Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library the Property of the Late Sir Robert Leighton...The Second Portion: Fine Bindings, Early Printed Books and a Few Manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 17-18 October, 1960 ]
by Sotheby & Co
- Used
- Condition
- Disbound from a collected volume, datestamp on front wrapper which is slightly loose, small library stamp at foot of title-page,
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960. Green printed wrappers, 4to,. 98 pp, 27 plates. 415 lots (715-1129). Among the highlights noted were the following: French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Sanbrige, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Saumel Mearne bindery, the Queen's Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlet and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Staggmeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derôme le jeune, and Voltaire's Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker's Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne. Disbound from a collected volume, datestamp on front wrapper which is slightly loose, small library stamp at foot of title-page, contents otherwise Good.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-58732
- Title
- Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library the Property of the Late Sir Robert Leighton...The Second Portion: Fine Bindings, Early Printed Books and a Few Manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 17-18 October, 1960 ]
- Author
- Sotheby & Co
- Format/Binding
- Green printed wrappers, 4to,
- Book Condition
- Used - Disbound from a collected volume, datestamp on front wrapper which is slightly loose, small library stamp at foot of title-page,
- Publisher
- Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 98 pp, 27 plates
- Keywords
- Sotheby & Co. Sotheby's auction catalogue Leighton, Robert, Sir 1884-1959. - Library - Catalogs. Bookbindings
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About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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