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Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, including Bookbinding Books & Equipment - Part 1
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Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, including Bookbinding Books & Equipment - Part 1

Auction dates
17 Jul 2014 11:00 BST
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Maggs Bros. Ltd. - Bookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1075, 2 vol.,   one of 850 copies,
190 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Middleton (Bernard C.) - A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique,  inscribed by the
120 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Miura (Kerstin Tini) - Beautiful Bindings,  number 50 of 200 copies signed by the author, text in
200 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Nicholson (James B.) - A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding also, The Art of Marbling Book-Edges and
220 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Researches concerning Jean Grolier: His Life and Library, one of 300 copies  ( Baron   Roger,
200 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Prideaux (S.T.) - An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding,  original cloth, small stain to upper
110 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Turner (D.), Colin Franklin & others. - The Mystique of Vellum,  number 30 of 225 copies, specimen
650 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Valuable Secrets in Arts and Trades: or, Approved Directions from the best Artists,   damp-stained
50 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Wakeman (Geoffrey) - Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, 2 vol. including folder,   one of 150 copies,
320 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Wilcox (Michael) - Twelve Bindings,  number 22 of 225 copies, prospectus loosely inserted,
160 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Abbey (Major J.R.) and others. - A large collection of auction catalogues for the libraries of
150 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Alivon (J.B.) - Fers a Dorer pour la Dorure a la Main,  specimen book for numerous palettes,
100 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Johnston (Edward) - Writing & Illuminating & Lettering,  first edition ,  illustrations, original
120 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Meunier (Charles).- - Reliures d`Art executées par Charles Meunier, et provenant de sa
170 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Papermaking.- Turner (S.) and Birgit Skiold. - Handmade Paper Today, 2 vol.,   one of  200 copies
120 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Rudbeck (Johannes) - Svenska Bokband under Nyare Tiden, 3 vol.,  numerous illustrations, upper cover
140 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Collection of old covers,  2 boxes of cloth and leather covered boards from various old bindings,
90 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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Marbled paper,  collection of 90 sheets of red, blue, green and brown Spanish printed marbled paper,
190 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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Arion Press.- Heath-Stubbs (John) - [The Twelve Labours of Hercules],  12 etched sheets by Michael
170 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Buckland Wright (John).- Poe (Edgar Allan) - The Masque of the Red Death and other tales,  number 31
200 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Cuala Press.- Yeats (William Butler) - Broadsides, 38 parts (comprising nos.1-5, 11  &  12 first
2,800 GBP
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Doves Press.- - Credo,  [one of 250 copies],   1908; Laudes Creaturarum,   [one of 250 copies],
1,100 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Dropmore Press.- Cubbin (Thomas) - The Wreck of the Serica: A Narrative of 1868, Foreword by H.M.
150 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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France (Anatole) - Histoire de doña Maria d’Avalos et de don Fabricio, duc d’Andria,  unique copy
1,700 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Gill (Eric) - Engravings... A Selection of Engravings on Wood and Metal ,   out-of-series copy
2,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Gill (Eric) - Clothes,  number 66 of 160 copies signed by the author/artist on colophon leaf at end,
600 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Swift (Jonathan) - Directions to Servants,  number 15 of 30 specially-bound copies signed by the
380 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Breton (Nicholas) - The Twelve Moneths, edited by Brian Rhys,   number 280 of 500 copies, printed in
350 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Gibbings (Robert) - The 7th Man: A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands,   one of 500 copies,
350 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Shakespeare (William) - Twelfth Night or, What You Will,   number 216 of 275 copies, wood-engraved
1,200 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Lascaris (Evadne) - The Golden Bed of Kydno, translated by P.Mathers,   number 84 of 200 copies,
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Chair (Somerset de) - The Golden Carpet,  number 93 of 500 copies,   this copy inscribed by the
320 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Keats (John) - Endymion,  number 299 of 500 copies, foxing to a few leaves as often, original
600 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Greenwood (Jeremy) - Edward Bawden: Editioned Prints,   one of 450 copies from an edition limited to
170 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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A.J.Wyatt, translators . The Tale of Beowulf, one of 300 copies on Perch paper  A.J.Wyatt,
1,600 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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-. - Sire Degrevaunt, edited by F.S.Ellis,   one of 350 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and
800 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Heaney (Seamus) - Poems and a Memoir, Selected and Illustrated by Henry Pearson,   original calf
190 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Walcott (Derek) - The Caribbean Poetry,  limited edition signed by the author and artist,   with
140 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Wilde (Oscar) - Salome, 2 vol.,   vol.1 with English text, translated by Lord Alfred Douglas, with
380 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Morris (William) - The Story of Cupid and Psyche, with illustrations designed by Edward Burne-Jones,
380 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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Mosher (Thomas).- Swinburne (Algernon Charles) - Laus Veneris Poems and Ballads,  number 1 of only 4
550 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Mosher (Thomas).- - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald,   number 1 of 10
1,000 GBP
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Pear Tree Press.- Bottomley (Gordon) - Frescoes from Buried Temples: A Portfolio of Drawings by
2,200 GBP
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Warren (Terence) - A Garden of Proverbs,  number 11 of 125 copies,   this one of 25 boxed sets  with
90 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Whittington Press.- Nicholson (William) - An Almanac of Twelve Sports [and] London Types,  number 53
260 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Wood Lea Press.- Greenwood (Jeremy) - Ravilious: Engravings,  number 3 of 55 specially-bound
380 GBP
350 - 450 GBP
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Ardizzone (Edward).- Gorham (Maurice) - The Local,  first edition  ,   15 colour lithographed plates
300 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Birmingham Guild of Handicraft. - The Quest, vol.1  &  2 (nos.1-6),   [a complete set  ],   second
1,200 GBP
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Dali (Salvador) - Hidden Faces, translated by Haakon Chevalier,   number 29 of 100 specially-bound
420 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Magazine Gai, vol.13-21   &   24,   plates and illus  Magazine Gai, vol.13-21  &  24,   plates and
240 GBP
500 - 700 GBP
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Golden Hind (The): A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Literature, edited by Clifford Bax and Austin O.
220 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Hecht (Joseph).- - Quelques Aventures de Maitre Renart,  number 17 of 21 copies on Montval with an
150 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Studio (The): An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol.1-42 in 41 only (lacking vol.3),
950 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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Studio (The) Special Numbers, 51 vol.,   plates and illustrations, some colour, occasional spotting,
750 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Studio (The) Year-Book of Decorative Art. vol.1-24,   plates and illustrations, some colour,
650 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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Studio (The): An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol.43-116 (lacking vol.63  &  66)  &
550 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Crane (Walter).- - Spenser (Edmund). Faerie Queen 19 parts in 6 vol.,   limited edition on
420 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Harry Collingwood. A collection of 30 of the author`s sea adventure books
4,200 GBP
700 - 900 GBP
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Pogany (Willy).- - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,  number 418 of 750 copies, signed by the artist,
300 GBP
350 - 450 GBP
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Rackham (Arthur).- - Arthur Rackham`s Fairy Book,  number 27 of 460 copies, signed by the
400 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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