[Vellum printing - Aberdeen]
The Aberdeen Printers
£3,024
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Edward Raban to James Nicol 1620-1736. By J. P. Edmond. Aberdeen: J. & J. P. Edmond & Spark, 1886. First edition, apparently the only copy printed on vellum, 8vo (22.3 x 13.9cm), lxiv 274 [14] pp., contemporary green crushed morocco by Chambolle-Duru of Paris, spine richly gilt in compartments, French fillet frame gilt to covers, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, leather-entry slipcase;
[Bewick, Thomas.] Day, a Pastoral. Alnwick: W. Davison, [n.d.] 12mo, green crushed morocco gilt by Bedford, original wrappers bound in;
Sterline, William. Recreations with the Muses. London: printed by Thomas Harper, 1637. Small folio in sixes, later portrait frontispiece dated 1795, and another dated 1806, 19th-century indigo morocco gilt;
Erasmus. Stultitiae Laudatio. London & Paris: Barbou, 1665. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, attractive red morocco gilt (4)
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.
Footnote
The limitation page of “The Aberdeen Printers”, stating 250 copies on small paper and 50 on large, is annotated in pencil ‘1 vellum’.