbury, at Ickworth... The exact copy has been made by taking a tracing on transfer paper, placing this on lithographic stones, and then printing it in the usual way: a method calculated to insure the closest correspondence with the original. To prove the correctness of the work, I have compared a proof of every page, folding it so as to place each line parallel with and close to the same line in the original; so that by comparing the line all along, I could easily see that it was correct. In this way I have examined every line throughout the volume, and I believe that not a single incorrect letter will be found therein. A few copies are printed on vellum, and some on old paper.”—Introduction. The verse and prose treatise are now generally attributed to William Barlow or occasionally to W. Roy. Although the colophon gives Hans Luft in Marburg as the printer, the 1530 edition was printed by Hoochstraten in Antwerp.

21. BECKFORD LIBRARY. The Hamilton Palace Libraries. Catalogue of the First [-Sixth] Portion of the Beckford Library, Removed from Hamilton Palace. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1882-84. £425

6 Parts in 4 vols., large 8vo, xxxi,[i],[viii],237,[1]; xxvii,[i],[vi],195,[1]; xxvii,[i],[viii],196; xii,[vi],78; 20; xxi,[i],[viii],150pp., complete with printed lists of prices and buyers’ names bound in at the beginning of each part except for part 5 (this being books returned and imperfect, priced with buyers’ names in a cont. hand), orig. printed wrappers bound in, ex-library, half red morocco, rubbed, spine of vol. 1 badly scuffed, 12,147 lots.


De Ricci, pp.84-87. “One of the most greatest collectors of the day, a man to be mentioned in the same breath as Lord Spencer, was the wealthy and eccentric ‘Vathek’, William Beckford (1759-1844)... As a book collector, he was certainly far ahead of his times”. One of the most famous and notable sales in the annals of book-collecting. A book from the Beckford Library still carries with it a pedigree second to none.

22. BECKFORD (William) The Valuable Library of Books, in Fonthill Abbey. A Catalogue of the Magnificent, Rare, and Valuable Library, (of 20,000 Volumes)... also of the Books of Prints, Galleries of Art, Curious Missals and Manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese Drawings, &c... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on Tuesday the 9th of September, 1823, and Nine Following Days, on Friday the 3d of October, & Four Following Days, and on... 23d October... & Four Following Days, etc. [The Unique and Splendid Effects of Fonthill Abbey. Catalogue of the Extensive Assemblage of Costly and Interesting Property, which Adorns this Magnificent Structure; Embracing Part of the Furniture; the Bijouterie... the Matchless Collection of Raised Gold Japan, and... the Rare Oriental, Japan & Sevres China... Which will be Sold... on... the 23d of September... and Seven Following Days, and on... 16th of October, and Four Following Days, etc. - The Second Part of Books and Books of Prints. - The Pictures and Miniatures at Fonthill Abbey. Catalogue of this Well-selected and Valuable Collection of Gallery and Cabinet Paintings, Miniatures and Drawings... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Phillips, on... the 10th of October... and on... October 14 and 15, 1823. - The Second Part of the Unique and Splendid Effects. - The Third Part of Books and Books of Prints. [J. Davy],1823. £645

Large 8vo, [10],391,[1]pp., frontispiece of the Abbey, cont. half calf, front paste-down has previous owner’s name in ink, head and foot of spinechipped, corners bumped but overall a nice copy.

Mounting debts and shrinking asserts continued to plague Beckford during his final years in residence at Fonthill Abbey. Beckford was finally compelled to sell Fonthill Abbey to John Farquhar for £300,000 in 1822. Farquhar, motivated more by speculation than genuine interest in the valuable contents of the Abbey, put the collection, including books and manuscripts, up for auction the following year. Thus the Beckford collection herein described was actually sold by Farquhar. The catalogues are paged continuously (391pp.) but the parts are rearranged in binding to follow the chronological order of sales.

De Ricci, p.84; Fletcher, p.317-24.

23. BELIN (Mme. Th.) Bibliotheque de Mme. Th. Belin. Precieux Manuscrits a Miniatures, Livres a Figures des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles, Riches Reliures Anciennes Armoriees. [Sale Catalogue]. Charles Bosse, Paris.1936-37. £75

3 Vols., in one, 4to, 124 plates (many folding) mostly of bindings, printed price lists inserted, orig. printed wrappers bound in, modern cloth, uncut.

24. [BELOE (William)] The Sexagenarian: or, the Recollections of a Literary Life. Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington.1818. £48

Second Edition, 2 vols., viii,325,[1]; [ii],338pp., a very good ex-library set, later quarter calf, marbled boards, uncut.

Lowndes says of these memoirs “These volumes for presumption, misstatement, and malignity, have rarely been exceeded, or even equalled.”

Item 20 Item 22

Item 38 Item 40


25. [BENT (William)] A General Catalogue of Books in all Languages in all Languages, Arts, and Sciences, that have been Printed in Great Britain, and Published in London, since the Year M.DCCC. to the Present Time. The Whole Alphabetically and Classically Disposed under the several Branches of Literature; with their Sizes and Prices. London.1779. £295

[iv],152pp., title and last leaf a little soiled, stitched as issued, uncut.

“William Bent laid the foundation for the system of bibliographies that carried his name well into the nineteenth century, and that practically forms the basis on which modern English booktrade bibliography rests.” - Growoll, Three Centuries of the English Booktrade Bibliography, p.88.

26. BERNAL (Ralph) Catalogue of the Very Choice and Valuable Collection of Prints... Comprising Principally of English and Foreign Portraits of the Great Men of Europe from the time of Queen Mary to James Second... a most splendid Selection of the Works of Hogarth... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... On Monday, 19th of February, 1855, and Two following Days. J. Davy & Sons.1855. £30

[iv],25,[1]pp., prices supplied in pencil, 560 lots, disbound, preserved within a folding card wallet.

Ralph Bernal was for many years chairman of Way and Means, and committees of the House of Commons, and M.P. for Rochester.

27. BERNERS (Juliana) Bibliotheca Curiosa. A Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Originally Printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1496. Edited by “Piscator” [Thomas Pike Lathy]. Privately Printed, Edinburgh. 1885. viii,36pp., one of 275 copies, neat stamp on title otherwise a nice copy. [Bound with:] [DENNYS (John)] Bibliotheca Curiosa. The Secrets of Angling: Teaching the Choicest Tools, Baits, and Seasons, for the Taking of any Fish in Pond or River, Practised and Familiarly Opened in Three Books by J. D., Esquire. Edited by “Piscator”. Privately Printed, Edinburgh.1885. £95

2 Vols., 43; 64pp., one of 275 copies, neat stamp on title.

3 Vols., bound in one, cont. half calf, slightly rubbed.

28. BERRA (Tim M.) William Beebe: An Annotated Bibliography. Archon Books.1977. £15

First Edition, 157pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

29. BERRY (W. Turner) & JOHNSON (A.F.) Compilers. Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types by English and Scottish Printers and Founders 1665-1830. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Oxford University Press.1935. £125

First Edition, 4to, liii,98pp., ex-library, 24 plates (4 folding), orig. cloth-backed boards, extremities rubbed, uncut.

A scarce and most important bibliography of thirty-five type founders specimens.

30. [BEST (Richard Irvine)] Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature. Browne and Nolan, Dublin.1913. £38

First Edition, large 8vo, xii,307pp.,from the Public Records Office library, orig. cloth.

31. BIBERMÜHLE COLLECTION. Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle 1490-1550. Graphik, Illumination und Einbandkunst in Frankreich um 1500. Antiquariat Bibermühle AG, Ramsen.2003. £725

3 Vols., oblong folio, 1348pp., over 1000 coloured illustrs., orig. decorated cloth, slip-case.

The Bibermühle collection consists of 150 Books of Hours printed between 1490 and 1550 in France, forming, to the best of our knowledge, the most important collection of this type of book in private hands assembled within the last 300 years. It comprises 28 incunables, 112 vellum copies and 52 illuminated ones; many of them still being in their first or early bindings. Provenances are as wide-ranging as Anne de Beaujeu, Ruler of France on one side and


the Duke of Bourbon-Parma on the other, with nearly every important collection of the 19th and 20th centuries fairly represented. The new catalogue Horae B.M.V. gives a comprehensive survey of this collection and the once so popular printed Books of ours in general, focusing on illumination, illumination and bindings. Introductory essays on printers, artists and publishers throw light upon the evolution of pictures, border-cycles and decorations. For the first time the numerous illustrations and border cycles have been classified and ascribed to different Parisian artists and workshops. Each entry with detailed bibliographical information, collation, full colophons etc. About 1000 coloured illustrations, most of them in original size, and full indices and references complete the thorough descriptions to form the most comprehensive study of these popular but as yet poorly documented books.

32. BIBLIOGRAPHER, THE. A Journal of Book-Lore. Elliot Stock.1881-84. £145

6 Vols., [all published under this title], 4to, orig. cloth, uncut.

Numerous articles on bookselling, printing, collecting and bibliography. This magazine was continued under the title of Book Lore.

Ulrich & Kup p.146.

33. BITTING (Katherine Golden) Gastronomic Bibliography. New York.(Reprint of the 1939 Edition) 1994. £55

Limited to 150 copies, numerous plates and illustrs., orig. cloth.

One of the most important works in the field.

BOUND BY THE GUILD OF WOMEN-BINDERS

34. BLADES (William) The Enemies of Books. Elliot Stock.1888. £495

12mo, revised and enlarged edition, xiii,[iii],165,[3]pp., 8 illustrs., full light brown mediaeval morocco by the Guild of Women-Binders (signed on front-free endpaper), marbled endpapers, green edges, on the upper cover an embossed design of seven rats and title within a double border, and on lower cover a humorous vignette of two rats, designed by Miss Pocock, worked by Miss Gaskell.

35. [BLAIZOT (George)] Masterpieces of French Modern Bindings. Services Culturels Francais.1947. £60

Large 8vo, 129pp., 41 plates (3 coloured), orig. decorated wrappers designed by Paul Bonet.

An exhibition catalogue of choice French bookbindings from 1880 to 1947 from the collection of Daniel Sickles.

36. BLAKEY (Robert) Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of all Nations... to Which is Added a Bibliography of English Writers on Angling. John Russell Smith.1856. £65

First Edition, 12mo, vi,335,[1] + 16pp., of adverts, with the bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, orig. cloth, uncut, small nick to base of spine otherwise a nice copy.

37. BLANCK (Jacob) Compiler. Bibliography of American Literature. Volumes 1-9. Yale University Press.1968-91. £445

9 Vols., 4to, illustrs., orig. cloth, a nice set.

Approximately 300 writers from the beginning of the Federal period up to and including persons who died before the end of 1930. Each author is arranged chronologically and includes: 1. First editions of book and pamphlets, and any other book containing the first appearance of any work; 2. Reprints containing textual or other changes; and 3. A Selected list of biographical, bibliographical and critical works.

38. [BLISS (Philip) & BANDINEL (Bulkeley)] A Catalogue of the Books, Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature, Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, in the Year MDCCXCIX. By Richard Gough. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1814. £595

First Edition, 4to, iv,459,[1]pp., cont. straight grain red morocco gilt, gilt armorial to both boards (with motto to upper board “Academia Oxoniensis” & to lower board “Sigill. W.W. Baronis Grenville Cancellarii Academie Oxoniensis”), lightly rubbed, a.e.g. a nice copy.

Richard Gough (1735-1809), antiquary, bibliographer, topographer, Director of the Society of Antiquaries (1771-97), bequeathed to the Bodleian upwards of 3,700 volumes, many annotated by him and with printed insertions.


They are mostly 18th century, but include some of the 16th, 17th and early 19th centuries. Included are his interleaved copies of his British Topography. “...the present Catalogue has been formed as nearly as possible on the plan adopted by Mr. Gough himself in his British Topography. The Books are arranged according to Counties, and, where it was practicable, chronologically. A very full and perfect Index of Names will be found at the end; so that it is hoped the present attempt will possess the advantages both of an alphabetical and a classed Catalogue.”—Bulkeley Bandinel, Preface. Gough’s books included many volumes from the libraries of Ducarel, Lort, Blomefield, Peter Le Neve, Hutchins, West and others. The miscellaneous part of his library was sold by public auction in 1810.

39. BOGENG (G.A.E.) Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst der Frühdruck. J. Demeter, Hellerau bei Dresden.1930. £125

First Edition, folio, 671pp., library label on front endpaper, small neat library stamp on verso of title-page, 112 plates (31 coloured, 22 double-page), cont. quarter morocco, slightly rubbed.

A second volume, covering the period from 1500 to the 19th century was edited by Hermann Barge, was issued in two parts over a decade later in 1941; Bogeng himself did not contribute to this collection.

40. BOHN (John) Catalogue of the First [-Second] Portion of the Valuable Stock of the Late Mr. John Bohn, Eminent Bookseller of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden... An Extensive Collection of Foreign & English Theology, with many of the Best Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, &c. Which will be Sold by Auction... by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co... on Wednesday, January 15th, and Nine Following Days [& Monday, February 17th, and Nine Following Days]. London. 1845. 2 Parts, 135,[1]; 132pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers’ names supplied in a cont. hand, 5313 lots. [Bound with:] Bohn v. Bohn. A Catalogue of a Further Portion of the Extensive & Valuable Stock of Books of the Late Mr. John Bohn... Consisting of Above 10,000 Volumes, and Forming a Choice Selection of Early Printed, Rare, Curious and Interesting Works... Which will be Sold by Auction (without reserve) by Mr. Hammond, at his Great Room, 28, Chancery Lane, on Tuesday, the 27th Day of April, 1847, and Four Following Days. London.1847. £395

63,[1]pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers’ names supplied in a cont. hand, 1150 lots. 3 Catalogues bound in one, recent cloth-backed boards.

John Henry Bohn (1757-1843) was a German immigrant bookbinder who was attracted to England in 1795 due to the English fashion of having their books elaborately and expensively bound in morocco. Like many of the immigrant binders he was better educated than his English colleagues and gave up binding to concentrate on bookselling in 1815. Two of his sons, Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) & James George Stuart Burges Bohn (1803–1880), followed him into the booktrade. In 1843 Bohn died and James went bankrupt. “Family tensions developed, and [John], possibly unaware that his father had left instructions that his book stock was to be divided and sold at different auction houses, sought to dispose of the stock himself. His brothers disputed his right to do so and brought an injunction against him. The matter was resolved and James put back on his feet with the help of his brother John and three investors.”—(Oxford DNB).

41. BOLTON (Henry Carrington) A Select Bibliography of Chemistry 1492-1892. [With:] First Supplement (in two parts) 1492-1897. [With:] Second Supplement: 1492-1902. Kraus Reprint, New York.(Reprint of the 1893-1903 Edition) 1966. £110

4 Vols., 8vo, xiii,1212; ix, 489; iv,534; [ii],462pp., a very good ex-library set, orig. cloth.

The standard bibliography of Chemistry.

42. BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Comprehending, Classics, Foreign and Domestic History, Voyages and Travels, Divinity, Poetry, Belles Letters, Arts and Sciences, Miscellanies, Oriental Learning and Translations, &c. &c. Which Will be Sold by Auction by Leigh and S. Sotheby... On Friday, May 29th, 1807, and the Seven Following Days. [N.p.,]1807. £75


[ii],58pp., from the library of Alan G. Thomas, later marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover, uncut, 1,921 lots.

43. BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUES. List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 now in the British Museum. With an Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. British Museum.1915. £110

First Edition, xvi, 523pp., orig. buckram, a nice copy.

The most comprehensive collection of its kind, 8,000 items catalogued, with index of names.

44. BOOKBINDER. Journal of the Society of Bookbinders and Book Restorers. Volume 1-9. Society of Bookbinders.1987-95. £95

9 Parts, small 4to, illustrated throughout, some light staining to last few leaves of vol. 1, orig. pictorial wrappers.

45. BOOKBINDING. Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe Siecle, en Vente a la Librairie Gumuchian & Cie. Paris.[c.1929.] £175

First Edition, folio, vi,180,[2]pp., text in French and English, 135 plates including some in full colour, orig. cloth, uncut.

Catalogue No. 12 issued by the bookseller firm. The catalogue has descriptions of 398 bindings with well over one third of them shown in the illustrations.

46. BOOKBINDING. MELLOR (William) Editor. The Bookbinding Trades Journal. Bookbinders and Machine Rulers’ Consolidated Union, Manchester.1904-14. £545

2 Vols., (a total of 40 parts, i.e. Vol. I parts 1-24 and Vol. II parts 1-16 [all published]), specimens of marbled paper, numerous illustrs., vol. I bound in half red morocco, with the bookplate of Paul Latcham, vol. II in slight faded orig. cloth.

Offering a fascinating insight into the working life of contemporary bookbinders as well as having interesting articles dealing with the practical side of binding.

47. BOOKPLATES. Catalogue of a Collection of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), The Property of a Well-Known Collector, Deceased... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1899. £28

[ii],31pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers names’ supplied in a neat cont. hand, new wrappers, 207 lots.

48. BOOKPLATES. Catalogue of a Collection of Ex-Libris Formed by a Well-Known Collector. Comprising Examples of Early Dated; Jacobean; Chippendale; Pictorial; Bookpile; Sheraton; and other Styles... Puttick & Simpson.1901. £25

23pp., prices and buyers names’ in a cont. hand, new wrappers, 348 lots.

49. BOOKPLATES. BROWN (James Roberts) Catalogue of the Collection of Book Plates (Ex-Libris)... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1906. £25

55pp., priced with some buyers names’, new wrappers, 346 lots.

50. BOOKPLATES. CRAIG (Edward Gordon) Nothing or the Bookplate. With a Handlist by E. Carrick. Chatto & Windus.1925. £35

First Edition, viii,27pp., 25 tipped-in designs for bookplates, endpapers foxed, orig. cloth-backed boards, slightly warped, d.w. soiled.

Many of the bookplates were designed for Craig’s theatre colleagues ( Ellen Terry, John Drew and Isadora Duncan among them).

Item 40 Item 46

Item 65 Item 68


51. BOOKPLATES. DAVIDSON (Miss E.) Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Book-Plates, (Ex-Libris)... First [-Second] Portion. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1899. £60

2 Parts in one, 15; 20pp., A.L.s. by Miss Davidson to Sir A.W. Franks, ruled in red with prices and buyers names’ supplied in a neat cont. hand, new wrappers, 433 lots.

52. BOOKPLATES. FEARING (Daniel B.) Compiler. A List of Angling Book-plates. [Printed for Private Distribution] Newport, Rhode Island.1916. £50

40pp., one of 250 copies, Fearing’s compliment card tipped-in, orig. printed wrappers.

53. BOOKPLATES. FINCHAM (H.W.) & BROWN (James Roberts) A Bibliography of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris). Printed for Private Distribution by W.F. Westcott, “Frankfort Press”, Plymouth.1892. £42

24pp., one of 100 number copies, signed by Fincham, presentation inscription from Fincham, orig. printed wrappers, detached and soiled.

Scarce.

54. BOOKPLATES. FRANKS (Augustus W.) Notes on Bookplates. No. I. English Dated Bookplates, 1574-1800. [All Published]. Printed for Private Distribution.1887. £30

32pp., orig. limp cloth, gilt.

Extremely rare.

55. BOOKPLATES. [FRANKS (Sir A.W.)] Catalogue of a Collection of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris), Formed by a Well-Known Amateur, Deceased... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1900. £30

[ii],24pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers names’ supplied in a neat cont. hand, disbound, 240 lots.

56. BOOKPLATES. HAMILTON (Walter) Catalogue of a Portion of the Collection of Ex-Libris, Formed by Walter Hamilton... Also his Valuable Reference Library of Works on Heraldry and Book-Plates. Puttick & Simpson.1897. £35

v,[blank],[5]-24pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers names’ in a neat cont. hand, 9 plates, disbound, 402 lots.

57. BOOKPLATES. HAVELOCK (Colonel Acton) Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Collection of Book-Plates (Ex Libris)... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1897. £50

60pp., ruled in red with prices and buyers names’ supplied in a neat cont. hand, new wrappers, 347 lots.

58. BOOKPLATES. OLIVER (Vere Langford) West Indian Bookplates. Being a First List of Plates Relating to those Islands. Reprinted from “Caribbrana”. Mitchell Hughes and Clarke.1914. £50

4to, 100p., frontis., orig. cloth, upper cover water stained, unopened, uncut.

59. BOOKPLATES. ROBINSON (W.W.) Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris)... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1907. £28

46pp., majority of lots priced with buyers names’, new wrappers, orig. upper wrapper preserved, 380 lots.

60. [BOWER (Archibald) Editor] Historia Litteraria: or, an Exact and Early Account of the Most Valuable Books Published in the Several Parts of Europe. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1730) - Vol. 2, no. 7 (1731). Printed for N. Prevost and E. Symon.1730-31. £165

First Edition, 2 vols., in one, vii,[i],519,[21]; [ii],102pp., with the bookplate of Arnold Yates, later buckram, leather label on spine.

This periodical continued to be published until 1734 with the final issue vol. 4, no. 23.


61. BOWES (Robert) A Catalogue of Books Printed at or Relating to the University Town & County of Cambridge from 1521 to 1893. With Bibliographical & Biographical Notes. [With:] Index. Macmillan & Bowes, Cambridge.1894. £95

First Edition, xxxi,[i],iv,516;67pp., orig. wrappers bound in, buckram, spine faded, uncut.

62. BOYDELL (John and Josiah) An Alphabetical Catalogue of Plates, Engraved by the Most Esteemed Artists, After the Finest Pictures and Drawings of the Italian, Flemish, German, French, English, and other Schools, which Compose the Stock of John and Josiah Boydell, Engravers and Printsellers, No. 90, Cheapside, and at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; Preceded by an Account of various Works, Sets of Prints, Galleries, &c. Forming part of the same stock. Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.1803. £275

Small 4to, xxix,[i],60pp., recently bound in marbled paper boards, morocco label.

A rare catalogue from this celebrated firm of engravers and printsellers.

ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES

63. BRASSINGTON (W. Salt) Editor. A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with Some Account of the Books of the Ancients. Elliot Stock.1894. £375

First Edition, small folio, xvi,277,[3]pp., one of 50 large paper copies, with the bookplate of A.B. Evers-Swindell, coloured frontis., 9 plates (of which 3 are coloured), 153 illustrs., in the text (20 coloured), floral endpapers, front inner hinge slightly shaken, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, half inch tear to upper hinge, uncut, t.e.g.

Large paper copy of this important book, covering the entire history of bookbinding up to the nineteenth century.

64. [BRETT (Reginald), Second Viscount Esher] The Modern Library Collected By Viscount Esher at Watlington Park. Privately Printed.1930. £175

First Edition, 4to, xiv,320pp., one of 100 copies, orig. buckram, spine slightly faded, uncut, front board flecked with minor small white spots, rear board with a slight bruise, otherwise a nice copy.

Viscount Esher was one of the earliest collectors to specialise in modern first editions: having settled on an author for inclusion in his collection he aimed for completeness in securing a first edition of every book or pamphlet by the author. This catalogue records the products of his collecting as applied to nearly 300 authors, principally of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

EARL OF MACCLESFIELD COPY, PRICED

65. BRIDGES (John) Catalogus Librorum Johannis Bridges, armigeri; nuper ex Hospitio Lincolniensi. Juxta exemplar catalogi msti quem ipse dun in vivis erat, concinnari fecerat. James Tonson and John Watts.1725. £1,100

Small 4to, [ii],4,345,[5]pp., wide margin copy, engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. Motte showing the idealised entrance to the Bridges library, from the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, with the usual Macclesfield library blind-stamp, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, front inner hinge cracked, orig. vellum-backed boards, soiled and scraped, small nick to head of spine, uncut.

Dr John Bridges had compiled this, the third earliest English inventory catalogue, himself before his death in 1724. He directed from his will that all his books and manuscripts were to be sold, and out of the sale £500 was to go to his brothers Nathaniel and Ralph. The brothers had this catalogue printed and circulated it locally as a fixed-price inventory, in the hope of selling it en-bloc. When they failed to find a buyer, they decided to auction the entire collection and produce a separate sale catalogue the following year. Their decision was justified, as the 4,313 lots, sold over twenty-seven days, realized £4,160.12s. This copy is annotated with sale prices and some additional titles. Many of the titles in this library also appeared in the Macclesfield library, and it is possible that the First Earl of Macclesfield purchased from the sale.

Pollard & Ehrman, p. 212; Fletcher, pp. 156-8.


66. BRIGGS (Grace M.) Editor. The Honnold Library. The William W. Clarey Oxford Collection. A Descriptive Catalogue. Printed for the Honnold Library at the University Press, Oxford.1956. £40

First Edition, one of 550 copies, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.

67. BRITISH & COLONIAL PRINTER. The British & Colonial Printer and Stationer and Newspaper Press Record [and Paper Trade Review]. Conducted by W. John Stonhill. Vol. I, no. I (December 16, 1878) - Vol. V, no. 12 (June 16, 1881). [W. John Stonhill].1878-81. £1,200

5 Vols., 8vo & 4to, 604; 988; 928; 1200, 1034pp., presentation inscription in vol. 2 “Messrs V. and J, Figgins with Editor’s Compliments”, illustrated throughout, with samples of printing, orig. decorated cloth, inner hinges strengthened, head and foot of spines a little frayed, a couple of hinges repaired.

The very rare first five volumes of this early printing trades journal, a continues run with 12 issues to each volume. The best printing trade journal of its day, articles covering: practical and technical techniques, machinery, papermaking, commercial reviews of printing establishments, guide to sources of supply, numerous advertisements etc. “A weekly review of trade news. Covers better than any other journal events great and small, and sources of supply in the trade...”—Saint Bride Foundation, Catalogue of Periodicals, p.12.

PRINTED ON THICK PAPER

68. 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. £495

132 + 5pp., of adverts, printed on thick paper, interleaved with prices and buyers’ names in a neat contemporary hand, from the library of H.P. Kraus, with the bookplate of John Charles Hall, cont. half morocco, spine gilt, marbled paper sides and endpapers, slightly rubbed, a nice copy, 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.

69. BROWN (Ford Madox) A Catalogue of the Household & Decorative Furniture, Works of Art, Books & Effects Belonging to the Distinguished Painter Ford Madox Brown, Which will be Sold by Mr. T.G. Wharton, Upon the premises, No.1, St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent’s Park on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, May 29th, 30th & 31st, 1894... [London].[1894]. £475

4to, 28pp., portrait of Ford Madox Brown, illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, lightly soiled, spine slightly chipped, 666 lots.

The extremely rare auction catalogue of the contents of Brown’s last residence. In 1887, due to ill-health, he returned to London where he rented 1 St. Edmunds Terrace, Primrose Hill. The catalogue includes many pictures by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, photographs, numerous cartoons, and the library which are mostly presentation copies from the likes of Swinburne, the Rossetti’s, Morris, Cruickshank, etc.

Copac locating just the British Library copy; No listings on OCLC.

70. [BULLOCH (John Malcolm)] Soldiering and Sailoring in the North-East of Scotland: A Bibliography. [Off-print from ‘Aberdeen University Library Bulletin, No. XIV]. [Aberdeen,1916]. £28

4to, 13-37pp., one of 50 copies printed, from the Public Record Office library, buckram.


71. BURDEN (Philip D.) The Mapping of North America (A List of Printed Maps; 1511-1670). Raleigh Publications.1996. £150

Large 4to, 608pp., 420 illustrs., (10 coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.

Every one of the 410 maps mentioned is illustrated, full cartographical and bibliographical details are given, together with their locations.

72. BURDETT (Eric) The Craft of Bookbinding. A Practical Handbook. David & Charles.1983. £58

Third Edition, frontis., numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.

Covers every aspect of the subject from simple bindings and repairs to the advanced and complicated work involved in fine bindings of full leather gold tooled and with leather outlays and inlays.

EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF PRINTING IN AMERICA

73. BURDICK (William) An Oration on the Nature and Effects of the Art of Printing. Delivered in Franklin-Hall, July 5, 1802, before the Boston Franklin Association. Printed by Munroe & Francis, Boston.1802. £495

[5],6-31,[1]pp., small piece of blank top outer corner of title-page cut-away, light off-setting onto title, recent marbled boards, morocco label to spine.

The earliest historical account of printing in America listed in Bigmore & Wyman. In the first section his oration describes the history of printing and its impact on mankind, with specific references to Franklin. A two page “Anniversary Ode”, a poem on printing, composed by Burdick, follows this.

Bigmore & Wyman I, p.94.

74. BURGESS (Renate) Portraits of Doctors & Scientists in the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. A Catalogue. Wellcome Institute.1973. £45

First Edition, 4to, numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

Describing 12,000 portrait-prints collected by Sir Henry Wellcome.

75. CARLEY (James P.) & TITE (Colin G.C.) Editors. Books and Collectors 1200-1700. Essays Presented to Andrew Watson. The British Library.1997. £70

First Edition, large 8vo, xxii,501pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

Focusing on four main themes in the history of the book over five centuries - monastic books and medieval learning, humanism and incunabula, the dispersal of monastic libraries, and post-monastic collectors, this collections brings together the most recent research of twenty-three distinguished scholars.

76. CARTER (Harry) Wolvercote Mill. A Study in Paper-Making at Oxford. Oxford University Press.1957. £20

First Edition, xii,79pp., coloured frontis., 17 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.

MAJOR J.R. ABBEY’S COPY

77. CARTER (John) Binding Variants in English Publishing 1820-1900. Bibliographia Series No. VI. Constable & Co. Ltd.1932. £145

First Edition, xviii,172pp., limited to 500 copies, inscribed by Abbey “J.R. Abbey, Bought at Cambridge Oct 29th 1942”, frontis., 13 plates, printed on blue paper, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, uncut, a nice copy.

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.

Item 69 Item 73

Item 89 Item 86


78. CARTER (John) More Binding Variants. Aspects of Book-Collecting. Constable & Co. Ltd.1938. £32

First Edition, 12mo, x,52pp., orig. printed wrappers.

An appendix to Carter’s Binding Variants in English Publishing, 1820-1900.

79. CASE (Arthur E.) A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies 1521-1750. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford.1935. £55

First Edition, xi,[iii],386pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut.

Chronological bibliography of 481 titles with collations, and locations of copies.

80. CAXTON. A Reprint in Facsimile of a treatise spekynge of the arte & crafte to knowe well to dye/traslated oute of frenshe in to englysshe by Willm Caxton. 1485. Edward Lumley.1875. £60

4to, [ii]25pp., of facsimiles, orig. printed boards, uncut.

81. CAXTON. The book of curtesye. Printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477. Cambridge University Press.1907. £65

Small 4to, limited to 250 copies, [vi]pp., followed by 26pp., of facsimiles, orig. vellum backed-boards, vellum label on upper cover, uncut, a nice copy.

82. CAXTON (William) Commemoracio Lamentacionis sive Compassionis Beate Marie. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Unique Copy Printed at Westminster by William Caxton, with an Introduction by E. Gordon Duff. Oxford University Press1901. £60

x,63pp., one of 200 copies, orig. vellum-backed boards, unopened, uncut.

The introduction briefly discusses the typographical and historical background of this work.

83. CAXTON (William) Jacobus de Cessolis. The Game of Chess. Translated and Printed by William Caxton c.1483. Reproduced in Facsimile from the Copy at Trinity College, Cambridge, with an Introduction by N.F. Blake. The Scolar Press.1976. £165

Thick 4to, 8 page introduction followed by the facsimile which includes 23 large woodcut illustrations, one of 500 numbered copies, orig. hessian, leather label on spine.

The ‘Game of Chess’ is an English version (first issued in 1474) of text written originally in Latin by Jacobus de Cessolis under the title of ‘Liber de Ludo Scaccorum’. This second edition is one of the earliest books to be issued with woodcuts (the first edition has none).

84. CAXTON (William) Le Morte d’Arthur. Printed by William Caxton 1485. Reproduced in facsimile from the [unique complete] copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, with an Introduction by Paul Needham. The Scolar Press in Association with the Pierpont Morgan Library.1976. £295

Thick 4to, 32 page introduction followed by 432 leaves of facsimile, limited to 500 numbered copies, orig. hessian, leather label on spine.

85. CHAPMAN (R.W.) Cancels. Bibliographia Series, Edited by Michael Sadleir, No. III. Constable & Co. Ltd.1930. £65

First Edition, limited to 500 copies, 11 facsimiles, 1 folding diagram, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, uncut.

A study of publishers’ cancels, the larger part of the cancels studied are from the time of Samuel Johnson.


THE FOUNDATION OF THE CHETHAM LIBRARY

86. CHETHAM (Humphry) The Last Will of Humphry Chetham, of Clayton, in the County of Lancaster, Esq; Dated December 16, 1651; Whereby he founded and endowed an Hospital and Library in Manchester. Also the Charter of King Charles II. Dated November 10, 1665. For making the Trustees under Mr. Chetham’s Will a Body-Corporate. Printed by J. Harrop, Manchester.[1759]. £245

First Edition, 4to, [ii],65pp., title within ornamental border, recent quarter calf, marbled boards. The first printing of these important documents relating to the greatest of all the early town libraries. Humphrey Chetham (1580-1653), wealthy Manchester textile merchant, under the terms of his will, the bulk of Chetham’s fortune was to be used to establish a hospital for the maintenance and education of forty poor boys, and the first free public library in the world.

Not in the British Library; ESTC locates 5 copies in the UK and 2 in North America.

87. CHILDREN’S BOOKS. GUMUCHIAN & CIE. Les Livres de l’Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siecle. Preface de Paul Gavault. Gumuchian & Cie, Paris.1930. £225

First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, xx,[4],446,[4]; 16pp., vol.1 text with 6,251 items described, vol.2 contains 336 plates, cont. half morocco, lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, t.e.g.

The Grolier Club, Bibliography: Its History and Development. No. 158. “This splendidly illustrated bookseller’s catalogue of 6,251 children’s books is the first major bibliography solely devoted to children’s books and has become a standard reference work on the subject.”

88. [CHURTON (Edward)] The Book-Collector’s Hand-Book: A Modern Library Companion. E. Churton.1845. £38

First Edition, [iv],76,[4],15,[1]pp., some light foxing, orig. embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, a very nice copy.

89. CIRCULATING LIBRARY LABEL. This Book is the Property of Peter Joseph Jufroy, at the Circulating Library, Middleham: Where a variety of Novels, &c. by the most celebrated Authors, are lent to read, at Two-pence per Volume for Seven Days; if kept longer, Two-pence for every Three Days. New Books Two-pence for Four Days, and if kept Seven Days Three-pence. When read is earnestly requested to be immediately returned, for the general accommodation of the Subscribers. [c.1789]. £110

85 x 60mm, an attractive engraved oval label detailing the terms of lending within a decorative border.

Unrecorded in ESTC, Stewart-Murphy and Varma.

90. CIRCULATING LIBRARY LABEL. HALIFAX CIRCULATING LIBRARY. N.P.,N.D., [c1795]. £35

7.50 x 8 cms., printed on one side only, text within woodcut border.

91. CLAPHAM LIBRARY. Catalogue of Books in the Clapham Library. Printed by G.P. Meaden, Clapham.[c.1890]. £145

Small 8vo, [ii],59,[1]pp., some light foxing, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled with corners chipped. The first printed catalogue of the Clapham library which was founded in 1889. Containing some 2,210 titles divided into the follow subjects: Theology, History, Biography, Poetry, Science, Essays, Natural History, Travels, Topography, Narrative, Fiction, Encyclopaedias, Magazines & Miscellaneous. Extremely rare; not in Copac, OCLC or any local London libraries.

Item 94 Item 94

Item 101Item 99


92. COATES (Major Sir Edward) Catalogue of the First [-Third] Portion of the Famous Gardner Collection of Engravings, Drawings, Broadsides, &c. Illustrating the Topographical, Architectural and Social History of London and its Environs... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1923-24. £45

3 Parts in one, cont. buckram, 2,633 lots.

Formed by John Edmund Gardner, at whose death it was inherited by his Son, from whom it was purchased, en bloc, in the year 1910, by Major Sir Edward Coates.

93. COCKERELL (Douglas) Some Notes on Bookbinding. Oxford University Press.1948. £18

[viii],105,[1]pp., frontis., 29 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.

94. COLE (John) A Bibliographical and Descriptive Tour from Scarborough to the Library of a Philobiblist, in it’s Neighbourhood. Printed and Published by John Cole, Scarborough. 1824. [ii],iv,92,[1]pp., final leaf being the author’s advert for the subsequent work, one of 50 large paper copies on medium writing paper, title with woodcut vignette view of Hunmanby (Boyne noting that large paper copies have this view rather than the four lines of verse), presentation inscription from the author to J. Maude. [Bound with:] ----. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Select Portion of the Stock of John Cole, Bookseller, Scarborough. Printed by John Cole, Scarborough. 1825. 66pp., one of 25 copies on “medium writing” paper, 2 lithographed plates, one folding facsimile plate (laid on linen), one letterpress leaf printed in red, numerous wood-engravings by Bewick, Mason, Green, &c., (some coloured), presentation inscription from the author to J. Maude. [Bound with:] ----. Bookselling Spiritualised. Books and Articles of Stationery Rendered Monitors of Religion, By John Cole. Imprinted by John Cole, Scarborough. 1826. [iv],23,[1]pp., one of 60 copies printed, presentation inscription from the author to J. Maude (slightly shaved). [Bound with:] ----. Bibliotheca Coleiana: A Catalogue of the Collection of Books, the Private Library of John Cole, of Scarborough; Comprising illustrated copies of all those works of which he is the Author, besides numerous elucidations, both by Prints and MS., of the productions of several other writers. Printed by John Cole, for the perusal of his friends, and not for sale.1829. £2,975

[ii],33,[1]pp., one of 68 copies, with the author’s initials on colophon, title printed in red and black. 4 rare works bound in one, these are preceded by an etched silhouette portrait of the author, with a facsimile of his signature, copied from a rare etching presented to him by his friend Thomas Allen, December, 1830, of which only 40 impressions were taken, cont. green blind- and gilt-tooled calf gilt, lettered on spine “Cole’s Bibliographical Tracts. L.P. Rare, 1824-1829”, all edges gilt, a very nice copy.

“Cole, John 1792-1848, bookseller and antiquary, of Northampton and Scarborough, was born on 3 Oct. 1792 at Weston Favell in Northamptonshire. He was apprenticed to Mr. W. Birdsall, a bookseller of Northampton, and began his literary career with a ‘History of Northampton and its Vicinity’ in 1815. About two years later he married Susanna, second daughter of James Marshall of Northampton, and in 1817 purchased for 1,000l. the stock and goodwill of a bookseller at Lincoln. He printed his first ‘Catalogue of Old Books’ at Lincoln in that year. He brought out a ‘History of Lincoln’ in 1818, and then seems to have gone to Hull and afterwards to Scarborough, where we find him in 1821 publishing ‘An Ænigmatical Catalogue of Books of Merit, on an entirely new plan.’ During the next ten years he issued most of his antiquarian and biographical works, many of which relate to Scarborough. He also helped Baker in his ‘History of the County of Northampton.’ As unfortunate at Scarborough as at his previous dwelling-places, Cole tried Northampton once more, and opened a shop in the market square some time after 1830. He added to his small income by giving lectures on natural philosophy, &c... His literary activity was remarkable... They are usually of small size and tastefully printed and produced... Cole generally printed but few copies of his books, and usually a few were on coloured paper. Both for their rarity and as containing much out-of-the-way information they are sought after by Yorkshire and Northamptonshire collectors.”—DNB.

Boyne, pp.203-206.


95. COLLIER (J. Payne) A Catalogue, Bibliographical and Critical, of Early English Literature; Forming a Portion of the Library at Bridgewater House, the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P. [Privately Printed, London].1837. £295

4to, iv,366p., a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth, head of spine torn.

“The library... was originally formed by Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere... His Lordship is well known to have been an enlightened and munificent patron of literature. Some of the books came into his possession from the Countess of Derby, whom he married in 1600, whose first husband, Sir John Wolley, appears also to have been liberal encourager of learning. Baron Ellesmere was created Viscount Brackley shortly before his death in 1616, and his son was raised to the dignity of Earl of Bridgewater in the following year. Many of the rarer productions enumerated in the following pages were collected and carefully preserved by the latter, and his affection for his books is testified by his marks and notes in most of the volumes which he added to the collection. The library was augmented at later dates by the successive Earls and Dukes of Bridgewater, until it devolved into the hands of the present possessor, by whose direction and whose expense this catalogue has been prepared and printed. The undertaking has been limited to early English literature, because it is a department which, though less understood than some others, has of late years attracted much attention, both in this and foreign countries”. - Preface.

Martin, Privately Printed Books. pp.470-71.

96. CONJURING. FINDLAY (J.B.) Ninth Collectors Annual. A Catalogue of Books on Conjuring and the Allied Arts in the J.B. Findlay Collection. D.W. Findley1975 £110

First Edition, 4to, xii,280pp., one of 500 numbered copies, 33 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.

97. [CONSTABLE (David)] Catalogue of a Curious Collection of Books in General History and Literature, Particularly Rich in Early English and Scottish History and Poetry... Which Will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Sotheby... On Tuesday the 16th of January, 1827, and Three Following Days. [Compton & Ritchie].1827. £75

62,[ii]pp., text slightly browned, later marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover, 1,152 lots.

98. COPINGER (W.A.) Incunabula Biblica or the First Half Century of the Latin Bible. Being a Bibliographical Account of the various Editions of the Latin Bible between 1450 and 1500. With an Appendix Containing a Chronological List of the Editions of the Sixteenth Century. Bernard Quaritch.1892. £395

Folio, x,226pp., 54 full-page facsimile plates, bookplate to front paste-down, hinges slightly shaken, orig. cloth, extremities a little rubbed and worn, small nick to upper hinge, uncut.

A study and detailed description of 124 editions of the Latin bible before 1500, with extensive annotations by Copinger. This is followed by a chronological table of the 562 printed editions of the Latin bible during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

99. CORK AND ORRERY (Earl of) Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library and Collection of Autograph Letters of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cork and Orrery Removed from Marston, Frome. Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods... on Tuesday, November 21, 1905 and Two following Days. [London].1905. £95

109,[1]pp., orig. printed wrappers, a little creased and torn, 736 lots.

Contains many items relating to the family, along with autograph letters from Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

100. [COULON (Jean-François?)] Catalogue des Livres Rares et Précieux de la Bibliothéque de M. C***, Dont la Vente se fera le jeudi 12 novembbre 1829... De Bure, Paris.1829. £135

[iv],iv,371,[1],4pp., priced in a cont. hand throughout, later cloth, 3,690 + 130 lots.

Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Auctions, 605.

Item 102 Item 103

Item 111Item 105


101. COWELL (S.H.) Illustrations of the Art of Printing. Being a Description of a Visit to the Steam Printing Works of Mr. S.H. Cowell, Ipswich. Printed and Published by S.H. Cowell, Ipswich.1876. £195

[iv],35,[1]pp., illustrs., in the text, orig. pictorial wrappers, printed in colours and highlighted in gold, new cloth spine.

The areas covered: Letterpress, lithographic, anastatic & copperplate printing, account bookbinding, marbling, specimens of book types, wood engraving, colour printing, relief stamping, &c. The only copy located is that of the St Bride Library.

102. COWELL (S.H.) A Walk Through our Works; A Short Account of a Visit to the Printing, Stationery & Bookbinding Manufactory of S.H. Cowell, Ipswich. With Illustrations of Printing and its Auxiliary Processes. [S.H. Cowell, Ipswich].1888. £195

[iv],62,[4]pp., title vignette, illustrs., in the text, orig. printed stiff paper wrappers, slight abrasion to lower wrapper otherwise a very nice copy.

A very rare guide to this Ipswich printing house. The compiler tells us in the preface “Nearly all of the machines described and illustrated hereafter are to be found in other offices, but in very few offices indeed will such a complete collection of them be found. This establishment differs from others chiefly in the completeness of its facilities, and in the extent of the work done in each department”. Copac finding the Cambridge University Library copy only; St Bride Library also has a copy.

BOOKBINDERS’ TRADE CATALOGUE

103. [COX (Alfred J.)] The Making of the Book; A Sketch of the Book-Binding Art. A.J. Cox and Company, Chicago.1878. £575

First Edition, 12mo, 48pp., with an additional photographic portrait frontispiece of the author, orig. orange cloth, stamped in black and gold, a fine copy.

Trade catalogue describing the different kinds of binding carried-out by the firm of A.J. Cox & Company. Also included is a forty page price list for different binding sizes and styles. Extremely rare.

104. COX (Ian) Royal Crown Derby Imari Wares. Royal Crown Derby, Derby.1998. £18

4to, 94pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. pictorial wrappers.

The 'Imari' style with its rich colours - dark blue, iron red and gold - is one of the most distinctive of the classic styles associated with English wares. It has been identified with Royal Crown Derby in particular ever since its wares using Imari and Imari-derived patterns became the foundation of Royal Crown Derby's success in the 1870s and 1880s.Using Royal Crown Derby's remarkable pattern-book archive, Ian Cox surveys Derby Imari from its inception to the present day, charting the lasting popularity of the 'Imari' theme and its many derivations and developments by modern designers and craftsmen. The book concludes with a guide to identification and a table of all the Imari (and 'semi-imari' etc) patterns ever used at Royal Crown Derby's Osmaston Road factory.

PRIVATELY PRINTED

105. [COXE (William)] Compiler. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Possession of the Earl of Hardwicke. [Not Published, London?].1794. £595

First Edition, 4to, [viii],91,[1]pp., from the library of the Public Records Office, with their stamps, later cloth, uncut.

A rare privately printed catalogue of the manuscript collection formed by Philip Yorke, second Earl of Hardwicke (1720-1790).


106. CROSS (Wilbur L.) The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. Russell & Russell, New York.(Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1967. £35

Reprint of the Third (and best) Edition, ex-library, frontis., 14 plates, orig. cloth.

Contains the best bibliography of Laurence Sterne.


107. CROWE (Martha J.) Editor. Witchcraft. Catalogue of the Witchcraft Collection in Cornell University Library. With an Introduction by Russell Hope Robbins. KTO Press, New York.1977. £225

4to, xxcviii,[ii],644,[9]pp., small stamp to title-page, orig. cloth.

The Witchcraft collection has some 2,659 printed works (in 3,181 volumes and 215 manuscripts).

108. CRUM (Margaret) Editor. First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library Oxford. Oxford University Press.1969. £40

First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, orig. cloth, d.w.

Includes references to about 23,000 poems from Mss., identified by first and last lines. Short bibliographical and historical notes are added.

109. CUBBON (William) Compiler and Editor. A Bibliographical Account of Works Relating to the Isle of Man. With Biographical Memoranda and Copious Literary References. Oxford University Press,1933-1939. £175

First Edition, 2 vols., [viii],747; [viii],[749]-1536pp., plates and facsimiles, orig. cloth.

Some of the subjects covered include Manx language and literature, poetry and drama, prose fiction, periodicals and journalism etc.

110. CUNDALL (Frank) Catalogue of the Portraits in the Jamaica History Gallery of the Institute of Jamaica. The Institute of Jamaica, Kingston.1914. £25

[vi],30,[4]pp., frontis., 9 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

111. CURWEN PRESS. A Specimen Book of Types & Ornaments in use at the Curwen Press, Plaistow, London. Published for the Curwen Press by The Fleuron Ltd.1928. £975

4to, [ii],vii,[i],229,[13]pp., printed on rectos only, one of 135 numbered copies, one of the specimens is folding and some coloured, orig. green cloth, some light rubbing, leather label on spine, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.

Generally considered to be the most desirable twentieth century specimen book. “It shows, for every face in every size, not only a paragraph of composition, but the entire fount, and is so displayed as to provide typohiles with the maximum of pleasure in each alphabet’s calligraphic or graven qualities. The Walbaum, Koch Kursiv and Maximilian types shown in the book were all introduced into England by the Curwen Press. There are also proprietary blocks, borders and ornaments designed for the Press by such men as Albert Rutherston, Randolph Schwabe, Percy Smith, Paul Nash and Edward Bawden [also Claud Lovat Fraser]. It must have been a most expensive production... ninety-five were for sale at three guineas, but this beautiful book now fetches very much more.”—Ruari McLean, Printers’ Type-Specimen Book in England 1920-40, Signature, N.S. 5, p.42.

112. [DAMPIER (Thomas) Bishop of Ely]. Engraved British and Foreign Portraits. A Catalogue of a Very Valuable Collection of Engraved British and Foreign Portraits, Comprising some of the Rarest Productions of Brown, Blooteling, Cecil, Delaram, Drevet, Droeshout, Edelinck, Elstracke, Faber, Faithorne, Glover, Goltzius, Hollar, Loggan, Lombart, Marshall, Masson, Nanteuil, The Passes, Payne, Place, Smith, Thompson, Valck, Vanderbank, Vaughan, Vertue, White, and other Equally Esteemed Artists... The Property of the late Bishop of Ely. Which (by order of the Executor) will be Sold by Auction by Mr. Christie... on Monday, March the 1st, 1813. [Printed by George Smeeton].1813. £295

Small 4to, 82pp., prices and buyers’ names supplied in a neat cont. hand, large water stain to lower outer corner of first 30 pages, cont. hand calf, marbled boards.

Thomas Dampier (c.1784-1812), bishop of Ely and well-known collector of books and engraved portraits. After his death the bulk of his library of early printed books was sold en bloc to William Cavendish, sixth duke of Devonshire, and his fine collection of engraved portraits, consisting of 1,454 lots, were sold in this auction catalogue. Dampier’s own manuscript account of some of the rarer items in his collection was used extensively by


Dibdin when he was compiling his ‘Aedes Althorpianae’, 1822. A rare catalogue, Copac locates the Bodleian Library copy only.

113. DAVENPORT (Cyril) Royal English Bookbindings. Seeley and Co., Limited.1896. £25

First Edition, large 8vo, 95,[1]pp., coloured frontis., 8 coloured plates, numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, slightly worn.

114. DE RICCI (Seymour) A Census of Caxtons. Illustrated Monographs No. XV. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford.1909. £175

First Edition, 4to, xv,[i],196pp., frontis., 10 plates of facsimile types, title in red and black, orig. printed wrappers bound in, contemporary morocco-backed cloth by Zaehnsdorf, spine titled in gilt, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.

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.

115. DE RICCI (Seymour) Compiler. A Hand-List of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge for Private Circulation.1906. £45

First Edition, 4to, 435pp., printed on one side only, frontis., from the library of the Public Records Office, 4 plates (1 double-page), buckram.

Lord Amherst was a fine judge of incunabula, his series of seventeen Caxtons was one of the finest in private hands. His early-printed books illustrated the dawn of typography in practically every European country.

116. DELAISSÉ (L.M.J.) MARROW (James) & WIT (John de) Illuminated Manuscripts. The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. The National Trust.1977. £85

4to, 608pp., 46 coloured plates, numerous black and white illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. slip-case.

Many of these manuscripts are among the best products of important publishing houses and workshops of the later Middle Ages; some are valuable for their text, and others for their richness of their illumination. Moreover, the Waddesdon manuscripts contain a number of useful indications concerning their origins, their dates and their ownership.

117. DIBDIN (Rev. T.F.) 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. £895

First Edition, large 8vo, 3 vols., [iv],vi,[ii],ccxxv,[1],410,[2]; [ii],535,[2]; [ii],544,[4]pp., 37 engraved plates (without the ‘Presentation in the Temple’ plate which was not ready at publication and occurs in only a very few copies), numerous woodcuts engravings, some light foxing, attractively bound in cont. full straight-grained olive morocco by Hering, with their ticket, double gilt border on sides, spines gilt-tooled, a nice copy, a.e.g.

“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.

118. DIBDIN (Rev. T.F.) The Library Companion; or, the Young Man’s Guide, and the Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard.1824. £125

First Edition, 2 vols., in one, [iv],li,[i],912,[2] + 8pp., with the advert leaf, recent half calf, uncut.

8pp., publisher’s catalogue bound in along with a prospectus for the fourth edition of “Introduction to the knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics”. Title page to volume 2 is bound in at the rear.

Jackson, 63; Windle & Pippin, A 50a.

Item 112 Item 122

Item 147Item 131


119. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; Containing some Account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of this Fatal Disease. In an Epistle Addressed to Richard Heber, Esq. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage,1809. £245

First Edition, iv,87,[1]+16pp., of the publishers’ catalogue of books for sale dated Dec. 1, 1808, title-page woodcut, nineteenth-century calf calf by Root & Son, lightly rubbed, marbled sides.

“A repose to Dr. Ferrier’s 1809 publication of similar title, this initial 87-page text (including index) grew by 1842 to 618 pages. In this first edition, Dibdin surveys some notable victims of bibliomania, among them Richard Ascham and his pupil, Queen Elizabeth I. Richard Heber, to whom the work is addressed, was a noted early nineteenth century collector who before his death had filled six houses with books. Dibdin discusses the symptoms of bibliomania, such a desire for books printed on vellum and for early printed works. He concludes by suggesting the reprints, public libraries, and good bibliographies may allay the disease. In 1811, Dibdin expanded his volume and turned it into dialogue, elaborating on the subject. Despite his precious prose, Dibdin captures the spirit of aristocratic book collecting in the Regency”.—Rosenblum, A Bibliographic History of the Book. p.360.

Jackson 16; Windle & Pippin A11a.

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120. DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall) An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics. Together with an Account of Polyglot Bibles, Polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek Fathers, and the Latin Fathers. Printed for Harding and Lepard and G.B. Whittaker.1827. £675

Fourth Edition, greatly enlarged and corrected, 2 vols., large paper copy, [iv],xiii,[i],562; [iv],579,[1]pp., with half-titles, engraved plate, this and the preceding and proceeding leaf have a brown stain to upper corner, cont. green morocco, spine gilt, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g. a handsome set.

Jackson, 6; Windle & Pippin, A3d.. “This edition is entirely rewritten, and contains for the first time an Account of the best editions of the Hebrew Bibles and of the Greek and Latin Fathers...”.—Jackson.

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121. 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. £795

First Edition, 3 vols., 4to, one of 100 large paper copies printed on thick paper, xv,[i],[vi list of subscribers],[iv],436; [vi],[439]-814; [ii],815-1090,xxx,[ii]pp., 44 engraved portraits and plates (some occasional off-setting), numerous mounted vignettes within the text, many on india paper, cont. full straight-grained morocco, volume I & III re-backed with orig. spine laid-down, hinges to volume II slightly cracked, gilt border on sides, panelled spines gilt-tooled, a nice copy, a.e.g.

The valued large paper edition extended to three volumes with engravings in the text on india paper and steel engravings, also with an added title-page to the third volume.


PARTLY DESTROYED BY THE AUTHOR

122. DIBDIN (T[homas]. F[rognall].) Poems. Printed for the Author.1797. £750

First Edition, viii,[ii],117pp., with engraved title-page (foxed), attractively bound in cont. full straight-grained olive morocco, gilt border on sides with horse’s head gilt crest, spine fully gilt-tooled, a nice copy, a.e.g.

Dibdin’s rare suppressed first separate publication, being preceded only by his contribution to the ‘European Magazine’. Dibdin did not think much of his first effort as he emphatically stated in his ‘Bibliomania’ “I struck off 500 copies, and was glad to get rid of half of them as waste paper; the remaining half have been partly destroyed by my own hands... My on consolation is that the volume is now exceedingly rare”.

Jackson, 1; Windle & Pippin, A1.


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123. DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall) Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them. Begun by the Late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A. SS. Considerably Augmented by William Herbert, of Chestnut, Herts; And now Greatly Enlarged, with Copious Notes and Illustrated with Appropriate Engravings; Comprehending the History of English Literature, and a View of the Progress of the Art of Engraving, in Great Britain. London.1810-1819. £1,145

4 Vols., large 4to, 375 x 275mm, one of only sixty-six large paper copies, xx,[ii],95,[1],cxxxviii,[ii],390pp., with directions for inserting the plates, 14 plates (frontispiece and 3 other plates with a damp stain to lower portion); [iv],v[i],30,[2],xii,33-399,[1],x,401-574,[2],ii,575-614 + 4pp., of adverts, with 15 plates (frontispiece and 4 plates with a damp stain to lower portion); [iv],iii[i],615,[3]pp., with directions for inserting the plates, 6 plates frontispiece and 2 plates with a damp stain to lower portion); [iv],ii,[ii],623,[1]pp., with direction to the binder, 3 plates (each damp stained, also affecting the adjacent page), prelims damp stained to lower portion, all half-titles present, some offsetting, some gatherings loose, orig. half-vellum with marbled boards, morocco title labels and a gilt stamped morocco label of a earl’s coronet above the monogram SX, which is the mark of ownership of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), spine of volume 2 soiled and faded, uncut.

The original edition of Ames’s work appeared in 1749, and the enlarged second edition by William Herbert in 1785-90. Dibdin’s revisied edition (which covers only the London printers) is in four illustrated volumes and lists more than 2,900 books. Volume one is devoted to Caxton and a discussion of early engraving, while subsequent volumes deal chronologically with printers from Wynkyn de Worde to Thomas Hacket. With a memoir of Ames by Richard Gough.


124. DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall) Typographical Antiquities; or the History of Printing in England, Scotland and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books Printed by Them. Begun by the Late Joseph Ames, F.R. & A. SS. Considerably Augmented by William Herbert, of Chestnut, Herts; And now Greatly Enlarged, with Copious Notes and Illustrated with Appropriate Engravings; Comprehending the History of English Literature, and a View of the Progress of the Art of Engraving, in Great Britain. Printed for William Miller.1810-19. £595

4 Vols., 4to, xx,95,[1],cxxxviii,390,[2]pp., with 14 plates; [iv],v[i],30,[2],xii,33-399,[1],x,401-574,[2],ii,575-614,pp., + half-sheet of ‘directions for boarding and binding’, with 15 plates; [iv],iii[i],615,[4]pp., with 6 plates; [iv],ii,[ii],623,[1]pp., with 3 plates, a very good ex-library set, with a small neat stamp on titles and library number on verso, cont. calf, lightly rubbed, old re-back.

“The Typographical Antiquities is the great storehouse for the History of English Printing. The original edition, for the time in which it appeared, is a very complete undertaking. Herbert was no less industrious than the original compiler, and from the many more sources of information opened to him than were available to Ames, he extended the work to three volumes. Nor did his industry stop there, as is evidenced by his copy of the book, now in the library of the British Museum, interleaved, and bound in six volumes, with a very large number of additions in manuscript. This copy was formerly in the possession of Dr. T.F. Dibdin, and was used by him in his enlarged edition of Ames - a work the magnificent promise of which he never fulfilled. The four volumes of Dibdin’s edition describe only the printers of London, so that both Herbert’s and Dibdin’s editions are necessary to the student”. — Bigmore & Wyman.

Bigmore & Wyman I, p.7; Jackson 26; Windle & Pippin A15.


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125. [DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)] pseud. 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. £495

First Edition, royal 8vo (239 x 142mm), [5],6-102pp., with the adverts leaf at page 90, one of 100 copies printed on large paper, with the armorial bookplate and shelf label of Richard Lane Freer, cont. calf, spine gilt, leather label, edges trimmed and dyed red, a very nice copy.

Written at a time when the rare book market was at a low, Dibdin’s natural optimism led him sadly astray; his hope that things would get better was not to be seen in his lifetime.

Jackson, 82; Windle & Pippin, A60.

126. DIEHL (Edith) Bookbinding. Its Background and Technique. Rinehart & Company, Inc. New York.1946. £35

First Edition, 2 vols., xxi,[i],251,[5]; vi,406pp., frontispieces, 91 plates, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, a little worn.

A classic work on bookbinding. Volume one traces the history, volume two describes all the processes involved in craft binding.

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127. DONNADIEU (A[lcide]) Catalogue of Highly Interesting and Valuable Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts, Being the Well Known Collection of Monsr. A. Donnadieu. Compiled by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson. Puttick & Simpson [Printed for Private Distribution].1851. £245

4to, v,[i],166pp., large paper copy with 17 extra inserted plates, signed by Donnadieu, presentation inscription from Puttick and Simpson, dedicatee’s name having been excised, inner hinges slightly shaken, orig. cloth, gilt, a fine copy.

An unusual and important autograph collection formed by an anglophile Frenchman. Munby calls it “one on the finest collections of autograph letters ever to come under the hammer” and notes that the catalogue “with its long verbatim extracts from letters, still has a research value and it set a new standard in the description of such material in the auction room”. It included the ‘very important assemblage of English Royal Letters, formed by the late William Upcott, Esq., the principal portion of which were originally collected by the celebrated John Evelyn.’ Post sale catalogue issued in large paper with the extra plates for private distribution. It realized £1,610.6.6. The facsimiles reproduce autograph letters by Aretino, Cesare Borgia, Catherine Parr, Cromwell, Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Gray, John Locke, Newton, Raleigh, Raphael (with drawing), Rembrandt, Rubens, etc. Munby, The Cult of the Autograph Letter in England, pp.72-74.

128. DONOVAN (Richard E.) & MURDOCH (Joseph S.F.) The Game of Golf and the Printed Word 1566-1985. A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English Language. Castalio Press, New York.1987. £45

First Edition, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth. d.w.

Over 4,800 entries.

129. 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. £195

First Edition, small 4to, one of 238 numbered copies, 39 coloured plates (some offsetting), bookplate removed from front pastedown, front free endpaper excised, orig. cloth, slight signs of label having been removed from spine, a little 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.

130. DUFF (E. Gordon) Fifteenth Century English Books. A Bibliography of Books and Documents Printed in England and of Books for the English Market Printed Abroad. The Bibliographical Society.1917. £125

First Edition, [x],136pp., 4to, 53 facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, t.e.g.

A complete listing, as known at the time, of all extant copies of 15th-century English books. Has 431 entries with detailed descriptions of the different imprints, noting variations where pertinent. Also provides location of copies.

LARGE PAPER COPY

131. DUKE OF YORK. Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany. Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of his Royal Highness The Duke of York, Deceased; Removed from His Royal Highness’s Late Residence, South Audley Street. Which, by order of the Executors, will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Sotheby... On Monday, May 7, 1827, and Twenty-one following Days... [Compton & Ritchie].1827. £445

Large 8vo, [ii],197,[3]pp., large paper copy printed on thick paper, cont. half calf, rubbed, corners bumped, spine worn, uncut.

The auction catalogue of the fine library of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and second son of George III, which was sold at Sotheby’s in 5548 lots for £5718.

132. DUNNE (Tom) Gerard Manley Hopkins. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Oxford University Press.1978. £35

Orig. cloth, d.w.

Provides full bibliographical descriptions of primary works and includes new material hitherto unidentified.

133. DURLING (Richard J.) Compiler. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Maryland.1967. £75

First Edition, 4to, 1 facsimile, orig. cloth, a little worn, fore-edges spotted.

Comprehensive catalogue with full bibliographical data of 4,800 16th century imprints.

134. DURRANT (Lieut.-Colonel) Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Engravings, by Wenceslaus Hollar, & William Faithorne, Formed by Lieut.-Colonel Durrant; and Comprising Nearly the Whole of the Most Important Works of those Admirable Artists... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... on Thursday the 5th June [overlay of the original intended sale day of 29th May], 1856, and following Day. Printed by J. Davy and Sons.1856. £38

32pp., prices and some buyers’ names supplied in pencil, 316 lots, some outer margins slightly chipped, disbound, preserved within a folding card wallet.

135. EARHART (J.F.) The Color Printer. A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing. Earhart & Richardson, Cincinnati.1892. £545

First Edition, 4to, 137pp., frontis., portrait, coloured vignette on title, dedication leaf signed by the author, 90 plates in full colour with 403 different examples of printing, some embossed, many chromolithographs, floral endpapers, corner on free-endpaper cutaway, orig. decorated cloth, re-cased, a very nice bright copy.

“Justly famous for its beauty and utility... in marvellous plates often hinting of Art Nouveau, Earhart offered demonstrations of color-mixing, color-harmonies, and color printing in its various phases and recorded the actual proportions of inks used. Vignettes, letters, designs, and whole variety of plates are rendered in most of the common color processes, and some of them are embossed.” — Herbert, Yale Lib. Gazette, July 1974, p.16.


136. ECKEL (John C.) The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values. A Bibliography. Maurice Inman, Inc., New York.1932. £145

Second Edition, revised and enlarged, xvi,[ii],272,[6]pp., one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, frontis., 28 illustrs., and facsimiles, cont. half morocco, t.e.g. uncut, slip-case, a nice copy.

137. EGERER (J.W.) A Bibliography of Robert Burns. Oliver & Boyd.1964. £50

First Edition, xiii,396pp., orig. cloth, d.w.

An authoritative, scholarly work of reference.

138. ELLIS (H.J.) & BICKLEY (F.B.) Index to the Charters and Rolls in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. British Museum.1900-12. £35

2 Vols., 4to, 944;904pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, small nicks to head and foot of spine.

139. ENGLISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. HARDY (Thomas Duff) Editor. Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi Gesta Regum Anglorum, Atque Historia Novella. Sumptibus Societatis [English Historical Society].1840. £85

First Edition, 2 vols., [iv],4,[2],388; xxvii,[i],[389]-816pp., pages 369-384 supplied in facsimile, a very good ex-library set, orig. boards, re-backed, morocco label to spines.

William of Malmesbury’s Regesta Regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle Ages.

140. ENGLISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. KEMBLE (John Mitchell) Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici. Opera Johannis M. Kemble. Sumptibus Societatis [English Historical Society].1839 £395

6 Vols., [iv],4,321,16; [iv],xxiv,436; [iv],lii,468; xx,317,[1]; xv,[i],403,[1]; xxxviii,359,[1]pp., a very good ex-library set, 3 engraved facsimile plates (browned), sturdily bound in half red library morocco.

An extensive study of Anglo-Saxon and Norman legal and administrative documents, gleaned from Kemble’s own collection and that of the British Museum and various college and cathedral libraries. “…his major work, the Codex diplomaticus (6 vols., 1839-48), containing over 1400 documents. This was a foundational work, which well displays Kemble’s mastery of Anglo-Saxon and his skill in deciphering documents.”—(Oxford DNB).

141. ERASMUS. Catalogue of the Erasmus Collection in the City Library of Rotterdam. Greenwood Press, New York.1990. £165

4to, xviii,678pp., orig. cloth.

The Rotterdam City Library holds the world’s largest collection of works by and about Desiderius Erasmus. This catalogue reproduces the essential information contained in the City Library’s card catalogue, the collection numbers roughly 5,000 volumes divided as follows: 2,500 works by Erasmus himself, 500 works edited by Erasmus, and 2,000 books and articles about Erasmus.

142. ESSLING (Prince Andre Prosper Massena) Les Livres a Figures Venitiens: Études sur l’art de la Gravure sur bois a Venise... de la fin du XV Siecle et du Commencement du XVI. Bottega d’Erasmo, Turin.(Reprint of the 1907-14 Edition) 1967. £245

Three parts in 6 vols., folio, over 2,000 illustrs, orig. quarter calf, patterned paper boards.

This monumental work is the most exhaustive bibliographical study of illustrated books of any place, country or period ever published, and it set new standards for descriptions. Essling, one of Italy’s most famous collectors, assembled a vast collection of early Venetian woodcut books which served as a basis for his bibliography of Venetian illustrated books from 1450-1525. In all 2,585 works are meticulously described and collated.

143. [EYRE (G.E.B.) & RIVINGTON (C.R.)] Editors. A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers; from 1640-1708 A.D. Peter Smith, New York.(Reprint of the 1913-14 Edition) 1967. £195

3 Vols., large 8vo, [viii],488; [vi],512; [vi],500,[1]pp., orig. cloth.


144. [EYTON (Joseph Walter King)] Catalogue of Some Very Choice and Valuable Books from the Library of an Eminent Collector: The Whole in Most Beautiful Condition. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co.... On Thursday, July 1st, 1847, and Following Day... Compton and Ritchie.1847. £195

Tall 8vo, 31,[1]pp., priced with buyers’ names in a neat cont. hand, several small stamps, enclosed in custom-made folder, 344 lots.

Chiefly English literature and antiquities (mostly with nineteenth-century imprints), including a great many printed on vellum or on large or fine paper. Many of the books having come from the library of Ven. Francis Wrangham.

145. [EYTON (Joseph Walter King)] Catalogue of Some Very Choice Books from the Valuable Library of an Eminent Collector... All the Books are in the Choicest State, being in Morocco and other Bindings, by Clarke, Hayday, Mackenzie, and Wickwar. Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co.... On Friday, May 14, 1847. Compton and Ritchie.1847. £195

8vo, 26pp., priced with buyers’ names in a neat cont. hand, several small stamps, disbound, enclosed in custom-made folder, 233 lots.

THE BOOK OF GOLF

146. FACSIMILE. Book of Hours, Golf Book. Flanders, Bruges c. 1540. Add. Ms. 24098. Moleiro Editor, Barcelona.2005. £795

Small 4to, 60pp., 9 full-page miniatures with bas-de-page or historical borders, 8 other borders with narrative vignettes, 12 full-page calendar miniatures, 12 historiated borders, all coloured and highlighted in gold, limited and numbered edition, full blue crushed morocco in the style of the original in the British Library, all edges gilt, blue morocco folding case, decorated in gilt.

Running along the bottom of the pages in the calendar is a series of images that have always been of great interest. They depict sports activities and other pastimes typical of the period when the manuscript was made. One of the games portrayed is golf, the reason why this book of hours is also known as the “Golf Book”. In addition to these small, marginal scenes, the pages of the calendar characterised by a series of miniatures depicting daily work and leisure activities typical of the 16th century. Little information is available about the provenance, but its stylistic traits enable it to be ascribed to Simon Bening and his workshop which suggests, due to its quality and the materials employed, that it may have been a patron of high social standing who chose this painter, possibly the finest in Europe. It was made about 1540 and only one later owner is known of prior to its being acquired by the British Library on April 13th 1861: Baron Ernst von Pöllnitz of Badenwohl Castle in Bregenz.

Originally published at £2,600 but now out of print. Without the commentary volume.

147. FAGEL (H[endrick Baron]) Catalogue of the Capital and Entire Collection of Prints, and Books of Prints, of H. Fagel, Esq. Late Greffier of the States General of Holland. Collected by him and his Ancestors during the whole of the last Century. Part the First [-Third], Comprising the French and English School’s... Which will be Sold by Auction, Under the Direction of Mr. T. Philipe... On Wednesday, April 8, 1801, and Nine following Days [Part Two] On Monday, 11th May, 1801, and Nine following Days [Part Three] Friday the 22nd of May, 1801 and following Day. [Bound with:] Catalogue of Capital Drawings, and Books of Drawings, being the remaining Part of the Collection of the late Greffier Francois Fagel... Which will be Sold by Auction, Under the Direction of Mr. T. Philipe... on Wednesday, May 27, 1801, and Two following Days. Printed by George Hayden.1801. £445

4 Parts bound in one, [iv],53,[1]; [iv],55,[1]; 13,[1]; 22pp., cont. half calf, rubbed, re-backed.

Part III with a caption title (as is the Victoria & Albert Museum copy), this is no doubt due to the fact that part III continued the day after part II and hence there was no reason for a separate title page. The extremely rare auction catalogues of the Fagel Collection of Prints, which was formed by several generations of the family and sold by the London auctioneer Thomas Philipe.

Item 148 Item 150

Item 171Item 156


148. FENCING. GELLI (Jacopo) Catalogue de la Collection d’Ouvrages sur l’Escrime de Mr. Le Commr. Jacopo Gelli. [With:] Addition au Catalogue... Dario G. Rossi, Rome.1912. £175

First Edition, [iv],76pp., with the rare 4pp., list of additions tipped-in, priced in pencil throughout, numerous facsimile illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, 378+5 lots.

Gelli (1858-1935) was a well known author of books on Fencing and duelling, this is the extremely rare auction catalogue of the portion of his library devoted to books on fencing.

149. FERGUSON (F.S.) A Bibliography of the Works of Sir George Mackenzie, Lord Advocate, Founder of the Advocates’ Library. Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.1937. £38

4to, [ii],60pp., one of 30 copies, with the bookplate of Arnold Muirhead, orig. cloth-backed boards.

Reprinted from ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’.

150. FISCHER (Gotthelf) Beschreibung einiger typographischen Seltenheiten nebst Beyträgen zur Erfindungsgeschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Mainz: Auf kosten des verfassers, und Nurnberg, bey I.L.S. Lechner.1800-1804. £475

First Edition, 6 parts in one, [ii].86; 132; 184; [ii],140; 168; 200pp., with 10 copper-engraved facsimiles on 9 folding plates, some light foxing but generally a very good copy, later cloth-backed boards, morocco label to spine.

“Contains much information concerning the history of printing and printers types.”—Bigmore & Wyman.

Graesse II, 589; Bigmore & Wyman I, 220.

151. FLETCHER (William Younger) Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum. Illustrations of Sixty-Three Examples Selected on Account of their Beauty of Historical Interest. With Introduction and Descriptions. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.1896. £125

First Edition, folio, one of 500 numbered copies, a very good ex-library copy, 65 fine chromolithograph plates by William Griggs each with a leaf of descriptive text, orig. cloth, head and foot of spine slightly frayed, uncut, top edge gilt.

The quality of the reproductions in this volume is a fine example of the art of chromolithography.

152. FONTANINI (Giusto) & ZENO (Apostolo) Biblioteca dell’Eloquenza Italiana di Monsignore Giusto Fontanini, Arcivescovo d’Ancira: Con le Annotazioni del Signor Apostolo Zeno, Istorico E Poeta Cesareo, Cittading Veneziano. Fratelli Gozzi, Parma.1803. £195

2 Vols., in one, small 4to, xv,[i],536,[4]; 525,[3],31,[1]pp., later cloth-backed marbled boards.

An important bibliography of Italian writers, which contains annotated descriptions of the works of poetry, history, drama, natural philosophy, mathematics, music and theology.

GUIDE TO FORMING A LIBRARY

153. FORMEY (Jean Henri Samuel) Conseils pour former une Bibliotheque peu nombreuse, mais Choisie. Haude et Spener, Berlin.1755. £145

Third Edition, corrected and augmented, small 8vo, [x],xxxvi,122,[1]pp., with errata leaf, engraved vignette within title, recently bound in marbled paper boards, morocco label.

Formey’s well known publication being a guide on how to form a library. It is dedicated to Prince Henry, gives a list of recommended titles, and to this edition was added a list of the author’s publications.

154. [FRANÇOIS (Jean)] Bibliotheque Generale des Écrivains de l’ordre de Saint Benoit... Société Typographique, Bouillon.1777-78. £395

First Edition, 4 vols., 4to, vii,[i],551,[1]; [iv],540; [iv],548pp., Public Record Office library copy, later cloth, uncut.


155. FRANKLIN (Colin) & TURNER (John R.) The Private Presses. [Daniel, Kelmscott, Vale, Eragny, Caradoc, Ashendene, Essex House, Dove, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog & Shakespeare Head.] Scolar Press.1991. £45

Second Edition, 378pp., 15 plates, 6 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w.

With a new bibliography and indexes by John Turner.

156. FREELING (Sir G.H.) Catalogue of the Curious and Valuable Library of the Late Sir G.H. Freeling, Bart... Sold by Auction by Messrs. Evans... on Tuesday, June 7, and Following Days. London.1842. £395

[ii],32pp., Joseph Walter King Eyton copy, with his initials in ink on upper wrappers, tipped-in is William Pickering’s manuscript note of books bought on behalf of Eyton, prices and buyers’ names in a cont. hand (possibly in Pickering’s hand), retaining the orig. pink upper wrappers, recent cloth-backed boards, 576 lots.

The rare auction catalogue of the library of Sir George Henry Freeling, son of the well-known bibliophile Sir Francis Freeling. A small but select library, including many Roxburghe Club publications (Freeling having been a member) and works by Thomas F. Dibdin.

157. FREEMAN (Arthur & Janet Ing) Anatomy of an Auction: Rare Books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. The Book Collector.1990. £40

First Edition, viii,169pp., frontis., orig. printed wrappers.

The dispersal of the Foley family library in October 1919 was notable for the richness of the books sold - and for the general inadequacy of the prices they fetched. Drawing on records kept by principal participants in the sale and in the four subsequent “knock-outs”, the Freemans reveal the intricacies of a practice whose workings have not previously been subject to such detailed and informed scrutiny.

158. FREEMAN (Janet Ing) The Postmaster of Ipswich. William Stevenson Fitch; Antiquary and Thief. The Book Collector.1997. £25

First Edition, 177pp., frontis., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

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.

159. FREEMAN (R.B.) British Natural History Books 1495-1900: A Handlist. Archon Books.1980. £25

First Edition, 437pp., orig. cloth.

160. [FRENCH (Gilbert J.) Editor.] Bibliographical Notices of the Church Libraries at Turton and Gorton, Bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham. Printed for the Chetham Society.1855. £45

First Edition, 4to, [vi],199,[1]pp., Graham Pollard’s copy with his bookplate, facsimiles, orig. cloth.

A catalogue (with a facsimile of each title-page) of the chained libraries deposited in the Church of St. Ann, Turton & Chapel of St. Thomas, Gorton.

161. FRENCH (Hannah Dustin) ROGERS (Joseph W.) & LEHMANN-HAUPT (Hellmut) Editor. Bookbinding in American, Three Essays. Early American Bookbinding by Hand, The Rise of American Edition Binding, On the Rebinding of Old Books. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine.1941. £30

First Edition, 73 illustrs., xix,[i],293,[1]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut.

162. FRIEDMAN (Joan M.) Color Printing in England 1486-1870. An Exhibition. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.1978. £32

First Edition, 4to, 72pp., 72 plates (of which 24 are coloured), orig. printed wrappers.


163. GALLAGHER (Edward J.) MISTICHELLI (Judith A.) & VAN EERDE (John A.) Jules Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, Mass.1980. £85

First Edition, xxii,387pp., orig. cloth.

164. GALLATIN (A.E.) & OLIVER (L.M.) A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm. Soho Bibliographies III. Rupert Hart-Davis.1952. £50

Small 4to, ex-library, orig. cloth.

165. GALLUP (Donald) Ezra Pound: A Bibliography. The University Press of Virginia.1983. £35

Second Edition, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w.

Describes in detail American, English, and Italian first editions of 106 books by Pound, with descriptions of some 130 first editions of books edited or translated by him or with his contributions.

166. GARDNER (K.B.) Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in the British Library Printed Before 1700. British Library.1993. £95

912pp., 30 coloured plates and 300 black and white, orig. cloth.

LARGE PAPER COPY

167. GEE (W.H.) Works Relating to Bibliography, History of Printing, Bookbinding, &c., Catalogues of Public and Private Libraries, Sale and Booksellers’ Catalogues. On Sale by W.H. Gee, Oxford. W.H. Gee, Oxford.1880. £145

4to, [ii], 62pp., large paper copy, ex-library, numerous annotations in pencil, cont. quarter calf, rubbed.

Extremely scarce.

168. GEISENHOF (Georg) Bibliotheca Bugenhagiana. Bibliographie der Druckschriften des D. Joh. Bugenhagen. M. Heinsius Nachfolger, Leipzig.1908. £60

Large 8vo, x,[2],469,[2]pp., cont. half buckram, label on spine.

169. GIBSON (R.W.) Compiler. St. Thomas More: A Preliminary Bibliography of his Works and of Moreana to the year 1750. With a Bibliography of Utopiana Compiled by R.W. Gibson and J. Max Patrick. Yale University Press.1961. £55

First Edition, xx,[ii],499p., frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth.

Full bibliographical descriptions of More’s works and of biographies of him, giving locations of copies insofar as it has been possible to discover them.

170. GILLETT (Charles Ripley) Compiler and Editor. Catalogue of the McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology. The Union Theological Seminary, New York.1927-30. £265

First Edition, 5 vols., orig. cloth.

A most valuable work, giving full bibliographical descriptions of many thousands of works published between 1501-1700.

171. GODDÉ (Jules) Catalogue Raisonné d’une Collection de Livres, Pièces et Documents, Manuscrits et Autographes Relatifs aux Arts de Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure et Architecture... reunie par M. Jules Godde, peintre. Avec des notes du collecteur. L. Potier, Paris.1850. £85

xvi,434,[2]pp., quarter morocco, marbled boards, corners bumped, uncut.

The auction catalogue of this large well-known collection (1,650 lots) of art books. It includes critical annotations by the collector; variant editions noted, illustrated books meticulously described, including names of the engravers.


PRINTED ON THE PARLOUR PRESS

172. [GODDEN (Frederick Mares)] Little Archie or the Punishment of Disobedience. [Printed by N.B. Engleheart, Blackheath].[1864]. £445

12mo, 12ff. printed on recto only, with the bookplate of Hammersmith 1950s/1960s MP Sir George Bull, with a long note of front endpaper by his father the lawyer William Bull about the author of the book and his son, he reveals that the author is Frederick Mares Godden and he knew his son for whom the book was written as a child—one William Jefferys Godden, presentation inscription from the author “W.J. Godden with the author’s fond love, 16th July 1864”, orig. blue embossed cloth, extremities a little rubbed.

This little juvenile story about a boy snatched by Gypsies was privately printed at the home of Nathaniel Brown Engleheart of Blackheath, on the little Parlour press, it is more than likely that this was the only copy printed. Not found in any library.

173. GOFF (Frederick R.) Compiler & Editor. Incunabula in American Libraries. A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. [With:] A Supplement to... New York.1964-89. £195

Third and best edition, 2 vols., 4to, 798;104pp., orig. cloth, head of spine of main work slightly bumped.

A much enlarged edition recording 51,147 copies of 12,923 titles held by 760 owners. Roughly 90 percent of the total registered are held by institutions.

174. GOLDSCHMIDT (E.P.) Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings Exemplified and Illustrated from the Author’s Collection. N. Israel, Amsterdam.(Reprint of the 1928 Edition) 1967. £295

2 Vols., 4to, [xii],369; [x]pp., limited to 600 copies, coloured frontis, 268 plates, orig. buckram.

The most definitive work on bookbinding for the period 1400 to 1600.

175. 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. £65

First Edition, 12mo, 3 vols., in one, limited to 275 copies, red cloth, re-backed, orig. printed paper label on spine, rubbed.

176. GOMME (George Laurence) & MARTIN (William) Compilers. Index of Archaeological Papers Published in 1665[-1909]. Archibald Constable & Co.1892-14. £55

3 Vols., from the Public Record Office library, buckram.

177. GRAFF (Harvey J.) The Legacies of Literacy. Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. Indiana University Press.1987. £20

First Edition, xii,493pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. sunned.

A pioneering history of the dimensions and meanings of literacy within the cultures and societies of the western world.

178. GRAY (Henry) Bookseller. Book Bulletins Containing Genealogy, Topography, Pedigrees, Topographical Views, Portraits, MSS., Miscellanea, &c., &c., issued during the year 1905 [& 1906] by Henry Gray, Genealogist, Bookseller, & Publisher... Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd.1905-06. £38

2 Vols., presentation inscription by Henry Gray to the Record Office Library, orig. cloth.

Two annual compilation of the catalogues issued during 1905-06 by the Genealogist bookseller Henry Gray. Copac locating a single copy on the 1905 catalogue at the National Library of Scotland.

Item 172 Item 180

Item 192Item 191


179. GREEN (Rev. Richard) The Works of John and Charles Wesley. A Bibliography: Containing an Exact Account of all the Publications Issued by the Brothers Wesley Arranged in Chronological Order, with a List of the Early Editions, and Descriptive and Illustrative Notes. C.H. Kelly.1896. £95

First Edition, 292pp., presentation inscription from the author, orig. cloth, re-backed, orig. title spine laid-down, uncut.

Over 417 items fully described.

THE WOBURN ABBEY LARGE PAPER COPY

180. GRENVILLE (Thomas) Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books, Forming Part of the Library of the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville: by John Thomas Payne and Henry Foss. Printed by William Nicol, Shakspeare Press [and] Chiswick Press.1842-72. £2,745

3 Parts in 4 vols., one of only 30 large paper copies, [iv],6,[2],xxxiii,[i],388; [iv],[389]-846; [ii],4,[2],472,xlii[2]; 6,[2],219,[1]pp., with half-titles, photographic frontispiece in part three, all four volumes are from the library at Woburn Abbey, vols. 1-3 have the bookplate or label of the Duke of Bedford, some light foxing, as usual, uniformly bound by Clarke and Bedford in cont. quarter green goatskin, purple boards (lightly rubbed), small nick to head on vol. one, the fourth vol. has been expertly bound to match the others, smooth spines lettered in gilt, purpose made felt-lined marbled slip-cases.

A fine set of the extremely rare large paper edition of this important catalogue. “The Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), after a brilliant parliamentary career, retired from public life in 1818 and devoted himself entirely to his books. He was a true bibliophile, in the highest sense of the word... When he died he left his books to the British Museum... His 20,000 volumes form the greatest gift of books that any private individual has ever made to the Museum. He had fine books of every description, but he seems to have specialised in early Americana (he was the first collector to buy Columbus and Vespucci letters), Aldines, early Spanish and Italian books (Dante, Petrarch and Ariosto), classics (especially Aesop and Homer), books on Ireland and lastly incunables on vellum, including the Mazarin Bible, the 1457 Psalter and the 1469 Livy, this catalogue, by Payne and Foss, is a lasting monument to his enlightened efforts as a collector.” - De Ricci, p.114.

181. [GRIFFITHS Acton Frederick] Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; or, a Descriptive Catalogue of a Rare and Rich Collection of Early English Poetry: in the Possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by Occasional Extracts and Remarks, Critical and Biographical. Printed by Thomas Davison for the Proprietors of the Collection.1815. £75

First Edition, large 8vo, viii,481,[1]pp., frontis., woodcut portraits in the text, a very good ex-library copy, nineteenth-century half calf, lightly rubbed.

This famous catalogue, with notes by A.F. Griffiths and prices affixed, includes the rarest books in English Poetry. Lowndes says, “This extremely useful catalogue of the rare and curious collection made by R. Park, and added to by Thos. Hill is deserving of a place in every good library, from the interesting information which it affords of the works of our early poets.” (Lowndes I, p.200.).

182. GUGENBAUER (Gustav) Kupferstiche und Einzelformschnitte des Fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts in der K.K. Studienbibliothek zu Linz A. Donau. Heitz & Mündel, Strassburg.1912. £35

First Edition, large 4to, 15 tipped-in plates, orig. printed stiff wrappers, orig. ties, spine slighty torn.

183. HAIN-COPINGER-BURGER-REICHLING. 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. New York. 2001. 4 Vols., orig. cloth. [Sold with:] COPINGER (W.A.) Supplement to Hain... and Index by Konrad Burger. New York. 2002. 3 Vols., orig. cloth.


[Sold with:] REICHLING (Dietericus) Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorivm Bibliographicvm... Iac. Rosenthal, Monachii.1905-11. £325

7 Parts, Orig. printed wrappers.

This work is the basic bibliography to which anyone working on fifteenth-century books refers or is referred to. The work includes a very remarkable ‘Index to the Printers and Publishers of the Fifteenth Century, with a List of their Works’ compiled by Herr Konrad Burger.

184. HALL (Hubert) Editor. A Formula Book of English Official Documents. Part I: Diplomatic Documents. Part II: Ministerial and Judicial Records. [Sold with:] ----. Studies in English Official Historical Documents. The University Press, Cambridge.1908-09. £50

First Edition, 3 vols., large 8vo, xvi,170; x,229,[1]; xv,[iii],404pp., orig. cloth.

185. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS (J.O.) A Brief Hand-List of the Selected Parcels in the Shakespearian and Dramatic Collections of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps at No. 11, Tregunter Road, London. Privately Printed by J.E. Adland.1876. £75

32pp., ex-library with a small neat stamp on verso of title, cont. half calf, rubbed, uncut.

“...the following pages have been compiled for my own private and individual use... I have ventured to have a small number of extra copies printed for private circulation amongst the few likely to be interested in such a pioneering fragment.”—Introductory note.

186. HANSARD (T.C.) Treatises on Printing and Type-Founding; by T.C. Hansard. From the Seventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh.1841. £110

vii,[i],235pp., ex-library, presentation inscription from the publishers, illustrs., in the text, 2 folding plates of facsimiles, 1 folding plate of a printing-machine, orig. cloth, head of spine chipped, hinges slightly torn.

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.

Bigmore & Wyman I, pp.305.

187. HANSON (L.W.) Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.1963. £45

First Edition, xxiv,978pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, d.w.

The comprehensive indexes are an important feature of the book. 6,487 entries, with bibliographical notes, and locations of copies.

188. HARRELL’S PRINTING HOUSE. Hang this up. Harrell’s Printing House, (Established in 1872.), Weldon, N.C. A List of the Forms or Blanks used by many of the Officers of North Carolina... All Kinds of Ruling, Binding and Printing Done at Starvation Prices [Cover Title]. [Harrell’s Printing House, Weldon, N.C.].1884. £48

8vo, 20pp., small hole punch in upper left-hand corner of booklet where a string had probably been placed to hang the booklet in a handy place, small chip at upper left-hand corner of front wrapper near this whole, diagonal tear at top edge of pages and rear wrappers near hole, vertical crease down centre of wrappers and pages, seven items in catalogue circled in pencil, lower corner of front wrapper and first 8 pages slightly creased, orig. blue printed wrappers, lightly soiled.

Scarce catalogue of a N.C. printing firm that did much of the printing of state and local government forms and blanks. Two notices of price changes or specials printed on coloured paper tipped to top edge of two pages.


189. HARRIS (Eileen) British Architectural Books and Writers 1556-1785. Cambridge University Press.1991. £110

4to, 528pp., 40 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

A full and detailed bibliographical description of each of the 220 authors architectural publications and their successive editions. Contents: Books of Designs and Pattern-books, Carpenters’ Manuals, Measuring and Price Books, Books on Bridges, Archaeological Books, etc.

190. HARRIS (John) A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections. The Gregg Press, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.1971. £65

First Edition, folio, xvi,355pp., presentation inscription on title-page “Inscribed by the author with the hopes that the contents will be educational! John Harris”, frontis., 263 illustrs., orig. cloth, slight wear.

Surveys the holdings of over forty institutions and private collections in the area of British drawings relating to architecture and landscape design.

191. HARTWELL LIBRARY. Catalogue of Theological Books, in the Library of Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire. [Privately Printed].1855. £225

[iv],115,[1]pp., presentation inscription from John Lee to Rev. T. Pyne, title vignette of Hartwell House, orig. embossed cloth, title in gilt to upper cover, a fine copy.

The scarce privately printed catalogue of the important Theological portion of the library of John Lee [formerly Fiott] (1783–1866).

Copac locates copies at the Bodleian and British Library; OCLC adds the Folger Shakespeare and the University of Amsterdam.

192. HASLEWOOD (Joseph) Editor. Mirror for Magistrates. Printed for Lackington, Allen and Co. & Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.1815. £575

2 Vols., in 3, 4to, limited to 150 copies, half-titles, titles printed in red and black with vignette, one-page autograph letter signed )“J. Haslewood, Friday night 11 o’clock, 48 Conduitt Street”, postmarked 20 May, 1826) to Mr. Jolley pasted in, spotting to first 20 pages of volume one, bookplate of Henry Cunliffe, cont. full green morocco by T. Sowler of Manchester (with their ticket), gilt dentelles, red silked endpapers, all edges gilt, a very handsome set.

A finely produced edition of the sixteenth century work ‘A Myrroure for Magistrates’, edited by the antiquary and Roxburghe Club founder Joseph Haslwood who in his preface, noted this work as a source for Shakespeare. In the autograph letter he asks the recipient “How came it that you were not visible at Evans’s to day. Can the fever be allayed by any circumstance?”. In a later inscription (1854) Jolley gifted the letter to J.O. Halliwell.

193. HAYWARD (J.F.) Silver Bindings from the J.R. Abbey Collection. Reprinted from “The Connoisseur”.[1952]. £65

Folio, signed presentation copy from J.R. Abbey to Ernest Maggs, 5 plates (1 coloured) showing 17 examples of silver bindings, orig. cloth-backed decorated boards, printed paper label on upper cover, spine slightly creased.

23 Items described.

194. HAZLITT (W. Carew) A Roll of Honour of Honour. A Calendar of the Names of over 17,000 Men and Women who Throughout the British Isles and... have Collected MSS. and Printed Books from the XIVth to the XIXth Century. With Topographical and Personal Notices and Anecdotes of many of them and their Libraries and Introductory Remarks... Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1908 Edition) 1971. £45

viii,273,xlpp., orig. cloth.


195. 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. £120

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.

196. HIGGINSON (A. Henry) British and American Sporting Authors. Their Writings and Biographies. Hutchinson & Co., Ltd.1951. £35

First Edition, 4to, frontis., 15 plates, orig. cloth.

Biographical sketches, in chronological order, are followed by an alphabetical bibliography, which includes author and title entries.

197. HILL (Jonathan A.) Catalogus Catalogorum I-V. Catalogue no. 37,42,47,60 & 67. Jonathan A. Hill, New York.1987-1992. £195

5 Catalogues bound in one, illustrs., orig. pictorial wrappers bound-in, cloth, label to spine.

Describing over 2,000 books and manuscripts devoted to book catalogues, including auction catalogues, public and private library catalogues, and exhibition catalogues. Bound with an index to all five catalogues.

198. HOBSON (Anthony) & CULOT (Paul) Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings. [Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana]. Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels.1990. £95

Folio, 182pp., one of 750 copies, (partly in English, partly in French), 78 illustrs., (nearly all full page and of bindings, 3 in colour and mounted, 2 of which are folding), orig. cloth, d.w.

199. HOE (Robert) Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York... The Anderson Auction Co., New York.1911-1912. £195

8 Parts, from the library of George Charles Williamson, with his bookplate, numerous plates and illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, a little torn.

One of the finest collections of books sold in America, the Hoe sale (comprising of 14,579 lots) realized $1,932,000 which was larger than the previous four largest book sales added together. Hoe had and excellent collection of bindings and had many of his own books bound by the famous binders of the day.

200. HOLLINGS (Frank) Famous First Editions and other Books of Literary and Artistic Merit, from the Library of a Gentleman.... remarkable collection of rare books by Kipling, Stevenson, Jefferies, Kingsley, Moore, Wilde, Tennyson, Borrow, Meredith, and others; and complete sets of Kelmscott and Dove Press... Frank Hollings.1924. £38

90pp., printed in fine paper, half red morocco by Bayntun of Bath, spine gilt.

Bookseller’s catalogue of a fine anonymous library which included and full set of Kelmscott & Doves Press.

201. HOLME (Charles) Editor. The Art of the Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding. The Studio Ltd.1914. £35

First Edition, 4to, illustrs., throughout (some coloured), later cloth, cloth.

Profusely illustrated and containing some superb coloured plates.

202. HOLZENBERG (Eric) Compiler. The Middle Hill Press. A Checklist of the Horblit Collection of Books, Tracts, Leaflets, and Broadsides Printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps at his Press at Middle Hill, or Elsewhere to his order, now in the Library of the Grolier Club. The Grolier Club, New York.1997. £45

First Edition, xxxv,182pp., frontis., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers.

555 Items described.


203. HOWE (E.R.J. Gambier) Franks Bequest. Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. British Museum.1903-04. £495

First Edition, large 8vo, 3 vols., ex-library, x,[ii],458; [iv],443; [vi],387pp., frontis., 18 plates, a couple of gatherings loose, endpapers browned, orig. cloth, head and foot of spine slightly chipped.

The largest and most comprehensive collection ever formed.

204. HOWE (Ellic) A List of London Bookbinders 1648-1815. Bibliographical Society.1950. £20

First Edition, xxxviii,105,[1]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, unopened, uncut.

The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted.

205. HUDDESFORD (William) Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum viri Clarissimi Antonii A Wood. Being a minute Catalogue of each Particular Contained in the Manuscript Collections of Antony A Wood, Deposited in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon-Press, Oxford.1761. £475

[iv],83,[1]pp., some light staining, recent marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt.

Wood had bequeathed his library to the Ashmolean Museum, and the keeper, William Huddesford, published this detailed catalogue of the contents of the manuscripts so it may assist the researches, the Antiquarian and the Historian.

206. HUGO (Rev. Thomas) Catalogue of the Choice and Valuable Collection of Books, Wood Engravings, and Engraved Woodcut Blocks, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Proof Impressions, by or Relating to Thomas & John Bewick, and their Pupils, Gleaned from Every Available Source by the Late Rev. Thomas Hugo. Which Will be Sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... London.1877. £175

[iv],91,[1]pp., frontis., woodcuts in the text, stitched as issued, without wrappers, 674 lots.

This rare sale catalogue of Bewick’s bio-bibliographer was catalogued by Edwin Pearson for the Rectors widow, the majority of the lots are unusually detailed for an auction catalogue.

207. [HYDE (Thomas)] Catalogus Impressorum Librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi. E Theatro Sheldoniano, Oxford.1674. £1,445

First Edition, folio, [xii],480,[2 blank],272,[2]pp., engraved vignette of Sheldonian Theatre on title-page, engraved headpieces and initial letters, the errata leaf covering both parts is present at the end, lacks the rear free endpaper, there are three superimposed bookplates on the front endpaper and a previous owner has added, in French, on the renewed front endpapers, a brief account of Bodley’s diplomatic career for la Reine Elizabeth, together with a listing of each of the personages represented on the vignette title decorations that head each of the letter sections, some light foxing on preliminary leaves, contemporary panelled vellum with blind-stamped arabesque centrepiece on covers, front joint cracked, cords intact, upper cover slightly warped.

Hyde, 1636-1703, celebrated Orientalist and chief librarian of the Bodleian Library, produced in the present work the results of nine years’ scholarship. Hyde’s catalogue, the third of the Bodleian Library, was the most complete and informative catalogue of its time, a pioneer in form, which described the largest existing store of substantial books. The work, dived into two parts, is appropriately dedicated to Archbishop Selden, being printed in the Theatre which the Archbishop had recently built. The volume was of such general utility that the Convocation presented it to Cosimo de Medici, and in an interleaved copy was the only one in use at the Mazarine Library until as late at 1761. The handsome, impressive folio is a milestone in the history of library catalogues.

Breslauer & Folter 69; Pollard & Ehrman 318; Wing 0864.


208. IRISH BOOKBINDER. Brother Bookbinder (Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart.) Compiled by Brother Ivor Stewart-Liberty, Socialist to the Sette and Imprinted for him by Alabaster, Passmore & Sons, Ltd. [Privately Printed].1929. £95

12mo, 56,[4]pp., no.63 of 101 copies for private circulation, signed by the compiler, coloured frontis., of an elaborately inlaid and gilded binding by Sullivan, orig. green wrappers, printed in gold, uncut.

A posthumous anthology of Sullivan’s verses for Ye Sette of Odd Volumes. Opusculum 87 of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes.

209. IRWIN (Raymond) British Bird Books: An Index to British Ornithology A.D. 1481 to A.D. 1948. Grafton & Co.1951. £20

First Edition, xix,398pp., orig. cloth, d.w.

210. ISAAC (Frank) English & Scottish Printing Types 1501-35 * 1508-41. [Vol. 2:] 1535-58 * 1552-58. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford.1930-32. £45

First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, ex-library, titles printed in red and black, 269 facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g.

211. JACKSON (C.E.) Bird Illustrators. Some Artists in Early Lithography. H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd.1975. £25

First Edition, 4to, 133pp., 14 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w.

Covers such illustrators as Swainson, Lear, Gould, Thornburn and Lodge.

212. [JACKSON (William A.)] An Annotated List of the Publications of the Reverend Thomas Frognal Dibdin, D.D. Based mainly on those in the Harvard College Library with Notes of others. Printed for The Houghton Library, Cambridge.1965. £55

First Edition, small folio, 64,[1]pp., limited to 500 copies, portrait and 6 plates, orig. cloth, printed paper labels.

106 items with full descriptions.

213. JACOB (P.L.) Bibliographie et Iconographie de tous les Ouvrages de Restif de la Bretonne, Comprenant la Discription Raisonnée des Éditions Originales des Réimpressions de Contrefaçons, des Traductions, des Imitations, Etc. Y Compris Le Détail des Estampes et... Auguste Fontaine, Paris.1875. £95

First Edition, xv,510,[2],8pp., one of 500 copies, frontis., numerous additions in a neat hand, cont. quarter morocco.

214. JAGGARD (William) Shakespeare Bibliography: A Dictionary of Every Known Issue of the Writings of our National Poet and of Recorded Opinion Thereon in the English Language. Shakespeare Press, Stratford-on-Avon.1911. £65

First Edition, [xxiv],729pp., ex-library, frontis., 24 plates, front inner hinge shaken, orig. decorated buckram, uncut.

215. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Queen’s College, Cambridge. The University Press, Cambridge.1905. £75

First Edition, large 8vo, vi,29,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy with blind-stamp to title-page and library label on front endpaper, orig. cloth, gilt.

216. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) Editor. The Apocalypse in Latin. MS. 10 in the Collection of Dyson Perrins. With an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James. Printed by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press.1927. £645

Folio, 67pp., followed by 41 collotype plates reproducing the entire series of 82 illustrations, coloured frontis., cont. half morocco, t.e.g.


Contents: Illustrated Apocalypses in General. The Pictured Apocalypses: History and Grouping. Other Cycles of Apocalypse-Pictures. Text of the Perrins MS. Description of the Perrins Apocalypse.

217. JEANSON (Marcel) Bibliotheque Marcel Jeanson. Premiere Partie: Chasse. [With:] Deuxieme Partie: Ornithologie. Sotheby’s Monaco S.A.1987-8. £45

2 Vols., 4to, numerous coloured illustrs., orig. cloth, 990 lots.

218. JENSEN (Kristian) Incunabula and their Readers. Printing, Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century. The British Library.2003. £35

First Edition, small 4to, x,291pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

The contributions to this volume address important issues about books and their users in the fifteenth century. A unifying theme is the complex relationships between producers, be they authors, printers or decorators, the economic conditions of book distribution, and the requirements of readers or other users of books.

219. JONES (E. Gwynne) A Bibliography of the Dog. Books Published in the English Language 1570-1965. The Library Association.1971. £75

First Edition, small 4to, 431pp., ex-library, orig. decorated cloth.

The standard work.

220. KENDRICK (Laura) Animating the Letter. The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ohio State University Press.1999. £38

First Edition, viii,326pp., frontis., 8 coloured plates, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

Explores developments in writing in the Middle Ages.

221. KENNETT (Rev. White) Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia. Catalogue of the Remaining Portion of the Famous Collection of Early Americana... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1917. £40

Small 4to, iv,36pp., 6 plates, light water stain to lower margin, orig. printed wrappers, re-backed, 226 lots.

Kennett was one of the original members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to which he bequeathed his American collection in 1712; it included no less than ten Eliot Indian tracts.

De Ricci, p.66.

222. KEYNES (Geoffrey) John Ray: A Bibliography. Faber and Faber.1951. £65

First Edition, 4to, xvi,163pp., ex-library, limited to 650 copies, frontis., 3 plates, 16 facsimiles, orig. buckram, t.e.g.

A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray, English Naturalist, Philologist and Theologian.

223. KIESSLING (Nicolas K.) The Library of Robert Burton. The Oxford Bibliographical Society.1988. £16

First Edition, from the Public Records Office library, 12 plates, cloth-backed boards.

The catalogue of the 1,738 books and two manuscripts which formed Burton’s library, now almost entirely divided between the Bodleian Library and Christ Church Library in Oxford.

224. KLUSSMANN (Prof. Dr. Rudolf) Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum et Graecorum et Latinorum. Die Literatur von 1878 bis 1896 Einschliesslich Umfassend. O.R. Reisland, Leipzig.1909-13. £125

First Edition, 4 parts in 2, viii,708;iv,450;iv,568;iv,389pp., orig. cloth, inner hinges slightly shaken.

Item 205 Item 206

Item 228Item 227


LARGE PAPER COPY

225. KNOWSLEY HALL. A Catalogue of the Library at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire [The Property Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby]. Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press.1893. £545

4 Vols., 4to, [iv],267,[1]; [iv],[269]-493,[1]; [iv],[495]-765,[1]; [iv],[767]-976,[2]pp., large copy, half-titles, titles printed in red and black, unobtrusive small faint stamp of Kings College London to title, cont. green quarter morocco, rubbed, head and tail of spines slightly chipped, uncut, t.e.g.

A rare privately printed library catalogue with some 15,000 titles alphabetically arranged. The books, predominantly in English and French, are of mixed nature, largely of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. A small amount of manuscript material is included.

226. KRESS COLLECTION, SAMUEL H. The Gospels of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke & Saint John. Together with The Acts of the Apostles According to the Authorized King James Version with Reproductions of Religius Paintings in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Privately Printed for The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York.1959. £55

First Edition, 4to, coloured frontis., 43 coloured plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g. slip-case, a nice copy.

LARGE PAPER COPY

227. [LA VALLIERE (Louis Cesar)] Catalogue des Livres Provenans de la Bibliotheque de M.L.D.D.L.V. Dispose et mis en ordre, Avec Table Alphabetique des Auteurs, Par Guill. Franç. de Bure. Guill. François de Bure, Paris.1767. £795

2 Vols., small 4to, liv,[ii],618; [iv],400pp., large paper copy, nineteenth-century diced calf, spine worn, cover detached, all edges gilt, internally a fine copy.

The extremely rare large paper edition of the first sale catalogue of the this famous collection. The catalogues consist of some 5633 lots, mostly duplicates from the library, but also including some unique early French manuscripts.

Pollard & Ehrman, 247 & 341; Taylor, Book Catalogues, pp.248-49.

228. LA VALLIERE (Louis Cesar) Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de feu M. Le Duc de la Valliere... par Guillaume de Bure, fils aine. Guillaume de Bure, Paris.1783. £595

3 Vols., [iv],lxiv,71,[1],602,x,90; [iv],758; [iv],388,376,92,42,[2]pp., engraved portrait frontis., 5 engraved plates (3 folding), cont. half morocco, corners rubbed, uncut, a nice set.

The most important portion of the Duc de la Valliere library, comprising the incunabula and a remarkable collection of early French literary manuscripts, described at length by De Bure and Van Praet. This set contains the rare supplement to volume one and the printed list of price realized.

Pollard & Ehrman, 297.

229. LADA-MOCARSKI (Valerian) Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868. With an Introduction by Archibald Hanna. Yale University Press.1969. £145

First Edition, 4to, 567pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. a nice copy.

With detailed paginations and collations, facsimiles of the title pages of more than 160 books described, detailed notes, and the English translations of Russian titles.

230. LAMBERT (Osmund) Angling Literature in England; and Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients: with a Notice of some Books on other Piscatorial Subjects. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington.1881. £32

First Edition, small 8vo, [x],87,[1]pp., orig. full parchment, very soiled and stained, uncut, t.e.g.


231. LANCASHIRE MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE. Catalogue of Books Belonging to Charles Gibson, Quernmore Park, August 22, 1826. £245

Small 4to, manuscript catalogue, 172pp., (some blank), arranged by subject in a neat hand (Divinity, History, Biography, Voyages & Travel, Law, Medicine, etc.), each entry give date, author, title & size, cont. half morocco, marbled sides.

Charles Gibson purchased Quernmore Park, formerly the seat of Lord de Clifford, in 1792. His son Charles inherited the estate in 1823, at the age of 42. The entire estate was then put up for auction in 1842 but failed to sell. It was then sold privately to William Garnett of Salford, with the sitting tenants on existing leases.

232. LANSDOWNE (William, Marquis of) Bibliotheca Manuscripta Lansdowniana. A Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Manuscripts, on Paper and Vellum, of the late Most Noble William Marquis of Lansdowne. Vol. Ist. Containing the Burleigh State Papers [Vol. 2d. Containing the Shelburne State Papers]. Which will be Sold by Auction by Leigh and S. Sotheby... London.1807. £395

2 Vols., [ii],iv,444; [iv],146,[2]pp., from the Public Record Office with their stamp, later buckram, uncut, t.e.g.

“The first Marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805), better known as Lord Shelburne, was always keen to purchase state papers and documents. From the heirs of James West he secured, in 1772, some 115 volumes of Cecil papers, which had belonged to Strype. He likewise purchased Bishop Kennett’s topographical collections, heraldic manuscripts from the library of Peter Le Neve, thirty volumes of the papers of Sir Julius Caesar and Philip Carteret Webb’s large collection on parliamentary history. After his death... his manuscripts were catalogued for sale on 27 April 1807 and following days but were disposed of privately to the British Museum for 4925 pounds, granted for that purpose by Parliament.”—De Ricci, p.66.

233. LE NEVE (John) Monumenta Anglicana: Being Inscriptions on the Monuments of Several Eminent Persons Deceased in or since the Year 1600, to the end of the Year [1718]. Deduced into a Series of Time by the way of Annals. Printed by W. Bowyer, for the Editor.1717-18.£345

First Edition, 5 vols., viii,234,[10]; xvi,200,[12]; viii,210,[10]; [xxiv],306,[16]; [viii],286,[xiv]pp., with the bookplate of Henry Labouchere, with a couple of small unobtrusive library stamps, full calf by Clarke & Bedford, re-backed, a.e.g. a nice set.

“Le Neve’s other major publication was Monumenta Anglicana, being inscriptions on the monuments of several eminent persons deceased in or since the year 1700, to the end of 1715 (1717), supposedly ‘a specimen of a much larger work’, which drew on Peter Le Neve’s manuscripts and information from the masons who carved the actual monuments recorded. Supplements to this work covering the periods 1650–79 and 1680–99 were published in 1718, and in 1719 a fourth volume appeared for the period 1600–49. Le Neve intended to take the work back to 1400 but, although he carried out research for this, no volume covering this part of the project was printed, and Le Neve instead had to satisfy himself with a fifth volume containing those monuments dating between 1650 and 1718 ‘collected since the publication of the former volumes’”.—(Oxford DNB).

234. LEAF BOOK. PATTISON (Mark) The Estiennes: A Biographical Essay. Illustrated with Original Leaves from Books Printed by the Three Greatest Members of that Distinguished Family. Printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, San Francisco.1949. £135

Folio, one of 390 copies, [xiv],[44]pp., with 3 tipped-in original leaves from the sixteenth-century presses of the three Estienne family members (see below), orig. cloth-backed boards, decorative gilt stamp on upper cover, printed paper label on spine, uncut.

1: A Leaf from ‘Galeni de Affectorum Locorum Notitia’ from the Printing Press of Henri Estienne, Paris, 1512. 2: A Leaf from ‘Eusebii Pamphili Evangelicæ Præparationis’ from the Printing Press of Robert Estienne, Paris, 1544. 3: A Leaf from ‘Dionis Cassii Romanarum Historiarum’ from the Printing Press of Henri II Estienne, Geneva, 1592.


235. LEWINE (J.) Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books. Being a Guide to Collectors of Illustrated Works in England and French of the Period. Sampson Low, Marston & Co.1898. £65

First Edition, limited edition, 4to, 35 plates, buckram, uncut.

236. LEWIS (Frank) A Dictionary of British Bird Painters. F. Lewis, Leigh-on-Sea.1974. £32

First Edition, 4to, 47pp., 53 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.

237. LIBRARY CATALOGUE. A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Not Published].1835-52. £75

First Edition, 4 vols., 4to, front inner hinge of vols., 1 & 3 shaken, orig. cloth, slightly marked, uncut.

FIRST OF THE LIBRI SALES

238. LIBRI (Guglielmo) Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de M. L****. Dont la vente se fera le lundi 28 juin 1847, et les vingt-neuf jours suivants... L.C. Silveste et P. Jannet, Paris.1847. £165

xlii,[ii],496pp., priced throughout in a cont. hand, several old small neat library stamps, cont. quarter calf.

The first of the Libri sales. “The Libri catalogues are very difficult to come by and do not have sufficient coherence to give a picture of a library. Guglielmo Libri-Carucci, a noted book thief, did not have in his possession at any one time all the books that are listed in the sale catalogues.”—Taylor, Book Catalogues. p.224.

239. LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL LIBRARY. A Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield. [With:] Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Lichfield Cathedral. Henry Sotheran & Co.1888-1911. £48

First Edition, 2 vols., viii,120; 32pp., main work in orig. pale blue boards, supplement sewn as issued, a fine set, preserved in custom-made folding box.

ONE OF 30 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED

240. LIDDELL (Henry) Bibliotheca Liddelliana; or Catalogue of Books and Tracts, Relating to History, Literature, and Poetry: Being the Library of Henry Liddell, Esq. [Privately] Printed by Alex. Lawrie & Co., Edinburgh.1840. £125

Small 8vo, [ii],3-51,[1]pp., one of 30 copies privately printed, ex-library with ink stamps, title page reattached, disbound.

A very scarce privately printed library catalogue of the little known library of Henry Liddell.

241. LIPPMANN (F.) Le Chevalier Delibere by Olivier de la Marche. The Illustrations of the Edition of Schiedam Reproduced, with a Preface by F. Lippmann and a Reprint of the Text. Illustrated Monographs No. V. Printed for The Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press.1898. £45

First Edition, 4to, 65pp., title in red and black, facsimile plates, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut.

242. LISNEY (Arthur A.) A Bibliography of British Lepidoptera 1608-1799. Privately Printed for the Author by the Chiswick Press.1960. £75

First Edition, large 8vo, xviii,315pp., one of 500 copies, frontis., 38 plates, orig. buckram, gilt.

A detailed, comprehensive and authoritative bibliography.

Item 232 Item 243

Item 244 Item 245


“Remarkable for its ambitious and technically daring foray into typolithography”—Twyman

243. LITHOGRAPHY. The Parthenon. A Magazine of Art and Literature. Published Periodically. Designed & Typolithographed by Frans. Ross. Printed from the Stone, at the Typographic Press, Published by Black, Young, and Young.1826. £295

First collected edition, small 4to, iv,437,[1]pp., the complete set of sixteen issues but lacking pages 419-26 in the last number, pictorial title page, lithographed music and text illustrations throughout, a few tinted, plus a few lithographed plates, including one folding, recent cloth-backed boards.

Discontinued after the sixteenth part, this periodical “was printed from stone by Ross and Co. at the Typolithographic Press, using their own special process which they called Typolithography. This new process was described in a short note at the end of the first number of the journal, which explained that it was called typolithography ‘...because it produces the effect of typographic printing, through the medium of stone.’.”—Twyman. It clearly had its production problems as only the first five issues are printed from Typolithograph, thereafter the text matter is letterpress, printed to much the same design, and only the illustrations and music lithographed. Twyman, in his book on Early Lithography, provides a full account of the production and importance of this periodical and reproduces several pages from it.

Twyman, Early Lithographed Books. pp.54-56.

244. LITHOGRAPHY. Le Lithographe, Journal des Artistes et des Imprimeurs, publiant tous les procedes connus de la Lithographie, avec leurs differentes modifications, signalant les decouvertes nouvelles dans cet art, et rendant un compte impartial de ses productions; redige par des lithographes, sous la direction de M. Jules Desportes, imprimeur lithographe, professeur de lithographie a l’Insitut royal des Sourds-Muets de Paris. Premiere Annee. Au Bureau du Journal, Paris & S. van Reyn Snoeck, Rotterdam.1838. £395

[iv],355,[3],xxxviiipp., 13 plates (one coloured printed and slightly chipped), some light browning to plates, one actual specimen of a lithographic printed calling card tipped-in, near cont. half blue morocco, five raised bands, spine tooled in gilt and sign at foot by Gruel, marbled sides, t.e.g. uncut, a very nice copy.

This journal was created to examine new materials and processes affecting lithographic production as well addressing economic and technical issues confronting printers. The founding members included an elite group, the preliminary leaf listing such names as: the master-printers Joseph Lemercier, Eugene Kaeppelin and Godefroy Engelmann; the professors of Chemistry and members of the Academie de medicine, Chevallier and Gaulthierde Claubry; and members of the Institut de France, Jomard and the Count de Lasteyrie, amongst others. The 38 page appendix is devoted to a list of the lithographic printers in the Departments, in Paris, and abroad. The first volume of this rare and important Journal relating to lithography, it culminated with the issue of the sixth volume, which was issued in 1848. Copac locates just the BL copy (vols. I & II only).

Not in Ulrich & Kup.

245. LITHOGRAPHY. The British Lithographer. A Journal for Lithographers, Artists, Draughtsmen, Phototypes, Steel and Copper-Plate Engravers, etc. Volumes I-III. Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.1891-94. £575

3 Vols., 4to, [iv],36,36,36,36,36,36; [iv],224; [iv],196pp., index for each volume, coloured lithographed title-page to each volume, with numerous beautiful specimens of colour printing, colour ink manufacturers, adverts, collotype, monotype mezzotint, etc., orig. quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, title stamped in gilt within a circular design on upper covers, head and foot of spines slightly chipped, splash stained to lower cover of volume one.

Contains a wealth of information on contemporary printing matters and processes, along with numerous specimen plates (mainly colour printed) and historical or specialist articles. A further volume of this important periodical was published in 1895 before it was amalgamated into The British Printer in 1896.

Item 246 Item 247

Item 249 Item 250


“no copy has been traced”—Twyman

246. LITHOGRAPHY. BAUDIER (Michel) Histoire de l’incomparable administration de Romieu, Grand Ministre d’Estat en Provence lors quelle estoit en souverainete. A Paris: chez Jean Camusat. [Reproduit par le procede Litho-typogr. Dupont, Perigueux, Dupont.][1841]. £475

Small 8vo, 82,[2]pp., orig. pink boards, a fine copy.

“Later on in the 1830s transferring old documents to stone became an extremely topical issue in France and was the subject of a lot of public bickering over the question of priority... Eventually, the question of the relative effectiveness of the different methods used by lithographers for for transferring images from old books and prints to stone - though not the question of priority - was resolved by a competition... The outcome was that the silver medal was awarded to the brothers Auguste and Paul Dupont... In 1839 the Duponts took out a patent for their process which they called - somewhat confusingly - lithotypographie (rather than typolithographie)... The third book Paul Dupont referred to as having been produced by lithotypographie was Michel Baudier, ‘Histoire de l’incomparable administration de Romieu’. This book was a reprint of what Dupont thought to have been a unique copy of the 1635 edition in the possession of the Romieu family. Dupont claimed that copies of the reprint ‘do not differ at all from the original volume’, but no copy has been traced for this claim to be put to the test.”—Twyman, pp.212-222. We have also been unable to locate another coy of this facsimile in any of the usual resources.

Wyman, Early Lithographed Books. Cat. 1.17.

“The most important English treatise on lithography”—Twyman

247. LITHOGRAPHY. HULLMANDEL (C.) The Art of Drawing on Stone; Giving a Full Explanation of the Various Styles, the Different Methods to be Employed to Ensure Success, the Modes of Correcting, and the Several Causes of Failure. Published by Longman & Co.1833. £595

Second Edition, 4to, [ii],vii,[i],92pp., + advert leaf, lithograph title and 19 lithographed plates, some light foxing, cont. half calf, rubbed, rebacked.

First published in 1824, this work was “the most important English treatise on lithography to be published in the first half on the nineteenth century” — Twyman.

Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 349; Twyman, Lithography, p. 114.

248. LITHOGRAPHY. [RAUCOURT DE CHARLEVILLE (Antoine)] A Manual of

Lithography, or Memoir on the Lithographical Experiments made in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges; Clearly Explaining the Whole Art, as well as all the Accidents that may happen in Printing, and the Different Methods of Avoiding them. Translated from the French, by C. Hullmandel. Printed for Rodwell and Martin.1821. £395

Second Edition, xix,138,[2]pp., 2 folding lithograph plates, the first containing twelve figures of tools and implements, the second nine figures of printing presses and parts, faint library stamp on title page, some slight browning to text, recent cloth, uncut.

Hullmandel’s best know work and most influential publication is his book ‘The art of drawing on stone’ which was first published in 1824. But in terms of establishing lithography in Britain, his translation from the French of this treatise by Raucourt de Charleville was probably just as important. Colonel Antoine Raucourt was chief engineer at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and ran its in-plant lithographic press. His book was originally published in Toulon in 1819. Hullmandel thought highly of Raucourt’s treatise and wrote in the preface: “The books which have hitherto been published on lithography are very imperfect, and are much more adapted to persons who already understand the art than those who wish to learn it... I have repeatedly wished for a guide to explain the new accidents which occur every instant, and which... appear each time so new and intricate, that the beginner is consequently tempted to give up all hopes of ever succeeding. I am consequently better enabled to appreciate the value of this excellent treatise on lithography, and hesitate not an instant to pronounce it the best work which has ever been published on the art.”

Bigmore & Wyman II, p.240.


A NEW MODE FOR PREPARING THE STONES

249. LITHOGRAPHY. HULLMANDEL (Charles) On some Important Improvements in Lithographic Printing. [London].[1827]. £495

8pp., drop-head title, 8 pages, 9 Specimen lithographed plates, text and plates lightly browned, stitched in orig. publisher’s wrappers printed “With the author’s compliments” and ownership inscription of Emily Bund, uncut.

Issued as the result of Hullmandel’s practice and study towards a new mode of preparing the stones, including illustrations to prove that he could retouch the stones, a point in which his process had been inferior to others. This rare pamphlet also contains letters from Faraday and J.D. Harding, testifying respectively to the complete novelty of his process and its superior artistic results. “This is a collection of extremely well-executed specimens, in commending which to his patrons Hullmandel says: ‘I flatter myself they will meet with you approbation, for their clearness and sharpness have hitherto been unequalled in lithography’.”.—Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 349.

250. LITHOGRAPHY. PESCHECK (Heinrich Eduard) Das Ganze des Steindrucks von seiner Artistisch-, Chemisch- und Mechanischen Seite betrachtet, und Dargestellt. Voigt, Ilmenau.1829. £345

First Edition, small 8vo, [ii],iv,135,[3]pp., 3 folding plates of machinery, text browned, orig. boards.

The rare first edition, Bigmore & Wyman listing just a third edition of 1856.

No copy of this first edition on Copac or OCLC.

251. LIVERPOOL ATHENAEUM. Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum, Liverpool. To which are Prefixed the Laws of the Institution and the Rules for the Circulation of Books. Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Chiswick Press. 1864. xxxvi,589pp., inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, a little frayed at extremities, uncut. [With:] Supplement... Containing the Books Received from January, 1864, to June 30th, 1892. Printed by Thomas Brakell Ltd., Liverpool. 1892. xiv,[ii],190pp., orig. cloth, slightly faded. [With:] Author-List of Additions to the Library. 1892-1905. C. Tinling & Co., Ltd. Liverpool.1905. £45

[viii],103pp., loose in orig. printed cloth-backed boards, rubbed.

252. McKERROW (R.B.) & FERGUSON (F.S.) Title-Page Borders used in England & Scotland 1485-1640. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford.1932. £48

First Edition, 4to, xlvii,[i],234,[2]pp., ex-library, title in red and black, 329 facsimiles (nearly all are full-page), orig. cloth-backed boards, small tear to upper hinge, uncut, t.e.g.

253. McKERROW (Ronald B.) Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640. Illustrated Monographs No. XVI. The Bibliographical Society.1949. £45

4to, liv,216,[2]pp., ex-library, 428 facsimiles (nearly all full-page), orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut.

The introduction to this definitive work classifies the devices as: signs indicating where the printer worked, puns upon the owner’s name, monograms, portraits, heraldic devices or emblems. There are lists of devices, notes on their transfer from one printer to another, also indexes of the devices used by booksellers and printers, of mottoes, of initials of artists or engravers, and of devices according to subject.

254. McLEAN (Ruari) Victorian Publishers’ Book-Bindings in Paper. Gordon Fraser.1983. £35

First Edition, 4to, frontis., illustrs., throughout (mostly coloured), orig. decorated cloth, d.w.

Illustrates some of the attractive ways in which paper was used as the main surface on publishers' bindings between 1800 and 1900.


255. MACRAY (William Dunn) Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford. With a Notice of the Earlier Library of the University. Oxford University Press.1890. £65

Second Edition, enlarged, [xii],545,[3]pp., frontis., 3 plates, orig. quarter morocco, gilt, uncut, t.e.g.

A standard history of the library compiled by the Assistant in the department of manuscripts from material at his disposal. Lists of MSS. and notes on special collections given in an appendix.

256. MAGGS BROS. Bookbinding in the British Isles, Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Catalogue No.1075. Maggs Bros.1987. £75

2 Vols., 4to, 248;285pp., with the Adams bookplate, plates throughout (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, 382 items.

From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr.

257. MAGIC & OCCULTISM. COX (Charles F.) Catalogue of a Select Portion of the Valuable Library of Books on Magic and other Occult Subjects, the Property of Charles F. Cox, Esq. of New York. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1907. £50

32pp., orig. printed wrappers neatly repaired, 389 lots.

258. MANSFIELD (Edgar) Twenty Five Bindings Designed by Edgar Mansfield and Realised by James Brockman. Seven Sculptures by Edgar Mansfield. With an Introduction by Trevor Jones and a Note by James Brockman. K.D. Duval, Foss.1993. £35

First Edition, 32 coloured plates of each binding plus the sculptures, printed wrappers.

In 1985 Mansfield agreed to have some of his binding designs executed, and James Brockman accepted the commission to collaborate with him.

259. MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY CATALOGUE. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baring, Esq., at Sunninghill Park. [Later at Baring Court]. 1914. £85

Over 200pp. of typescript, full red morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt, a.e.g.

It would seem that with the move to Baring Court several books have been added in manuscript with a few crossed out, also most of the shelf number’s have been altered.

260. MARBLED PAPERS. DAAL (Geert van) 50 Marbled Papers. Geert van Daal, Santa Fe, New Mexico.1989. £125

50 exquisite marbled papers by master bookbinder Geert van Daal, in a curious circular form with a single copper pin to hold the 50 pages and boards together, one of 23 numbered copies, all signed and dated by their maker.

261. MARSTON (R.B.) Walton and some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing. Elliot Stock.1903. £25

12mo, [xxviii],264pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, corners rubbed.

262. MARTIN (Edward Wenman) Catalogue of the Valuable and Curious Collection of Rare Portraits and Historical Prints, Historical Prints, the Property of the Late Well Known Collector Edwin Wenman Martin, Esq., Consisting of many of the Rarest English Early Engraved Portraits by Hogenberg, Delaram, Elstrake, The Passes, Faithorne, Loggan, Blooteling, Valck, Smith, Beckett, &c... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... on Thursday, June 23, and Four following Days. J. Davy & Sons.[1853]. £42

[iv],73,[1]pp., prices supplied in a cont. hand, 850 lots, disbound, preserved within a folding card wallet.

Item 263 Item 268

Item 279 Item 285


HONEST TOM MARTIN OF PALGRAVE

263. MARTIN (Thomas) Bibliotheca Martiniana. A Catalogue of the Entire Library of the Late Eminent Antiquary Mr. Thomas Martin, of Palgrave, in the County of Suffolk. Containing some Thousand Volumes in every Language, Art and Science, a large Collection of the scarcest early Printers, and some Hundreds of Manuscripts... Which will begin to be sold very cheap, on Saturday June 5, by Martin Booth and John Berry, Booksellers, At their Warehouse in the Angel-Yard, Market-Place, Norwich, and continue on Sale only Two Months... [Norwich?].[1773]. £1,995

[ii],177,[1]pp., cont. ownership signature [Mr Wm. Durant?] in ink at head of title page, some old light damp-staining and browning running through the text, but unobtrusive, tipped-in is a slip with some related jottings in ink, expertly rebound in a contemporary style, listing some 4895 items with printed prices.

Thomas Martin (1697-1771), born at Thetford in the Free School House of St. Mary’s parish. Martin was largely self-taught, for many years he was the only pupil at the Thetford Free School and left to his own devices, where he took an early interest in antiquities. When Peter Le Neve visited Thetford in 1710, he sought a guide to the many antiquities of the town, he was told that no-one knew more than thirteen-year old Master Martin and here began a close friendship which was to have a far-reaching affect on the direction of Norfolk historiography for the remainder of the century. In 1723 Martin left Thetford and settled in Palgrave, Suffolk. When Peter Le Neve died in 1729, Martin, having been appointed one of the executors, set about helping Le Neve’s young widow in sorting the enormous library that had been assemble by her husband. The collection was particularly strong in Norfolk and Suffolk material, Richard Gough describing the Norfolk portion as “the greatest fund of antiquities for his native county that ever was collected for any single one in the kingdom”. It was during this time that their relationship grew and they eventually married in January 1732, soon afterwards the couple moved with the collection to Martin’s home in Palgrave. His continuing obsession with collecting printed books, manuscripts historical antiquities of all kinds, eventually took their toll on his fortune. By 1769 his financial embarrassments obliged him to dispose of his coin collections and many of his books, enriched with manuscript notes, to Thomas Payne. On his death in 1771, John Worth, a local chemist from Diss, purchased the remaining library with all other collections for 660 pounds, a fraction of their true value. The printed books were immediately sold to Booth & Berry of Norwich for £330; they in turn then produced this fixed price catalogue, which marked up to more than £2,000. The catalogue covers all the learned subjects, with an emphasis on British history. It also contains a substantial numbers of books in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew. There is section described as “Black letter books” which includes British and European incunabula, with the works of de Worde and Pynson's presses well represented. Thomas Martin had supplied information from these books for both Joseph Ames and William Herbert for respective their editions of the ‘Typographical Antiquities’.

ESTC locates just 3 copies (L; O; SCmH).

264. MASON (John) A Practical Course in Bookcrafts and Bookbinding. C.H. Gee & Co. Ltd. Leicester.[1935]. £12

First Edition, xiii,[iii],216,[6]pp., frontis., 94 plates., illustrs., in the text, gatherings loose, orig. cloth.

265. MASON (Stuart) Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. With a note by Robert Ross. Haskell House Publishers, New York.(Reprint of the 1914 Edition) 1972. £55

2 Vols., xxii,237; 241-605pp., facsimiles and illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth.

266. MATTHEWS (William F.) Bookbinding. A Manual for those Interested in the Craft of Bookbinding. Victor Gollancz Ltd.1929. £28

Frontis., 252pp., 7 plates, 85 illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth.


Describes fully the best methods employed in the three distinct styles of binding which he considers the most suited to meet both aesthetic and commercial requirements.

267. MAYO (Charles Herbert) Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. Being a Carefully Compiled Account of Printed Books and Pamphlets Relating to the History and Topography of the County of Dorset. Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press.1885. £65

First Edition, small 4to, x,296pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, re-cased, uncut.

A COMPLETE SET

268. MEERMAN (Gerard and Johann) Bibliotheca Meermanniana; sive Catalogus Librorum Impressorum et Codicum Manuscriptorum, quos Maximam Partem Collegegerunt viri Gerardus et Johannes Meerman... Luchtmann, Van Cleef, Scheurleer, The Hague.1824. £895

A complete set of 5 volumes bound in 2, [xvi],378; [ii]210; [viii],217,[1],221,[1]; [ii],182,[2]; viii,186pp., includes the volume of printed prices, a couple of cont. stamps, cont. half calf, hinges cracked, contrasting leather labels, paper shelf label to foot of spine.

The celebrated Meerman Library, although rich in important printed books, is chiefly remembered as the greatest manuscript sale of the 19th century. The Meerman sale marked some of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ earliest purchases. In all, he acquired no less than three-quarters of the manuscripts in this famous collection; Munby notes “the indiscriminate fury with which he beat down opposition” at the sale. In 1887, after Phillipps’ death, the Meerman MSS. went to the Royal Library, Berlin. One of the outstanding catalogues of the 19th century, it lists ca. 10,000 printed books and 1,100 MSS. A very good set rarely found complete.

269. MENZIES (William) Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York. Prepared by Joseph Sabin. New York.1875. £75

4to, xviii,472pp., prices supplied in a cont. hand, half morocco by W. Pratt, extremities rubbed, uncut, t.e.g. 2239 lots.

This collection was sold by the compiler and realized nearly $50,000 being $9,000 more than it cost. At the time it was the finest library ever sold in the United States.

270. MICHON (Louis-Marie) La Reliure Francaise. Libraire Larousse.1951. £18

First Edition, 12mo, 144pp., 64 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

“A brilliant short, but comprehensive study.” - Hobson.

271. MIDDLETON-WAKE (Rev. Charles H.) The Invention of Printing. A Series of Four Lectures Delivered in the Lent Term of 1897. Privately Printed by John Murray.1897. £35

First Edition, 4to, xii,175,[1]pp., frontis., 16 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.

272. MITCHELL (William Smith) A History of Scottish Bookbinding 1432 to 1650. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.1955. £32

First Edition, xii,150pp., 48 plates, orig. cloth, uncut, d.w. torn.

This book is the first detailed survey of any period of Scottish bookbinding.

273. MIURA (Kerstin Tini) My World of Bibliophile Binding. University of California Press.1984. £165

First Edition, folio, frontis., 52 full-page coloured plates showing selections from Miura’s own bindings, orig. cloth, slip-case.

“Of all books about modern bindings, this is one of the most spectacular...” - Bernard Middleton, in the preface.


274. MOREAU (C.) Bibliographie des Mazarinades. Publiée pour la Société de l’Histoire de France. Jules Renouard, Paris.1850. £95

First Edition, 3 vols., lxiv,426; [vi],398; [vi],464pp., ex-Inner Temple Library, cont. quarter morocco, hinges rubbed and cracked, head of spine of volume I defective.

275. MORELLI (Giorgio) Manoscritti d’Interesse Abruzzese nelle Biblioteche Romane. Deputazione abruzzese di storia patria, Aquila.1982. £20

Small 4to, 261pp., ex-library, orig. printed wrappers.

276. MORISON (Stanley) The English Newspaper. Some Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London Between 1622 & the Present Day. Cambridge University Press.1932. £155

First Edition, folio, frontis., 6 collotype plates, 156 illustrs., in the text, endpapers and fore-edges a little spotted, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly worn.

A great pioneer work, unlikely to be superseded.

277. MORTIMER (Ruth) Compiler. Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. Italian 16th Century Books. Cambridge, Mass.1964. £265

First Edition, 2 vols., numerous facsimiles, orig. cloth, slip-case.

Describing 599 items with very full collations, historical notes on many of the items are given, and at the end are indices under general, artists, printers and publishers, place, subject and chronological headings.

278. MULLER (Frederik) Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates of America, and of a Remarkable Collection of Early Voyages, Offered for Sale by Frederik Muller, at Amsterdam... Including a Large Number of Books in all Languages with Bibliographical and Historical Notes and Presenting an Essay Towards a Dutch-American Bibliography. Frederik Muller, Amsterdam.1872-75. £195

First Edition, 3 parts in one, viii,288; [ii],289-420; [ii],174,[2]pp., 3 facsimile plates, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, half red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, uncut, t.e.g.

A very nice copy of the first edition of which Sabin described as “much more than a catalogue, it is a tolerably complete Bibliography of Dutch Books relating to America, contains translations of the titles, with critical and other notes concerning the books, and is a most desirable addition to a bibliographical collection.”

279. [MUSGRAVE (William)] British Portraits. A Catalogue of a Genuine and Extensive Collection of English Portraits Consisting of the Royal Families, Peers, Gentry, Clergy, Lawyers, Military, Literary, Artists, Actors, Writing-Masters, Musicians, Female Sex, Phenomena, Convicts, Monsters, &c. From Egbert the Great to the Present Time; Comprising the Choicest Works of Delaram, Elstrack, Faithorne, Hollar, Loggan, Lumley, the Pass's, Place, Smith, Rob. White, &c. And nearly the whole that have been engraved after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Modern Artists, most of them Proofs, many Private Plates, and Unique Prints, not to be found in any other Collection, with Biographical and Genealogical Remarks. By an Eminent Collector, During the last Forty Years. The Collection is in perfect Preservation, and the Choicest Impressions, with Sixty Solander Port-Folios, Uniformly Lettered and Print-Presses, with Sliding Shelves; Which Will be Sold by Auction, By Mr. Richardson, At his House, No. 31, the Corner of Villiers-Street, in the Strand. In two Parts, The First, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the Seventeen following Days; the Second Part, on March 3, and the Twelve following Days, at Twelve O’Clock. T. Burton, Printer.[1800]. £375

[iv],323,[1]pp., with prices annotated in ink to margins throughout, cont. half calf, rubbed, hinges cracked.

Sir William Musgrave, sixth baronet (1735-1800), administrator, print collector, and antiquary. Best known during his lifetime as one of the foremost collectors of engraved British portrait prints. His collection, which rivalled


those of his contemporaries Horace Walpole and James West, incorporated that assembled by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725). These three collections were to form the basis of James Granger’s Biographical History of England (1769). In July 1799, the same month that he made his will, he had sold his portrait prints to the dealer William Richardson for £2000. It is a fitting testament to the size and importance of Musgrave’s own collection that its sale, spread over thirty-one days in February and March 1800 and described in Richardson’s annotated copy of the sale catalogue, was to realize £5000. 3503 lots were sold; the number of prints was in the region of 10,000. (Oxford DNB).

280. NATION (Earl F.) ROLAND (Charles G.) & McGOVERN (John P.) An Annotated Checklist of Osleriana. The Kent State University Press.1976. £35

First Edition, frontis., 3 plates, orig. cloth.

1,367 Items described.

281. 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.1878. £175

7 Marbled leaves, 12 plates of designs for bindings, 13 text illustrs., of machines, etc., advertisements at end, new endpapers, orig. cloth, re-backed preserving orig. spine.

Nicholson was a practical binder who (with James Pawson) founded Pawson & Nicholson of Philadelphia, who became an important firm.

DISPOSAL OF AN EDINBURGH CIRCULATING LIBRARY

282. [NIVISON (William)] Catalogue of Books, to be Disposed of in the Royal Exchange Coffee-House, Edinburgh, February 28, 1818. [s.n.]. 1818. 11,[1]pp., drop-head title, folded as issued. [Sold with:] ADVERTISING CARD FOR THE SALE. A Select Collection of Books, Consisting of Several Thousand Volumes; (Among which are 2 copies of Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 vols. 4to, neatly bd.) Being the most valuable selection ever offered to the Public, to be disposed of, as per catalogue, in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, February 28, 1818. Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence. £345

114 x 76mm, advertising card printed in red ink on one side only.

An extremely rare survival of an early nineteen-century sale catalogue and advertising label for the disposal of an Edinburgh circulating library. William Nivison’s established his circulating library at 2 St Patrick Square in 1815, after two year he lost interest in the library and went into partnership with the bookseller Daniel Forrest. This catalogue is the stock of the circulating library, with c. 170 titles particularly strong in literature. No other copy traced in the usual resources.

283. NORTH (James Sharp) A Short History of the Art and Craft of Bookbinding. Central

Bookbinding Works, Brighton.[c.1910]. £35

First Edition, 3 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

The plates illustrate some of the bindings from North’s firm and the history is followed by adverts for the firm.

284. NORTON (F.J.) A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing in Spain and Portugal 1501-1520. (Reprint of the 1978 Edition) 1999. £65

Small 4to, xxiii,581pp., orig. cloth.

This book represents the first attempt to establish as complete a catalogue as possible of all the works, including ephemeral matter, known to have been printed in Spain and Portugal in the years 1501-1520. The catalogue describes 1,368 items from Spain and 43 from Portugal.

Item 282 Item 282

Item 309 Item 291


HARLEIAN LIBRARY

285. [OLDYS (William) JOHNSON (Samuel) & MAITTAIRE (Michel) Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum. Thomas Osborne.1743-44. £2,750

4 Vols., [viii],8,488; xx,489-1034,37,[3]; xvi,408; [vi],408-858pp., woodcut initials and head-pieces, some light spotting, bookplate on front paste-down, cont. quarter sheep, marbled boards, bindings are rubbed and worn, spines chipped (volume 1 & 2 more so), uncut.

The enormous library of 50,000 printed books, and some 7639 manuscripts formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st Earl of Oxford, Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford, and their librarian Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726). The first Earl of Oxford “was one of the first collectors who systematically acquired early printed books; his son Edward... continued the library. After the latter’s death in 1741, his widow sold the library for 13,000 pounds to the London bookseller Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), who employed Dr. Johnson and William Oldys, antiquary and later Norroy King-of-Arms, to catalogue it.” (Breslauer & Folter). The catalogue was planned by Michael Maittaire who also wrote the Latin dedication to Lord Carteret. Dr. Johnson shared the cataloguing of the collection with Oldys, as well as adding the prefatory eight-page ‘An Account of the Harleian Library’ to volume one. Although this was a bookseller’s catalogue, the prices were not published, but Osborne marked a minimum price it each, which were then sold to the highest bidder. The bulk of the manuscripts were sold to the nation for £10,000. Although the original bindings are a little worn, it is a nice unsophisticated uncut set, enclosed in two cloth boxes with leather labels. A fifth volume was issued in 1745, but this was little more than a recataloguing of the books unsold from these four volumes.

De Ricci, pp. 33-38; Breslauer & Folter, 102; Fleeman, 43.1CBH.

286. OLSCHKI (Leo S.) Le Livre en Italie à Travers les Siècles. Rôle joué par l’Italie dans le développement de l’art de l’imprimerie et de l’illustration du livre, du XVe au XIXe siècle. Leo S. Olschki, Florence.1914. £38

4to, xvi,52pp., coloured frontis., 86 plates, orig. printed wrappers (browned as usual) bound in, quarter vellum, marbled boards, morocco labels to spine.

287. OLSCHKI (Leo S.) Le Livre Illustré au XVe Siècle. Leo S. Olschki, Florence.1926. £45

4to, 80pp., coloured frontis., 220 plates, gatherings loose, orig. stiff paper wrappers with parchment outer wrapper foxed.

A bibliography of illustrated books of the fifteenth-century dealing with 225 titles.

Besterman, 3006.

288. OSMONT (J.B.L.) Dictionnaire Typographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares, Singuliers, Estimes et Recherches en tous Genres... Chez Lacombe, Paris.1768. £195

First Edition, 2 vols., xii,515,[1]; [iv],456,[4]pp., with half-titles, cont. marbled boards, label to spines, a nice set.

Informative bibliography of rare and best editions. The work was an essential tool for the 18th century collector and bibliographer.

289. OUVRY (Frederic) Catalogue of the Important Library of Manuscripts and Printed Books... Collection of Old Ballads (Many Extraordinarily Scarce); Old English Poetry, of Excessive Rarity and Several Unique... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1882. £38

Large 8vo, [ii],145pp., spasmodically priced in pencil, new wrappers, 1628 lots.

Ouvry was editor of several reprints of rare STC and Wing pamphlets, and a close friend of Halliwell-Phillips.

290. PARKER (Clement C.) Compendium of Works on Archery. George S. MacManus Co., Philadelphia.1950. £60

First Edition, [iv],74pp., one of 300 copies, pencil markings in the text, orig. cloth.


THE FIRST SEPARATE ISSUE

291. PARTINGTON (Charles Frederick) The Printer’s Complete Guide; Containing a Sketch of the History and Progress of Printing, to its State of Improvement; Details of its several Departments; Numerous Schemes of Imposition; Modern Improvements in Stereotype, Presses, and Machinery, &c. &c. Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.1825. £475

First Edition, [iv],193-288pp., frontis., 1 plate, text illustrs., orig. cloth, hinges torn.

An extremely rare first issue of a printer’s manual which was to form part of a larger work (The Mechanics’ Gallery of Science and Art) which was in course of publication. Bound with several issues of “The Lancet”.

Bigmore & Wyman II, p.145; Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow, List of Printers’ Manuals to 1850. JPHS, No. 4, 1968. E14.

292. PEARSON (David) Provenance Research in Book History. A Handbook. The British Library.1998. £45

xiv,390pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.

This is the standard reference work on the ways of recognising and identifying marks of ownership, and on placing that knowledge in a wider context. Topics covered include inscriptions; mottoes; bookplates, book labels and book stamps; armorials; sales catalogues; catalogues and lists of private libraries; provenance indexes; heraldry and palaeography.

293. PENZER (Norman M.) An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton. A.M. Philpot Ltd.1923. £145

First Edition, 4to, xvi,351,[1]pp., limited to 500 numbered copies (this out of series and unnumbered), frontis., 23 plates, orig. cloth, 4cm tear to lower hinge otherwise a nice copy, uncut, t.e.g.

294. PHILIP (Alex. J.) The Business of Bookbinding for Librarians, Publishers, Students, Binders, and the General Reader. Alex. J. Philip, Gravesend.1935. £50

Second Edition, good ex-library copy, half of front free endpaper torn away, 2 folding pages with 26 samples of “Rexine” leathercloth, 1 folding page with 8 samples of “Durable Bookbinding Leather” from E. & J. Richardson Ltd., and 30 cloth patterns on 2 folding pages from The Winterbottom Book Cloth Co., Ltd., orig. cloth, spine faded.

295. PHILLIPPS (Sir Thomas) The Phillipps Manuscripts. Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomae. Phillipps, Bt. Impressum Typis Medio-Montanis 1837-1871. With an Introduction by A.N.L. Munby. Orskey-Johnson.2001. £375

4to, 545pp., one of 250 copies, orig. cloth, d.w.

A facsimile reprint of Phillipps own catalogue of manuscripts printed by him at the Middle Hill Press taken from one of only three known complete copies, a work which was stated, by Munby, to be ‘possibly the rarest and most interesting example of this class of literature’.

296. PIOT (Eugene) Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de... Em. Paul, L. Huard & Guillemin, Paris.1891. £45

2 Parts in one, large 8vo, xii,273,[1]; x,467,[1]pp., modern cloth, orig. wrappers bound-in, 858+3638 lots.

297. PLENDERLEITH (H.J.) The Preservation of Leather Bookbindings. British Museum.1950. £10

24pp., 4 illustrs., orig. cloth.


298. PLOMER (Henry R.) English Printers’ Ornaments. Grafton & Co.1924. £38

First Edition, 4to, xii,292pp., one of 500 copies, ex-library, frontis., facsimiles, inner hinges rather shaken, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g.

This describes the genesis of printers’ ornaments, English printers and their ornaments, borders, head and tail pieces, miscellaneous initial letters and modern work.

299. PLOMER (Henry R.) Wynkyn de Worde and his Contemporaries from the Death of Caxton to 1535. A Chapter in English Printing. Grafton & Co.1925. £20

First Edition, 4to, 264pp., ex-library, frontispiece, 13 illustrations, library buckram.

A detailed work including general historical information particularly pertinent to the book trade of the period. Includes Pynson, Lettou, Machlinia, and Notary as well as printers who did not become active until the 16th century. Contains descriptions and illustrations of type faces and of the books printed.

300. PLOMER (Henry R.) BUSHNELL (G.H.) & DIX (E.R.) Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford.(Reprint of the 1932 Edition). £32

Small 4to, xxi,[i],432pp., orig. cloth, uncut.

301. PLOUGH PRESS. WAKEMAN (Geoffrey) Bradbury & Evans, Colour Printers. The Plough Press, Kidlington.1984. £195

4to, [vi],30pp., no. 69 of 100 numbered copies, printed on hand-made paper, with two original specimen leaves from ‘The Octavo Ferns’ & ‘The British Seaweeds’, 6 illustrs., orig. cloth-backed boards.

A brief history of Bradbury & Evans and the development of nature-printing. This method produced extremely attractive prints, two of which are used to illustrate this book. An account is given of the controversy surrounding its introduction to England, and its method of production is described.

302. PLUMMER (Charles) & EARLE (John) Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, with Supplementary Extracts from the others. A Revised Text, Edited, with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, by Charles Plummer, on the Basis of an Edition by John Earle. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.(Reprint of the 1892 Edition) 1952. £28

2 Vols., xiv,[ii],420; xv,[i],clv,[i],463,[1]pp., bookplate, orig. cloth, a very nice set.

303. POLLARD (Alfred W.) Last Words on the History of the Title-page, with Notes on some Colophons and Twenty-seven Fac-similes of Title-pages. John C. Nimmo.1891. £125

First Edition, folio, [x],39,[1]pp., one of 260 numbered copies, ex-library, 27 splendid facsimiles of title-pages, including a beautiful hand-illuminated frontispiece of the first page of the Mazarin Bible, library label on front paste down, orig. decorated buckram, slightly spotted, re-backed, corners a little bumped, uncut.

A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred W. Pollard. p.28. “To keep control over the form of this book it was set up at the author's cost at the Chiswick Press... Mr. Nimmo not only defrayed the expenses incurred... but of his own motion supplied hand-decorated facsimiles of the first page of the ‘Gutenberg’ Bible by way of frontispiece, to show how books began before title-pages came in fashion. His pluck was rewarded, for the 250 copies offered for sale were all sold within a few days of publication.” Scarce.

304. POLLARD (Graham) & Continued by POTTER (Esther) Early Bookbinding Manuals: An Annotated List of Technical Accounts of Bookbinding to 1840. Occasional Publications No. 18. Oxford Bibliographical Society.1984. £12

First Edition, 60pp., 2 plates, orig. printed wrappers.

141 items described in detail.


305. POTTER (Ambrose George) A Bibliography of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Together with Kindred Matter in Prose and Verse Pertaining Thereto. Collected and Arranged by Ambrose George Potter. (Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1994. £45

314pp., orig. cloth.

THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE MANUAL BY A PRACTISING BOOKBINDER

306. PREDIGER (Christoph Ernst) Der in aller heut zu Tag üblichen Arbeit wohl anweisende accurate Buchbinder und Futteralmacher, welcher lehret, wie nicht nur ein Buch auf das netteste zu verfertigen, sondern auch.wie alle Farben auf Leder und Pergament anzusetzen.ferner wie die Franzosen ihre Bände machen. Ansbach, l’auteur, Frankfurt und Leipzig.1741-49. £1,745

First Edition, 3 parts of 4, [xxx],250,[20]pp., engraved frontis., and 18 folding engraved plates (one with a clean tear to fold); [xxx],266,[6]pp., engraved frontis., and 18 folding engraved plates; [xxii],301,[11]pp., engraved frontis., and 7 folding engraved plates of 11 (lacking plates 1-4), O6 torn (no loss), old marbled boards, a nice copy.

“Vol. I is an exhaustive manual of bookbinding and box-making, with tables showing the cost of materials, the time taken over the various processes and the cost of different styles of binding. The other three volumes deal with more specialised work such as the binding of school books, and there is inevitably a good deal of repetition. Vol. III has an appendix on apprenticeship regulations”.—Pollard & Potter. This was the first real comprehensive manual by a practising bookbinder, although it lacks the final part and some plates from part three, it is extremely rare and seldom appears on the market. A fourth and final part was published in 1753.

Pollard & Potter, Early Bookbinding Manuals. 22.

307. PRINTER’S ADVERT & ALMANAC FOR 1862. A very striking and colourful poster advertisement and 1862 almanac for Jones & Causton, Printers & Stationers, 47 Eastcheap and 14 Pudding Lane. [Jones & Causton].1862. £95

395 x 310mm, printed on card on one side only, printed in red and blue and highlighted in gold, with gold star and diamond border, the circular design at the top incorporates the royal coat of arms plus a picture of a printing press proclaiming ‘Printing by Steam Power’ and a picture of a sailing ship the ‘Wholesale and for Exportation’, below is an almanac with religious dates as well as birthdays etc. of prominent people, slight staining in top right-hand corner.

308. PRINTING MATERIALS TRADE CATALOGUE. Illustrated Catalogue of Types, Presses, Machinery, and all kinds of Printing Materials Manufactured by Sir Charles Reed & Sons, Letter Founders to Her Majesty. London.1889. £245

[ii],[vi],3-36pp., including price list, illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt.

A very rare trade catalogue for the printing trade, which includes some pioneering equipment. “Our catalogue includes several new inventions and latest improvements; amongst others, we would invite attention to the Zinc Tube Column and Jobbing Galleys, “Fann Street” Quoins, Swift Cylinder Machines, Wire Stitching Machines, and the new types of Gas Engine.”—Introduction.

No other copy located.

309. PRINTING OFFICE & BOOK BINDERY. A Sketch Descriptive of the Printing Office and Book Bindery of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. with Illustrations. Case, Lockwood & Brainard & Co., Hartford, Conn.1877. £225

99pp., frontis., 7 plates, orig. brick-red cloth, a little warped, title in gold on upper cover.

Gives a brief history and description, in the form of a walk-through, of this firm of Hartford printers and bookbinders.

Item 306

Item 310 Item 311


PRINTED IN CELEBRATION OF 300 YEARS OF PRINTING

310. PRINTING. SEELEN (Johann Heinrich von) Nachricht von dem Ursprung und Fortgang der Buchdruckerey in der Kays. Freyen und des H. Röm. Reichs Stadt Lübeck, worinn die Lübeckischen Buchdrucker und allerley von Ihnen gedruckte merkwürdige Bücher und Schrifften angeführet und beschrieben werden. Bey Gelegenheit des in diesem 1740 sten Jahre einfallenden Buchdrucker-Jubilaei ertheilet, und mit verschiedenen zur Gelehrten Historie gehörigen Anmerckungen. Green, Lubeck. 1740. xvi,186,[6]pp. [Bound with:] KLEINKNECHT (Conrad Daniel) Gott-geheiligte Evangelisch-Lutherische Buchdrucker-Jubel-Freude: über die besondere Göttliche Wohlthat, wegen der Anno 1440. und also vor 300. Jahren erfundenen, verbessert- und bishero gnädig erhaltenen Höchst-nützlichen Buchdrucker-Kunst : und ihrem dritten Jubel-Fest, mit hoch Obrigkeitlicher Bergünstigung, zu Ulm, d. 24 Augusti des 1740. Jahrs, um Tage St. Bartholomäi gehalten : in einem Gespräche mit historischen Anmerckungen... Gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, Ulm. 1742. [xxxii],95,[7]pp. [Bound with:] Kurtze Fragen von der Buchdruckerkunst, zum Nutzen der Jugend in der Stadt-Schule zu Grimma. Leipzig.1740. £575

16pp. Small 8vo, 3 works bound in one, cont. quarter vellum, a nice copy.

A collection of three extremely rare titles published at the 300-year celebration of the invention of printing.

Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 334 & 229 for the first and last title respectively.

PRINTED IN CELEBRATION OF 300 YEARS OF PRINTING

311. PRINTING. WEBER (J.G.) Weimarischer Beytrag zu feyerlicher Begehung des dritten hundertjährigen Jubel-Festes einer wohllöblichen Buchdrucker-Kunst... Johan Leonhard Mumbach, Weimar. 1740. [xxiv],136pp. [Bound with:] HUHN (Johann Benjamin) Kurtze Nachricht wie das Jubilæum wegen der von drey hundert Jahren erfundenen Buchdrucker-Kunst in der Residentz-Stadt Gotha den 11 Julii 1740 celebriret worden... Gotha. [1740]. [xxxii],xl,253,[1]pp. [Bound with:] MEUSCHEN (Johann Gerhard) Vollständige Beschreibung und Sammlung alles dessen, was bey dem den 29ten Junii, 1740, zu Coburg, auf gnädigst erhaltene Erlaubniss der durchl. Landes-Herrschafften, wegen der vor dreyhundert Jahren erfundenen edlen Buchdrucker-Kunst gefeierten Jubilaeo vorgefallen und abgehandelt worden. Hagen Wittwe, Coburg. 1740. [xvi],176pp. [Bound with:] SEELEN (Johann Heinrich von) Nachricht von dem Ursprung und Fortgang der Buchdruckerey in der Kays. Freyen und des H. Röm. Reichs Stadt Lübeck, worinn die Lübeckischen Buchdrucker und allerley von Ihnen gedruckte merkwürdige Bücher und Schrifften angeführet und beschrieben werden. Bey Gelegenheit des in diesem 1740 sten Jahre einfallenden Buchdrucker-Jubilaei ertheilet, und mit verschiedenen zur Gelehrten Historie gehörigen Anmerckungen. Green, Lubeck. 1740. xvi,186,[6]pp. [Bound with:] JUBELREDEN. Ulmische Jubel-Reden, welche in dieser des H. K. Reichs Freyen Stadt Ulm


am dritten Jubel-Feste wegen der vor dreyhundert Jahren erfundenen höchst nützlichen Buchdrucker-Kunst... den 24. Augusti... 1740... in der dasigen Parfüsser-Kirche am löbl. Gymnasio gehalten worden. Christian Ulrich Wagner, Ulm. [1740]. [xvi],109,[1]pp. [Bound with:] ABHANDLUNG. Abhandlung von der Buchdrucker-Kunst und einigen dahin gehör. Stücken des Alterthums: bey Geleg. des III Jubel-Jahrs in der Stadt Bremen, von dasigen beyden Gesellsch. der Brauer- und Janischen entworfen. [S.n.] Bremen. 1740. [ii],106pp. [Bound with:] PEUCER (Daniel) D. Martin Luthers merckwurdiger Sendbrief vom Dollmetschen, mit historischen apologetischen Anmerckungen versehen, bebst eben desselben erlauterten ausspruchen von der Brchdruckerey und den Buchdruckern... C.F. Gessner, Leipzig.1740. £1,395

[xvi],144pp. 7 works bound in one, later full vellum, a nice copy.

A collection of seven extremely rare titles published at the 300-year celebration of the invention of printing. Bigmore & Wyman, III 69; I 349; I 53; II 334; I 377; I 2; II 198. 312. PRINTING TYPE AND PRINTING MATERIAL. Price List of Printing Type and

Typographic Material made and for sale by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Company, 606-614 Sansom St. Philadelphia. Western Branch, Chicago.[c.1890]. £195

Small 8vo, 125,[3]pp., illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt, a nice copy.

A trade catalogue for everything needed in the print shop, with numerous engravings of case stands, all manner of printing presses, and much more.

313. PRIVATE PRESSES. A Catalogue for Typophiles of Books or Typographical Interest. Preceded by “Typophily”, an Essay by Holbrook Jackson, author of “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”. Also a Letter by Francis Meynell and a Note by Moira Gibbings. Dulau & Company Ltd.[1932]. £22

First Edition, 59,[1]pp., one of 100 copies on Whatman paper, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut.

A booksellers catalogue (Dulau & Company) of 480 items from various private presses.

314. PROCTOR (Robert) An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum: From the Invention of Printing to the Year 1500. With Notes of those in the Bodleian Library. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company Limited.1898-1903. £245

4 Parts bound in 2 vols., and supplements for 1898-1903, 3 vols., in all, 4to, 530; 980; 14,22,16,15pp., one of 350 sets, a couple of small neat stamps, orig. printed wrappers bound in, cont. half morocco, lightly rubbed, supplement volume in orig. cloth-backed boards, a very nice set.

Proctor’s great undertaking which laid the groundwork for the BMC. After completing the monumental Index of Early Printed Books to the Year 1500 in 1898, Proctor turned his attention to the early sixteenth century, but completed only one of the sections before he disappeared on a walking tour in the Tyrol in 1903. His work was continued by Frank Isaac.

315. QUARITCH (Bernard) Catalogue of Works on Natural History from the Libraries of the late Alphonse Milne-Edwards, N. Burgess, William Matthews, Miss E.A. Ormerod, G.R. Ryder and John Young... [Catalogue 215]. Bernard Quaritch.1902. £16

[iv],119,[25]pp., orig. cloth, 1481 items.


316. QUARITCH (Bernard) Editor. Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors as also of some Foreign Collectors whose Libraries were Incorporated in English Collections or whose Books are chiefly met with in England. Bernard Quaritch Ltd.1892-1922. £95

First Edition, Large 8vo, 14 parts, frontis., illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, uncut.

Each article is preceded by a biographical sketch followed by a specification of the more important or remarkable works collected together with a short account of the fate of the library, with the devolution of some of its items through successive later collections. Thus the Dictionary in an invaluable source for establishing provenance.

317. RAMSDEN (Charles) French Bookbinders 1789-1848. Printed for the Author by Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd.1950. £25

First Edition, 4to, xiv,228pp., frontis., 40 plates, orig. buckram, t.e.g. a fine copy.

This book consists of an alphabetical list of about 1,500 French binders who were at work during the period, precede by a dozen pages of introductory matter and illustrated by 40 collotype plates. In his choice of plates Mr Ramsden has avoided examples by binders already well illustrated elsewhere and concentrated on less-known craftsmen or the less-known aspect of the great masters.

318. RAMSDEN (Charles) Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (Outside London) 1780-1840. Privately Printed by the Author.1954. £25

First Edition, large 8vo, xv,250pp., one of 500 copies, 16 plates, inner hinges slightly shaken, orig. cloth.

An alphabetical list of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish binders of the late eighteenth century, and a list of the directories consulted is appended.

319. RANSON (Will) Private Presses and their Books. James Cummings Bookseller, New York.(Reprint of the 1929 Edition) 1992. £35

Large 8vo, 493,[1]pp., one of 350 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth.

A pioneer study of the private press movement.

320. REBENAU (Konrad von) Deutsche Bucheinbände der Renaissance um Jacob Krause Hofbuchbinder des Kurfürsten August I. von Sachsen. Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels.1994. £195

Folio, 2 vols., in one, 102 coloured plates, bound in full red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, a very nice copy.

321. RITSON (Joseph) Ancient Songs and Ballads, from the Reign of King Henry the Second to the Revolution. Collected by Joseph Ritson. Printed for Payne and Foss by Thomas Davison.1829. £125

Second and best edition, 2 vols., [x],ciii,[i],169,[1]; [viii],326,[2]pp., with half-titles, cont. embossed cloth, slight fraying to head & foot of spine and corners, otherwise a nice set.

The is the second and best edition which has been corrected, enlarged and much improved by the author, having first been published in 1790. “The most curious and certainly the most interesting to antiquarian readers of all Ritson’s works.”—Lowdnes, Vol. III, p.2099.

322. ROBINSON (A.H.) & PETCHENIK (B.B.) The Nature of Maps: Essays toward Understanding Maps and Mapping. The University of Chicago Press.1976. £15

First Edition, xii,138pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, d.w.

323. ROBINSON (B.W.) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1958. £95

4to, xxv,219pp., coloured frontis., 40 plates, orig. cloth.


324. ROBINSON (William H.) Catalogue of Extremely Rare and Important Printed Books and Ancient Manuscripts. Offered for Sale by William H. Robinson Ltd. Catalogue 77. William H. Robinson Ltd.1948. £25

4to, x,11-189,[1],cxci-cxcxpp., frontis., 194 illustrs., orig. boards, 194 items.

A wide selection of books and manuscripts representing items in most phases of book-collecting—from the first book printed in the English language, in 1475, to the second book printed in Australia, in 1805.

325. RODD (T[homas]) The Elder. Third Part of T. Rodd’s Catalogue for 1814; Containing Many Curious Books in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and other Languages, Which are now on Sale at No. 2, Great Newport Street, Long Acre, For Ready Money only. Printed by J. Compton. 1814. Part 3 only, [ii],38pp., orig. paper wrappers, lacks stitching, uncut. [Sold with:] RODD (T. & H.) Part III. for 1820, of a Catalogue of Useful, Scare, and Curious Books, (Including a few Interesting Manuscripts) in British History, Topography, and Biography, Heraldry, Poetry, Theology, Bibliography, &c. Now on Sale at T. and H. Rodd’s, 17, Little Newport Street, Leicester Fields. Printed by J. Compton.1820. £65

Part 3 only, 59pp., stitched as issued, title-page a little soiled and detached.

Thomas Rodd, the elder (1763-1822), issued catalogues from 1804-22, he was also an author of poems and sermons. His son, Thomas (1796-1849), also issued catalogues from 1822-49.

Neither catalogue on Copac.

326. ROHDE (Eleanour Sinclair) The Old English Gardening Books. The Minerva Press.(Reprint of the 1924 Edition) 1972. £35

4to, xii,144pp., one of 500 numbered copies, 16 plates, 8 plans, orig. cloth, d.w.

The books surveyed in this volume range from 1503 to 1706 (with an extensive bibliography).

327. ROHDE (Eleanour Sinclair) The Old English Herbals. Minerva Press Limited.(Reprint of the 1922 Edition) 1974. £25

Small 4to, xii,243pp., one of 500 copies, 17 plates, orig. cloth, d.w.

An extensive survey of Herbals, the standard work on a little-explored branch of medical and horticultural history.

328. ROSENTHAL (Jacques) Handschriften und Fruhdrucke in Deutscher Spache. Katalog 91. Jacques Rosenthal, Munich.1929. £25

4to, numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, lettered in gilt.

329. ROXBURGHE CLUB. Roxburghe Club. Chronological List of the Members; Catalogue of Books; Rules and Regulations. [Roxburghe Club].1893. £75

4to, [x],16,3,[1]pp., a very good ex-library copy, with the Earl of Powis’ name printed in red in the roll of members, endpapers foxed, cont. quarter Roxburghe.

330. ROXBURGHE CLUB. AETHELGIFU. The Will of Aethelgifu. A Tenth Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript, Translated and Examined by Dorothy Whitelock. With a Note on the Document by Neil Ker and Analyses of the Properties, Livestock and Chattels Concerned by Lord Rennell. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club.1968. £375

Folio, [xii],92pp., 4 full pages of facsimile and 6 facsimiles and 3 sketch maps in the text, with the bookplate of the Printer’s Library (Oxford University Press) and small stamp to verso of title-page, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g.

This, the largest and one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon documents of this category, has been dated to 980/990 A.D. It comes from a district, namely the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Hertfordshire, which is otherwise poorly represented by such documents. More than this, it is full of historical interest on the


social, agricultural, and ecclesiastical conditions of the areas and era. The Will is reproduced in full size facsimile.

331. 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. £275

4to, 135pp., followed by 334 coloured facsimile plates, orig. quarter red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, slight stain to lower cover, 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.

332. ROXBURGHE CLUB. [DUFF (Mountstuart E. Grant)] The Club 1764-1905. Printed for Private Circulation [for Members of the Roxburghe Club].1905. £345

4to, [viii],136pp., orig. quarter Roxburghe, boards unevenly sunned, uncut, t.e.g.

This book is not about the Roxburghe Club but about ‘Dr. Johnson’s Club’ which “was founded in 1764 by Sir Joshua Reyolds with whom were associated Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Christopher Nugent, Bennet Langton, Topham Beauclerk, Oliver Goldsmith, and Anthony Chamier. Including these eight, the total number of its members has been 233. Short accounts of all of them, with exception to persons still alive, will be found in the second part of the volume.”—Introduction.

Barker, 146.

333. ROXBURGHE CLUB. FLOWER (Desmond) Editor. Voltaire. Thérèse: A Fragment. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.1981. £60

4to, [viii],20pp., inscribed by the editor, 8 facsimile leaves, orig. quarter morocco, slightly faded, t.e.g.

334. 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. £795

Folio, viii,[ii],144pp., coloured frontis., heightened in gilt, 68 fine collotype plates printed by Emery Walker, with the bookplate of the Printer’s Library Oxford, title printed in red and black, orig. quarter Roxburghe morocco, spine lettered in gilt, uncut, t.e.g.

335. ROXBURGHE CLUB. JAMES (Montague Rhodes) The Apocalypse in Latin and French (Bodleian MS. Douce 180). Described by Montague Rhodes James. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford.1922. £1,745

Folio, xii,46,[2]pp., beautifully produced on heavy hand-made paper, 98 collotype plates (2 coloured), with St John Hornby’s compliments slip tipped-in, orig. quarter morocco, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.

“The Douce Apocalypse which James edited for C.H. St John Hornby in 1922 was his most substantial work for the club. Though printed at Oxford and not at the Ashendene Press, it is clear that Hornby watched over the typography with his skilled printer’s eye. The long introduction, admirably printed in the Fell types, is a characteristic ‘tour de force’, with the occasional lighter touch for which James had no equal; his remarks on the previous owner of the manuscript who used it as a vehicle for his thoughts on ‘Religion and Chearfulness’ are a nice example of it. The facsimile pages (folios 52 and 75 in colour) are trimmed close so that no margin outside the natural margins of the manuscript appears; this gives a more lifelike appearance to the facsimile, which surely must have been Hornby’s idea. To him also in all probability is due the pleasant modern binding of quarter brown morocco and natural buckram boards, which has been used as a model for several subsequent books.”—Barker, The Publication of the Roxburghe Club. p.60.


336. ROXBURGHE CLUB. MACRAY (Rev. W.D.) Editor. Beaumont Papers. Letters Relating to the Family of Beaumont, of Whitley, Yorkshire, from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries. Edited, from the Originals in the Bodleian Library. Printed for the Roxburghe Club by Nichols and Sons.1884. £85

4to, [viii],xxiv,115,[1]pp., vignette-title, ex-library, 1 facsimile plate, Rev. Edward Tindal Turner’s name printed in red in roll of members, recent cloth.

337. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WALLIS (Helen) Editor. The Maps and Text of the Boke of Idrography Presented by Jean Rotz to Henry VIII now in the British Library. With a Foreword by Viscount Eccles. Printed for Presentation to Members of the Roxburghe Club, Oxford.1981. £495

Large folio, xvi,96pp., coloured vignette to title-page, 16 coloured double-page facsimiles of which 12 are of the maps, cont. half morocco, gilt decoration on upper cover.

Presented by Rotz to the King in 1542, this magnificent atlas remained largely unnoticed until the beginning of the nineteenth century when it was examined in the British Library by James Burney. It is of great importance not least as a brilliant example of the work of the “Dieppe” school of hydrographers, the foremost in France, but also for its lavish decoration, and among many hydrographical points of interest, the delineation of what purports to be a section of the eastern coast of Australia. Viscount Eccles made this beautifully printed facsimile for members of the Roxburghe club, and it is certainly one of the most ambitious private publications undertaken in recent years. The new text, edited by Helen Wallis, includes articles by a number of scholars placing the atlas in its context from several view points.

338. ROXBURGHE CLUB. WRIGHT (C.T. Hagberg) Nicholas Fabri de Peiresc. Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club.1926. £200

Small 4to, x,56pp., presentation letter signed by the author tipped-in, title printed in red and black, frontis., portrait, 1 plate, cont. quarter Roxburghe morocco, extremities a little rubbed, uncut, t.e.g.

339. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Statistical Society. The Royal Statistical Society.1908. £22

viii,276pp., ex-Public Record Office copy, orig. cloth.

340. RYLANDS LIBRARY. Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester [Edited by E. Gordon Duff]. J.E. Cornish, Manchester.1899. £65

3 Vols., large 4to, [vi],648; [iv],[649]-1334; [iv],[1335]-1986pp., ex-library, orig. cloth, frayed at head and foot of spine, upper hinge of vol. II repaired, orig. buckram, spine labels chipped, uncut.

“This is one of England’s greatest libraries, formerly that of Lord Spencer at Althorp. It was purchased en bloc for nearly $1,250,000 and became the basis for the Rylands Library in Manchester. It was described by T.F. Dibdin in his Bibliotheca Spenceriana. It has been added to with excellent judgement by the several librarians who have guarded its destinies since its foundation in 1899 and is today one of England’s richest storehouses of books.” — Cox, Vol. 3 p.704.

FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING

341. RYMER (Thomas) Foedera, conventiones, literae et cujuscunque generis acta publica, inter reges Angliae, et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes, vel communitates. A. & J. Churchill, London.1704-1735. £3,745

First Edition, 20 volumes, folio (388 x 233mm.), [38], 900, 13; [18], 1092; [25], 1036; [24], 844; [26], 876; [18], 763; [19], 859; [19], 775; [19], 923; vol.10 - [6], 852, [12 (Index chronologicus, usually bound at beginning)]; [16], 852; [15], 804; [14], 804; [13], 801; [17], 807; [14], 794; vol.17 - [11], 680, [162 (Index nominum), 87 (Index locorum)], 125; [17], 1060; [14], 780; [15], 802pp., 16 engraved plates (7 folding in vol.1; 5 folding in vol.6; portrait in vol.9; 1 folding in vol.13; 2 in vol.14), eighteenth-century calf, spines heavily gilt tooled, occasional staining at foot of page (e.g. vols 7-9), some browning or spotting (more so in vols 10 and 17), gathering 4O and 4N in vol.1 transposed, Index chronologicus in vol.10 misbound, hinges to vol. 11 repaired, with staining to lower half of some covers, some joints lightly cracked but overall a very nice set in a contemporary binding.


Rymer was appointed historiographer to the king in 1692 and soon began the undertaking of transcribing and publishing all the public alliances, treaties and confederacies of England with other countries, sponsored by Charles Montagu and Lord Somers. When Rymer died in 1713 Robert Sanderson, previously joint editor, took over the project and edited volumes 17-20. Volume 17, published in 1717, was copiously indexed and thereafter the volumes appeared at irregular and lengthy intervals (1726, 1732 and 1735). As a result complete sets of the first edition of Foedera are rare at auction, the last being the Evelyn copy in 1977.

342. SABIN (Joseph) A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. N. Israel, Amsterdam.1961-62. £395

29 Vols., in 15, orig. cloth, one volume slightly scuffed.

Breslauer & Folter 129. “The most important of all American bibliographies, comprising well over 100,000 entries of books and pamphlets printed in the Western Hemisphere and works about it printed elsewhere. Collations and locations of copies are included.”

343. SADLEIR (Michael) The Evolution of Publishers Binding Styles 1770-1900. Bibliographia Series No. 1. Constable & Co. Ltd.1930. £145

First Edition, x,95,[1]pp., limited to 500 copies, frontis., 11 plates, printed on blue paper, orig. quarter vellum with marbled sides, uncut, a very nice copy.

One of the most important books in the Bibliographia series edited by Sadleir. Discusses the evolution of the paper wrapper into boards, paper labels, cloth, ink-blocking on cloth and other ornamentation.

344. SADLEIR (Michael) XIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record Based on his own Collection. Cambridge University Press.1951. £150

First Edition, 2 Vols., 4to, xxxiii,[i],399; [viii],195pp., limited edition, some light foxing, 48 plates, orig. buckram, d.w. a little soiled.

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.

345. SAGE (Dean) A Catalogue of the Collection of Books on Angling Belonging to Mr. Dean Sage of Albany, N.Y. New York.(Reprint of the 1896 Edition) 1995. £35

Limited to 200 copies, orig. cloth.

Provides full collations and descriptions, as well as considerable annotations, for 2000 books relating to Angling. One of the most valuable American collections of angling books.

346. SALAMAN (Malcolm C.) French Colour Prints of the XVIII Century. William Heinemann.1913. £45

First Edition, 4to, A.L.s. from David McKitterick to Ruari McLean concerning the printing of the plates loosely inserted, with McLean's bookplate, coloured frontis., 49 mounted coloured plates, inner hinges slightly shaken, orig. gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g.

347. SCHMOLLER (Tanya) To brighten things up: The Schmoller Collection of Decorated Papers. With a foreword by Mirjam Foot. Manchester Metropolitan University.2008. £60

Folio, 80pp., limited to 500 copies (250 in hardback and 250 in softback), 205 coloured illustrs., orig. cloth.

Tanya and her late husband Hans, have collected thousands of individual sheets and samples of decorated papers, contemporary and historic, travelling the world to find new and beautiful examples. The Schmoller collection in now the largest of its kind in the world and is housed at the Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections. This book is not a catalogue of the exhibition, nor is it a complete guide to the history of all the different techniques used to create decorated paper, but instead aims to present a visual introduction to the Schmoller Collection, illustrated with some of Tanya’s favourite examples and supported with discussions of the historical context and the techniques used. Paperback edition available at £30.


348. SCHUNKE (Ilse) Die Einbände der Palatina in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.1962. £295

2 Vols., in 3, 4to, xii,353; xii,404; iv,404-912pp., 180 plates, orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut, a fine set.

A fine catalogue of the bookbindings in the Vatican library.

349. SCHUSTER (Thomas E.) & ENGEN (Rodney) Printed Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue Raisonné. T.E. Schuster.1987. £40

First Edition, 304pp., 150 illustrs., (some in colour), orig. cloth.

This is the first fully comprehensive reference book for Kate Greenaway collectors, with over 600 major items and hundred,s of variants within each heading.

350. SCOTT (William) Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Early Engraved British & Foreign Portraits, Formed during the last Half Century by the late Mr. William Scott... Which, by order of the Executors, will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... on Monday, the 25th of May, 1857, and following Day. J. Davy and Sons.1857. £35

[ii],45,[1]pp., prices supplied in pencil, 439 lots, disbound, final couple of leaves a little frayed at margins, preserved within a folding card wallet.

THREE NEWCASTLE TYPOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO PRINTING, EACH ONE OF THE RARE LARGE PAPER COPIES

351. SERNA-SANTANDER (Carlos Antonio de la) An Historical Essay on the Origin of Printing, Translated from the French [by Thomas Hodgson] of M. de la Serna, Santander. Printed by and for S. Hodgson, Newcastle. 1819. Large 8vo, [ii],xiv,93,[1]pp., limited to 214 copies, of which this is one of 30 printed on royal 8vo. paper and signed by Thomas Hodgson. [Bound with:] Biographical Memoirs of William Ged; Including a Particular Account of his Progress in the Art of Block Printing [Edited by Thomas Hodgson]. Printed by S. Hodgson, Newcastle. 1819. Large 8vo, [ii],vi,48pp., limited to 160 copies, of which this is one of 30 printed on royal 8vo. paper and signed by Thomas Hodgson. [Bound with:] WILLETT (Ralph) A Memoir of the Origin of Printing. In a Letter Addressed to John Topham, Esq... by Ralph Willett [Edited by Thomas Hodgson]. Printed by and for S. Hodgson, Newcastle.1820. £795

Large 8vo, [ii],iv,72pp., engraved title vignette, limited to 150 copies, of which this is one of 30 printed on royal 8vo. paper and signed by Thomas Hodgson. Together 3 items in one, large 8vo, finely printed on Whatman Turkey Mills paper watermarked 1819, bound in half antique style calf, marbled paper sides, gilt tooled spine, uncut, a very nice copy.

Each tract has a limitation leaf detailing the number of copies printed on various size paper and each has been signed, in these cases, by Thomas Hodgson who edited these works.

352. SHAKESPEARE. The Passionate Pilgrim: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1599, from the Copy in the Christie Miller Library at Britwell. With an Introduction and Bibliography by Sidney Lee. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1905. £35

4to, 57pp., followed by 32 facsimile leaves, ex-library, orig. buckram-backed boards with orig. ties, uncut.

Item 335 Item 351

Item 351Item 351


353. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeares Venus and Adonis; Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1593, from the Unique Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library. With an Introduction and Bibliography by Sidney Lee. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1905. £35

4to, 75pp., followed by 27 facsimile leaves, limited numbered copy signed by Sidney Lee, ex-library, orig. buckram-backed boards with orig. ties, uncut.

354. SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeares Lucrece; Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1594, from the Copy in the Malone Collection in the Bodleian Library. With an Introduction and Bibliography by Sidney Lee. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.1905. £38

4to, 56pp., followed by 47 facsimile leaves, ex-library, orig. buckram-backed boards with orig. ties, uncut.

355. SHAKESPEARE. MULLINS (J.D.) Catalogue of the Shakespeare Memorial Library, Birmingham. Printed by Josiah Allen, Birmingham.1872-76. £45

3 Vols., iv,39,[1]; iv,[43]-130,[2]; iv,[133]-344pp., [no more published], orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cont. quarter morocco.

First Part: English editions of Shakespeare’s Works. First Part, Second Section: English editions of the separate plays, and of the poems. Second Part, Section One: Works on, or illustrative of, Shakespeare and his times.

IRISH LIBRARY AT LOUGH FEA

356. [SHIRLEY (Evelyn Philip)] Catalogue of the Library at Lough Fea, in Illustration of the History and Antiquities of Ireland. Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press.1872. £395

Small 4to, vii,[i],386pp., from the Public Record Office library, with their stamps, later buckram, uncut.

“Shirley, Evelyn Philip (1812–1882), antiquary and genealogist... Shirley owned property at Lough Fea in co. Monaghan, Ettington in Warwickshire, and Houndshill on the borders of Worcestershire. After he succeeded his father, he made considerable alterations to Ettington Park. Here, and at Lough Fea, he built up a large library and picture collection.”—(Oxford DNB). This is the rare privately printed catalogue of the library at Lough Fea which is dedicated solely to Irish literature.

357. SHUGBOROUGH HALL CATALOGUE. Shugborough Hall, Near Stafford. Mr. George Robins is honoured with instructions to announce for unreserved competition, on the premises, on Monday, the 1st of August, 1842, and Thirteen following Days... The Splendid Property of every denomination appertaining to Shugborough Hall... Comprising the Expensive Furniture... Brilliant Chimney and Pier Glasses... Ornamental Porcelain and Alabaster... A Collection of Pictures... A Gallery of Antique Statues and Busts... A Library of Books, etc. Smith and Robins.1842. £295

Small 4to, [iv],[5]-150pp., prices in cont. hand for the ninth day (the valuable collection of pictures), recently bound in marbled paper boards, morocco label.

The rare auction catalogue of the contents of Shugborough Hall, residence of the Earl of Lichfield. The large library occupied the first three days and was sold in 700 lots, most consisting of multiple titles. A search of Copac & OCLC locates just the Victoria & Albert Museum copy.

358. SIMON (André L.) Bibliotheca Bacchica. Bibliographie Raisonnée des Ouvrages Imprimés avant 1800 et illustrant la soif humaine sous tous ses aspects, chez tous les peuples et dans tous les temps. Maggs Brothers.1927. £375

First Edition, 2 vols., large 4to, xviii,237,[3]; vii,[i],255,[1]pp., limited to 250 numbered sets, presentation inscription from the author, frontispieces, numerous facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth-backed boards, covers to volume one browned, uncut.

Volume 1 lists books printed from 1450 to 1500 and volume 2 covers 1501 to 1600, over 700 entries described in detail.


359. SIMPSON (N. Douglas) Compiler. A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora. Including Floras, Herbals, Periodicals, Societies and References Relating to the Identification and Occurrence of Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptograms and Charophytes in the British Isles. Privately Printed, Bournemouth.1960. £30

First Edition, 4to, xx,429pp., one of 750 copies, orig. cloth.

OLD ENGLISH POETS

360. SKEGG (Edward) Catalogue of the Singularly Curious, Very Interesting, and Valuable Library of Edward Skegg, Esq. The Collection is Particularly Rich in the Works of the Old English Poets... Which will be Sold by Auction by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby... on Monday, April 4th, 1842, and Seven following days. London.1842. £225

[iv],[3]-155,[1]pp., prices and buyers’ names supplied in a cont. hand, several old faint library stamps, recent cloth-backed boards, 2,057 lots.

“From his youth Mr. Skegg was an ardent lover of the early English poets, and the object nearest his heart was the attainment of the fine copies of their best works... He formed one of the most perfect collections it has ever been the good fortune of a private individual to possess.” On Skegg’s retirement from Coutts and Co. he “determined to dispose of his collection, and placed it in the hands of Mr Leigh Sotheby, of Wellington-street, for public sale. It was impossible to have made a more judicious selection; for that gentleman, who had been many years intimate with Mr. Skegg, and who is himself an enthusiastic admirer of ancient English poetry, drew up a very elaborate catalogue, which it is no flattery to state, is the best of that description that has ever been made, and it will in future be a valuable work of reference, to all collectors of the works of our earliest poets.”—Gentleman’s Magazine (June, 1842).

De Ricci, p.107.

361. SKELTON (R.A.) Compiler. County Atlases of the British Isles 1579-1850: A Bibliography. 1579-1703. Carta Press.1970. £16

First Edition, 4to, viii,262pp., ex-library, frontis., 40 plates, facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w.

362. SKEMPTON (A.W.) British Civil Engineering 1640-1840. A Bibliography of Contemporary Printed Reports, Plans and Books. Mansell Publishing Ltd.1987. £45

First Edition, 4to, xvii,302pp., 16 pages of illustrs., orig. cloth.

This bibliography lists and describes some 1,800 books, printed reports and plans published in Great Britain before 1840 on civil engineering matters: fen drainage, river navigations, canals, docks and harbours, bridges, roads, railways, and water supply.

363. SMITH (Alfred Russell) Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Illustrating History and Geography of North and South America and the West Indies. Collected by John Russell Smith. On Sale at the Affixed Ready Money Prices... Alfred Russell Smith.1871. £35

vii,234,56pp., orig. cloth, slightly stained, 3593 items.

364. SMITH (Charles John) Historical and Literary Curiosities, Consisting of Facsimiles of Original Documents; Scenes of Remarkable Events and Interesting Localities; and the Birth-places, Residences, Portraits, and Monuments, of Eminent Literary Characters... Chatto and Windus.1875. £75

4to, viiipp., numerous autograph facsimiles, steel engraved views & other plates including 9 in colour, with the armorial bookplate of Archibald Frederick Hordern and the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, half morocco, marbled sides, slightly rubbed otherwise a nice copy.

Item 356 Item 357

Item 369Item 360


365. SMITH (David Eugene) Compiler. Rara Arithmetica. A Catalogue of the Arithmetics Written Before the Year MDCI with a Description of those in the Library of George Arthur Plimpton of New York. [With the Addenda]. Ginn and Co., Publishers, Boston.1908-39. £85

First Edition, xvi,507; x,52pp., frontis., 8 plates, facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, foot of spine bumped, uncut, addenda volume in orig. printed wrappers.

This extensive collection with full bibliographical entries was presented to the Columbia University Libraries in 1936.

366. SMITH (George) & BENGER (Frank) The Oldest London Bookshop. A History of Two Hundred Years. To Which is Appended a Family Correspondence of the Eighteenth Century. Ellis.1928. £65

First Edition, 4to, frontis., 11 plates, orig. buckram, uncut.

Covers the reign of the great bookseller F.S. Ellis (1872-85) when the firm was agent for the British Museum and numbered most of the great collectors of the day among its clients.

367. [SMITH (John)] The Printer’s Grammar: Containing a Concise History of the Origin of Printing; Also, an Examination of the Superficies, Gradation, and Properties of the Different Sizes of Types Cast by Letter Founders; Various Tables of Calculation; Models of Letter Cases; Schemes for Casting off Copy, and Imposing; and many other Requisites for Attaining a Perfect Knowledge both in the Theory and Practice of the Art of Printing... Chiefly Collected from Smith’s Edition. Printed by L. Wayland.1787. £595

Second Edition, [iv], 369,[1]pp., blank lower right-hand corner of title-page expertly repaired, title foxed (as usual with this book), some interim foxing throughout text, with the armorial bookplate of Edmund Sydney Williams, nineteenth-century calf, rubbed, lower hinge slightly cracked, corners bumped.

This is the second edition of Smith’s ‘Printers Grammar’ of 1755. It has been altered considerable from that edition, pages 275-316 are a 1787 type specimen of Edmund Fry & Co., obviously intended specifically for this work as the pagination and signatures are continuous.

368. SONNTAG JUN (Carl) Kostbare Bucheinbände des XV. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts. Katalog XXI. C.G. Boerner, Leipzig.[1912]. £85

4to, xvi,107pp., 52 plates (6 in colour), 230 fine bindings, priced, with descriptions in German and French, orig. printed wrappers, re-backed, uncut.

A superb catalogue from the bookselling firm C.G. Boerner of Leipzig. Gustac Nebehay, a partner of the firm, commissioned his father-in-law, the bookbinder Carl Sonntag, to compile this handsome binding catalogue.

369. SOTHEBY (Samuel) A List of the Original Catalogues of the Principal Libraries which have been Sold by Auction by Mr. Samuel Baker, from 1744 to 1774; Messrs. S. Baker and G. Leigh, from 1775 to 1777; Mr. George Leigh, 1778; Messers. Leigh and Sotheby, from 1780 to 1800; Messrs. Leigh, Sotheby and Son, from 1800 to 1803; Messrs. Leigh and S. Sotheby, from 1804 to 1816; and Mr. Sotheby, from 1816 to 1828. The whole forming a Series of One Hundred and Forty-six Volumes in Quarto, with Prices and Purchasers’ Names. Printed by Compton & Ritchie.1828. £1,745

[ii],12,[6],[13]-34,[2]pp., presentation inscription at head of title “Sir George Chetwynd Bt. with Messrs. Sotheby and Sons compliments”, armorial bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd on front paste-down, with a further presentation inscription in pencil on endpaper “To Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge with Compliments of Hew Morrison LL.D. [Edinburgh’s first City Librarian] Edinburgh, 22nd May 1920”, the colophon states “Twenty-five Copies of the Catalogue of the principal Sales in the foregoing List were printed on Fine Paper, in octavo; some few of which remain, and may be had of Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby”, cont. half calf, rubbed, hinges cracked.

The second issue of this extremely rare and invaluable source book on early auctioneering history. The catalogue records the “sales under successive principals and partners up to the 1828, when Samuel Sotheby was the principal


of the firm. The 1818 edition lists some 600 sales, chronologically arranged under the successive principals, the second part, pp. 13-28, lists the ‘Sale Catalogues from 1744-1817, alphabetically arranged.’ The edition of 1828 is a reissue of the 1818 catalogue, augmented by the chronological list of approximately 270 sales held by Samuel Sotheby between 1818 and 1828, followed by an alphabetical list of owners of the collections sold.”—Breslauer.

370. SPICER (A. Dykes) The Paper Trade. A Descriptive and Historical Survey of the Paper Trade from the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. Methuen & Co.1907. £110

First Edition, with the bookplate of Lancelot Dykes Spicer, modern quarter morocco, marbled boards.

The best general history of the paper industry in the nineteenth century.

371. STAIKOS (K. Sp.) The Mirror of the Library. Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck. Oak Knoll Press, Deleware.2006. £22

xi,[i],49,[3]pp., one of 700 copies, orig. cloth, printed paper label on upper cover.

372. STEPHEN (Geo. A.) Walter Rye. Memoir, Bibliography, and Catalogue of his Norfolk Manuscripts in the Norwich Public Libraries. Public Libraries Committee, Norwich.1929. £18

First Edition, 32pp., ex-library, frontis., buckram.

373. STEVENSON (Edward Luther) Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy. Yale University Press, New Haven.1921. £275

First Edition, 2 vols., xxvi,218; xi,[i],291,[1]pp., limited edition, frontispieces, 143 plates, orig. cloth.

The standard book on Globes.

374. STOKES (I.N. Phelps) & HASKELL (Daniel C.) American Historical Prints, Early Views of American Cities, Etc. From the Phelps Stokes and other Collections. The New York Public Library, New York.1933. £55

4to, frontis., 118 plates, Separate index to illustrations tipped-in, orig. cloth.

A valuable reference tool for early American prints, with historical notes, and indices of artists, engravers, and subjects.

375. STREIT (Robert) Bibliotheca Missionum: Amerikanische Missionsliteratur 1493-1699. (Reprint of the 1924 Edition) 1999. £75

Large 8vo., xii,13-28,939pp., orig. cloth.

This is the great Catholic bibliography on missions. This volume includes all voyages, relations, official documents, etc, relating to the Catholic Church’s work in America. The period covered is from 1493-1699. In all nearly 2800 items are thoroughly described. The description includes valuable annotations, full bibliographical details, and cross references with other standard bibliographies. The overall work includes over 30 volumes, covering all areas of the world where the Catholic Church was active. This volume is comprehensive for all items relating to America before 1700. Other volumes were published on Africa, Asia, Indonesia and Australia. Reissued as volume two of the Veroffentlichungen des Internationalen Instituts fur Missionswissenschaftliche Forschung series.

Besterman 321.

376. STUART (Robert L.) Catalogue of the Library of Robert L. Stuart. J.J. Little & Co. New York.1884. £45

First Edition, small 4to, no. 112 of a limited edition, presentation copy, inner hinge shaken, orig. cloth, uncut.

Item 377 Item 382

Item 391Item 385


LARGE PAPER COPY WITH PRICES AND BUYERS

377. SYKES (Sir Mark Masterman) Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious and Extensive Library of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the First [-Third]. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Evans... on Tuesday, May 11... 1824. [Printed by W. Nicol].1824. £795

Large 8vo, 3 parts in one, v,[i],93,[1]; [ii],50 (wrongly paginated ending with pp. 83); [ii],68pp., large paper copy, prices and buyers names’ in a neat cont. hand, with the armorial bookplate and signature in pencil of Thomas Egerton Tatton of Wythenshawe Hall, also with the bookplate of John H. Prenter, a few repairs to closed tears, final leaf torn across the middle and repaired, some light soiling to several leaves, cont. quarter calf, marbled boards, hinges slightly cracked, uncut.

The large library formed at Sledmere in Yorkshire by Sir Mark Masterman Sykes produced poor results at auction considering its wealth of incunabula of the first importance (Gutenberg Bible, 1459 Psalter, 1462 Bible, etc.). Many of Sykes’s books had been purchased at the sales of Pearson, Farmer, Steevens, Reed, Brand, Edwards and the Duke of Roxburghe and possibly suffered from over-exposure in the sale room. However both Sir John Thorold and Henry Perkins made their first important acquisitions at this sale.

De Ricci, pp. 95-96.

378. TAUBERT (Sigfred) Bibliopola. Pictures and Texts About the Book Trade. Hamburg.1966. £95

First Edition, 2 vols., folio, 258 plates including some facsimiles (42 in colour), 300 figures in the text, orig. cloth, red morocco labels.

Among the numerous aspects and personages dealt with are shop fronts, interiors, the bookseller, his assistants, the customer, the book-buyer, the book-thief, the auctioneer and the antiquarian bookseller.

379. TAYLOR (C.R.H.) A Pacific Bibliography. Printed Matter Relating to the Native Peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Oxford University Press.1965. £45

Second Edition, 692pp., ex-library, orig. cloth.

This revised and greatly enlarged edition includes, classified by island group and by subject, the most important of the many writings on the people of the Pacific Islands, including New Zealand.

380. TECHENER (J.) Description Bibliographique des Livres Choisis en tous Genres Composant la Librairie J. Techener. Place De La Colonnade Du Louvre, Paris.1855. £45

2 Vols., xiii,[i],526; [vi],560pp., cont. vellum-backed boards, lower cover of volume two detached and rather crudely held on with tape.

381. TERRY (Rev. Dr. Roderick) The Library of the Late Rev. Dr. Roderick Terry of Newport, Rhode Island... Anderson Galleries Inc. New York.1934. £35

2 Parts, 4to, frontispieces, facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, 731 lots.

RE-ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK ON AUTOGRAPHS

382. [THANE (John)] British Autography. A Collection of Fac-similes of the Hand Writing of Royal and Illustrious Personages, with their Authentic Portraits. Published by J. Thane & Edward Daniel.[1839]. £485

4 Vols., in three, 4to, [ii],iv,40; [2], iii,[i],54; [iv],53,[1]; [vi],55-66pp., with the supplement which is limited to 100 copies, 3 of the title-pages are engraved, 282 engraved plates (3 folding) of portraits and facsimile signatures, bookplate of Henry Cunliffe, cont. half maroon morocco gilt, t.e.g. a very nice set.

The first English book on autographs. “The coppers of this work were sold in 1838, and purchaser (Mr. Daniel) re-issued the work without altering the date; and also published “Twenty-seven Additional Portraits with the Autographs, never before published,” Lond. 1839, 4to, consisting of title, list of 27 portraits, 3 sheets of fac-similes, portrait of Mr. Thane, and letter-press, 66pp., of which an additions only 100 copies were made up.”—Lowndes, Vol. IV, p.2658.


383. THOINAN (Ernest) [Pseud. of ROQUET (Antoine Ernest)] Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l’Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de Livres de la Ville de Paris et d'une Étude sur les Styles de Reliure. Paul, Huard & Guillemin, Paris.1893. £295

First Edition, 4to, vii,[i],416,[2]pp., one of 650 numbered copies, 32 plates (1 folding), illustrs., in the text, blue half morocco, gilt, a nice copy.

“another classic of bookbinding literature... which was to have many lineal descendants... this admirable work on the earlier French binders...” — Breslauer, Use of Bookbinding Literature. p. 25.

384. THOMAS (Thomas) Catalogue of the First [-Second] Portion of Greek, Roman, and Foreign Medieval Coins and Medals, Collected during the last Fifty Years by the late Thomas Thomas, Esq... Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., on Monday, July 8th and Eleven following days [& on Monday, July 29th and Twelve following days]. London.[1844]. £110

2 Parts, 195,[1]; [ii],[197]-430pp., lower corner of first four leaves of the second portion have been torn-away (slightly affecting a couple of words), neatly bound in a green smooth calf, uncut, 3115 lots.

The English portion of the collection was sold by S. Leigh Sotheby & Co., in 1843.

ONE OF 100 COPIES FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION

385. THOMPSON (Henry Yates) Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Duguesclin by Jean Cuvelier. From a Manuscript of about 1400 A.D. in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. [Privately Printed] at the Chiswick Press.1909. £345

Folio, 21.[1]pp., one of 100 numbered copies, presentation inscribed, with coloured vignette on title and 14 collotype plates, orig. cloth, a fine copy.

INSCRIBED TO SIR SYDNEY C. COCKERELL

386. THOMPSON (Henry Yates) Catalogue of Twenty-Six Illuminated Manuscripts and Eight Fifteenth Century Books Printed on Vellum the Property of Henry Yates Thompson... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 23rd of March, 1920. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons. 1920. 4to, [vi],[67]-135,[1]pp., signed and dated on upper cover by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, frontis., 49 collotype plates (some double-page), orig. printed wrappers, uncut. [Sold with:] ----. Catalogue of Sixteen Illuminated Manuscripts and Fifteen Early Printed Books, the Property of Henry Yates Thompson... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Wednesday, 22nd of June, 1921. Dryden Press: J. Davy and Sons.1921. £175

4to, vi,[143]-207,[1]pp., presentation inscription to Sir Sydney C. Cockerell from Henry Yates Thompson, coloured frontis., 43 collotype plates (some double-page), orig. printed wrappers, uncut.

A justly famous collection, which had its basis of 250 manuscripts from the Ashburnham library. De Ricci, pp. 167-70. “In 1919 our collector [Henry Yates Thompson] decided to part with his hundred manuscripts, but after three prodigious sales, totalling nearly £150,000, for seventy manuscripts and twenty-five books printed on vellum, he stopped, retaining about one-third of his collection of manuscripts and nearly all his printed books.”

387. THOMPSON (James Westfall) The Frankfort Book Fair. The Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne. Edited with Historical Introduction Original Latin Text with English Translation on Opposite Pages and Notes. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1911 Edition) 1968. £45

4to, xviii,204pp., frontis., illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth-backed boards.


388. TOMKINSON (G.S.) A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in Great Britain & Ireland. With an Introduction by B.H. Newdigate. The First Edition Club.1928. £50

4to, xxiv,[ii],238pp., one of 1000 copies numbered and signed by the author, illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, in a slightly torn dust wrapper, otherwise a nice copy.

Still a very useful reference giving full listings of the major presses (Ashendene, Kelmscott, Vale, Doves, Eragny etc.) and much information on the middle and lower ranks.

389. TOOLEY (R.V.) Collectors’ Guide to Maps of The African Continent and Southern Africa. Carta Press.1969. £25

First Edition, 4to, xvi,132pp., ex-library, coloured frontis., 105 plates (5 coloured), orig. cloth, d.w.

390. [TOOVEY (C.J.] Compiler. Catalogue of the Library Collected by Sir Charles Tennant, Bart. Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press.1896. £275

Small 4to, [iv],334,[2]pp., bound in 3 volumes, interleaved with ruled paper, presentation inscription from Sir Charles, dedicatee’s name having been erased, several shelf numbers added in pencil indicating this may have been a family copy?, buckram uncut.

Scarce catalogue of the library at The Glen, Traquair, compiled by the bookseller C.J. Toovey. “It recorded mainly 18th and 19th century books... the library remained intact until November 1981 when it was auctioned by Sotheby’s”. - Anthony Lister, ‘Private Library Catalogues printed at the Chiswick Press’, A.B.M.R. May 1987.

391. TOWNELEY (John) Towneley Collection of Hollar’s. A Catalogue of a Capital Collection of Prints, the Work of that Incomparable Artist, Wenceslaus Hollar, Formed at a Considerable Degree of Expense, by the Late John Towneley, Esq., Being the Most Complete ever yet Offered to the Public... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. King... on Tuesday, the 26th Day of May, 1818, and Four following Days. Printed by W. Smith.1818. £345

Small 4to, [iv],44p., prices and buyers names’ supplied in a neat cont. hand, recently bound in marbled paper boards, morocco label.

This auction catalogue of the splendid Towneley collection of Hollar’s Prints is arranged according to “Classes of Vertue’s Catalogue of Hollar’s Works, 2d Edit. 1759. Additional plates not mentioned by Vertue, will be found blank, and are placed for the most part at the end of each Division.” The sale consisted of 527 lots, which realized the large sum of £2,102.10s.6d. It was widely reported at the time, that the executors, in order to prevent a public sale, had offered the collection for less than half that sum. A good proportion of the lots were purchased by an agent (John Simco), to complete the royal collection. Copac listing the British Library and Bodleian copies only.

392. TRADE CATALOGUE. Donnell’s Wire Stitching Machines for Book Binders, Stationers, Printers, Lithographers. E.P. Donnell Manufacturing Company, Chicago.1891. £75

12mo, 12 leaves printed on thin paper, black ink over pale blue backgrounds, verso only, 6 illustrations of wire stitchers and sewing machine, printed marbled-paper wrapper, staples rusted, a nice copy.

No other copy located.

393. TRIPHOOK (Robert) A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages, and in Every Department of Literature, Many of Which are of Uncommon Occurrence; on Sale at Robert Triphook’s, 23, Old Bond-Street, London. 1817. [With:] Supplement to Robert Triphook’s Catalogue... Printed by B. McMillan.1817. £225

2 Parts, [ii],120+[16]pp., of adverts; [xvi],[121]-157pp., main catalogue in recent marbled wrappers, supplement stitched as issued, margins slightly worn, 2,462 items. Not listed on Copac.

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394. TROEYER (Benjamin) & MEES (Leonide) Bib-bibliographia Franciscana Neerlandica ante saeculum XVI. B. de Graff, Nieuwkoop.1974. £195

2 Parts in 3 vols., text volumes in 8vo, plate volume 4to, 270; 184; 223pp., 510 facsimiles, presentation copy, orig. cloth.

The first volume is made up in chronological order, containing the biographies of the Franciscan (Friars Minor) authors from the Netherlands and Belgium who lived during the 13th-15th centuries. The second contains extensive bibliographical descriptions of 131 fifteenth century editions of works by Franciscan authors. The typographical atlas provides 510 facsimiles taken from the 131 books described in the preceding volumes.

395. TURNER (Dawson) Descriptive Index of the Contents of Five Manuscript Volumes, Illustrative of the History of Great Britain, in the Library of Dawson Turner, Esq., Charles Solman, Great Yarmouth.1851. £55

First Edition, [ii],165,[166-176]pp., orig. cloth, spine a little torn, uncut.

This volume was intended as an Appendix to the General Catalogue of Manuscripts which never appeared. Proposals for printing the Catalogue of MSS appeared in 1834, of which only twelve copies were printed, and distributed to friends for criticism and advice. As a consequence of their replies, Dawson Turner abandoned his attempts to print the catalogue in this form. The MSS described were sold by Dawson Turner to the British Library in 1853 for £1000, and are now Add.MSS 19398-19402.

396. TURNER (J. Horsfall) Halifax Books and Authors. A Series of Articles on the Books Written by Natives and Residents, Ancient and Modern, of the Parish of Halifax (Stretching from Todmorden to Brighhouse), with Notices of their Authors and of the Local Printers... Privately Printed at the “News” Office, Brighouse.1906. £45

First Edition, 4to, 262pp., illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, lacks spine.

“A most important specimen”―Birrell & Garnett

397. TYPE SPECIMEN. Épreuves de Caractères. E. Tarbé & Cie Successeurs de Firmin Didot, Molé, Crosnier, Éverat. Mai 1839. Fonderie Générale des Caractères Français et Étrangers, Paris.1839. £1,195

Large 8vo, [half-title; title; Pix Courant, 2 leaves; Avis, 1 leaf; Caractères Romains et Italiques, 43 leaves; Caractères de Fantaisie, 42 leaves; Caractères Étrangers, 18 leaves; Ornements Typographiques, 90 leaves, of which 9 are folding; Caractères d’Affiches, 44 leaves: altogether 242 leaves], two bookplates to front endpaper, cont. quarter calf, marbled sides, two small shelf labels, small nick to lower hinge otherwise a very nice copy.

The pagination varies with different copies, but this is the most complete copy we have located. The Birrell & Garnett copy had 210 leaves, the Harvard copy has 213 leaves and the Audin copy (no. 188) records 210 leaves. “This firm was formed by E. Tarbé, who had taken over Molé’s foundry. He prompted the amalgamation of Firmin Didot Frères, the Vibert-Luy-Crosnier-Éverat foundry and Laboulaye Frères, together with his own, into one important foundry between 1835 and 1837... A most important specimen, show a wealth of interesting type.”—Birrell & Garnett, 64.

398. TYPE SPECIMEN. Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Printing Machinery and Supplies, Wood Goods and Wood Type, Fine Printing Inks. Everything for the Printer. American Type Founders Company, [Baltimore].1897. £295

236pp., profusely illustrated throughout with composing sticks, quoins, type cabinets, bookbinders’ metal type, simple and large scale commercial presses, special machines for printing lottery and railroad tickets, etc etc.; floral endpapers, original red cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed otherwise a nice copy.


399. TYPE SPECIMEN. FARMER (A.D. & Son) Abridged Specimen Book: Type, Borders, Brass Rules, Ornaments and Price List of Printing Machinery, Furniture, Fixtures and Material. A.D. Farmer & Son Type Founding Co., Chicago.1899. £165

8vo, 400pp., profuse illustrations of types, furniture, machinery, etc. patterned paper endpapers, orig. dark green cloth, lettered in brick red, very slight fraying to head and foot of spine, small water-spot on front cover, otherwise a nice copy, all edges red.

Aaron D. Farmer refused to be merged in the new American Type Founders Company in his lifetime. On his death in 1895 son continued the business, but finally succumbed to the ATFC in May of 1909, when the plant was sold and the machinery dismantled.

400. TYPE SPECIMEN. HARRILD & SONS. Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Materials, with Selected Type Specimens. Harrild and Sons.[c.1895]. £395

Large 8vo, [iv],74 (catalogue of printing equipment),[ii] (section title ‘Specimens of Printing Types, Borders, Ornaments, &c.’) + ff. 190 of specimens, [ii] (section title ‘Views of London & Otley Works’) + ff. 32 sepia photographs or illustrated plates, orig. cloth, stamped in gilt. A handsome and extensive type specimen, the final section of photographic plates gives a good idea of foundry work towards the end of the nineteenth-century.

Copac locating a single copy (Cambridge University); St. Bride’s Catalogue, 1277.

VERY RARE EARLY AMERICAN TYPE SPECIMEN

401. TYPE SPECIMENS. Specimen of Printing Types from the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry. John G. Rogers, Agent. Counting Room Congress, corner of Lindall Street. Dutton & Wentworth, Printers.1828. £5,995

8vo, title; advert leaf; price list+[134] leaves printed on rectos only, 7 large folding pages (two a little torn), showing brass rules, flowers & borders, newspaper ornaments, metal ornaments, etc., some light staining and browning particularly to the final few leaves, stitched as issued, orig. limp leather covers, foundry name stamped in gilt on upper cover, overall a very good copy.

The Boston Type Foundry, the first foundry in New England, started life in 1817 as a branch of the type foundry of Elihu White of New York. After a short period operating from an address in Charleston it was moved to the rear of Armstrong's Book Store, Boston in 1819. In that same year it was sold to Timothy Bedlington (bookbinder) and Charles Ewer (owner of the book store), who named it the Boston Type Foundry. In 1826 it was the first type foundry to attempt “the construction of a machine for casting type. Several machines were made, and the system promised to be successful for a time, but the type was found defective, and after the loss of a large portion of their capital the company fell back into the old system of hand-casting.” (Bigmore & Wyman). The type foundry issued three type specimens (1820, 1825 & 1826) prior to this 1828 specimen, all are extremely rare and are known by only one or two copies. Annemberg locates two copies of this specimen.

Bigmore & Wyman I, p.73; Annenberg, pp.70-73.

UNRECORDED TYPE SPECIMEN

402. TYPE SPECIMENS. Bower & Bacon’s Improved Specimen of Printing Types, Sheffield. [Bower & Bacon, Sheffield].1831. £2,975

8vo, title-page set in a diaper pattern composed of simple flower units within a border of canon units, prices of printing types dated 1831, followed by [153] specimen leaves (including inserted slip and 2 large folding pages), with a final leaf of prices of cast ornaments, orig. cloth, overall a very nice copy indeed.

We have been unable to locate another copy of this specimen book, the St Bride Library hold a 1830 edition with fewer specimens. The specimens include: Placard types, body type, black and open black, white, ornamental Egyptian, Italians, shaded, borders & flowers, ornamental dashes, rules & braces and cast ornaments. The Bower, Bacon & Bower foundry began in Sheffield in 1810. In that same year they issued their first specimen book, with the types being all modern face. In 1830 they issued an ‘Improved Specimen of Printing Types’, consisting of 142 leaves, and further specimens in 1832 and 1837. The foundry was sold in 1851 when the plant and stock were dispersed by auction.

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403. TYPE SPECIMENS. Specimens of Printing Types in use at the Marion Press, Jamaica, Queensborough, New York. Together with a List of the Publications of the Marion Press. [Marion Press, New York].1899. £75

First Edition, 16pp., woodcut frontis., introduction by Frank E. Hopkins followed by specimens of print types including: Caslon Old-Style, Commercial, Modern in various points, with a list of available publication of the Marion Press on inside cover, orig. paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover within a decorative border, uncut.

Hopkins tells us in the introduction that “In October, 1896, while employed at the De Vinne Press, New York, I set up in the attic of my house a small hand-press... and named for my daughter, Marion Day... In February, 1898, I left the De Vinne Press, and set up for myself in the printing business... The types shown on the following pages are new, and most of them are in good-sized fonts.”

RARE EARLY AMERICAN TYPEFOUNDERS’ SPECIMEN BOOK

404. TYPE SPECIMENS. JOHNSON & SMITH. Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments, Cast by Johnson & Smith, No. 6 George Street, Philadelphia. [s.n., Philadelphia].1841. £2,945

Small 4to, title+[349] leaves printed on rectos only, 3 large folding pages, library call number and perforation stamp to title, some light foxing, cont. half morocco, rubbed, call number to foot of spine but still a nice copy.

An extremely rare typefounders’ specimen book. The first successful type foundry in the United States was established in 1796 by the Scotsmen Archibald Binney & James Richardson. It continued under the name and management of James Richardson, from 1815 to 1823. It was then handed over to his younger brother, Richard, who was sole manager from 1823 to 1833. He in turn was succeeded by the English immigrants Lawrence Johnson and George F. Smith, under who leadership the firm flourished. In 1843, when Smith being older than Johnson and in ill health, sold his interest to the younger partner, the trade name changed to L. Johnson & Co. and was eventually absorbed into the American Type Founders Co. in 1892. Annenberg locates the American Antiquarian Society & Columbia University copies, with OCLC adding a copy at the American Philosophical Society Library.

Annenberg, p.162-3.

405. VERTUE (George) A Description of the Works of the Ingenious Delineator and Engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, Disposed into Classes of Different Sorts; With some Account of His Life. Printed for William Bathoe, at his Circulating Library in the Strand.1759. £395

Second Edition, with additions, 4to, vi,151,[1]pp., with the armorial bookplate of Lady Frances Scott, engraved frontis., light water stain to lower outer corner of first 15 pages, cont. calf, hinges cracked, label chipped.

First published in 1745 and Dedicated to the Duchess of Portland, from whose most extensive collection it was compiled. Vertue derived much of the information for the life of Hollar from the younger Faithorne and Mr. F. Place, both of them engravers, who were very conversant with Hollar during his residence in London.

406. VOLKMANN (Ludwig) Iconografia Dantesca. The Pictorial Representations to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Revised and Augmented by the Author, with a Preface by Charles Sarolea. H. Grevel & Co.1899. £45

4to, xx,234,[2]pp., limited to 250 numbered copies (this out of series and unnumbered), 17 plates, orig. vellum-backed cloth (cloth slightly peeling away), spine a little soiled.

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407. WALLACE (John William) An Address Delivered at the Celebration by the New York Historical Society, May 20, 1863, of the Two Hundredth Birth Day of Mr. William Bradford, who Introduced the Art of Printing into the Middle Colonies of British America. J. Munsell, Albany, N.Y.1863. £45

Large 8vo, [iv],114pp., limited edition, presentation inscription from the author to George Folsom (lawyer, antiquarian, editor and librarian of AAS and NY Historical Society), 3 large foldout plates, orig. cloth backed boards.

408. WALPOLE (Horace) A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole. George Robins.1842. £245

4to, xxiv,250pp., lithographed frontis., portrait, engraved and printed title, printed wrappers, lightly rubbed, cloth spine, a nice copy in the original state.

The sale catalogue for Horace Walpole’s remarkable estate at Strawberry Hill. It includes a tour of the house itself in the introduction, followed by each of the days sales, including books, prints, coins and medals, pictures and drawings, enamels and miniatures, furniture, china, porcelain, and even stained glass (the sale went on for a staggering 24 days).

PRIVATELY PRINTED

409. WARNER (Sir George) Descriptive Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts in the Library of C.W. Dyson Perrins. Printed at the University Press, Oxford.1920 £1,245

First Edition, 2 vols., folio, xix,[i],341,[1]; [vi]pp., frontispieces, 136 plates, orig. buckram, lightly stained, corner bumped, uncut, t.e.g.

Magnificently produced privately printed catalogue, on hand-made paper. This is one of the most important MS. collection brought together by a private collector.

410. [WELLESLEY SALE] Catalogue of a Very Choice Collection of Prints and Drawings, Illustrative of London and its Environs in Middlesex, Surrey, &c. Being the most complete and important Body of Early and Rare London Topography ever submitted to Public Sale, and Comprising Drawings of the Highest Interest... Which will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson... on Monday, the 18th day of July, 1853, and Four following Days. J. Davy and Sons.1853. £40

[iv],79,[1]pp., majority of prices and buyers’ names supplied in a cont. hand, 737 lots, disbound, preserved within a folding card wallet.

411. WELSH (Charles) A Bookseller of the Last Century. Being Some Account of the Life of John Newbery and of the Books he Published with a Notice of the Later Newberys. Printed for Griffith, Farrow, Okeden & Welsh.1885. £95

First Edition, xii,373pp., from the library of William Foyle, frontis., 8 plates (one folding), cont. half calf, gilt, leather labels on spine, a nice copy.

An account of the eighteenth-century pioneer of children’s publishing and bookseller and newspaper publishing. Also a catalogue of the books the Newberys published, a list of John Newbery publications and some of the newspapers that he was connected with.


CORK BOOKSELLER

412. [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, Cork.1835. £345

First Edition, 2 parts in one, [viii],[9]-76,[21],102-200pp., separate title to the second part, lithograph portrait frontispieces, with a further 9 lithographed portraits, 4 plates, woodcuts in the text, cont. half morocco, marbled boards, rubbed.

An appealingly eccentric work, full of curious information. In the first part of the work, the text proceeds to page 76 before suddenly breaking pagination to incorporate ‘Sketches of the Life of Captain Grose’, Grose’s ‘Rules for Drawing Caricaturas’ & ‘An Essay on Comic Painting’. A second title is then inserted, but then continues with the sequential pagination that 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.

413. WESTWOOD (T.) & SATCHELL (T.) Bibliotheca Piscatoria. A Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture, with Bibliographical Notes and an Appendix of Citations Touching on Angling and Fishing from Old English Authors. W. Satchell.1883. £55

First Edition, xxvi,397,[3]pp., modern morocco.

414. WHITE (Henry) Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library of Printed Books and Illuminated & other Important Manuscripts... Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.1902. £85

Small 4to, [ii],250pp., 12 chromolithography plates of bindings (2 stuck to the preceding page), orig. printed wrappers, re-backed, 2,347 lots.

Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding. “Important sources for the history of bookbinding...”.

De Ricci, p.177.

PRIVATELY PRINTED, LARGE PAPER COPY

415. WILBY (Frederick) A Catalogue of the Books, Chiefly First Editions and Works Illustrated by the Celebrated Artists, Collected by Frederick Wilby. [Privately Printed by Billing and Sons, Guildford].1895. £295

Small 4to, [iv],114pp., printed on large and hand-made paper, interleaved with hand-written additions and annotations (possibly the library copy?), cont. half red morocco, marbled sides, uncut, t.e.g. a nice copy.

The rare privately printed library catalogue of books, chiefly first edition and with illustrations by selected artists. Includes a large section of Cruikshank, also Dickens, Phiz, Rowlandson. Wilby was a well known book collector and prominent in local affairs in Bishops Stortford.

COPAC lists a single copy at the British Library.

416. WISE (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1916. £95

First Edition, small 4to, xv,[i],268,[2]pp., one of 100 copies, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimile plates, library buckram.

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PRESENTATION COPY

417. WISE (Thomas J.) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of the Members of the Brontë Family. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1917. £85

First Edition, small 4to, xv,255,[5]pp., one of 100 copies, presentation inscription from Wise to the Hammersmith Public Library, with the usual library stamps, frontispieces, numerous facsimile plates, orig. printed boards, re-backed, uncut.

Besides the bibliographies of the three sisters, the work contains a bibliography of their father the Rev. Patrick Brontë and a discussion of the manuscripts of their brother Patrick Branwell Brontë.

418. WISE (Thomas J.) A Pope Library. A Catalogue of Plays, Poems and Prose Writings by Alexander Pope. Collected by Thomas James Wise. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1931. £75

First Edition, 4to, xxiv,112,[4]pp., one of 160 copies on ‘antique paper’, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimiles throughout, orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g.

419. WISE (Thomas James) A Landor Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Walter Savage Landor. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1928. £50

First Edition, 4to, xxi,[v],103,[1]pp., one of 170 copies printed on ‘antique’ paper, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimile plates, orig. buckram, small nick to spine, uncut, t.e.g.

420. WISE (Thomas James) A Byron Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1928. £95

First Edition, 4to, xxvii,144,[2]pp., one of 200 copies printed on ‘antique’ paper, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimile plates, orig. buckram, small nick to spine, uncut, t.e.g.

421. WISE (Thomas James) A Browning Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1929. £85

First Edition, 4to, xxxii,126,[2]pp., one of 160 copies printed on ‘antique’ paper, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimile plates, orig. buckram, uncut, t.e.g.

422. WISE (Thomas James) A Brontë Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Members of the Brontë Family. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1929. £110

First Edition, 4to, xxiii,82,[2]pp., one of 120 copies printed on ‘antique’ paper, ex-Hammersmith Public Library, frontis., numerous facsimile plates, orig. buckram, small nick to spine, uncut, t.e.g.

PRESENTATION COPY

423. WISE (Thomas James) A Bibliography of the Writings in Verse and Prose of George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron. With Letters Illustrating his Life and Work and Particularly his Attitude towards Keats. Printed for Private Circulation Only.1932. £110

First Edition, 2 vols., 4to, xxvii,[i],139,[3]; xxxii,131,[3]pp., one of 180 copies, presentation inscription from Wise to the Hammersmith Public Library, with the usual library stamps, frontispieces, numerous facsimile plates, library buckram.

424. WISE (Thomas James) & WHEELER (Stephen) A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Printed for The Bibliographical Society by Blades, East & Blades.1919. £35

First Edition, frontis., 11 plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, unopened, uncut.


425. WITHER TO PRIOR. Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior, with Collations and Notes. Grolier Club, New York.1905. £110

First Edition, 3 vols., large 8vo, limited to 400 copies on Holland hand-made paper, many frontispiece and title-page facsimiles, orig. quarter calf (vol. 1 re-backed), a little rubbed, uncut.

426. WOMEN BOOKBINDERS. 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. £110

4to, [iv],64pp., printed in red and black, 60 half-tone plates (many folding), first few leaves a little foxed, orig. printed wrappers, spine strengthened with tape, uncut.

70 Books listed with lengthy descriptions accompanying each book.

Navari, The Bookseller’s Art. 55.

427. WOOD (Casey A.) Compiler. An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology Based Chiefly on the Titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology... Arno Press.(Reprint of the 1931 Edition) 1974. £45

xix,643pp., orig. cloth.

428. WOOLNOUGH (C.W.) The Whole Art of Marbling as Applied to Paper, Book-Edges Etc. Containing a Full Description of the Nature and Properties of the Materials used, the Methods of Preparing them, and of Executing Every Kind of Marbling in use at the Present Time, with Numerous Illustrations and Examples. George Bell and Sons.1881. £575

Third Edition, half-title, dedication leaf slightly torn and repaired with sellotape, 82pp., 54 examples of marbled paper on 39 plates, all executed expressly for this work under the immediate superintendence of the author, and most of them by his own hand, facsimile autograph letter by the dedicatee Michael Faraday, also with invitation card from the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers “...requests the honor of Mr Wollnough’ Company at the House of the Intitution...”, orig. cloth, re-backed with orig. spine laid down, rubbed.

The third and last edition of this first practical marbling manual, superior in every respect to the first edition, inasmuch as, while it contains all the matter supplied in the former, it possesses much additional information.

JOHN A. SPOOR’S SET

429. WRENN (Harold B.) & WISE (Thomas J.) A Catalogue of the Library of the late John Henry Wrenn. The University of Texas, Austin.1920. £1,995

First Edition, 5 vols., large 8vo, xii,315,[1]; [vi],293,[1]; [vi],307,[1]; [vi],280; [vi],187,[1],xvi,[2]pp., no. 23 of 120 numbered copies signed by Robert Ernest Vinson (president of the University of Texas), printed on fine paper, with the Wrenn bookplate and John A. Spoor’s bookplate in each volume, frontispiece photogravure portrait of Wrenn, orig. beige buckram, spines lettered in gilt, uncut, top edge gilt, a fine set.

“This is one of rarest and most important American private library catalogues. About 80 percent of the superb collection of English literature formed by Wrenn was supplied by Thomas J. Wise. The library consisted of nearly 6,000 volumes and contained complete, or nearly complete, runs of Pope, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Goldsmith, and Walpole (to name only a few), as well as fabricated “first editions” of Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, and a host of other nineteenth-century authors, manufactured by Wise in collusion with H. Buxton Forman. In 1918, through the aggressive lobbying of English Professor R.H. Griffith (the bibliographer of Pope), the library was purchased from Wrenn’s heirs by Major General George W. Littlefield, of Austin, for $225,000, who presented it to the University of Texas.”—Brelauer.


430. YEMENIZ (Nicolas) Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de M.N. Yemeniz. Precede d’une Notice par M. Le Roux de Lincy. Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris.1867. £165

Large 8vo, lxiv,823pp., some light foxing, priced throughout in a cont. hand, orig. cloth-backed marbled boards, rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down.

The sale catalogue was based on Yemeniz’s “Catalogue de mes livres”, Lyons, 1855-56, of which only 100 copies were printed. One of the most important libraries of French literature ever assembled, consisting of 3954 lots.

ONE OF 50 COPIES

431. YOUNG (Sir Charles George) Catalogue of Works on the Peerage and Baronetage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. In the Library of Chas. Geo. Young, York Herald. [Privately printed by S. and R. Bentley].1827. £245

48,[2],49-87,[1]pp., one of 50 copies, presentation inscription to Robert Lemon the archivist, from the library of the Public Records Office with their stamp, later buckram, uncut.

“The following pages present a catalogue of such printed works as can be designated Peerages, and occur in the library of the collector; they will be found to contain nearly all that have issued from the press, to the year 1827.”—Preface. Extremely rare. Copac locating just two copies; Glasgow University and the Bodleian Library.


432. ZACCARIA (Francesco Antonio) Bibliotheca Ritualis. Concinnatum opus ac duos in Tomes Tributum, Quorum alter de Libris ipsis Ritualibus, alter de illorum Explanatoribus agit. Burt Franklin, New York.(Reprint of the 1776-1781 Edition). £85

3 Vols., small 4to, orig. cloth.

Important work on the history of the liturgy with an extensive historical bibliography arranged by author. Zaccaria (1714-1795) succeeded Muratori as keeper of the ducal library in Modena. Contents: Vol. I. De libris ad sacros utriusque ecclesiæ orientalis et occidentalis ritus pertinentibus; Vol. II., Part I. De librorum ritualium explanatoribus; Vol. II., Part II. Supplementa continens, praemisso Joannis Maldonati inedito de caeremoniis tractatu. Cui praeter adnotationes adcedit gemina editoris dissertatio.

Besterman 5402.

433. ZAEHNSDORF (Joseph W.) The Art of Bookbinding. George Bell & Sons.1880. £165

First Edition, xxiv,[ii],187,[1]pp., with a A.L.s by Zaehnsdorf relating to the book pasted onto front endpaper, frontis., 9 full page photo-lithographs of bindings in the author’s collection, 51 woodcuts in the text, orig. cloth, uncut, spine slightly faded, a nice copy.

A manual by one of the greatest craft-binders. The work is in three parts, the first comprising twenty-two chapters on forwarding, the second on finishing and the third on general information mostly concerning repair and restoration. This is the standard first edition, it is often mistakenly catalogued as being one of the large paper copies.

434. ZAHN (Otto) On Art Binding: A Monograph. S.C. Toof & Co., Memphis.1904. £55

First Edition, small 8vo, [ii],54,[1]pp., limited and signed by the author, coloured frontis., 11 half-tone plates of bindings designed and bound by Toof & Co., orig. printed wrappers, upper wrapper defective, small stab marks affecting prelims, uncut.

435. ZIMMER (John Todd) Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Arno Press.(Reprint of the 1926) 1974. £50

2 Vols., in one, 706pp., orig. cloth.

The best ornithological bibliography.

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