Lot 176
Joubert, Felix
Catalogue of the Collection of European Arms and Armour formed at Greenock by R. L. Scott
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Glasgow: [printed for private circulation by] David Robertson & Co., 1924. First edition, one of 100 copies only, signed in the introduction by R. L. Scott, 3 volumes, large folio (45.8 x 31cm), original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 107 tinted photogravure plates, bookplates (Michael Moad), vellum slightly soiled, volume 1 covers lightly scuffed, volumes 1 and 3 endpapers creased;
The Almain Armourer's Album. Selections from an Original MS in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. With Introduction and Notes by Viscount Dillon. London: W. Griggs, 1905. Large folio (49 x 32cm), original full japon gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers, 34 chromolithographic plates (2 folding), photographic plate, pale mottling to spine and rear board, spotting to blanks
Footnote
Note: R. L. Scott (1871-1939) was chairman of his family's successful shipbuilding firm in Greenock from 1915 until his death, overseeing its production of cruisers, destroyers and submarines for the Royal Navy during the Great War the rearmament period. After his death his collection of armour was bequeathed to Glasgow Museums. 'The Almain Armourers' Album, a book of armour designs, is one of the V&A's great Elizabethan treasures. The book was produced in the Royal Armoury at Greenwich, London, between 1557 and 1587, and charts some of the most spectacular armour ever made. It is known as the Almain Armourers’ Album after the German armourers employed by Henry VIII from the early 16th century' (V&A).