Lot 258
Book Collecting - Plomer, Henry R.
Auction: 10 June 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
A short history of English printing 1476-1898. London, 1900. 8vo, one of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, full vellum gilt; Fletcher, W.Y. English book collectors. London, 1902. 8vo, number 20 of 50 copies on Japanese vellum, full vellum gilt, some foxing; Clark, John Willis The care of books. Cambridge, 1909. 8vo, frontispiece and other illustrations, later full blue morocco gilt, backstrip faded, some foxing to boards; Quaritch, Bernard Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors. London, 1892-1921. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth gilt; Books about books series A collection of 6 volumes, all 8vo, all one of 150 large paper copies, all in quarter vellum, rubbed, to include Pollard, Alfred Early illustrated books. London, 1893; Duff, E. Gordon Early printed books. London, 1893; Horne, H.P. Book-binding. London, 1894; Elton, G.I. & M.A. The great book-collectors. London, 1893; Hardy, W.J. Book-plates. London, 1893; Madan, Falconer Books in manuscript. London, 1893; Jackson, Holbrook The anatomy of bibliomania. London, 1932. 8vo, original cloth gilt; Hartley, Dorothy The old book. London, 1930. 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary blind stamped cloth; Montague, C.M. A writer's notes on his trade. London, 1930. 8vo, number 424 of 700 copies, signed by H.M. Tomlinson, original cloth-backed boards, dustwrapper; and 6 others (19)
Footnote
Provenance: All volumes inscibed in ink by David Fyfe Anderson on front endpaper.