Name: Auction: Private press and miscellaneous books Collection of works
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 GBP
Availability: InStock

Lyon &amp; Turnbull are pleased to announce their October 2025 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction, taking place live and online from Edinburgh. The sale will present a carefully curated selection of printed books, manuscripts, maps, autographs and archives that span centuries of intellectual, literary and cultural achievement. &nbsp;Highlights from the autumn sale include fine bindings and library sets from the libraries of the late Earl of Airlie and from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie, signed documents and letters from literary and historical figures ranging from John Ruskin to Duleep Singh, an important collection of Middle Eastern photography documenting the transformation of the region with the discovery of oil, and a large collection of travel narratives from the 18th to the 20th centuries.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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including: [Ditchling Press, formerly St Dominic's Press], The Jesus Psalter [caption-title], Ditchling: Cyril Costick, 1927, 16mo, original limp blue roan, inscribed ‘M.L. for H.P. 10 X 28' on imprimatur leaf (H. P. presumably Hilary Pepler);&nbsp;John Sparrow, Association Copies, 1978 (one of 200 copies signed by Sparrow); and approx. 30 other books and pamphlets by presses including Evergreen, Westerham, San Serriffe, Shakespeare Head, Nonesuch, Manor House (Sonning), New Bodleian Library bibliography class, Workshop, Redlynch, Ark, Poltroon, Ealing School of Art, and others; together with approx. 40 pieces of private press ephemera including Golden Cockerel Press, A Printer's Epitaph, 1927 (single bifolium), greetings cards with wood-engraved designs by Joan Hassall and several items addressed to John Collins (apparently the noted bookseller, 1942-2024)

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Private press and miscellaneous books

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Private press and miscellaneous books

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