THE ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF MAJOR J. R. ABBEY. Faber & Faber 1969.
1st Ed. 4to. xliv + 187pp. 86 plates including 6 cold. D/w. sl. browned & soiled, sl. creased to head & tail.
£40.00 [ref: 149941]
JOHN BASKERVILLE. In the judgement of German Contemporaries, from ‘Archiv für Buchgewerbe July 1936’. Translated from the German by A. B. Hill. City of Birmingham School of Printing 1937.
10pp. Very good in original wrapps., ills. upper wrap., very light soiling to edges.
£10.00 [ref: 145737]
BERTHOLD TYPES. Berthold & Callwey 1985.
2 vols. 816pp + 1547pp. Minor inscription to front f.e.p., very good in d/ws., lightly soiled, in slipcase as issued, sl. rubbed & scratched, sm. split to upper edges.
£22.00 [ref: 147071]
DIE OFFICINA BODONI. Das Werk einer handpresse. Herausgegeben und mit einer einleitung von Hans Schmoller. Maximilian-Gesellschaft, Hamberg 1979.
Sm. 4to. lxii + 289pp. Ills. German text. Very lightly soiled cloth with gilt emblem to upper board and gilt title to spine.
£30.00 [ref: 156468]
[SPECIMENS OF PENMANSHIP] Written by Mast. T. Cunby c.1843.
Sm. landscape 4to. 5 leaves with manuscript one side only. Minor marginal soiling, marbled wrapps., backstrip sl. rubbed.
£15.00 [ref: 135704]
JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW. Their juvenile books and Chapbooks. Private Libraries Assoc. 1981.
xxv + 134pp. Cold. frontis., numerous ills. Original cloth with gilt dec. to upper board & lettering to sl. faded spine, boards sl. warped, sl. faded to edges.
£10.00 [ref: 144428]
THE LUTTRELL PSALTER Two Plates in Colour and One Hundred and Eighty-Three Monochrome From the Additional Manuscript 42130 in the British Museum. With Introduction by Eric George Millar. ... Printed for the Trustees 1932.
Folio. [xii] + 61pp. Rubric t.p., 2 cold. plates heightened with gold, 183 b/w. plates. Original gilt lettered cloth, corners sl. frayed, spine sl. bumped, very minor soiling.
This celebrated manuscript, commissioned by a wealthy landowner in the first half of the 14th century, is one of the most striking to survive from the Middle Ages. Painted in rich colours embellished with gold and silver, with vitality and sometimes bizarre inventiveness of decoration, this manuscript is unlike virtually any other.
£200.00 [ref: 167621]
CATALOGUE OF THE SASSOON COLLECTION OF HIGHLY IMPORTANT HEBREW PRINTED BOOKS The Property of The family of David Sassoon. Which will be sold at Auction by ... 1970-1.
2 vols. Sm. 4to. [viii] + 74pp. 67pp. + [ii]. Numerous ills. and plates. Price lists loosely inserted, original boards.
£15.00 [ref: 147023]
SCRIPTORUM Revue International des Etudes Relatives aux Manuscrits. International Review of Manuscript Studies. Vols. 1-30 [only]. Standaard Boekhandel S.A. Anvers aux Editions Erasme Bruxelles 1946-1976.
30 vols. bound in 31. Sm. 4to. Profusely ills. Articles in French/English/Italian. Light marginal browning, ex.-lib. with discreet ink stamps, vols. 1-29 rebound in cloth, gilt lettering with gilt accession nos. to spines, vol. 30 in two vols. in original wrapps.
£750.00 [ref: 190813]
THE DIARY OF HUMFREY WANLEY 1715-1726. The Bibliographical Society 1966.
1st Ed. 2 vols. [xcvi] + 518pp. Frontiss. including port. Very good in original cloth with gilt title to spines.
£30.00 [ref: 187385]
