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42-Line

610 16th Street, Suite 411
Oakland, 94612-1285
Telephone: 510 903 8050
Fax: 510 903 8051
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Website: http://www.42-line.com

Alastor Rare Books

12 Wisbech Way Hordle
, S041 OYQ
Telephone: 01425 629756
Fax: 01425 629756
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Website: http://www.alastorrarebooks.com/

Antiquariat Bibermuhle AG

Bibermuhle 1
Ramsen, 8262

B & L Rootenberg

PO Box 5049
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Telephone: (+1) 818 788 7765
Fax: (+1) 818 788 8839
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Website: http://www.rootenbergbooks.com

Bernard Quaritch, Antiquarian booksellers since 1847

40 South Audley Street
LONDON, W1K 2PR
Telephone: (020) 7297 4888
Fax: (020) 7297 4866
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Website: http://www.quaritch.com

Bertram Rota Ltd

31 Long Acre (First Floor),Covent Garden
London, WC2E 9LT
Telephone: (020) 7836 0723
Fax: (020) 7497 9058
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Website: http://bertramrota.co.uk

Blackwell Rare Books

48 - 51 Broad Street
Oxford, OX1 3BQ
Telephone: 01865 333555
Fax: 01865 794143
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Website: http://www.rarebooks.blackwell.co.uk

Bonhams

101 New Bond Street
London, W1S 1SR
Telephone: (020) 7447 7447
Fax: (020) 7447 7400
Website: http://www.bonhams.com/books

Bonhams & Butterfield

220 San Bruno Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone: (+1) 425 503 3201
Fax: (+1) 415 861 3171
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Website: www.bonhams.com/us

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Telephone: (+33) 01 44 41 28 00
Fax: (+33) 01 44 41 28 65

Cheffins Fine Art

Clifton House, Clifton Road
Cambridge, CB1 7EA
Telephone: 01223 213343
Fax: 01223 271949
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Christie's

8 King Street
St. James's, SW1Y 6QT
Telephone: (020) 7839 9060
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Website: http://www.christies.com

Christopher Edwards

8 St. Leonard's Square
Wallingford, OX10 0AR
Telephone: 01491 833682
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Claude Cox

3 & 5 Silent Street
Ipswich, IP1 1TF
Telephone: (01473) 254776
Fax: (01473) 254776
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Website: http://claudecox.co.uk

Cotswold Book Company

Chapel Walk Saleroom, Chapel Walk
Cheltenham, GL50 3 DS
Telephone: +44 (0)1242 256363
Website: http://www.cotswoldauction.co.uk

D Parikian Rare Books

3 Caithness Rd
London, W14 0JB
Telephone: (202) 7603 8375
Fax: (020) 7602 1178
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E.M.Lawson & Co.

Kingsholm
East Hagbourne, OX11 9LN
Telephone: 01235 812033

Forum Booksellers BV

Westrenen, Tuurdijk 16,MS 't Goy-Houten
Utrecht, 3997
Telephone: (+31) 30 601 1955
Fax: (+33) 30 601 1813
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Website: http://forumrarebooks.com

George Bayntun

Manvers Street
Bath, BA1 1JW
Telephone: 01225 466000
Fax: 01225 482122
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Website: http://www.georgebayntun.com

H.M.Fletcher

Wynches Barn
Much Hadham, SG10 6BA
Telephone: 01279 843 883
Fax: 01279 842 830
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Website: http://www.hmfletcher.co.uk

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The Book Collector NEWS A N D C O M M E N T were a Praetorian guard of Turkish or Circassian military serfs, sold in boyhood from Central Asia or the Caucasus to be brought up in barracks in Cairo and there trained in the Islamic faith and the Arabic language. In 1250, in the turmoil that followed the Crusaders' invasion of the Delta under St Louis and the death of the Ayyubid sultan, a Malnluk !general seized power, regularising his position by marrying the Armenian-born sultana. For the next 267 years Marnluk sultans ruled Egypt and Syria. Their reigns were often brief and violent, interrupted by tumult and mutiny and cut short by murder, but several of them were remarkable men. Under their rule Cairo became the largest and richest city of the Near East, an object of amazement to European travellers, and the arts experienced a great flowering.

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T T H E B O L L I N G E N E D I T I O N of Coleridge, under the general editorship of Kathleen Coburn, is one of the major literary monuments of our time. Much of the prolific genius has been published, with a uniformly high standard of editorship; much still remains. The recent publication of the first volume (of five) of Marginaha is, however, a landmark. The editor, George Whalley, is no stranger to readers of T H E B O O K C O L L E C T Oand none can fail to be fascinated by the R, extraordinary complexity of the task that has faced him and the ingenuity and success with which he has met it. Coleridge was a compulsive annotator: no scrap of white paper in any book -

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The Book Collector John n u- o o k 5 oe ll B Western America, Cal$ornid Fine Printing Natural History Voyages & Travels Medicine & Science & the PuciJic English & American Literatare Prints, Drawings & Paintings of the West Warren R. Howell, President 434 Post Street San Francisco, California 94102 Cable address: Bookman, Sun Francisco (415) 781-7795 NEWS AND COMMENT one, which must no doubt give ironic satisfaction to Sir Thomas, up there on his cloud, who rescued so much of this sort of thing from, once upon a time, certain destruction. T H E E X H I B I T I o N of printed books and manuscripts in the Medieval Library of Lincoln Cathedral this summer will have as its main theme the life of Dean Michael Honywood, 1596-1681, the founder of the Wren Library in the Cathedral. Honywood's life spanned one of the most turbulent periods in the history of England and

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The Book Collector Antiquarian Booksellers c%zx2 RARE BOOKS relating to AFRICA AMERICA AUSTRALASIA Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century ENGLISH LITERATURE EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ECONOMICS aezL CATALOGUES ISSUED KINGSHOLM EAST HAGBOURNE OXFORDSHIRE Telephone: Didcot 8 12033 - Telephone 01 607 0511 NEWS A N D COMMENT Exlibris 7 lists orientalia; and Perth Antiquarian 77 is the first of two of Australiana. First catalogues abound. Pride of place goes to Sarkis Shmavonian (1796 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709), who has now reached his third; all of them contain items of rare originality - Belyi Pepel 1909, the greatest of Russian Symbolist verse, the first guidebook to Cyprus, Doughty Under Arms, presented to T. E. Lawrence, classic texts on Californian wine, butterflies and Chinese labour, Muybridge Descriptive Zoopraxography 1893, and a remarkable collection of 'Bibliomysteries', nearly IOO bookish tecs, preceded by an admirable spoof O E D entry for the title - a most refreshing and stimulating assemblage. I. & M.

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The Book Collector N E W S AND C O M M E N T THE LAST o F the S C ~ L I C I I C Cof salcs from thc Chatsworth Library, which bcgan at Christic's last Scptcmbcr, ended on I I June, whcn thc residue, lcss marketable but 110 less interesting, was sold at Christie's, South Kensington. The reasons for this 'cull' wcrc evidently complex. 'The Tenth Duke of Devonshire's Charitable Trust', the vendor, has to bear the brunt of the costs of rmlning Chatsworth: its policy requires an cxtension of tlic capital funds from which an income can be derived. So, even if books, pictures and other material objects show better capital appreciation, they havc to be sold to meet other immediate needs. Balance between one class of object and another is a critical factor in planning thesc sales, but it is a factor that can be

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The Book Collector NEWS A N D COMMENT that have been made with John Piper's work. Anne Greer, in a new 80-page book on Graham, entitled simply Rigby Graham, has concentrated on the paintings, and provided a lavish selection of reproductions. It is a pleasure to have such a survey, much of it in colour, between hard covers: copies are available from the publisher, Brian Mills, Newcastle Bookshop, I Side, Newcastle-upon-Tyne I. M I C H A E L S A D L E I R , who died too young in 1957, is due for a revival, and we must welcome the appearance of a collection of his works, with a biographical introduction and checklist of his writings by Roy Stokes, in the Scarecrow Press series 'The Great Bibliographers'. The introduction is sympathetic, the choice good and the checklist wellindexed. Dawsons of Pall Mall have also reprinted Excursions in Victorian Bibliography,

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The Book Collector Medicine r Science Technology f Natural History Voyages 6 Travels Art G Illustrated Books History o f Ideas G Scholarship CATALOGUES ISSUED Jeremy Norman & Co. INCORPORATED 442 post Street, San Francisco, ~ a l $ o r n i a 94102 [415] 781-6402 c a b l e : L O G O S Recently Issued : CATALOGUE 16 Incunabula I 15 Items, 123 illustrations CATALOGUE 15 Illustrated & Ornamented Books 1468-1979 230 Items, 126 Illustrations, Partly in Colour Subscriptions to our illustrated Catalogues, at least two each year, are $15 in the U.S., 9625 by Air Mail abroad, free to regular customers LAURENCE WITTEN Southport, Conn. 06490, USA NEWS A N D C O M M E N T with Bulletin I , English books 1509-1947, the earlicr date set by John Fisher's funeral sermon for Henry VII. F. K. Leavis's nlarked copy of William Empson's Seven types of'anrbiguity was speculatively marked at $500, only $50 less than Sheridan's uninarked copy of the

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The Book Collector English and Continental hlanuscripts of the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Francisco Mendoza y Bovadilla, 'Borron, Mancha y Tison de Espana.' A scribal manuscript, in Spanish, in an attractive hand; on I 28 pages. Boundin sheepskin. Spain; eighteenth century. Ezj o A notorious work written in the sixteenth centuv, suppressed and circulated on4 in manuscriptform untilpublished in the nineteenth century. Contains the pedigrees of nine9 noble Spanid families whose blood is 'tainted' bj Jewish or Moorish ancestry. 'Etat des sommes payees par le Tresorier et la Commune de Paris pour le Compte du Conseil general sur les fonds attribues au depenses extraordinaires occasionneespar laRevolution du ~ o A o u t 1 7 9 Le dit Etat arrete au zo Novembre suivant.' Manuscript in ~ French, on 70 pages, folio. Bound in modern quarter calf, marbled boards. From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. E75o A fine historical

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T AT THE BEGINNING of the 19th century, Harvard, feeling a certain deficiency in books by-contemporary European authors, wrote to a number soliciting !gifts. One in particular responded generously with 39 volumes of his own writings, a gift punctually recorded on the bookplate that was ~ a s t e d them as 'The Gift of the Author, ~ o h W . in n von Goethe, of Germany, Dec. 8, 1819.'. That gift has been the seed of a special interest at Hanard that was given splendid expression in the exhbition at the Houghton Library to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Goethe's death. The material, grouped under subtly chosen topics ('Werther and Wertheriana', 'Goethe at the Weimar Court', 'Goethe and the Visual Arts'), ran from an autograph letter of Gotz von Berlichingen to an autograph Mendelssohn song setting, from Ernilie

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The Book Collector N o w Available, Rare Book Catalogue 35 A selection of 100 items from our stock, including: Atlases Voyages Americana Natural History Science Early Printing Illustrated Books Profusely illustrated, $12.00 postage paid 333 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60601 E. P. GOLDSCHMIDT 64 D R A Y T O N G A R D E N S , L O N D O N S W I O gSB Telephone 01 373 2266 R E C E N T CATALOGUES I G ~ . I L L U S T R A T E D CATALOGUE O F EARLY P R I N T E D AND O T H E R R A R E B O O K S . 112 half-tones or linecuts, f ~ u colour cover and frontispiece. 172pp.June 1982. Q I 2 r 163. E A R L Y P R I N T E D A N D O T H E R R

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The Book Collector NEWS A N D COMMENT most delightfd of recent publications, the original stanzaic text ofJohn Dyer's Grori,qnr Hi//, admirably printed in the genuine Caslon types, with a set of lithograph; (printcd at the Curwen Studios) by John Piper, w h o contributes a foreword on what is one of his favoirrite landmarks in the English landscape. T h e 18th-century text and setting, the echoes of Gilpin in the tint-backed lithographs, combine to make this book both evocative and new. Only 175 copies have been printed, and, at L45, they will be quickly sold. If you want a book that will give lasting pleasure, write to the Stourton Press, 2 1 9 ~ Victoria Park Road, London 12.9. to a cold and wet week-end, Ruari McLcan's Victoriati P~~blisl~ers' Book-Birrdirys iri P o p (London, Gordon Fraser, 1983 : L25.00) is highly recommended. Nostalgia floods from every page, the

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T T H E V I C T O R I A A N D A L B E R T Museum's exhibition 'Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620' is one of the most striking it has ever put on. The big ground-floor exhibition space has been stripped of all decoration save the long chest-high cases, slung (as it were) between almost invisible black bars, the only decoration the new black and white tile floor. The whole area has been reduced to near-darkness, in w h c h the exhibits peer out, jewel-like, in obedience to modern conservation-conscious lighting standards (the wise and irresponsible have risked a pencil torch). The total effect is magical, and would alonejustify that proud boast 'rediscovered'. In fact, there are many other reasons for claiming that this is an entirely 'new

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The Book Collector THE B O O K C O L L E C T O R German Gregory for A20,ooo. A telephone bid bought the very fine 'Grandes Chroniques', ~1320-30 (early), for AIIO,OOO,and Kraus, not to be outdone, got the amazing series of pictures copied from the lost Masoho frescoes of a world chronicle at the Palazzo Orsini, not unreasonably connected with the Benozzo Gozzoli workshop, for L65,ooo, and a very pretty little Parisian Hours in nice 16th-century red Morocco for L I ~ J O O , which was not dear. These are, however, high prices, and seem to indicate a distinct upward jolt in the still under-valued market for medieval manuscripts. Perhaps the most remarkable price of them all was the L23,ooo, paid by Karl again, against determined opposition from M a n , for a Rule of St Benedict, in a decent but not fresh contemporary bindmg,

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The Book Collector W buy (and sell) e the most beauthl books PIERRE BERES 14 AVENUE DE F R I E D L A N D 75008 PARIS THE B O O K COLLECTOR Chamillart made Fr. 420,000, and L a Princesse de C k v e s 1678, in beautiful fresh contemporary calf, the nicest book as such in the sale, made Fr. 300,000. be equated with health, then the study of the history of printing and its place in society is very healthy indeed in America. In Washington the Center for the Book has now published the papers of its 1980 conference on Literacy in historical perspective (ed. Daniel P. Resnick, Library of Congress 1983: Supt of Documents no. LC I . ~ : L ~ Ia)series of nine essays encompassing England, North America, , nineteenth-century China and late imperial Russia, with particular attention to the value set on literacy in communities where significant

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT front during the First World War ( L 1 ~ 0 0 ) Arthur Schopenhauer's . correspondence with his 'vortrefflicker Apostel' Dr. Ernst Otto Linder, 19 letters and 15 replies, sold for L42,ooo (anonymous); and 75 illustrated letters from Sir Edward Burne-Jones to his daughter fetched I I ,000 (Julian Hartnoll) . Sotheby's impressively catalogued general sale of foreign books, atlases, topography, science and travel on September 20-1 suggested that the trade found it a little hard to digest so much riches all at once. The number of times that estimates (admitedly high) were just reached and no more was suggestive. A large but unstated proportion of the sale came from the stock of the late Meijer Eke. Kraus paid A10,ooo for Herrera Historia general 1601-1s and Lgsoo for a remarkable collection of Kierkegaard first editions. Hill paid A3200 for Magnetus Bibliotheca chemica curiosa 1702

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The Book Collector Since 1951 O u r firm has specialized in Materials of The Middle Ages & Renaissance: Illuminated Manuscripts, Text Manuscripts, Incunabula, Early Illustrated Books, Documents, and Early Bindings. SALES, APPRAISALS, COLLECTIONS by mail and appointment. LAURENCE WITTEN Southport, Connecticut USA 06490 P.O. Box 490 Phone 203-255-3474 Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. Antiquarian Bookdealers since 1881 EARLY PRINTED BOOKS CATALOGUES ISSUED 300 Madison Avenue New York City 10017 (212) 490 3412 NEWS A N D C O M M E N T preserved because the other side had been used for an unattractive baroque religious painting. Another copper artefact, John Peels' hunting horn, went to John Fleming for along with a nostalgic photograph of the old Book Room in Bond Street in 1951 when the horn had first come on the market. All these historical lots, formerly the poor cousins in a sale of English Literature and History, nearly eclipsed the literature on offer on 22 July, when a superb letter of

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The Book Collector DIRECTORIES OF DEALERS IN SECONDHAND ANTIQUARIAN AND BOOKS DEALERS IN BOOKS (BRITISH ISLES) 11th edition £12.00 BOOKDEALERS IN NORTH AMERICA (CANADA & U.S.A.) 9th edition £10.50 EUROPEAN BOOKDEALERS 6th edition £12.00 [April 19851 BOOKDEALERS IN INDIA PAKISTAN & SRI LANKA 1st edition £3.50 bound cloth, boards, jacketed SHEPPARD PRESS LIMITED P.O. Box 42, RUSSELL CHAMBERS W COVENT GARDEN, LONDON C ~ E AX ENGLAND A priced and annotated record of International Book Auctions Volume 8 1 available now 32,500 Book Records and cross references to Authors, Editors, Illustrators and Pseudonyms. I A separate listing of over 1,000 maps, charts and plans. 316 Book Sales conducted by 53 Auction Houses worldwide. I Clear, easy to follow entries. Price 251.75 (trade 243.99) NEWS A N D C O M M E N T that such books, many of them purchased within measurable time, made such prices. Sotheby's continental books-cum-music sale on 22 November contained the ninth edition

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR Casanova, Weber, George Stephenson, Daguerre, Chekhov and Brecht, is quite an achieven~ent,even Schumann adiuvante. There is nothing quite to equal the barely credible splendour of Michelangelo's sonnet and letter to Vittoria Colonna which was the chief glory of Breslauer 97, but the bulk (and often beauty) of the documents is as impressive. There are moreover two examples of italic handwriting of exceptional importance: a letter signed by Henry VII and written by Peter Carmelianus, who traditionally introduced the hand to England, and a long brief signed by Sadoleto, convincingly attributed to Arrighi. The bindings though relatively fewer, again reveal a discriminating eye. Some, indeed, are magnificent, especially the modern ones-a Marius Michel, a Moncey, a de Coster; but a trio of Renaissance bindings, by the binder of Franqois 1's Estienne Bible, the French binder who used the Valerio Be& plaquette of Amphitrite, and the Edward

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES of an exhibition at the California Historical Society earlier t h s year. The Women's Co-Operative Printing Union, established in 1868, advertised their services proclaiming 'Women Set Type! Women Run Presses!' and added a challenging 'We Invite Criticism.' OBITUARIES was, for as long as most of us can remember, the primary source of books in Spanish and on matters Hispanic in this country. In fact, it started in 1935, but its owner first came to t h s country two years before that, and his knowledge of English (spoken with absolute fluency, but never losing a guttural trace of his native speech) went back to his early youth. But Joan Lluis Gili i Serra was a Catalan, first and foremost; he was born in Barcelona on 10 February 1907, of a family of important booksellers and publishers there. His grandfather, father and uncle were all in

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OBITUARY
STEN G. LINDBERG
Sten Lindberg was the great hero of bibliography in Sweden. He looked the part: Bom in 1914, he did well at school and at the University of Uppsala, from which he received his master's degree in 1941. His supervisor and mentor at the university was Johan Nordstrom, who held the first (and as it turned out, last) chair in the history of scholarship. Like Nordstrom, Lindberg took the broadest view of the func­tion of books, seeing them both in their texts and in their physical appearance as documents of intellectual history. This attitude informed all his future career, which ranged outside the Royal Library (Kungliga Biblioteket) in which his professional life was spent.
He joined the library in June 1946 as a junior librarian, working his way up ook a characteristically wide view of his duties. He learned, and taught generations of library staff, the history

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OBITUARIES JULIAN ROBERTS Anyone who had anything to do with books and libraries and their history over the last sixty years was almost certain to have met Julian Roberts. His professional life was almost equally divided between two libraries, the British Museum Library, where he was an Assistant Keeper from 1958 to 1974, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, of which he was Keeper of Printed Books from 1974 to 1997 and Deputy Librarian, 1986-97. In both places his responsibili­ties and interests coincided: he had a natural affinity for old English books, and their custody, cataloguing and acquisition was his daily business. It did not stop within library walls, however, but extended over a wide range of schol­arly interests, with friendships with many workers in the same field on both sides of the Atlantic. The Roberts family were Welsh — father from Llangollen, mother from Cardiff — but they were living in Ely when

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OBITUARIES SIR REGINALD LECHMERE Reginald Lechmere founded the Malvern Bookshop in 1955 at Great Malvern, and ran it for over thirty years, selling the business in 1987. He came into the book trade after almost as long a time as a collector, beginning as an under­graduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to which he went up from Charterhouse in 1938. In 194o he joined the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, serving with the 1st Army in Tunisia, then in the 6th Armoured Division. After the Second World War, he stayed in the Army in the War Crimes Investigation Unit in Germany until 1948. Returning to Britain, he began a career in journalism, working for the London Evening Standard, then as publicity manager for Penguin Books, 1950­i. He then became a freelance journalist until 1955, when he decided to cross the border and turn his book collecting into bookselling, with his own collec­tion as his

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OBITUARIES JOHN SPERR John Sperr was one of the last scholar booksellers; discerning, devoted to his trade and commanding great respect within it. He lived for and amongst books — some 40,000 of them — during the whole of his working life, which only ended with life itself, on i 3 January. He was 96. He began as a very young man in the late twenties with Zwemmer's, the then newly founded bookshop in Charing Cross Road, where he remem­bered selling books to Lawrence of Arabia. He moved to the shop in Highgate (which was once an inn, then occupied by generations of bakers, and finally a second-hand bookshop in 1938, named Westwood and Sayers), shortly after the Second World War and bought out his partner Tom Fisher, in the Sixties. He became a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association in 1947. Two years later he published Sydney Kitchener's Old Highgate: The Story

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PETER B. HOWARD

‘No reasonable person could possibly dispute that Serendipity (or the art of making happy discoveries) is an appropriate name for a bookshop arranged on Mr Howard’s principles. Great and ceaseless care has been taken, almost unconsciously, to ensure that books will be found when and where one least expects them – but they will be found eventually.’ That was the considered verdict of Ian Jackson in The Key to Serendipity (Berkeley, 1999–2000).

Peter Howard was born in Pittsburgh, but as an ‘army brat’ he followed the flag, and his first memories were of Battle Creek, Michigan, and the smell of toasted wheat. His next memory was of China whence his father was posted to the Korean War, during which his mother and her two boys moved 27

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rpHE great success of the winter in London has been the Royal X. Academy's Byzantium' exhibition (25 October to 22 March). Over 300 exhibits spread over the whole of the academy's main floor was a generous allotment in which to display and explain a great and complex tradition of over a thousand years. Beginning with the frisson of direct contact with antiquity, it covers changes at once extensive and intro­spective, in religion, government, architecture, decoration and in every­day life, partly self-generated, partly due to pressure from outside, that are at once exotic and commonplace, el usive and immediately appealing. It is fifty years since the last comparable exhibition in Britain, as Gordon Brown rather unexpectedly noted in his contribution to the honorific prefaces in the catalogue. 'Masterpieces of Byzantine Art' started at the 1958 Edinburgh Festival before moving to the V & A. That was created by David Talbot-Rice

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OBITUARIES ANTHONY ROTA Anthony Rota was the grandee of London modern first edition bookselling. Other booksellers might have made more noise and attracted more newspaper headlines, but Rota got on quietly with the business. Collectors, on the one hand, enjoyed his bespoke service. On the other, authors and authors' widows were charmed by him and he sold entire collections and libraries, usually across the Atlantic - to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the Univer­sity of Texas at Austin, perhaps, or the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. If a thing could not be done stylishly, he said, it was not worth doing at all. Rota was proud of being a fourth-generation bookseller and, while his style was understated, it was definite. His shops had an austere calm about them and his catalogues - for a long time designed by his friend John Ryder, typographer to the Bodley Head -

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES D O N A L D WEEKS occurred in London on 7 September zoo3 of Donald Weeks, the Corvo collector. It was sad not only because the book world lost an enthusiastic and assiduous researcher but because Weeks seemed to have loosened all moorings and, in chronic ill-health, partially sighted, as financially straitened as his eccentric quarry, to have drifted into a castaway existence on the fringes of lord knows what outlying borough ofa city where he was still officially an alien. His disappearance from the radar screens of acquaintances long quiescent at his infrequent dockings anywhere to be called remotely civilised resulted in his death's going unremarked for three months. Weeks was born in Detroit on 18 April 1921. By 1953 he was a proficient gaphic and architectural artist working for Chevrolet in the city ofhis birth. It was then he contracted the Fr Rolfe bacillus

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES MARY PAUL POLLARD O n g June a crowd thronged the lofty Long Room of the eighteenth-century library of Trinity College, Dublin. They were gathered to launch a Festschrift for Mary, always known as 'Paul', Pollard. The setting was apt since she had long there as rare books librarian. She had been the first to occupy the post. Indeed, but for her unique attributes it would not then have been created. Born in 1922 and brought up in a medical family that had emigrated from Ireland to England, she too had been inclined to follow the tradition. Educated at Hawnes School near Bedford, she studied for several years at medical school. A change of direction led to her employment at Southlands Teacher Training College in Surrey. There she also trained as a professional librarian, putting the training into practice when she arrived in Dublin in 1957. She

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES R U A R I McLEAN To be in the forefront both of typographic design and of the history of books is a remarkable achievement. To have done this for almost 70 years is even more remarkable. Ruari McLean was always a stormy petrel, and seldom stayed long where he had begun his always unusual and often original work. But the two strands of his career, contemporary design practice and its history in what was, when he began, the deeply unfashionable Victorian era, have had a lasting influence. He was born in 1917in Galloway, but soon moved to Oxford where his father worked in the Customs and Excise, and went to the Dragon School and Eastbourne College. When he failed to get a Classics scholarship to Oxford, he had no idea what to do with his life. Among his father's friends, however, was Basil Blackwell, ever ready

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES BRIAN N O R T H LEE ( I 936-07) In the late 1960sBrian North Lee's curlos~ty aroused by two large trunks on was the floor of the library of the National Book League in Albemarle Street; these had been bequeathed by a Portuguese book plate collector and Brian was the first to examine the contents. They stimulated his interest; soon afterwards he joined the Bookplate Exchange Club and was hooked. But he was among a mere handful for whom bookplates were not merely objects to be exchanged with other collectors in the way that schoolboys swap stamps. He quickly realised the potential for book provenance, the history of taste, the study of heraldry and of graphic processes, in all of which he became a connoisseur. In 1972 he founded the Bookplate Society under the umbrella of David Chambers's Private Libraries Association. He edited the Society's Newsletter

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES ROBERT H A R L I N G A month or so before war began in 1939 Robert Harling, not yet editor of House G Garden, met Ian Flemlng, not yet synonymous with James Bond. The meeting was (as Harling found later) no accident. Flemmg, already engaged in naval intelligence, knew Harling as the editor and writer of much of Typography, a revolutionary journal that set new standards for the design and display ofprinted matter. He now found that Harling had other strings to his bow, as writer and designer of Inventive maps of 'News-Reel Maps' in the News Chronicle and 'demi-semi-resident art director' of Lord Delamere's upand-coming advertising agency. Lunch led to a commission to redesign the Admiralty's weekly intelligence report, but then Harling and Fleming parted, not to meet till 1941. Harling, always a keen sailor, had volunteered for the Navy, and before he finished

OBITUARIES - Spring 2003


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The Book Collector OBITUARIES CHARLES T R A Y L E N The chief event in Cambridge In 1905 was the departure from his native town and the county for which, the previous year, he had scored 696 runs, of Jack Hobbs. In the same year and place, Charles Traylen, bookseller extraordinary, was born. They had in common a love of cricket, tenacity and a certain innate sense of style, but there the resemblance stops. Hobbs was off to Surrey and in winter), and by rgzo he was already a national fame for a wage of 30s. hero. Traylen, having left school that year, gave up repairing bicycles for an apprenticeship (arranged by his mother) with the booksellers, Galloway & Porter, at a weekly wage of 7s. 6d. Galloway & Porter were midway up the scale of Cambridge bookshops, without the publishing and printing aspiration of the academic Bowes & Bowes

OBITUARIES - Spring 2004


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The Book Collector OBITUARIES PETER S T O C K H A M The death of Peter Stockham on 2 September last, aged 75, is a great loss that extends beyond the trade that he adorned for over fifty years. He was one of those in whom books were as essential as the bloodstream. There could never be too many of them, as far as he was concerned, and new and old, they filled his life. He began collecting them as a school-boy at King Edward VI's School, Lichfield, his home town, for which he always had the warmest affection, and even more for the Staffs Educational Book Company, whose bookshop became almost a second home. From Lichfield he went to the still new Keele University where the idea of making a living as a bookseller took root. Working first at Over's in Rugby and then at Cambridge, he found his

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES JAMES E. W A L S H (1918-2004) distinguished and prolific scholar-librarian whose career at Harvard University's Houghton Library spanned seven decades, died on 13 November 2004, at the age of 86. As one of the principal architects of the acclaimed research collections of Harvard's main rare book, manuscript and special collections library, Walsh oversaw acquisitions in German and Scandinavian history and literature, managed the printed books cataloguing department, directed the binding and conservation program, and through exhibition catalogues, articles, reviews, and collections catalogues described and promoted Harvard's rich holdings for an international community of scholars and collectors. Walsh was born in 1918 in Gray's Lake, Illinois, and educated in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After working four years in a brokerage house in Chicago, he attended Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned a degree (magna cum laude) in Classics in 1943.

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES ROBERT WOOF Robert Woof was one of the most effective and energetic voices in the public understanding of British Romantic literature and art. As Director ofthe WordsworthTrust since 1989he not only saw what had, almost literally, been a cottage industry grow into an institution of international renown. He also understood, long before it became received practice in arts organisations, the essential connection between writers and artists of the past, and those of the present. Both Woof's parents came from farming families. He was born in Lancashire in 193I, and after Lancaster Royal Grammar School went up with a scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read English. From there he was attracted to postgraduate study in Toronto, where some of the best work on the Romantic poets was going on. Kathleen Coburn was editing the manuscripts of Coleridge, bought by Victoria College after the British Museum had refused

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The Book Collector OBITUARIES R O D N E Y DENNIS Rodney GoveDennis, who died on 12 October after a short illness, wrotepoetry and made music while curating manuscripts at Harvard's Houghton Library. He was born in New York City in 1930, attended the Allen Stevenson School, and graduated from Putney School in 1948. He attended Yale University for two years. Then after one year in a bookstore (where he tackled a book thief fleeing down Fifth Avenue) and another in the army he entered the Manhattan School of Music and there took a bachelor's degree in viola and a master's in musicology. He then moved to Germany with his first wife Joan (Akeeyah) Browne, and their young son to pursue a doctorate in Music History at the University ofFrankfurt. His special study was the music ofthe Provencal troubadours; while there he also worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. O n

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EXHIBITIONS IN 2009 Leipzig University celebrated its sixth centenary with an ex­hibition drawn from the treasures of the University Library, part of which travelled to the Grolier Club, where it was exhibited from 10 September to 21 November, with a further display at Public Library at Houston, Leipzig's sister-city. The exhibition consisted of two parts. The first was a set of moving panels exhibiting three aspects of the university, its teachers, students and practices, each set out century by century in chronological order. The second constituted the exhibition proper, whose items had been selected to illustrate ten themes, within three main divisions: science (astronomy, botany and medicine); relig­ion (Judaism, Christianity and Islam); and the world (Europe, Orient and Asia, Africa and America). Altogether, there were about a hun­dred items, of which thirty were on show in New York. The panels began with a fine impression of the still extant 1409 silver

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Andrea di Pietro della Gondola  Padua.  Vicenza 1524, Giangiorgio Trissino, poet,  1540, 'Palladio', goddess of the Parthenon,  Royal Academy's January-April Palladia exhibition (previously at Vicenza,  Barcelona in May-September 1970, the quater-centenary of the publication ofQuattro Libri dellArchitettura),  Nachlass, mate­rial terms: drawings, books manuscripts, portraits and pictures and models. catalogue, but in  1971 and 2003 out of lime and beech wood, biscuit porcelain statues, they were a marvel of  Renato Cevcse and Andrej Soltan, and the makers, Ballico-Officina Modellisti, and also to the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architcttura Andrea Palladio, which commissioned them and jointly sponsored this exhibition.
drawings, drawings of extant buildings by Palladio, of the classic monu­ments he saw in Rome, of unfinished or unrealised projects, sections, plans, details - the choice was endless, precision radiated from them all.  Louvre Catena of Trissino, brocade-bound book in hand, Titian's Giulio Romano holding a drawing of an unidentified

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EXHIBITIONS THE Bibliotheca Wittockiana at Brussels has staged a major exhibition, `Henry van de Velde: Art Nouveau Bookbinding in Belgium, 1893-1900', which opened on 6 October and continues un­til r6 January. With the exhibition comes a large and splendid cata­logue, the main `corpus', or descriptive text, by Pascal de Sadeleer, in French, with accompanying forewords and essays (in French, Flemish, German and English) by Michel Wittock, Werner Adriaenssens, Paul Culot and Kathleen De Muer; Pascal de Sadeleer adds (in French and Flemish) 'Petites Histoires a Propos de Grandes Decouvertes', extended notes on themes thrown up in the process of compiling the catalogue. Everything, from the first drafts of designs, related documents, con­temporary photographs of van de Velde and other persons involved, to the bindings themselves and details thereof, is illustrated in colour. This is a full-blown account of a major episode in the history of book­binding, with ramifications beyond the single

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Cttenry vui : man & monarch', the British Library's celebra-JL X tion of the 500th anniversary of Henry's accession to the throne, was of suitably gargantuan proportions, filling its newly enlarged exhibi­tion space almost to overflowing (23 April-6 September). Its architecture was due to the practised hands of David Starkey and Susan Doran, fol­lowing the equally comprehensive exhibition on Elizabeth I at the National Maritime Museum. It was accompanied by a large and well-designed catalogue; if the overall plan was due to Starkey, Doran's edit­ing of the catalogue was a vital component in the success of the whole. Nine sections roughly corresponded with the climacterics of Henry's life, dividing in half neatly at the grand climacteric, here emphasised as taking place in 1529, his fortieth year. That was the year in which the royal supremacy' emerged as the defining issue of Henry's reign, when the legatine court failed to

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EXHIBITIONS SI E G F R I E D SASSOON'S manuscripts, correspondence and artefacts have appeared at auction sales and in dealer catalogues over many years. His poems, including the great war poems, are to be found at Cambridge, the Bodleian, Texas, the Berg and elsewhere; his semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is now held by the British Library, and the Imperial War Museum owns the notes, auto­graph manuscript drafts and revised typescript ofMemoirs of an Infantry Officer. In 2007 his Military Cross, long thought to have been thrown into the Mersey, was found, still in the family's possession, and acquired by the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum. What remained in family hands until late last year were Sassoon's extraordinary war diaries, his later journals and his letters to his wife. With generous assistance from the Heritage Memorial Fund and many other charities and individuals, the archive was acquired by Cambridge

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EXHIBITIONS FROM 23 January, when it opened, the Royal Academy exhibition `The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters' drew larger and larger crowds, lasting till it ended on i8 April. The compelling power of Van Gogh, the painter of bright oils with thick impasto, is always a draw, but this exhibition differed from every other in its attempt to illustrate the inner life expressed in the letters, above all those to his brother Theo, which provided most of those shown. There were 3S of them, chosen to illustrate the growth of his artistic style, represented by 65 paintings and 3o drawings. But it is not too much to say that the letters stole the show. This began with the amazingly powerful Marsh, which showed Van Gogh's graphic style (always a master of hatching) already developed. After that, the letters led into the hypnotic world of his imagination, linked with

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To our great regret, we missed the exhibition ‘Illumination: Hebrew Treasures from the Vatican and Major British Collections’ at the Jewish Museum between June and October last year. It consisted of twenty-five objects, mostly manuscripts but also with a decorative brass armillary sphere, the rest all illuminated books. It was, although not explicitly, a tribute to one of the greatest of British Hebrew scholars, Benjamin Kennicott, whose collection and works are in the Bodleian. Thence came the great Spanish bible dated 1476, known as the ‘Kennicott Bible’, but also Kennicott’s notes from a commentary on Job (from Lambeth Palace Library). Bodleian MS. Kenn. 2, another bible written in Spain in 1300, was also there, with the ‘Sifra’, a ninth-century midrash on Leviticus (Vatican, Ebr.66), the earliest piece in

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rpHE great success of the winter in London has been the Royal X. Academy's Byzantium' exhibition (25 October to 22 March). Over 300 exhibits spread over the whole of the academy's main floor was a generous allotment in which to display and explain a great and complex tradition of over a thousand years. Beginning with the frisson of direct contact with antiquity, it covers changes at once extensive and intro­spective, in religion, government, architecture, decoration and in every­day life, partly self-generated, partly due to pressure from outside, that are at once exotic and commonplace, el usive and immediately appealing. It is fifty years since the last comparable exhibition in Britain, as Gordon Brown rather unexpectedly noted in his contribution to the honorific prefaces in the catalogue. 'Masterpieces of Byzantine Art' started at the 1958 Edinburgh Festival before moving to the V & A. That was created by David Talbot-Rice

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EXHIBITIONS WE NOTICED `Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs', the British Library's celebration of the invention, in the Winter number, soon after it started; now, as it draws to its close, it is worth recalling what a remarkable exhibition it was. It had a double task: to tell the story of the development of photography and its appar­atus, and to show the world that was changed by that process. It was as big as the library's previous blockbuster `Henry VIII', but made more intelligent use of the space, an achievement the more remarkable since the exhibits, requiring subtle lighting, were much harder to display. The sequence — apart from the incunabular period — was not chrono­logical but the arrangement enabled the visitor to move easily from one part to another. In the beginning (drawing on the newly acquired Fox Talbot archive) the contrast between Daguerre's clear-cut but unique images

EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES - THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH BIBLIOGRAPHY


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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS & E X H I B I T I O N CATALOGUES T H E G O L D E N AGE O F F R E N C H B I B L I O G R A P H Y In 1992 and 1993, there was a great exhibition, first at the ChSteau de Blois and then at the BibliothPque Nationale, entitled 'Des livres et des rois', devoted to the great relics of the royal library at Blois. This began with the books acquired by the brilliant younger son of Charles V, Louis d'OrlCans, who bought the vacant comtC de Blois with the great dowry of his Milanese wife, Valentina Visconti, in 1391. It ended with Franqois I, who inherited Blois on his succession in I 5 I 5 and transferred the books there to Fontainebleau in 1544. At the beginning of this year, Pierre BerZs

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES THE AMERICAN SUMMER game is celebrated at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Who's on First? Marianne Moore, George Plimpton, and Baseball. The friendship of these two writers spanned a decade (1955-66) when Moore's team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, 'were a religion' and the New York teams confronted one another in legendary World Series games. Drawn from the Library's extensive Marianne Moore arcbve, the exhbition includes correspondence, manuscripts, the poet's baseball books, and her autographed baseballs. Until 20 September, Tuesday - Saturday, 11-4. Medieval Manuscripts on Merseyside, an exhbition drawn from the major libraries of Liverpool, transfers from Merseyside to the Courtauld Galleries, London, 15 October-28 November. An illustrated ) catalogue ( I S B N 0-95203 3 8 ~ 1 gives full details of 46 manuscripts and pays tribute to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Liverpool industrialists whose acquisitions enriched the city's collections. It is available for

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES PHILADELPHIA WAS HOST to two remarkable exhibitions of medieval manuscripts, one at the Museum of Art, the other at the University of Pennsylvania Library. 'Leaves of Gold' at the Museum was the brainchild of James Tanis and James Marrow; it brought together eighty major manuscripts or fragments from eleven institutions in the 'geater Philadelphia area'. The full-dress descriptions by twenty-one different experts were generously illustrated, and the catalogue further equipped with essays directed at the non-specialist museum-visitor explaining the structure and function of manuscript books; admirably designed by Greer Allen, it is available from the Museum of Art ( I S B N o 87633 145 z cloth, 144 4 paper). The text was prefaced by an essay on the growth of the Philadelphia collections by Tanis. It probably begins with a fourteenth-century French psalter given to the Library Company of Philadelphia in or before

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The Book Collector E X H I B I T I O N S & E X H I B I T I O N CATALOGUES M E N T I O N Beardsky or Beerbohin or Victorian art and literature to a bookseller and it is most likely that the onversation will turn to Mark S a n d s Lasner and his outstanding collections. Lasner brings to his collecting both expert knowledge, contagious enthusiasm and a desire to share his passion with others. In recent years he has been a generous organizer of and contributor to exhibitions in America and Britain. A new exhibition drawn from his collection, Beyond Oscar W i l d e : Portraits ofLate Victoria Writersanddrtists, opens on 5 September at the University Gallery of the University ofDelaware and continues until 10November. The show includes more than sixty-five illustrations and illustrated letters from 1870-1901, with

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The Book Collector E X H I B I T I O N S & E X H I B I T I O N CATALOGUES of Corztemporary Poetry at Princeton's Firestone Library is a rich and elegantly presented survey of the work of seventy contemporary American poets. It is also a tribute to the collaboration between a contemporary collector, Leonard L. Milberg, a bookseller, J. Howard Wooliner, and the staff, both current and retired, of the Library. In honour of Richard M. Ludwig, Professor of English Emeritus and for many years head of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton, Mr Milberg has presented his alma mater with a collection of more than 1800 volumes, broadsides, and poetical ephemera, all in superb condition. How simple he makes it sound: 'Since I am an enthusiastic collector,' he writes in the Spring 1994 issue of the Princetoll University Library Chronicle, 'it seemed

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES W R I T T E N R E C O R D S of two world wars are on exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. Eighty years after the incomprehensibly bloody Battle of the Somme the letters and diaries of soldiers who took part are a poignant, tragic reminder of the sacrifice of a generation. Less than thirty years later the letters home were from an even younger group, the child evacuees sent to the country or overseas to escape the bombing in the Second World War. The Battle ofthe Somme continues until 18 November, Evacuees until 5 January 1997 (daily 10-6). the British Library where The Mythical Quest traces 'heroes and heroines embarking on perilous quests in search of lost loved ones, the secret of immortality, earthly paradise or simply great riches.' The grand struggles of Jason, Cupid and Psyche, Sinbad,

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The Book Collector NEWS A N D COMMENT O U R N E W S I T E M in the last issue on the National Library of Scotland's forthcoming closure was partly misleading. We gather that access to the manuscript collections for 'up to a year' from I September 1997 will not be 'severely restricted' but wholly impossible. 'SSSHHHUT!' said the misleading advertisement. Readers who have been crowding the special collections reading rooms prior to the close-down have been thinking that a vowel has been misprinted. T H E B R I T I S H L I B R A R Y received its portion of the Macmillan Archve in 1967 and to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of this important acquisition a day conference is being held under its aegis at The Centre for English Studies, University of London, on Thursday 30 October. Speakers will include David McKitterick, Bill Bell

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The Book Collector NEWS A N D COMMENT adventures of sailor-men ashore' and 'celebrating the unscrupulous ingenuities of the artful dodger of a slow-witted country village.' Michael Sadleir paid tribute to Jacobs's superb technique. Chesterton to his 'lucid humour' and Wodehouse noted that 'examples of the best short story would include almost the entire output of W. W. Jacobs.' The plaque, at 15 Gloucester Gate, London NWI, was unveiled in the presence of Prince Charles, members of the Jacobs family, and David and Marsha Karpeles, who own the W. W. Jacobs archive. His Royal Highness was presented with copy number I of the facsimile edition of the original manuscript of The Monkey's Paw. EXHlBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES P A R I S H A S E N J O Y E D no less than four major exhibitions important in different ways for those interested in the book. 'Les Rois Maudits' at the

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES THE BRITISH M U S E U M Department of Prints and Drawings, after its innovative exhibition of seventeenth-century English prints, which concentrated more on the trade and publishers and the engravers they employed and less on art, has moved further into new territory. 'The Popular Print in Britain', which opened in June, is an eye-opener in every sense, and Sheila O7Connell'sbook on the subject, usefully combines a thematic history of the subject with a catalogue of the almost 200 prints described, most of them in the exhibition. These were divided into a series of themes that in sum ~rovided definition of a a large, under-rated but always fascinating and Protean subject. It began with the obvious: prints for a mass market and appealing to popular taste. But what is popular taste? This is partly defined by the printmakers and print-sellers who catered to it,

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Anthony Hobson NOTES ON SALES l w the ruarres. By Iohn Woolfe, Lono don, 1589. Not in STC. A panegyric in verse on Peregrine, Lord Willoghby, signed I.B. The preface signed R.B. With a full-page cut of St George and dragon. MISSALE. Missale diocesis Lingonensis (Langres). Impensis Iohannis Parvi, In alma Parisiorum academia, 15 October, 1517. fol. 6%. Old calf. Weale-Bohatta 536. The Canon and two full-page cuts (leaves) are on vellum. k much-used copy, but complete. MISSALE. Missale ad sacrosancte Romane ecclesie vsum. Impressum per Iohannem Kerbriant alias Huguelin et Iohannem Bienayse. Impensis eorundem ac Iohannis Adam. Parisius, 1518. 8'. 6 % Bohatta, 1033.This copy replaces 5. the BM copy (3395. c. 17) destroyed by enemy action. Missale iuxta ritum ecclesiae Lugdunemis. Excudebat Cornelius a Septemgrangiis, expensis haeredum Iacobi Giunte, Lugduni, 1556, fol. 6%. Weale-Bohatta 555. One of the full-page cuts is mutilated. MISSALE. (To be concluded) A N T H O N Y HOBSON NO T E S

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The Book Collector NO I E ON SALES We learn, as we go to press, of the sale by private treaty of Dr A. S. W. Rosenbach's renowned collection of Shakespeare folios and quartos, and of the splendid collection of colour-plate books of British scenery, made by Major J. R. Abbey and fully described in his recently published bibliographical catalogue which we shall be reviewing in due course. The purchaser of the former is Monsieur Martin Bodmer of Grand Cologny, Geneva, perhaps the most eminent of all living collectors. The purchaser of the latter is a private collector in the U.S.A. for whom Scribners acted and who at present wishes to remain anonymous. We hope to give some account in a later number of the Rosenbach Collection, which includes not only perfect copies of all four folios but more than fifty quartos (eight of them first editions, including Lucrece, King Lear,

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Anthony Hobson THE BOOK COLLECTOR It is nevertheless a very great achievement and every bibliophile must rejoice that, under M. Bodmer's trusteeship, Europe now possesses a Shakespeare collection worthy of comparison with the eight leading collections in England and the U.S.A. I t is doubtful whether any bookseller during the past thirty years but Dr. Rosenbach, the master-builder of many specialized collections, could have afforded to tie up so much capital while he gradually and patiently accumulated these scattered folios and quartos. If it has ultimately profited him to have waited, it is not only in a financial sense: he has achieved, in the making of the Bodmer Collection, something which, it is safe to say, can never be done again; and, on this count alone, he will be remembered in the history of book-collecting, along with Payne and Foss, Bernard Quaritch, and George D. Smith, as the last of' the

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The Book Collector NOTES ON SALES FROM A CORRESPONDENT The preference of buyers for the contents of more or less intact eighteenth-century collections-now increasingly uncommon-was shown in a marked fashion at the sale of books from the Williamscote Library on 8 June. Although the 216 lots catalogued for sale formed only a part of the library, the records of purchases and the critical and bibliographical notes inscribed by the three eighteenth-century scholarsJohn Loveday, father and son, and their neighbour, James Merrickwho formed the collection, enhanced the interest of the many rarities, and the sale excited the keenest competition. O f commanding interest was the holograph manuscript of Thomas Otway's The Poet's Complaint of his Muse, which formed part of the Merrick bequest. Otway's handwriting is of the utmost rarity; no other manuscript, not even a letter of his, is known to survive. There could, however, be no doubt of the authenticity of

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Anthony Hobson ANTHONY HOBSON N O T E S O N SALES mont and Descamps-Scrive collections; in the latter's sale in 1952 it The eighteenth-century books of had fetched 8 I,GW frs. the late M. Gabriel Cognacq's library Other high prices included 23 I ,000 were sold in Paris on 24-26 Novem- frs for the Chansons of La Borde, ber, 1952. The collection, catalogued 1773, a copy in contemporary calf in 479 lots, and admirably described, containing the portrait of La Borde included fine copies of the best- in a lyre; 41 5,000 frs for the Diderot known illustrated books of the cen- and d'Alembert Encyclop;die, 175I tury, together with others far less 77, a fine copy in contemporary red expensive. Prices throughout were morocco with arms but lacking the very high (in accordance with French two volumes of Index; 130,000 frs practice purchasers paid a surcharge for Marie Antoinette's copy of

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The Book Collector N O T E S O N SALES FROM A CORRESPONDENT James Magra (Holmes 3), bound with Pernety's History o a Voyage f The chief English sale of the New to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islandr, Year has been that of a pcrtion of 1771, E54; George Hamilton's Voythe Rt. Hon. David Eccles's library age round the World in His Majesty's of books of voyages and travels, sold Frigate Pandora, I 793, E90; Kruseno n April 27. Only four sections of stern's Voyage round the World in the library-those on the Pacific, the Years 1803-6, 1813 (the date Australia, New Zealand and South misprinted I 873 in the catalogue), Africa-were catalogued for sale, A58; Urey Lisiansky's account of but they formed what was perhaps the same voyage, the first circumthe best small collection on the sub- navigation by a Russian expedition, ject to come on to the market for

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The Book Collector THE B O O K COLLECTOR NOTES ON SALES THE KNOWSLEY HALL SALE AT CHRISTIE'S direction. A characteristic Godwin asperity 'expressing himself strongly in connection with a translation o f Yoltaire' made the top price of £88, and P ~ f i X i o v , & y a K G I K ~ V ' did nor, presumably, apply to the physical size of a volume, for if it did the sale at Christie's, on 19 and zo October, of printed books and manuscripts, the property of the Earl of Derby, removed from Knowsley Hall, would indeed have been a bad affair. For the most part the books gave an impression of vast size, and the prices paid for them did not lag behind. The first book sale in the reconstructed Christie's, a handsome replica of the old blitzed building, was, to be sure. a noble occasion to which the

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The Book Collector NOTES ON SALES THE HACHETTE SALE, PARIS The small but distinguished collection of manuscripts and miniatures, with a few printed books, formed by the late Monsieur AndrC Hachette, was sold in Paris on 16December 1953. Catalogued in 88 lots by the Librairie GiraudBadin, it contained many nianuscripts of a quality now rarely seen. Prices throughout were very high. Chief among the liturgical manuscripts was a magnificent English thirteenth-century Psalter with six full-page miniatures on gold grounds (fancifully attributed in the catalogue to Canterbury); this made 12 million frs. (Rau). A French thirteenth-century Psalter of the Use of Amiens with eight full-page miniatures, eight historiated initials and roundels of the signs of the Zodiac and occupations of the months in the Calendar, sold for 5,220,000 frs. (Lardanchet); and M. Scheler paid 2 million frs. for a fourteenthcentury Breviary of the Use of ChPlons-sur-Marne with 28 miniatures attributed to the Paris

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The Book Collector N O T E S ON SALES chine.) frs. 4,000. Claudine s'en va, 1903 (half morocco by Huser. One Auction prices in Belgium show of yo on holkmde. With letter from the same tendency towards extrava- Willy.) frs. 2,000. Anatole France, gance as in other countries and the Thafs, 1891 (half morocco by V. scarcity of good material shows a Champs.) frs. 3,100; L a Rctisserie de similar exaggeration in some of the la Reine Pe'dauque, 1893 (one of 40 prices.1 The library of the late Mar- on hollande. Morocco and Ctui by quis de Croix, for instance, auctioned Huser.) frs. 28,200; Les Dieux ant by Paul van de Perre in February, soif [ I ~ I L ] (one of r o o on japon. displayed signs of the fatigue to be Half leather.) frs. 12,100; (one of zoo expected in books formerly housed on hollande, original

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The Book Collector N O T E S O N SALES On 11 and I Z October, 1954 Sotheby's held the sale of the first part (A-L) of the Westley Manning collection of autograph letters, histori&l documents and manuscript music. A collector since 1882, when he bought his first autograph letter at the age of 14, and a life-long addict of the sale-room, Manning had concentrated on letters of famous historical characters (particularly those of sixteenth-century England and France), artists and composers. It was for the last group that demand was keenest. The highest price of the sale, Ljoo, was paid for a letter of nine lines, in English, from Handel, declining an invitation (as against A260 for a longer, and considerably more interesting, letter of Luther's). Other composers represented were J. S. Bach, a signcd autograph document concerning the hire of a clavier ( E I ~ oand the holograph

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The Book Collector NOTES O N SALES Sotheby's have held a more importart series of sales this year than they have for some years. These have included three sales entirely of autograph material: the second and final part of the Westley Manning Collection, sold o n 24 and 25 January for a total ofL10,214; thecorrespondence of Abraham Ortelius with Mercator, John Dee, Camden and other geographers of the period, to which had been added letters of Erasmus, Guillaume Budt and Durer, which went as a single lot for L13,ooo to an American collector, Dr Fisher; and the second part of the De Coppet collection, containing early letters of Napoleon and other French ones of earlier date, which realised a total of L16,oog. In addition, there have been three important miscellaneous sales of printed books. The first, held on 28 February and I March, contained a collection of early herbals, sold anonymously,

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The Book Collector N O T E S O N SALES Britain with their Eggs, 178994, the first edition with all the plates drawn The finest lot in Sothebv's sale of by hand by the author-a copy with the remainder of the library from 323 plates, now agreed tc be the comEcton Hall on November ~ 1 s t - ~ 2 n d plete number (L250); L e Roman de la (the first part had been sold in 1924) Rose, 1813, with plates after Monnet, was an English fifteenth-century the duchesse de Berry's copy printed Book ofHours, with 32 miniatures by on rose-coloured paper and in an inan English artist under strong Parisian laid binding by Simier (L2oo); and a influence. This was bought by Messrs copy of William Sotheby's Italy and Maggs for L3,4m. Other manu- other Poems, I 828, extra-illustrated scripts were 3 volume of Chronicles, with water-colour

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The Book Collector NOTES O N SALES 'l'llc London .luct~on rooms during of tile f k t thl-cc m o ~ ~ t h s 1956 wcrc clo~n~n.~tcd thrcc s~lcs, all at by Sotl~cbv's.The E d of l'o\vis's Libr.1ry had b c c ~ ~ cxtcnsivcly dcplctcd in . , ~ i c.lr11cr s ~ l c (1923); but a further kc~lcct~on, bold sn Janu.~ry16, 17, 18, bror~glit ;I number of hi$ prices. I$ooks from Lorcl ~iarlcclt's L~brarv .rt isrog) ntyn, S.~lop,dicl cvcn bcttcr O I I Fcbrux). 27, 28; the c : d y quarto pl.~).s (lots 394-447). in pnrticular, m.~kinea w!lolc scrics of records in rcsponsc to strong bidding by two Icding New York booksellers-Mr John Fleming of the former 1t.oseninch C o m p ~ i y , and M r Michacl I'npmtonio (who flew ovcr for the s . 1 1 ~ ) thc Scvcn Gables l3ookshop.

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The Book Collector NOTES ON SALES opened the 1956-57 season with a further selection from the extraordinary riches of the Andre de Coppet Collection: Part VII of the series and the thlrd to be devoted to Napoleonic papers and letters, covering the period from Austerlitz to the Retreat from Moscow. (There is understood to be one more sale of Napoleonica to come.) O n 15 0ctober the Paris trade was represented in force, with MM. Blai~ot, Lambert and Casting (of Charavay) the most active; and several lots fell to the Archives Nationales. But what gave a special distinction to the sale was the presence of Seiior Julio Lobo, the Cuban collector who had been such a sensational buyer, by proxy, at the previous Napoleonic session. Seiior Lobo in person proved an even more determined bidder; and professionals suspected that he was the purchaser, under a norn de querre, of several lots

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The Book Collector NOTES O N SALES sales at Sotheby's bcforc Christmas wcre held over from the notcs 111 the Spring Nunibcr for later conmient. The earlier of these (29, 30 Oct.) was devoted entirely to ' m o d e r ~ ~ sexcept for some art books from the late I'ctcr ', Watson's library; and as it is a long time since any auction house 1ias been able to p r o v d c such a substantial test o f this dcpartnicnt of the market, the rcsults wcrc of more than passing interest. Sir Sydney Cockcrcll's Shaw collection had done very well earlier in the year: but here wcre Hardy, Conrad, de la Marc, Housnian, Charlotte M e w and Siegfried Sassoon, from the same source; Galswortl~~ presentmons from his widow's estate and a fine run of presentation Mascficlds; Picasso, L3.rl1, Spender and Connolly from the Peter Watson

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SALES ASUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION of Yorkshire books and maps was sold by Dominic Winter on 31 March. The fine Jefferys 1772 and 1816 county maps made L2400 and 01350, while nine lots of Leeds directories all did well, five 1809-42 making LiOO-J 230 each, multiple lots of the 184os and 6os, L64o-LIIOO, and eleven, 18SI­1933, r29oo. Edward Hailstone's Portraits of Yorkshire Worthies 1869, with photographs, made C 185, John Camden Hotten Bibliographical Account... of Yorkshire 1863 with others, C92o, Parsons The Civil... History of Leeds... and the Manufacturing District of Yorkshire 1834,,9So and Peckham The Complete English Cook, Leeds, 1767, £820. The ledger of a Norfolk workhouse, 1796-8, made a surprising £ 3200, also at Winter on 7 April, with The Wealth of Nations, third edition, in boards, £3500, and a fine coloured Bayer Uranometria 166i ,,C15,000. THE PENZLER COLLECTION of British espionage and thrillerflction, sold at Swann on 8 April, was eclectic.

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The sixth in Heribert Tenschert's series Lcuchtendes Mittelaltcr' is as copious both in text and illustration as its predecssors. Like them, too, it takes a theme that no other could attempt, at least not on this scale, and thereby adds significantly to our knowledge of a kind of book once common at every level of book manufacture, but now less so. Charac­teristically, Tenschert restricts his choice to the top end of the market, with thirty-five books of hours from Pans and the main French regional centres in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They begin with three from the first half of the century, all of metropolitan grandeur. The first, however, is of an enjoyably equivocal nature, for it is decorated by the artist known as the Master of Walters 219. His style suggests an origin in Milan, whence he came, trailing clouds of the glory of Michelmo da Besozzo,

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CATALOGUES rpwo Parisian booksellers, Alain Brieux and Thomas-_L Scheler, have combined to produce the best catalogue on early medicine for years. 'Precurseurs et Novateurs: Medecines et Medecins de la Renaissance contains 200 books, all printed before 1600, part drawn from the collection of Maurice Villaret (1877-1946), first holder of the chair of Hydrologie et de Climatologie Therapeutique' at Paris, and part from the 'recherches patientes* of the two firms. If a long time in the making, the result is remarkable, not least for the number of books in contemporary bindings. Outstanding (and 'P.s.d.') were a large and clean Aldine Aristotle; Bartisch 'O^OaXuoSouXeia: Das ist Angendienst 1585, the first modern work on ophthalmology, with 91 fine if alarming woodcuts by Hans Hewamaul in contemporary col­our, in fi ne contemporary calf cautiously attributed to Jakob Krause of Dresden; Ketham Fasciculus medicine 1493, also in contemporary col-our(the 1500and 1513 editions,plain, were€i35,oooand€ioo,ooo); the very rare

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Nina Musinsky (176 West 87th Street, New York, New York 10024, nina@musinskyrarcbooks.com, tel 212 579 2099)  John Saumarez Smith (c/o Maggs Bros, 50 Berkeley Square, London wij 5BA, john@saumarez smith.com, tel 020 7518 7935). Musinsky   Lc Maistre de Sacy La Saintc Bible 1789-1804, the first five volumes by Didot le jcuiie, the rest chczGay. This extraordinary enterprise spamicd the Revo­lution, and its fine typography was matched by the neo-classical plates, mostly after Marillier. This set was bound in German half-calf with green paper sides, flat spines with red and green labels elegantly tooled in ro­coco style, and cost $13,500. There were besides two red morocco-bound collections of Revolutionary tracts and songs ($3850 and $2500). Illustrated books included a Bergainasco festival book, Le Dodici Gemma del Antico Efod 1776, Almanack des He'roides 1772 with Eisen plates, and Amoris Divini at Huniani Effectus 1626 with Michael Snyders's ($6500), and the

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CATALOGUES (HAD ORIGINALLY no thought of printing any information on the subject matter of the poems,' wrote David Foxon in the introduc­tion to English Verse, 17o1-175o, `but for my own benefit I made brief notes where the title of the poem was uninformative or misleading, or where contemporary annotation revealed the object of a satire. I had, however, reproductions of most of the half-sheets, and many of these had to be dated from their subject matter. Considering how rare most of these are and that I had the texts before me, I decided to do what I could to record their subject when titles were unhelpful. I have sim­ilarly used what notes I had for other minor verse, but with better-known authors and poems I have made little attempt to elucidate the subject. The result is again inconsistency, but I hope the information is given where it is most needed.' Where it

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CATALOGUES IT IS nIFFICuLT to be impartial about it, but `SpicilegiumScoticum', from James Fergusson, is unarguably the most remarkable cata­logue of the season, and the best catalogue on Scottish life and letters to be published for a long time. It has some visible roots. The long lives and wide connections of Sir Herbert Grierson (1866-196o) and Bruce Dickins (1889-1978), grandfather and father of Jane, wife of Richard Garnett, form a tissue of connections that permeate the 440 items in it (the title picks up that of Dickins's little Anglo-Saxon anthology made `studentium in usu' in 1925, Cio). But more than this, it is an extended pilgrimage (to borrow James Henry's word) through several genera­tions of Scots, writers of and on the native tongues, persons, large and small, who have featured in the life of the country and further afield. All this is woven together by an acute sense of kinship, the

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CATALOGUES THERE IS ALWAYS some amazing discovery in every catalogue from Heribert Tenschert, and no. 62, which is also no. 14 in his 'Illuminationen' series, edited by Eberhard Konig, is no exception. Agnes de Pont Sainte-Maxence: Ihr Stundenbuch and die Buchmalerei der Normandie zu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts brings together five manu­script books of hours dating from the first half of the fifteenth centu­ry, all from the western part of what is now France. This alone is no small achievement. Two of them, the most distinctive, are of unusu­al uses, respectively those of Lisieux and Bayeux; the other three are of the more familiar use of Rouen, although none is `shop work'. But over this far from ordinary set of books, Eberhard Konig, the magi­cian of scholarship in French illumination in its late medieval heyday, has worked another spell of conscious ingenuity. The ups and downs of the Hundred Years War

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Imposing catalogues of mostly medieval material came from Les Enluminures, Jörn Günther and Bruce McKittrick. Les Enluminures, in fact, produced two, ‘France 1500’ and ‘Binding and the Archaeology of the Medieval and Renaissance Book’, both outstanding in appearance, carefully designed and with evocative photographs. The first had three outstanding Tours books of hours, all in the general area of Fouquet and Bourdichon, the Katherina Hours by the Master of Jean Charpentier, the Du Pou-Veauce Hours, $350,000, and Le Bigot Hours $275,000, and a later masterpiece, the Hours of Francis I by the Master of François de Rohan. The non-liturgical books included Sala ‘Moraux Dictz’ with pictures by Guillaume le Roy II, $275,000, Nicolas de Houssemaine, ‘Gestes des comtes de Dammartin’,

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Both Rodolphe Chamonal and Libraine Thonias-Scheler (Bernard and Stephane Clavreuil) produced catalogues  Chamonal's 205 items included historic documents as well as travel books, and much else, the more important all 'p.s.d.'.  French naval expedition to the Caribbean,  New York (vividly described),  to Egypt, 1798-1801, alongside Marcel Alphabet Arabe 1798, the first book from the French press there. 'La relation du voyage a Sydney du prince des pickpockets', Barrington Account of a Voyage to New South Wales 1803, accompanied the French 1596 Conestaggio (€20,000), with the very rare Diaz Tanco Libra inthulado Palitwdia de . . . los Turcos 1547 and Peron and Freycinet's Australian voyage, 1824, bound with the Hanoverian royal arms. Flandin Voyage en Perse 1851 was there, Hommaire de Hell Voyage en Turquic et en Perse 1854-60 and Prince Demidoff's own copy of Voyage dans la Russiv Meridionale 1838— 48. The fine Krusenstcrn Atlas de V Ocean

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CATALOGUES WILLIAM BLAKE: a Catalogue of Books by and about Blake and y V his Circle, 1775-2008' was the title of John Windle 46. It was no more and no less than as stated, a remarkable achievement at either end of the chronological span, ranging from Bryant A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology 1775-6, wherein Blake's apprentice hand is probably to be seen in plates signed by Basire, to the latest number of The Blake Newsletter. There were three drawings by Blake and two original prints from Songs of Innocence and Experience, and an impressive collection of Blake's engraved work, of his own invention and after others, including no less than three copies of Illustrations of the Book of Job 1825/6 and the former Hofer copy of Dante. These made up over Ioo of the 1646 items in the catalogue, a formidable total. Typographic and facsimile renderings made more

CATALOGUES - Autumn 2008


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES of hours include an early Vrelantish book, as does Tenschert. There is a pair of leaves from a great early antiphoner, too, probably Tours, ~1520, the Master ofMorgan M.85, as well as two fine twelfth-cenby tury leaves. There are even some fine examples of modern calligraphy. All this is yours for a mere $15. Windle's collection of Blake was also exhibited at Sotheran's. The high-spots included Plate 23 from Songs Innocence ~1789-94 printed in colour with water-colour (E60,500) and a drawing of 'Paola and Francesca' ~1824-7, a fine early proof copy of Illustrations of the Book o f l o b I 825 and a set of the Dante plates (E38,000, E38,soo and E37,5m), but there was a remarkable range of Blake's engraved work after others, later facsimiles, including those by the Trianon Press, and reference books, some llke the Ellis-Yeats W o r k s and

CATALOGUES - Summer 2007


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES o F the Reformation have been diversely celebrated or beatified by the faiths for whlch they suffered, but besides them are the more complex and often bafing figures whose thought and beliefs and writings fitted into no 'orthodoxy' as then accepted, Ochino, Servetus, Dolet, Giordano Bruno and others less famous. Their works, often printed in deliberate obscurity and thus rare to start with, became rarer when suppressed or burnt. The various currents of thought that brought about the enlightenment led to a revival of interest in them and even to reprints, still often deliberately kept rare, if for different reasons. Historians of philosophy, theology, science and medicine have taken them up, and tried to fit them in, ifonly by exception, to their narratives. One of the strangest, yet to us now most important, of these figures was Guillaume Postel (I j10-1581).A wanderer like Ochino, a scholar hke

CATALOGUES - Winter 2007


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES translation (1603 ; L12,gm). But there zre lots of more moderately priced items, including a nice Ulm incunable, Nider's Praeceptorum divinae leges (Zainer, c I 479) for 3950. Sourget 3 0 began with the Doheny copy of the I472 Augsburg Speculum humanne salvationis (€175,ooo), but also contained a set of the Corrozet 1540 Villon and Marot and Janot's 1543-56 Amadis de Gaule, all in handsome contemporary calf. A collection of Bruno's last three works (1588) cost e16~,ooo, Sidereus Nuncius 1612, visibly more inarginous and than the Macclesfield copy, was 'prix sur demande'; while Discours de la mkthode 1637 in later calf registered €91,0oo, the Bute copy of Pascal Lettres de A. Dettonville 1659 €zg~,ooo Principia 1686, 'reliure anglaise and de l'kpoque', but with the perforated stamp of what looked suspiciously like the Crerar library, €aso,ooo. Volckamer Niirnbergisches Hesperides 1708, oddly common, even in colour, cost e230,000, as

CATALOGUES - Autumn 2006


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES P U S HK I N ' s F I R s T A N D early editions have all the romantic associations ofthose ofKeats, Shelley and Byron, or Lamartine or Heine, too. Viewed as pieces of printing, however, they are infinitely more beautiful, worthy ofBodoni at his best (the author took a close interest in the appearance of his books). And they are far, far rarer. This makes the appearance of Quaritch's unnumbered catalogue devoted to a collection of nineteen of them a landmark in the bibliopholic history of Pushkin's works. The history of the collection was itself remarkable. Formed by 'a Russian trnigri family with a long cultural tradition' in Paris between the wars, many of the books were in original or early bindings, acquired from Russia or from sources by then local (two books were exhbited by Serge Lifar in his legendary exhbition in 1937,

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The Book Collector CATALOGUES o F issuing five simultaneous catalogues, as Arthur Freeman has, may not be immediately apparent, but as two of them divide the alphabet and the other three deal with a single item each, the reasons are evidently part mechanical and part textual. The alphabetic sequence includes Allott Englar~dsParnassus 1600, 'almost certainly the finest copy extant' of Dalton A new system of chemical philosophy 1808-10 presented to Watt (Lz~,ooo), author's annotated copy of Oughtred The key o the f the mathematicks 1647 with Halley's 1695 second edition, both exMacclesfield (together E42,ooo), a manuscript of above-average seventeenth-century verse by Edward Rose and four of the pamphlets documenting Swift's 'Bickerstaff' hoax. The three separate catalogues deal at length with three items, two manuscripts, an entirely unrecorded 'Consolatio' by Isaac Abravanel to the Marques and Marquesa de Moya on the death of their son in 1485, here written barely a century

CATALOGUES - Spring 2005


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES and enlarged with a manuscript, eight letters, a photograph and presscuttings. Lardanchet offered a superb coloured copy of Braun and Hogenberg, from the Jesuit College at Besanqon, the 1755-9 La Fontaine in Derome's best red morocco and Du c h i d e chez Swann 1913, one of twelve on 'papier d'Hollande'. Thomas Scheler 'hors sirie' 29 had the Voyage pittoresque de la Gr2ce 1782-1824 and Rabelais's Lyon edition of Marliani Topographia antiquae Romae 1834, much rarer than the original. Mats Rehstrom 52 dealt syn~patheticallywith the collection of Olof Lagercrantz, whose tastes ran from old books, such as a fine set ofNilsson Illuminarade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna 1832-40 and Opitz Prosodia Germanica 1658, to remarkable collections of modern writers, not only Swedish, for he had James Joyce and Conrad in surprising strength. Quaritch 1327, 'Emblem and Allegory', was a fine collection of fiftythree emblem books, early editions

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The Book Collector CATALOGUES Psalter, and 'The Order of Ministration of the Holy Communion', is heightened with gold. With the bookplate of H.P. Liddon on the front endpaper. f 950 It is unlikely that the colouring was done for Liddon but there is no other clue as to the provenance of this remarkable copy of the first printing of Pickering's most attractive Prayer Book. A remarkable copy indeed, and John Porter, doyen of Pickering collectors, should be told of it, for a 'magnificent, exceptional, and possibly unique copy' was just for him. (I was a little surprised by the papiermache binding; had I heard of another Pickering thus bound? But I put such doubts aside). Finally, item 61 : 61 INNES,Michael [J.I.M.STEWART] The Long Farewell, a detective story.1958 In slightly rubbed d.w. 206pp f 75 Ellic Howe's copy with hs signature on the half-title, and with his notes in the margins of many

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The Book Collector CATALOGUES has used the collection to good purpose in c o m p i h g The cartography of the East Indian islands (forthcoming) ; meantime the collection is on sale en bloc. Shapero also issued a companion catalogue of photographs of the 'East Indies', here stretched from Afghanistan (seventy-three prints by Benjamin Simpson, c1880) to Polynesia (forty anonymous prints c18go). India made up the largest section, with two fine prints of Trichinopoly and Madurai c 1857-8, and an even earlier Burmese view, by Linnaeus Tripe, and others by Richard Oakeley and Wilham Pigou, as well as Felice Beato, Thomas Biggs and Bourne & Shepherd, and there was a Cameron print of Sinhalese pedlars. Maggs I404 'Far East' contained several 'collections', including one of Japanese art photography, c 1920-50, and two of Japanese 'photobooks', 1910-45 and 1945-2000, as well as the archve ofaJapanese graphic artist, Ikko Tanaka. Individual

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The Book Collector CATALOGUES content and form George Bayntun catalogues take a lot of beating and 'EBC' 15 is no exception. The cover displays the green morocco binding gilt ri la Dtrodo with red doublures by Charles Lewis, probably for the 1st Duke of Buckingham (1776-1839), on a collection of tracts, all dated 1610, on the life and death of Henri IV, well worth L15,ooo. Besides this was an Estienne bible bound for and with the unrecorded book-label of 'Richardus Iones. Anno Dom. 1623', a contemporary embroidered bindlng with ties intact, a little Field bible in a sombre binding with an inscription in raised silver letters recording the death of Oliver Cromwell, Stillingfleet The utzreasorzableness ofseparation 1681 in very fine not quite 'Queen's Binder' red goatskin ( L ~ s o o )a , Mearnish 'cottage roof' binding of 1708 (L45oo) and an unusual overall gilt red goatskin binding on The

A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-74, OF THE WORKS OF HOWARD M. NIXON


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Mirjam M. Foot M I R J A M M. F O O T A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934-74, O F T H E W O R K S OF H O W A R D M. N I X O N [Anon.] 'Catalogue of books and pamphlets on explosives, firearms, etc., bequeathed to the Chemical Society by Colonel Sir Frederic Nathan, K.B.E.' Supplement to The Journal of the Chemical Society, 1934. Article on historical bookbinding. The Year's work in librarianship, IX, 1936. Article on historical bookbinding. The Year's work in librarianship, X, 1937. Article on historical bookbinding. The Year's work in librarianship, XI, 1938. Review ofJ. Carter, More binding variants, 1938 [and] C. Hopkinson, Collecting golf-books, 1938. Library, 4th series, XIX, 4, March 1939. [Anon.] '~ookbindin~s'. Guide to the exhibition irz the King's library, 1939. (ill.) A Article on historical bookbinding. The Year's work in librarianship, XII, 1 9 3 ~ 4 5

A CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE FOR BOOK COLLECTORS LIBRARIANS AND OTHERS


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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR 97. Rolewinck, Werner. Fasciculus Temporum. Folio, 72 leaves, illustrated and colored by hand; Goff R 2 ~ 9 BMCI 261 ; Pr. 1240; HC 6923. (Cologne): ; Heinrich Quentell, 1479. Issued in numerous editions and with many variations of woodcuts, this is one of the earliest books of historical importance. The earliest dated editions printed at Cologne in 1474 were by Nicolaus Gotz and Arnold Ther Hoernen. Of the later editions this one of Quentell is among the best, being the first issue of the Cologne printer, who began producing in that city, in 1478, large numbers of books of scholastic literature, texts, and Humanistica. Illus. incunabula is increasingly rare outside of libraries and museums, and the colored woodcuts in this volume are among the best, especially the fine view of Cologne on the verso of leaf 24, which is an interesting variation of Ther

A SCANDAL IN AMERICA: Part I


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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR A S C A N D A L I N AMERICA PART ONE This year is the centenary of the publication, in Beeton's Christmas Annual, of the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet. The black picture of the Mormons and their doctrines, of enforced polygamy, of 'blood atonement' which required the assassination by secret bands of those who offended against the Church, has never quite died from the public imagination. They were the Moonies of that time. The first Mormon missionaries came to England in 1837, and IOO English converts sailed to join the colonists in 1848 who set out to establish Salt Lake City, in remote Utah, then outside the United States. There they would escape the strife their activities had so far engendered, culminating in the lynching of Joseph Smith, the founder, in 1844, and the succession of Brigham Young as

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The Book Collector THE BOOK C O L L E C T O R A M E R I C A N LIBRARIES Earlier this year I received invitations from not one but three old friends in the USA asking me to write a preface to a conlmemorative book about the history and current position of libraries in their country. After some weeks of confusion, it emerged that not one but two books were being simultaneously planned, both in need of a preface. The discovery of apparently identical twins added a Gilbertian twist to the plot. I felt that, like the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, I should perhaps make an application to myself to enquire whether I could give myself permission to pay my addresses simultaneously to two twin, but in no way rival, projects, the more so as the subjects, if apparently identical, were very different in character. O n one

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The Book Collector AMERICANA lnentary form, was inspired by the samc variety of impulse, the same mixture of idealism, self-interest and romance, that had opened up the country. But if chance and the natural terrain had a large share in deciding what happened, so did human intelligence, and the novelty of the enterprise required and found a good deal of originality of thought, the invention of new concepts which have in turn influenced, and will influence, the European tradition from which they sprang. A large part of this process, including the creation of the word 'Americana', took place in the nineteenth century. For the new American collectors, anxious to acquire books, Americana made a natural choice, often pursued alongside some older and more conventional subject, as James Lenox collected bibles. John Carter Brown of Providence, R.I., was one of the earliest of these systematic collectors, and the first and greatest of

An Announcement


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The Book Collector The Book Collector Incor'orating BOOK H A N D B O O K VOLUME I NUMBER I SPRING 1952 AN A N N O U N C E M E N T appear henceforward under a new title and with a new Editorial Board. Our aim will continue to be the provision of bibliographical information and entertainment, but we also intend to increase the scope and usefulness of our contents. E w As an earnest of this we draw attention to three new features, which will appear regularly, and which we believe will be of permanent value; namely Mr Howard Nixon's descriptions and illustrations of famous bindings which have not been illustrated elsewhere; Mr T. J. Brown's illustrations and notes on famous literary holographs; and the revival of 'Bibliographical Notes and Queries'. The utility of this last feature, we would stress, depends entirely on the material contributed by our readers. We trust that the quality

AUTHOR, EDITOR AND READER


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The Book Collector AUTHOR. EDITOR AND READER crepancies between thcm disqualified the author as an authority, and took the first edition of 1591 as copy-text. Gaskell shows that this was the right decision, on different evidence: Harington did take great care with its printing, and his minute instructions to the printer survive at the end of the manuscript. While rightly admiring McNulty's repunctuated (and therefore reset) but unmodernized text, he suggests that a photo-facsimile of the 1591 text, with the authorized emendations of the next (1607) edition would suffice for most readers. Moral: make ~, sure you know what the author's intentions really were. 2. Of Milton A Maske (Comus), written for performance in 1634, the author's working manuscript is at Trinity College, Cambridge; there is the Bridgewater scribal copy of the text- as performed, the first edition of 1637, and the texts printed in Poems 1645 and 1673. Gaskell rejects

Balsamo, Fahy and other Heroes of Modern Italy


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BLAKE AT THE TATE GALLERY


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The Book Collector CATALOGUES ISSUED LONDON AND NEW YORK Christie's hold regular book sales throughout the season. These sales include Valuable Printed Books, Incunabula, Medieval Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Books on Travel including Maps and Atlases and Natural History. Owners of any of the above who would like advice on the sale of their property by auction are asked to contact the following: I The Hon. William Ward Christie, Manson and Woods Ltd. 8 King Street, St James's London SWlY 6QT Telephone 01-839 9060 Telex 916429 Telegrams Christiart, London S W I Stephen C. Massey Christie, Manson and Woods International, Inc. 502 Park Avenue, New York 10022 New York, U.S.A. Telephone (212) 826 2888. Telex 620721 Cables Chriswoods, New York BLAKE A T THE TATE GALLERY (very few) comprehending patrons, appreciated it, but the ~ u b l i c (then as now) preferred (or was assumed to prefer) pretty pictures accompanying a text. Like Delacroix

BOOKS AND DECORATION: WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES


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The Book Collector BOOKS A N D DECORATION an individual. Among the Irish scholars in the 9th-century Frankish Kingdom, Martin of Laon learned the Carolingian ininuscuk while Dungal and Johannes Scotus did not. This brings us to the second main section, on the history of Latin script. This too is divided into three sub-sections, classical, medieval, and related matters. The first describes the genesis of the main forms, capital, early and later Roman cursive, uncial, early (Eastern) and later half-uncial, with further sections on the combination of forms (in initia and capita) and on shorthand. The second covers the growth of 'national' hands, Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Visigothic (a fascinating link with St Catherine's, Mount Sinai, which points to an Arab 'carrier'), the development of 'book'-minuscule in Italy and France, Beneventan script, the perfection and diffusion of the Carolingian minuscule, the further developments, regional and general, from the late 9th to the 12th

Cardiff: An End or a Beginning?


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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR CARDIFF: AN E N D OR A BEGINNING? T H E B O O K C O L L E C T O R has at various times commented on major sales, and even the wholesale dispersal of libraries. Sion College, Ely Cathedral, the Rylands, Keele University, the John Evelyn library and, most recently, the Bishop Phillpotts Library at Truro cathedral, are but some of the most celebrated. O n a very few occasions it has been possible to comment on how de-accessioning can actually be used to benefit both a library and its readers, to their long as well as short-term advantage. The sale by Cambridge University Library of one of its three copies of the Coverdale Bible some years ago made possible the purchase of the core of the Munby collection on the history of book-collecting and the book trade, an acquisition from which

CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE No 4


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The Book Collector POOR LIITLEWAIF."PLEASE, SIR, I AIN'T GOT NO CHRISTMAS DINNER." FATHERCHRISTMAS. "NEVER MIND, MY LIlTLE MAN. HERE'S A COPY O F THE BOOK COLLECTOR TO CHEER YOU UP." T H E B O O K COLLECTOR CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE It would be hypocritical to pretend that the increase in the price of old books (and of old-book sellers) has been accompanied by an equal increase in expertise; it would be equally hypocritical to pretend that a definite increase in pretentious descriptions gives anything other than pleasure to our contributors -indeed, it does somethmg to make up for the diminished number of entries due to defective and antique typewriters. Alas, the all too common word processor (which, however, can create its own sottices) has extinguished the muse of David Pratt -. sit tibi terra levis. It is always difficult to know how much, ifany, explanation is needed. Too much explanation is like the

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR , 6 8 i@ ~ CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE No 5 = & ~ ~ ~ K ki = ~ = ~ = Thls is, thanks to our generous and eagle-eyed contributors (and to a rather longer than usual gap since the last one), the largest and most comprehensive catalogue we have yet published. In 1990 this hardly seemed ~ossible; typewriter, whose erratic keyboard and imperfect the maintenance was responsible for so many of the better errors, was threatened with extinctio~~, the word-processor, with its dreary and capacity to correct and repeat itself, seemed a poor substitute. Happily, the typewriter has survived, and, better still, the word-processor has developed profitable quirks of its own. As usual, we have tried to avoid intrusive comment (unless the opportunity was too great a temptation), preferring the native wood-notes wild of our authors to be without accompaniment. If, sometimes, the point eludes you, it may be because it is very small. This is not, like so

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLESTOR CATALOGUE No. 6 And still they come - it is only two years since our last catalogue of absurdities, but the wells of lunacy are undnninished. The book trade gets around - there's a university press at Canterbury, the Giunta have moved to Holland, 'Vbeque' reigns. Things get earlier and earlier printing at Paris now starts in the thirteenth century, no doubt putting the scribe Bastardo out of business. The ubiquitous Horace Walpole not only declared war on Spain in 1739 but wrote a life of Troflope as well, while Sir William Aytoun had two brushes with 'Auld Lang Syne'. The variations on the name of Tennyson exceed even Nicholson Baker's wildest imaginings, whde Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall's brush with leprosy evokes surreal possibilities. The eirenic vision of the Palatine Library 'moved to the Vatican for safe keeping' comes straight out of 'The Silence of Language', the

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR CATALOGUE No 7. It is, once more, only two years since our last catalogue. The fears, earlier expressed, that the word-processor, with its capacity for selfcorrection, might quell the native wood-notes wild that sprang from many an antique untuned typewriter, to issue from the now forgotten roneo machine, have proved quite false. Spell-checks offer their own surreal contribution (ours always offers 'Boolean' for 'Bodleian'), as does the dictating machine of the auctioneer, perilously perched on a ladder leaning against the books whose catalogue is already overdue. But the wells of illiteracy and lunacy need no artificial irrigation in a world where ignorance of any foreign language (let alone Latin and Greek) is no impediment but a positive advantage, where collation and condition matter less than a cheerful assessment of the thing as it is (or appears to be), and where streams of consciousness seep effortlessly from

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE The well of folly shows no sign of running dry, and yet again, after to bursting only two years, the file of our bibliographical sottisier is f ~ ~ l l point and must be emptied. It is, I suppose, a depressing fact that, with all the pressures of modern life, there is less and less reason for booksellers to read what they sell. During the Depression itself, many booksellers had little else to do except read, and the surprising amount of knowledge that booksellers of that age (many of whom had left school at 16) could deploy was due to that enforced leisure. Now, in an age of universal education, everybody has a degree, if not a doctorate, but no time, not even to proof-read catalogues. There is, it is true, no reason why a collector or a librarian or a bookseller should read:

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The Book Collector CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE N O . 9 BEETLE, Nancy 140 The Water-Beetle. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Fine in dlw, designed by O.L., showing Miss Mitford holding a copy of Ivanhoe, & standing between her parents. £18 Maximilian-Gesellschafi, Hamburg. 1995. HALBBAND (Erster) Die Buchkultur irn 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Band I. f 65 4t0, illustrs., throughout, (some coloured), orig. cloth, printed paper labels. 210. ORIOLI, Gustave. Adventures of a Bookseller. Loltdon, Cham 1938. avo, pp. [v11,329, plarcs, onginal cloch; shght cover wcar, clsc a vcry good copy. & Y Wi~ldus, i35 First made edition. 468. BIBLE. The Holy Bible containing The Old Testament London, Charles Bill and Thomas and the New. Newcomb, 1693. Red-Ruled throughout, vignette tp, notes on free endpapers, marbled endpapers, 12mo. Cont. gilt floral dec. maroon morocco, aeg. [contains Old Testament only, text ends at Aa13, Ps.XXVII174]; with La Skinte Bible (Old Testamenta only), The Hague, 1731, bound in cont. full calf, gilt floral decorated,

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The Book Collector THE B O O K COLLECTOR * EDITORIAL BOARD I A N FLEMING J O H N HAYWARD CBE J O H N CARTER CBE P. H. M U I R COMMENTARY all over the world will have received with great interest and satisfaction the recent announcement that the Trustees of the British Museum have decided to accelerate the production of the revised edition of the General Catalogue of Printed Books by the use of photo-offset lithography. It was originally estimated, in 1929, that a revised and reset edition in about 165 volumes could be completed in some fourteen years. In fact only fifty-one volumes have been published in twenty-five years and the Catalogue has advanced in this slow progress no further than DEZWARTE. The new method of production, it is estimated, will enable the Catalogue (containing all the material in the BM Library at the end of 1 9 5 b r o

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The Book Collector COMMENTARY fourth and fifth edltlons of Tottcl's Miscellany have changed hands in the past clghtcen months: Thomas Park's copy of the fourth cdition (one of the two known and both imperfect) is now in the collection of H. Bradley Martln of Ncw York; Lord Harlech's copy of the fifth edition (one of three known) was sold at the sale of his library for L3,qoo and is now in the possession of an anonymous English collector. ' s M o K Y N E s c A F 15. ' This bizarre description (blending the flavour of Lapsang Suchong and thc colour of coffec) of the cndpapcrs of a first cdition of Hardy's The Woodlantkrs, 1887, recently catalogued by a London bookseller, is a reminder that the bibliographer of modern books is still bcdevillcd by thc lack of any agreed and systematic method of identifying the colours of binding cloth

Heribert Tenschert

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Hugh Pagan Ltd

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James Cummins Bookseller

699 Madison Avenue,7th Floor
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John Drury Rare _Books

Strandlands, Wrabness, Essex
Manningtree, C011 2TX
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Ken Spelman Rare Books

70 Micklegate
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Kenneth Nebenzahl Inc

PO Box 370
Glencoe, 1160022
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Librairie Thomas-Scheler

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Paris, 75006
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Maggs Bros Ltd

50 Berkeley Square
London, W1X 6EL
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Fax: (020) 7499 2007
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Sotheby's

34-35 New Bond Street
London, W1A 2AA
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Swann Galleries Inc

104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
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Tayler & Fletcher

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Sheppard's Directories,Richard Joseph Publishers Ltd

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Torrington, EX38 8EZ
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 575. BECKFORD ON WALPOLE On 29 October last Sotheby's sold another instalment of Lord Rosebery's library, one lot containing the T 80 edition of Walpole's Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors and two sets of the 1798 Works. One of the latter, on large paper and bound in characteristic style for William Beckford, was ex­tensively annotated by him (no small achievement, given the size and weight of the volumes). Beckford on Walpole, one great connoisseur on another - the concatenation was irresistible. Thus: [IV.454] Walpole to Richard West, 2 October 1740, on Gray's Latin translation of Buondelmonti's Italian song on the diversity of love, 'Sudentem fuge; nec lacry­manti aut crede furenti...' WB: Sudentemfuge — to be sure who wd. not fly a sweaty Love, but it happens to be Ludentem ---. [V.4] Walpole to Henry Seymour Conway, 6 June 1740, `fond of Florence to a de­gree: 'tis infinitely

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & Q U E R I E S NOTE 184 (Autumn & Winter 1962). T. J. WISE AND THE TECHNIQUE OF PROMOTION Thanks to Mr Rupert Hart-Davis I can offer a footnote to my summary of J. C. Thomson's publications. His Bibliography ofthe ~uritirys Charles Dickens, of similar in style and format to its successors, was published in 1904 at Warwick by 'J. Thomson, Avon Glen', with the subsidiary imprint of G. E. Stechert of New York (as iu the Tennyson of 1905) and with a full-page advertisement of Walter T. Spencer's bookshop facing the title (as in the Swinb~nxe 1905); thus of demonstrating that his connections in London and New York had been formed before his renioval to Wimbledon, whcnce the two 1905 volumes were issued. Under no. 65 Thomson describes The Keevsake of 1852 with the note that 'To be

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES QUERY 515. For a study of the 839 subscribers to the first American edition of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771-72), I have been searching for copies of this edition in the U.K. The Codrington Library of All Souls College holds the only copy I have been able to locate. Information on copies in private collections or law libraries would be most welcome. Special Collections Law School Library Columbia University 435 West I I 6th Street New York, NY 10027 U.S.A. NOTE 557. FOOTNOTE T O FACADE. W H I T N E Y S. B A G N A L L In March 1922 Edith Sitwell, while living at 22 Pembridge Mansions, Moscow Road, W.2, paid a visit to Oxford where she stayed with Mrs Louisa Grace Hughes, mother of Richard (1900-76), then ac undergraduate poet. In thanking Mrs Hughes for

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L NOTES A N D QUERIES NOTE NO. 43 (Spring I g j j , p. 78) CASTANO PSALTER 1 In his note, Mr Rhodes is quite correct in savine that the Broxbourne Library copy was formcrlv the de Marinis one: there is no other. I had till last October not seen Apprrr~~i and then immediately checked up with Signor de Marinis. Apparently most copies of this book were destroyed in Milan during the war. I might mention that another hitherto unknown 'Incunnble Town' is men1473tioned in it-MATELICA, P. H. M. known by a single copy, in Italy. According to my reckoning this makes a NOTE NO. 46. PORTRAITS OF total of 241 hcunable Towns, but I T. F. DIBDIN stand to be corrected. The BroxI recently bought a spirited silbourne Library figure is now 128. A.

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES QUERY 365. STOLEN, FROM DANGSTEIN. ~ l t h o u nohreports were received of othcr examples of this label reproduced ~ in the Autumn 1986 number of the Book Collector, several replies have been sent; I should like to thank those who took the trouble to do so and to record their comments. Professor R. A. Leigh, of Trinity College, Cambridge, kindly identified the artist as Pierre Francois Louis Bolomey, son of the Benjamin S a m ~ ~ e l Bolomey (1739-1819) mentioned in the Query; the father studied in Paris, painted, and worked as a book-illustrator in Holland prior to his death in Lausanne. Mr Ian Jackson, of Berkeley, California, wrote to say he has a recollection of having seen in 'some volume of bookish essays from around the turn of the century' a reference to Lady Dorothy's label, but neither

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & Q U E R I E S NOTE 425. ISSUES OF FOULIS PRESS BOOKS NOT SEEN BY GASKELL One of the virtues of any published descriptive bibliography is that it enables users - be they librarians, book collectors or bibliographers - to determine the relationship to the norm of exemplars not seen by the author of the bibliography. When title-pages are transcribed in quasi-facsimile, when collation formulas are provided, and when other items of bibliographical information are consistently recorded, the extent of deviation from the norm should be capable of ready determination. Philip Gaskell's A Bibliography of the Foulis Press, London 1964, is one descriptive bibliography which allows of this ready determination. An added virtue is that it draws attention to items not seen but either: (a) referred to in secondary sources such as advertisements, or (b) implied by the presence

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L NOTES & Q U E R I E S NOTE 141 (Autumn 1960; Summer 1962; Winter 1967). NON EST MORTALE QUOD O P T 0 To the lists of Mr J. C. T. Oates (Autumn 1960) and Mr Paul Morgan (Summer 1962, Winter 1967) I am able to add further examples of the use of this motto as an ownership inscription in the 16th and 17th centuries. For permission to describe the books in which they occur I am grateful to Canon J. A. Fisher, Librarian of the Chapter Library at Windsor Castle, Mr L. E.Tanner, Librarian of Westminster Abbey, and Mr Graham Pollard. Abbreviations in the inscriptions I have extended silently wherever possible, i.e. where one may be certain of the ending. For help with transcription I am indebted to Miss Joan

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 560. C U R R Y AND RICE. In 1859, Day & Son published George Francklin Atkinson's 'Curvy and Rice,' on forty plates; or, the ingredients of social life at 'Our Station' in India. The work proved popular upon its publication, with second and third editions appearing soon after its original issue in 1859.~ There are two points of interest about this publication, apart from the interest of the illustrations and the text. Fisrtly, the work has a cover design by Matthew Digby Wyatt. Secondly, the cover design was repeated some fifty years after it was first used. Atkinson is described on the title page as a Captain in the Bengal Engineers, and was the author of two previous works: Picturesfrom the North, in pen and pencil2 and T h e campaign in India, 1857-1858.3 Atkinson himself drew the original illustrations for the

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S A N D QUERIES NOTE NO. 49. J O H N TAYLOR'S 14" in width. (See reproduction in BOOKE O F M A R T Y R S , 1633 In hls note on the 1633 miniature edition of Taylor's Booke of Martyrs Mr John Hayward referred to the apparently urique copy in the Bodleian of a miniature edition of 1617 and inquired whether there are earlier English miniature books than this. The following, though slightly larger, qualify as English miniature books of an carlier date:S T C 3012. Psaltnes or prayers. 32" (in 8's). V. Simmes 1595. ~ " x z " . (BM) S T C 2896.5. The newe testanrent [Geneva, Tomson] 32" (in 8's). Deps. of C. Barker, 1598. Z$"X I*". (Folger) Of the same year, 1617, is: S T C 24991.5 [Wallis, Thomas] The path-way to please God. 24" (in

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 422. THOMAS J. WISE'S LAST W O R D O N THE READING SONNJ5TS. As the birth-parent of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Reading Sonnets ( 1 8 4 ~ ) ~ Thomas J. Wise must have had mixed feelings on receiving from William Andrews Clark at Christmas I927 one of the 250 specially boxed copies of his splendid privately printed facsimile edition of the rare 'editio princeps', with its elaborate companion volume containing Kenyon's 1897 text of the complete poem, printed by John Henry Nash on watermarked paper bearing Nash's name and prefaced by 'Some [sentimental] Obsewa tions' and a 'Bibliographical Note' by the collector. The Clark copy, with the bookplate of W. K. Bixby, is Copy 4 in Carter and Pollard's census, printed as Appendix I in the Enquiry, in which only 17 of 35 identified copies were located. Wise treasured the gift sufficiently to

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 430. GISSING'S AMERICAN SHORT STORIES George Gisslng began his career as a fiction writer in the spring of 1877. After his expulsion from Owens College, Manchester, he had travelled to the United States and eventually to Chicago, where he staved off possible starvation by writing short stories. Most of these early tales published in American journals were collected posthumously in two small books, The Sins ofthe Fathers 1924 and Brownie 1931, which contain respectively four and seven stories. Either initialled G.R.G. or signed with transparent pseudonyms or left unsigned, these works are all unquestionably his. Since the early 193os, scholars have known of three as yet uncollected stories: ' A Terrible Mistake' ( T h e National Weekly, 5 May 1877, P. IO), 'The Artist's Child' ( T h e Alliance, 3 0 June 1877, pp. 476-7) and 'An English Coast-Picture' (Appleton's Journal,

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 329 (Summer 1970; Summer 1971). A. H. CLOUGH'S T H E B O T H I E O F TOPER-NA-FUOSICH I find that I have a copy of the same variant of Mr Scott's Binding I as that recorded by Mr Arnold Muirhead-the front cover printed wholly in black, the title in black and red. J O H N SPARROW All Souls College, Oxford NOTE 343. T H E M A N O F H O N O U R : AN ADDITION T O SADLEIR On 16 August 1834 Richard Bentley published The inan of honour, and The reclaimed, 2 vols, lzO,author unspecified. This pair of very minor novels has customarily been attributed to Henry Mackenzie (1745-183 I), author of The man offeeling (1771)~ presumably on account of the similarity of title: an attribution denied by both D N B and the

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 223. MORE BOOKS FROM BEN JONSON'S LIBRARY In the notes illustrating the witchcraft of The Masque of Queenes (1609), Jonson speaks of 'that excellent' and 'diuine Lucan', 'whose admirable verses I can neuer be weary to transcribe'.' His praise, however, is specifically given to the sixth book only of the Pharsalia, and his opinion of the poem as a whole is less enthusiastic: 'Lucan taken in parts was Good divided, read alltogidder merited not the name of a poet', and again, 'Lucan taken in parts [is] excellent; altogidder naught'.^ The notes to The Masque ofQueenes contain 15 quotations from Pharsalia VI (besides two references to it, and a borrowing in the text), citing 57 lines in all. In his other writings Jonson more than 30 times quotes or borrows from all ten books of the Phmalia (except the fourth).

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 564. THREE ETCHINGS AFTER RANDOLPH CALDECOTT. Several years ago three intaglio plates turned up at a book fair. They were said to be associated with Randolph Caldecott (whose 150th anniversary we are celebrating this year) and they were wrapped in printer's waste which clearly had some connection with the firm of Edmund Evans. Caldecott was not known to have done any etching or engraving for Evans however, and the plates which were clearly related to his work - were something of a puzzle. Two of them were etchings on steel, both with Caldecott's characteristic initials. The first showed a woman and a dumpy child in a public park, and the second showed a crowd of children, many on ponies, circling the Banbury Cross lady on her white horse. The third was a copper-plate which was clearly related to the designs that Caldecott made

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 421. TRADE CARDS AND THE BLAKE CONNECTION. As an engraver, William Blake is of course best known for his works in the medium he invented and called Illuminated Printing, in which all his published to poetry appeared, from Sorgs of Inrzocerzce ( 1 ~ 8 ~ ) Jerusalem (1804-?zo). However, the engraver's art embraced many techniques, materials, media and purposes, some of which have nothing to do with books or even with printing. The techniques included engraving, etching and lithography; the materials comprehended copper, wood, steel, stone (both for lithographs and for monumental inscriptions, e.g., tomb-stones), and gems (for jewels or seals). The most respectable engravers copied other men's designs for books, and distinguished engravers made single plates for separate sale such as Blake's plate of 'Mrs Q', or even copied their own designs, as in Blake's 'Ezekiel' and 'Glad Day'. Even among

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & Q U E R I E S NOTE 426. RAYMOND LISTER, 'THE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS OF SAMUEL PALMER': ADDITION T O CHECK-LIST Since the vublication of mv article on Samuel Palmer's book illustrations in T H E B O O K C O L L E C T O R Spring 1979, pp. 67-103, Professor Kathleen Tillotson has kindly drawn my attention to the existence of a further work containing illustrations by Palmer, details of which I give below. In his LiJp and Letters of Samuel Palmer 1892; reprinted 1972, A. H. Palmer, writing of Adams's Sacred Allegories (Check-list, no. 2, p. 96), continues: 'Three other designs had appeared in A Poetry Bookfor Children two years before'. In fact, the book: A Poetry Bookfor National Schools 1856 was ~ublishedin the same year in which Sacred Allegories appeared, and it contains four, not

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L NOTES & Q U E R I E S NOTE 353. NEWMAN'S A P O L O G I A P R O V I T A S U A (1864) The first book edition of the Apologin is in blind-stamped slate grey cloth, gilt-blocked on spine, and with brown endpapers. In othcr respects, however, there are differenceswhich probably constitute issues of the order: (A) On spine period after Sun. No advertisements at end. (B) No period after Sua With 24-page General List and index ofworks dated June I 864. Though punctuation after Sun (a colon) is required in the main title, as well as the part titles of the serial issue, its use on the binding-it inust have been realized-was obtrusive and unnecessary. WILLIAM TODD B. University of Texas NOTE 354. COMTE

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 203 (Autumn 1963). 'AN UNRECORDED PAMPHLET BY ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM' Mr B. C. Bloomfield, under the above heading, describes as additional to Sadleir's check-list and supplement' one copy of The Lifeand Character ofJohn Lord V i s c o ~ lLorzsdale, with the imprint: 'Only two Copies printed for the Rev. t F. Wrangham.' The second copy is in York Minster Library. It corresponds (a) with Mr Bloomfield's description except in the following partic~~lars: the last word of the wrapper-title reads 'WRANGHAM' 'Wrangham'; (b) on p. not [I] read ' I OF THE I LIFE AND C H A R A C T E R 1'; the rules on this page are short (50 mm). The collation is to be interpreted as [A]-[Dl8 [-B6-8). The author of the pamphlet is in fact not Wrangham but Thomas Zouch. A two-volume collection

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BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review SHAKESPEARE FOUND! A Life Portrait at Last. Portraits, Poet, Patron, Poems. Ed. by Stanley Wells. (The Cobbe Foundation and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon 2009). Pp. xi + 118 incl.57 b/w illus. & 8 col. plates, isbn 09538203 20^30.00 EYEWITNESS. The rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley. By Christopher Davis. (Harriman House Ltd, Petersfield, Hants, 2009). Pp. 312 incl. col.illus. isbn 906659 196. £12.99 REIMS. Bibliotheque municipale de Reims. Reliures medievales des biblio theques de France. Ed. by Jean-Louis Alexandre, Genevieve Grand & Guy Lanoe. (Turnhout, Brepols, 2009). Pp. 513, illus. isbn 2 503 51746 9. €80.00 LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus, Class of 1959. An Exhibition Catalogue. By Sean Wilentz. (Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey 2009). Pp. Ivi + 159 incl. col. illus. isbn 087811 0520. MANUSCRIPT VERSE COLLECTORS AND THE POLITICS OF ANTI-COURTLY LOVE POETRY.

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does notpreclude subsequent review GEORGE W . JONES. Printer Laureate. By Laurence Wallis. (The Plough Press, Mark Batty Publisher, 2004.) Pp. 128 incl. 30 b/w figs+8 col. plates. I S B N 0 902813 20 X. A35.00. ILLUMINATION FROM BOOKS OF HOURS. By Janet Backhouse. (BritishLibrary, 2005.) Pp. 159 incl. 140 full col. plates. I S B N o 7123 4849 2. 'DRINK FROM THIS FOUNTAIN', Jacques Lefhvre d'8taples, inspired humanist and dedicated editor. Edited by Theodor Harmsen. Pp. 64 incl. 11 b/w plates & I col. plate. THE BEATRIX POTTER COLLECTION OF LLOYD COTSEN. Published on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday by Margit Sperling Cotsen. By Anne Hobbs and Ivy Trent. (Cotsen Occasional Press, 2004.) Pp. m i + 190 fully illus. in col. & b/w. I S B N 097451 6805. $150.00. JOHN STOW (1525-1605) AND

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS A N D EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (including some etchings not previously attributed to Hollar but believed by the Library curators to be his work). at the Pierpont Morgan Library where A Fine Line: Retnbrarzdt as Etcher is on view until 5 January 1997. There are 'studies of separate figures and heads, formal portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, and, above all, stories from the Old and New Testaments' - together more than roo Rembrandt etchings from the Library's collection. O n a more topical note the Morgan is loolung at the history of Presidential election with Seeking the 'Splendid Misery': Presidential Racesfrom Washington to Truman. ETCHINGS ALSO FEATURE exhibition of Scots and their Books in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance has now finished but an illustrated catalogue by Sally Mapstone (32 pp. with 30 black and white illustrations) is available from the Library at L3.95 plus sop for postage

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review READERS IN THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY. Doltish, Daunted & Devilish. (Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton, New Jersey, 2005.) Pp. 23 fully illus. in b/w & col. Regular edition $8.00. Special edition $20.00. GEORGE STERLING. A Bibliography. Including Periodical Contributions and Manuscript Material. By Robert W . Mattila. (Book Club of Washington, Seattle, 2004. Dist. by Oak Knoll Press.) Pp. 352 unnum. I S B N o 962954 I X. $30.00. ABC OF LEATHER BOOKBINDING. A Manual for Traditional Craftmanship. By Edward R. Lhotka. (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2000.) Pp. xii+ 141 incl. 53 b/w figs & 4 b/w plates. I S B N o 7123 4903 0. E I ~ . ~ ~ . THE BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF BERNARD SHAW PAPERS. (The British Library, 2005.) Pp. xvii+gz~incl. b/w frontis. I S

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L N O T E S A N D QUERIES to Banbury Cross' published by Routledge in the annual, I will ask Brookes & Co. to send you I proof of each. By the time of the third letter - 16 October - Evans is back at his home at Witley and, in the midst of further random recollections, he says: I quite forgot one illustration he did in that book [i.e. the Aesop] which I did not think wise to insert, it was rather 'rough' on the Publishers, he called it dividing 'the Profits of a book'. The fat well to do publisher with his bag of gold, the author, artist and engraver just received their portion! I engraved it like an etching and it was sold like the other 2 I told you

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review CHARLES CARRINGTON (1867-1921): Bibliographie eines Verlags. By Howard Guacamole. (Berli : Ars Amandi in Kommission, 2005.) Pp. xxiii 414, incl. 123 plates. Limited edition of fifty copies. + THE ALBION PRESS: An Essay first published in the Journal ofthr Printing Historical Society in 1966, with the Supprements added in 1967 and 1971. (London: Printing Historical Society Publication No. 16,2005.) Pp. 34, incl. 9 figures ( and 9 plates. I S B N o goo003 13 8. 412 4 8 to members). JOURNAL OF THE PRINTING HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Index to Nos 1-28, 1965-1999. Compiled by Paul Nash. (London: Printing Historical to members). Society, 2005.) Pp. 130. I S B N o gooooj 14 6 . 4 1 4 (LIO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FONTS. By Gwyn Headley. (London: Cassell, . 2005.) Pp. 495. I S B N I 84403 206 X A17.99. HENRY JAMES:

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The Book Collector EXHIBiTIONS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES variety . . . during the last 500 years'. The italics are ours, but we are promised all sorts of unexpected and post-Kellsian treats, sixteenthcentury Irish bookbindmgs, the 'Gaelic scribal tradition which lasted well into the nineteenth century', 'the widespread development of printing in the eighteenth century' and 'elegant rococo title-pages', as well as the golden age of Irish binding to which, however, will be added 'work of several newly discovered Irish binders'. This, plus the impact of the Celtic Revival, will be topped off with the work of contemporary artists and binders. It sounds a great exhbition, and it is on from 22 May to 27 July. ' T H E F R O s T continuing more and more severe', John Evelyn recorded in his Diary on 24 January 1683-84, 'the Thames before London was still planted with booths in formal streets, all

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does notpreclude subsequent review PAST MASTERS O F THE NUDE. An annotated Bibliography of Photographic Books published in England 1896-1960. By Jay W . King. (Kingsfield Publications, 2 ~ 5 . Pp. 124. I S B N I 903988 I 3 6. E1o.00. ) LEARNING T O READ AND WRITE IN COLONIAL AMERICA. By E. Jennifer Monaghan. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.) Pp. xii+3 unnum. incl. zo b/w figs. I S B N I 55849 486 3. $49,50. EDWARDIAN ILLUSTRATION. Reprinted pieces from The Bookloven's Magazine. (The Imaginative Book Illustration Society, London, 2005.) Pp. 94 in Biographical b/w illus. I S B N o 9535596 2 9. THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUMINATIONS. Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West. Edited by Paul Binski & Stella Panayotova. (Harvey Miller publishers, London, 2005.) Pp. 415 fully illus. in col. I S

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review WILLIAM MORRIS: THE COLLECTOR AS CREATOR. Handlist of a Centenary Exhibition held at the Grolier Club of New York. By Mark Samuels Lasner. (Grolier Club of New York & the William Morris Society, 1996.) Pp. 27. A8, $15.00. A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS O N HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. Together with a short description of the Press by S. C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat - an enlarged and corrected version edited by William S. Petersen - published in the Morris centenary year 1996 by the Grolier Club & the William Morris Society in the United States. Pp. xii+81. I S B N 0--910672-18-9. L25.00, $45.00. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH AND IRISH GARDENS. By Ray Desmond. (St Paul's Bibliographies, 1996.) Pp. viii+31z+b/w frontis. I S B N I 873040 41

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review BIBLIOPHILIA SCHOLASTICA FLOREAT: Fifty Years of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto. By Richard Landon. (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2005.) Pp. 132 fully S illus. in C O I~ .B N 0 7727 6055 I. $30.00. THE W O O D ENGRAVINGS OF AGNES MILLER PARKER. By Ian Rogerson. (The British Library, Mark Batty Publishing, 2006.) Pp. 327 incl. 299 b/w plates & 8 col. plates. ISBN 0 7123 0685 4 (BL), I S B N 0 9762245 4 2 (MB). A60.00. THE POLISHED CORNERSTONE OF THE TEMPLE: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment. By Maria L6pez-Vidriero. (The British Library, 2005.) Pp. m i + 83 + 8 col. plates. I S B N O 7123 4907 3. A16.00. OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING. Edited by

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND QUERIES the funds can be found, I hope to complete this census before the end of the century. The descriptions have to be made in this way to enable unambiguous bibli~~raphical identification, and indexes must assure easy use. Nobody will doubt that it is impossible to investigate each and every library, and of course archives cannot be searched systematically as there is no way of finding this kind of material in them, nor is there any method of discovering copies in private collections. And this is precisely the purpose of this note. I shall be most grateful for any reference to unregistered copies in private as well as in public collections. For the former it is clear that privacy will be preserved if desired. Central Library CHRISTIAN COPPENS Ladeuzeplein zi B-3000 LEUVEN (Belgium) B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does notpreclude subsequent review THE SOCIETY OF JESUS 1548-1773. By Detlev Auvermann and Anthony Payne. (Quaritch, 2006.) Pp. 192 incl. b/w illus. I S B N o 9550852 I 7. A~ljo.oo. CATALOGUES ~ G I O N A U XDES INCUNABLES DES BIBLIOPUBLIQUES DE FRANCE. Vol. XVI. Auvergne. By Dominique Frasson-Cochet. (Droz, Geneva, 2006.) Pp. 408 incl. 16 col. plates and 34 b/w plates. I S B N 2 600 01078 5. THBQUES FIRST LINE INDEX OF ENGLISH POETRY 1500-1800 IN MANUSCRIPTS of the James M. and Marie-Louse OSBORN COLLECTION in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Edited by many hands under the direction of Stephen Parks. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, 2005.) Pp. 1190. I S B N 0 8457 31629. THE OLD BOOK TABLE. A Record of its First Seventy-Five

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review INTO PRINT: Selected Writings on Printing History Typography and Book Production. By John Dreyfus. (The British Library, 1994.) Pp. x+339 incl. b/w illus. I S B N o 7123 0343 X. THE BIBLE AS BOOK. The Manuscript Tradition edited by John Sharpe and Kimberley Van Kampen. (The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 1998.) Pp. xi+260+38 b/w plates. I S B N 0-7123-4522-1 (British Library) E40. I S B N 1-884718-38-8 (Oak Knoll). JOHN LOCKE: A Descriptive Bibliography. By Jean S. Yolton. (Thoemmes I Press, Bristol, 1998.) Pp. xxix+514+27 b/w ~lates. S B N I 85506 449 9. Hb E120.00; $185.00. BIBLIOTHECAE APOSTOLICA VATICANAE INCUNABULA. 4 Volumes. (Citta del Vaticano Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1997.) I S B N 88-210-0676-X (v. 1-4). Edited by William J. Sheehan: Vol. I, A-C. Pp. h i + 429; Vol. 11, D-0. Pp.

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Papers,of the Bibliographic Society of the University ofVirginia. Edited by David L. Vander Meulen. Vol. Fifty-Six. (The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2006.) Pp. 349. I S B N c+8139--2530--4. $70.00. SACRED. Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Edited by John Reeve. (The British Library, 2007.) PP. 208 incl. 205 col. illus. I S B N 978 o 7123 4975 8. L2s.00. THE SLAVE TRADE DEBATE: Contemporary writings for and against. Introduction by John Pinfold. (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2007.) PP. I40 incl. b/w US. I S B N I 85124 316X. L12.99. THE MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN HUGH C R O W . The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain. (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2007.) Pp. 264 incl. blw illus.

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review LIVRES D'ENFANTS RUSSES ET SOVIETIQUES (1917-1945). Dans ses collections de L'Heure Joyeuse et dans les Bibliotheques Franqaises: catalogue en forme de DICTIONNAIRE DES ILLUSTRATEURS par Francoise Leveque et Serge Plantureux. (Serge Plantureux, Paris, 1997.) Pp. xxxvii+308 f d y illus. in b/w. I S B N 284 31-015-6. OLD AND RARE BOOKS O N MATERIA MEDICA IN THE LIBRARY O F THE SWEDISH PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. An illustrated and annotated catalogue compiled by Ove Hagelin. (Swedish Pharmaceutical Press, Stockholm, 1997.) Pp. 224 incl. 130 illus. 17 in full col. I S B N 91 86274 68 6. SEK 625. RICHARD 111's BOOKS. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Price. By Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs. (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Glos., 1997.) Pp. xviii+333 incl. 82 b/w illus.+xi Col. plates. I

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review OLD JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS: Collectors' Data Guide. By Terry Bennett. (Quaritch, 2006.) Pp. 308 incl. jg b/w figs. b/w plates & illus. I S B N o 9550852 4 I . E65.00. + A SPY IN THE BOOKSHOP: Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 196674. Edited by John Saumarez Smith. (Frances Lincoln, 2006.) Pp. 175. I S B N o 7112 2698 9. L12.99. EXTRA MUROS/INTRA MUROS: a Collaborative Exhibition of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto. (The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2006.) Pp. 126 fully illus. in b/w and col. I S B N 0 7727 6060 8. EDWARD SEYMOUR & THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY. By Sidney E. Berger. (Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2006.) Pp. ix+8o+ 10 pages of col. samples & b/w illus.

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED EDMOND DEMAN J?DITEUR (1857-1918) : Art et tdition au tournant du sihcle. By Adrienne and Luc Fontainas. (EditionsLabor et Archives et Musee & la litterature, Bruxelles, 1997.) Pp. ix+356 incl. b/w aus. ISBN 2-8040-1248-4. ROBIN HOOD THE FORRESTERS MANUSCRIPT: British Library Add. MS 71158 Edited by Stephen Knight. (D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, 1998.) Pp. lodx-kI73. ISBN 0 85991 436 4. E30.00; $52.00. CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN BRITAIN SINCE 1945. Edited by Kimberle~ Reynolds and Nicholas Tucker. (Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1998.) Pp. xivf167 incl. b/w illus. ISBN I 85928 236 9. E39.95. REPERTOIRE D'IMPKIMEURS/LLBRAIRES XVIe-XVme SIECLE. By Jean-Dominique Mellot and ~lisabeth Queval. (Bibliothhque Nationale & France, Paris, 1997.) Pp. 719. I S B N 2-7177-2007-3.350F. INCENDIARY ART: the Representation of Fireworks in Early Modem Europe. By Kevin Salantino. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 1997.) Pp. x+109 incl. 23 colour plates and 53 b/w illus. I S B

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not p r e ~ l ~ d e subsequent review PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS. A Guide to Technical Terms. By Paul Goldman. (The British Museum Press in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.) Pp. 80 fully illus. in b/w & col. I S B N 0 7141 2649 7. THE NEALE M. ALBERT COLLECTION OF MINIATURE DESIGNER BINDINGS. A Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Grolier Club, Sept. 13Nov. 4,2006. (The Grolier Club, New York, Piccolo Press, 2006.) Pp. 212 illus. throughout in full col. I S B N o 910672 67 9. PRINT CULTURE AND THE MEDIEVAL AUTHOR. Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books 1473-1557. By Alexandra Gillespie. (Oxford University Press, 2006.) Pp. 281 incl. 38 b/w figs. I S B N o 19 926295 0. ~ S O . O O . HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION D

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sir:I hope you will allow us to use the pages of THE BOOK COLLECTOR to remedy an omission in our recent volume, Libraries within the Li­brary: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections, edited by Giles Mandelbrote and Barry Taylor. The contributors to Libraries within the Library explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library, and cast new light on the individ­uals whose personal interests and taste they reflect. One essay, by Paul Quarrie, concerns the bibliophile and print collector Clayton Mor­daunt Cracherode (1720-1799, who was also the subject of two earlier articles by Adina Davis (Portrait of a Bibliophile XVIII, in THE BOOK COLLECTOR 23 (1974), 339-354, 489-505). The essay in our volume drew on these, but unfortunately the reference to them was omitted. We wish to apologise for this oversight. We are grateful for the opportunity

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Sir: John Saumarez Smith’s ‘Surprises and Anomalies in the Sales of Trollope’ (Autumn 2010) led me to wonder why The Three Clerks (1858) should have been the first Trollope novel to be included in the World’s Classics in 1907. My initial thought was that, as it was the only novel to be published by the firm of Richard Bentley, perhaps it had been chosen before other titles for copyright reasons. I now think that theory holds no water, but there might still be some relevance in the Bentley connection.

In his paper ‘Anthony Trollope: The Fall and Rise of His Popularity’ (read to the Grolier Club, New York, 16 December 1976),

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Antiquarian Book Review . 384 Bayntun. George . Bonham's . Boyle. John Nebenzahl. Kenneth . Oak Knoll Books . Olschki. Leo S. Pagan. Hugh . Parlkian. D . . . . 286 . . Blackwell's Rare Books . . 435 . 285 . 388 . 435 . 387 . 395 . 424 . 308 . 436 . . . . . . . . . . 427 . 287 . 434 . . . . . . . . . . Oxford University Press . . . 430 . 436 Christie's International . Christie's. King Street Cox. Claude . . . Cummins. James . Editions du Cercle . . . Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering & Chatto . . Pierre Beres . . . . . 435 . 289 297 De Beaumont. Robin Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . . I F C . . . 371 Ramer. Richard C . . . . 429 Edwards. Christopher . . B C Reese Company. William . 428 Finch. Simon . . . . . 379 Rootenberg. B . &L . . .

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The Book Collector COLOPHON Milne, J. G. Kolophon and its Coinage: A Study (New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1941). (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, 96.) Palmer, Samuel. The General History of Printing, from Its first Invention in the City ofMentz to Itsjrst Progress and Propagation thro' the most celebrated Cities in Europe (London: Printed by the Author, and sold by his Widow . . ., 1732. (First issued in parts 1729-1732.) Pater, Paul. De Germaniae Miracufo . . . (Lypsiae: 1710). Strabo. The Geography (London: Heinemann, 1929), vol. 7, p. 23s. [Swan,John] Specnlnm Mundi; or A Glasse Representing the Face ofthe World. . ., 2nd ed. enlarged (Cambridge: Daniel, 1643), p. 420. Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America (Worcester: Thomas, I ~ I O ) , Vol. I, . . . to Which is Prefixed a Concise View ofthe Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World p. 14. IWanley, Humphrey].

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The Book Collector T H E B O O K COLLECTOR bibliographers, as hstinct from hstorians) of Printiizg .for Parliament, 1641-1 700, published by the List and Index Society in 1984. Seventeen years ago there was no revised Wing. Since that time the first phase of the revision has been conyleted, and published; Sheila Lambert's authoritative survey has appeared; and w e n o w have, for the first time, a responsible survey of periodical publishing during the period. Each has p r o d ~ ~ c e d surprises, and overturned received its knowledge. But much more importantly, these surveys, relying on each other, will allow us to form our questions more sensibly in the future. As our finding aids improve, so too can our enquiries. Wing showed the way once. It can do so again. D A V I D MCKITTERICK SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND,

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED THE LIBRARY AND READING OF JONATHAN SWIFT. A BioBibliographical Handbook. In four vols. By Dirk F. Passmann / Heinz J. Vienken. (Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt, 2003.) Vol. I, pp. xxi+776; Vol. 11, 7771 5 5 4 ; Vol. 111, 1 5 5 5 - 1 9 9 5 ; Val. IV, 421 incl. b/w facsimile. I S B N 3 631 41926 0. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S A L V A N B R E G M A N IS RareBooks Librarian at SEBASTIAN the University of Illinois, Urbana. C A R T E R is the proprietor ofthe Rampant Lions Press and historian is Librarian of the Lindley Library, the Royal Horticultural of printing. BRENT ELLIOTT Society. is director of Christie's Book Department. is Libraries Adviser to the National Trust. G I L L I A

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The Book Collector ENGLISH A N D FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS playing the zither, on the upper cover; the name IBRAHIM above the kneeling woman, a crescent and star in each corner. 6. Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, Raro D.15 An empty case, with flap. 32 x 23 x 3.2 cm. See illustrations. These six bindings have many points of resemblance. O n nos. I, 2 , 3 and 6 the faces and hands are painted on inlaid pieces of vellum. Tiled floors appear on nos. I and 3 ; a brick wall with an almost identical arch forms the background of nos. 3 and 6; a low step or plinth, on which one figure stands, is part of the decoration of nos. 3 and 4. The latter has an elaborate architectural setting with columns and a paved floor. The Turlush women on the Cavalieri Florus (no. 5) have curtains instead of walls or a

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The Book Collector T H E B O O K COLLECTOR THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT BURTON. By Nicolas Kiessling. (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1988). Pp. xli 433. Price E25. + THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT HOOKE: THE SCIENTIFIC BOOK TRADE OF RESTORATION ENGLAND. By Leona Rostenberg. (Santa Monica, Ca: Modoc Press, 1989). Pp. xix + 257. Price $12.95. EEN MENIGHTE TREFFELIJCKE BOECKEN: NEDERLANDSE BOEKHANDELSCATALOGI IN HET BEGIN VAN DE ZEVENTIENDE EEUW. By B. van Selm. (Utrecht: H&S, 1987). Pp. xii 432. Illus. Price Hfl. 125. + LETTERS OF HUMFREY WANLEY, PALAEOGRAPHER, ANGLOSAXONIST, LIBRARIAN, 1672-1726. Edited by Peter Heyworth. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989). Pp. xliii 514. Frontis. Price E65. + NOTES O N CONTRIBUTORS C H R I ST I A N c o P P E N s , nlanuscripts and rare books librarian at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. A N T H O N Y L I S T E R writes and lectures on eighteenth and nineteenth century book collecting and

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The Book Collector LIBERTINE LITERATURE FORTY YEARS O N Protestant Latinist. The whole is introduced by a pungent preface - again in Latin only - thatjustifies the odd translation method, then bursts into a scato-pornographic injunction to the reader of these cacata charta or 'shitty pages', recommending they be rolled into a cylinder and used to penetrate the 'Pathicorum culum' (f. Az). A final farewell to 'initiati, confoederati, dilecti' strikes exactly the note we would expect from Beverland during his student days, at once bawdy, erudite, and cliquish. NOTES O N CONTRIBUTORS JOHN COLLINS is with Maggs Brothers and wrote The T w o Forgers. is an antiquarian bookseller and author of Golden Asses arid COLIN FRANKLIN Private Presses. CLIVE HURST is Head of Rare Books and Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian is Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin in the University of is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, also at is Libraries Adviser to the National Trust.

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The Book Collector SIMPLY A D O T printing'.30 The lower-case i was not initially re-cast to align its dot with the other aspirant dots, and those o n b and d were placed higher than those o n the other consonants. Britton intended that should this development have proven popular, it could be applied to any roman face as required. This, as i t transpired, turned out t o be unnecessary. Apart from being used i n a few pamphlets the only major use t o which Times Gaelic was put was in the Dolmen Press edition o f An Bbal Bocht i n 1964, for about this time, the irish character was finally and officially replaced by existing non-adjusted roman type for printing Irish, putting an end to the vacillation that for centuries surrounded this fascinating typographic dilemma. 30 'New Face for Gaelic Type', Sunday Independent, 6 Dec. 1964,

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES A N D QUERIES are one and the samejourneyman bookbinder, and if we look at the seemingly conflicting dates of their activities in England from this new point of view their business itineraries begin to merge. One has to bear in mind that entries in early local directories are not necessarily up to date at the time ofpublication. Time lags of two to four years are quite common. Unfortunately, no record of Frye7s departure from Germany has so far turned up. He was still a journeyman in 1792 when he travelled through Osnabruck on his return from Munster, this time signing the 'Gesellenbuch' as 'G. B. Frye geburtig von Osnabruck' in order to acknowledge the receipt of a modest viaticum from the then 'Gesellenvater' H. R. Rietbrock (ibid., entry of 3 October 1792, fol. 84 recto). Charles Ramsden's suggestion that 'his original name was no doubt

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The Book Collector THEY ORDER THESE T H I N G S B E T T E R . . . de France, 2003). Pp. 212, illus. in colour and black and white. I S B N 2 7177 2249 I. €20.00. LES METAMORPHOSES D U LIVRE: Entretiens avecJean-Marc Chatelain et Christian Jacob. By Henri-Jean Martin (Paris: Albin Michel, 2004). Pp. 300. I S B N 2 226 14237 I. €21.50. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S ANTHONY HOBSON gave the Rosenbach Lectures in 1991 on the English book collections of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. is a director ofBernard QuaritchLtd. RICHARD A . LINENTHAL S T E P H E N R A T C L I F F E has been researching Jewelled Bindings since seeing the Chevalier sale catalogue in 1990. J O A N W I L L I A M S is Assistant Librarian at

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The Book Collector LUCAS CORONBNSIS lettering in Jan van Eyck's device, as he inscribed it, e.g., o n the upper edge of the original frame of 'A man in a turban' (1433, No. 222) in the National Gallery, London: 'AAC.IXH.XAN' i.e. 'Ah ich can' alluding to the proverb 'As I can, but not as I would.' The artist's motto applies perhaps to us all. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to many colleagues and friends for their kind support. Anthony R. A. Hobson, President of AIB drew my attention to the binding of Suppl. gr. 607 of the Bibliothtque Nationale and sent me the running of the binding in October 1989. Nicolas Barker, D6ra F. Csanak, Mirjam M. Foot, Christian Fijrstel, Bridget Guzner, Christian Jensen, Sheila Mackay, Philippa Marks, Arp6d Mik6, Erzstbet Muckenhaupt, Agnes Rito6k-Szalay and Irma Zsigmond helped me in various ways in the preparation of this article. My husband Bda was my first critic and

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The Book Collector T H E BOOK COLLECTOR books, articles and letters poured forth to justify his belief that 'Building, without teaching and explaining, is almost useless'. With the exception of his most famous book Contrasts the great majority of his writings are difficult of access to all but the dedicated scholar, able to root in obscure publications. With truly Puginian zeal and enthusiasm Margaret Belcher has successfully addressed herself to the production of an authoritative and long awaited bibliography. She threads her editorial way through the many complex problems that bedevil the student of early nineteenth century periodical research with consummate ease, taking in her stride such problems as the fact that as many as four separate editions of the periodical T h e Tablet were 'put out for one date'. This book is therefore an indispensible tool both for the serious student of architectural history, and the antiquarian book

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS A N D CATALOGUES it is planning. The exhbition will run from mid-July to the end of September. ' Y E A T S : THE L I F E and Works of W d i a m Butler Yeats' is the new major exhibition at the National Library of Ireland, set to run for the next three years. It showcases and celebrates the Library's rich collection of Yeats manuscripts, donated to the Library by the poet's f a d y between 1959 and 2002. Numbering some 2000 items, it is the largest collection ofYeats manuscripts in the world and one of the most important collections of Irish literary manuscripts. The exhibition, whlch also includes items on loan from the Yeats family, is organised biographically. It examines both the public and private man, exploring h interests in s politics, theatre, folklore and the occult. The NLI has produced

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The Book Collector RARE B O O K S AS I N V B S T M E N T S only grow at a rate of 5-6 per cent, about half the annual rise of the last thirty-five years, but more than twice the present modest rate of inflation. However, as I indicated earlier, this should not deter the collector. For he should have a much higher goal than investment return; namely the pleasure of conceiving, buying, and completing a collection in a particular field. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S GILES B A R B E R , Librarian of the Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, 1970-96. R I C H A R D CHARTERIS, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Music, University of Music, University of Sydney. K E N N E T H HILL, retired Wall Street stockbroker, and book collector. KING,

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The Book Collector THE EDINBURGH TERCENTENNIAL like William Blackwood, Oliver & Boyd, R. & R. Clark, T. & T. Clark, W . & R. Chambers, T. & A. Constable now furnish under one roof the documentary materials of the history of Scottish literary, educational and religious publishing in the last two centuries. Many of the great Scottish writers of the past are covered by substantial groups of literary manuscripts and large batches of correspondence which enable the Library to play a major role in current editorial projects - Hume, Carlyle and Scott in particular. There has long been a responsible attitude to more recent literary documentation, so that the Modern Scottish Authors collection provides a substantial, coherent and accessible body of documents for the study of twentieth-century Scottish literary movements - and where secondary writers have been drawn in in the wake of major figures, their papers often enrich understanding of

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The Book Collector C O C K E R E L L AS E N T R E P R E N E U R With only two weeks to go before the vote, Cockerell's flair for mounting a display was dramatically and publicly vindicated. Cockerell got copies of his exhibition catalogue to Cambridge on the 20th. O n Saturday, 30 May, after a day working among the manuscripts at Yates Thompson's house, Cockerel1 recorded in hls diary, 'On getting home, found telegrams announcing that I had been elected Director of the Fitzwilliam'.80 Cockerell's diaries are always laconic. This was probably the most emotional entry he ever wrote. 80 Ibid., diary for 30 May 1908. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. was Literary Editor of the Financial Times. is Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus

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The Book Collector treasure that will last for many years. It makes a triumphant end to the Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, and while we thank Dr Scott for a finale in such splendid style we must repeat our congratulations to Harvey Miller for bringing this series, perhaps, the most important single contribution to the study of British medieval art this century, to completion. N JB . .. LATER GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS 1390-1490. By Kathleen L. Scott. (London: Harvey ~ i l l ePublishers, 1996.) Vol. I : text and illustrations, pp. 296 r +17 col. plates, 36 text figures and 505 black and white illus. Vol. 2: catalogue, pp. 434. I S B N o 90520 3046. &o. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S J O H N D Y R N E . After many years working with Modem First Editions

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I C A L NOTES A N D Q U E R I E S not have the portrait and a copy of the book measuring less than 26 mm. beneath thc inlprint and with a blank margin could be this issue. If it does have a portrait then this will have been inserted later as it became available. (3) The second issue, appearing after the portrait was ready, does not bear the legend about the portrait and clearly should have one. This issue can have a margin of inore than 26 mm. below the imprint that is blank. (4) If the book is cropped so that the margin below the imprint is less than 26 mm. then it could be of either issue, though if it has the portrait then it should presumably be the this

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT to announce that Stan Lane of Gloucester Typesetting Services, w h o has been responsible for many years for the composition in Monotype hot-metal type ofwhat you read in THE BOOK COLLECTOR, has joined the editorial board. His setting has always been a paragon of accuracy (any surviving errors, for which there is sadly some cause to complain, are always those ofthe editor). W e hope that this new role will enable him to take a closer role in making each number as immaculate as the Foulis Homer. WE ARE PLEASED NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S A. S. G . LECTOR. COLIN FRANKLIN EDWARDS is a member of the Editorial Board of THE B O O K COL- is an antiquarian bookseller and author of Golden Asses and Private Presses. C H R I S T O P H E R D E H

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED MEDEVAL MEDICINE IN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. By Peter Murray Jones. (The ~ r i t i s h Library, 1998.) Pp. 109incl. 99 figures in col. & b/w. I S B N 0 7123 0657 9. NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH BOOK-COLLECTORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 184. Edited by William Baker and Kenneth Womack. (Bruccoli Clark Layman, Gale Research, Detroit, 1997.) Pp. xx+531 incl. b/w illus. I S B N 0-7876-1073-9. A CATALOGUE OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS IN THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Volume V. By James Wash. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies Tempe, Arizona, 1997.) Pp. ix+478+8 b/w plates. I S B N 0-86698-212-4. L28.00; $45.00. SECRET COMMENT: THE DIARIES OF GERTRUDE SAVILE 17211757. Edited by Alan Savile. (The Kingsbridge History Society, Devon & The Thoroton Society of N~ttin~hamshire, 1997.) Pp. xvi +3go +b/w frontis. I S B N 0 902719 I7 3.

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR One last, eirenic, word: 'Book'. W e need to break down the barriers of incomprehension erected both by ideologues and electronic purveyors of artificial intelligence. Books must not only be seen in glass cases, but seen all round, and not only seen but read. As my etymological exercises earlier indicated, the workd 'book' has grown and developed from the basic human need to communicate. Books imply words. W e all of us, librarians, bibliographers, historians, need words, commonly understood, to express ourselves. All that is needed is a little effort in the direction of mutual comprehension, and we will all awake, like M. Jourdain, to the realization that we have, all along, been talking prose about books. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S REIMER ECK, librarian Niedersachsische Landesbibliothek, Gottingen. is Librarian of the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne. B. J ENRIGHT . JAYNE RINGROSE is

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Emma Barker THE BOOK COLLECTOR lines must be tempting to any anthologist with a decent pair of scissors). But the text is not a rare one: it is known, from references in the neo-Platonic commentators on Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite, that apographs were circulating as late as the fifth century. As recently 985, one fell off the back of a lorry in Berkeley Square, where it was employed for copying practice in the Convent of the Maggs Brothers; forty-eight of these copies (out of fifty-six, teste colophon) were dispersed by them. All trace of them has since been lost, and the Brothers remain obstinately mute about their possible location. Thus, while regretting the ineptitude of the present edition, one must be grateful for the preservation, even in imperfect form, of the major corpus of palaeographical verse. NEAL S T R E E T A NEW HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Edited by Denis Hollier. (Harvard

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J. S. G. Simmons THE BOOK COLLECTOR onto the market, is another mystery which the author's enquiries have not succeeded in solving. Dr Malaguzzi illustrates four other bindings with Madruzzo arms, three Venetian, one Roman, and provides helpful analyses of the collection by imprint, size, type of decoration, etc., as well as a bibliography, index and summaries of the text in Italian, French, German and English. (In the last named 'Romanesque' should read 'Roman'.) I have some comments on matters of detail. The author attr~butes binding the of a 16mo Bonaventura, Stirnillo dello orrrore divino, Venice 1542, to the Roman workshop of Niccolb Franzese on the strength of the design. The bmding bears the owner's arms ensigned by the Collar of the Annunziata; it cannot therefore be earlier than 1569, when Madruzzo was admitted into the Order, and is probably not earlier than 1574 when he moved to Rome. Niccolb's bindings

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Jan Piggott BOOK REVIEWS Southern influence and we know that he indeed had his apprenticeship in the then famous shop of Schavye in Brussels. These small mistakes or digressions may not, however, close our eyes to the importance of both the collection and the catalogue and we may congratulate M. Speeckaert with bringing together such an important collection for the third time and having secured the cooperation of as sound a scholar as M. Sorgeloos. J A N S T O R M VAN LEEUWEN 'COPPER INTO GOLD'. PRINTS BY JOHN RAPHAEL SMITH, 17511812. By Ellen G. ~ ' O e n c h (Yale University Press, London and New Haven . for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1999.) Pp, xiv+3oo, incl. 188 b/w illus. & frontis. ISBN 0 300 07630 4. A45.00. This is fascinating study, lively and thoroughly researched, into the work and life of the

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David McKitterick B O O K REVIEWS 'SO PRECIOUS A FOUNDATION': the Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Edited by Milton McC. Gatch. (New York: Union Theological Seminary and the Grolier Club, 1996.) Pp. 387, illus. ISBN o 910672 17 2. RIEDEL HORATIANA: a Catalogue of the Horace Collection in Groningen University Library. Compiled by Alie Bijker. (Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1996.) Pp. xix, 299, plates. I S B N go 6004 43 5 5 . Hfl 120. Leander van Ess and Hendrik Riedel were born eighteen years apart, in I772 and 1796, one near Paderborn and the other in Friesland. By chance large portions of their respective libraries have survived sufficiently intact to be studied today; and both have proved to be foundations of collections greater still. Van Ess will be remembered by most readers for selling some

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Katharine F. Pantzer B O O K REVIEWS 'THE GARDYNERS PASSETAUNCE' [c. ISIZ]. Edited with an introduction and transcript by Franklin B. Williams, Jr. With notes on the two unique editions in Westminster Abbey Library, descriptions of the bindings in which they were preserved, and the other items found in these bindmgs by Howard M. Nixon. London, printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, 1985. Pp. xv, 75. R75. This slim volume, published by Enid Nixon as a memorial to her late husband, is the fruitful result of collaboration by two experts. Howard Nixon had already decided to reproduce and discuss the unique editions of this poem of 1512 found in his beloved Westminster Abbey Library as his volume for the Roxburghe Club but was in need of a scholar to edit the text. Williams, whose wide-ranging investigations of STC books have produced not only his invaluable Index ofDedications

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J. B. Trapp BOOK REVIEWS as the Census Abstracts. These nineteenth century Abstracts, originally Parliamentary Papers following each census, provide detailed accounting of the papermakers and associated paper-occupations. &chard Hills addressesJames Watt's comments on contemporary papers, his selections and uses of very particular papers, and his application of the steam engine to the papermaking process. Early references include the use of thin wove paper, in 1780,for hls copying machine and the use of thm papers for transferring copperplate designs to ceramics. As a preamble to his second article 'The Origins of Thermo-mechanical Pulp', fills gives an enlightening overview of the introduction and properties of groundwood ~ u l pUnlike other fibres, beating could not modify groundwood . fibers; the papermaker was forced to use short, inflexible fibers that bonded poorly. Even for newsprint, the papermaker often added stronger fibers to make groundwood serviceable. By the I ~ ~ O S ,

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J.s.g.simmons BOOK REVIEWS . . . V OKRESTNOSTYAKH MOSKVP: ISTORII RUSSKO~ IZ USADEUNO~ KUL'TURP XVII-XIX VEKOV. COUNTRY ESTATES AROUND MOSCOW: FROM THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN ESTATE CULTURE OF THE 17th, 18th and 19th CENTURIES. [By] M. A. Anikst [and] V. S. Turchin. (Moscow: Iskusstvo Publishers, 1979. 30 r.) Pp. 402, inc. 154 pp. illus.; illus. in text; bib. [Summaries] Pp. 64; wrappers. 30,000 copies. Another thick, square book (the main volume measures 33 x 33 x 5 cm and weighs four kilograms), but by no means damned - it won one of the three !gold medals at the 'Schonste Biicher aus aller Welt' Exhibition at Leipzig in the autumn of 1980. It celebrates the social and architectural history and the interior decoration of the noble houses in the Moscow area, and in so doing redresses the balance with the more familiar and better-publicized ex-imperial palaces in the environs of Leningrad. V. S.

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David Paisey BOOK REVIEWS DIE LEIHBIBLIOTHEK ALS INSTITUTION DES LITERARISCHEN LEBENS IM 18. UND 19. JAHRHUNDERT. Edited by Georg Jager and Jorg Schonert. 1980. Pp. 398. DM 76. 2. BUCH UND BUCHHANDEL IN EUROPA IM ACHTZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERT. Edited by Giles Barber and Bernard Fabian. 1981. Pp. 360. Illus. DM 64. 3. BUCHGESTALTUNG IN DEUTSCHLAND I740 bis 1890. Edited by Paul Raabe. 1980. Pp. 187. Illus. DM 60. 4. BUCHER UND BLBLIOTHEKEN IM 17. JAHRHUNDERT IN DEUTSCHLAND. Edited by Paul Raabe. 1980. Pp. 224. Illus. DM 56. All 4 vols. Hamburg: Hauswedell. (Wolfenbiitteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens, Bd. 3-6.) What is researched is a function of what can be researched. From this truism the responsibility of libraries and archives in the direction of all docurnentbased research (and that means most of it) should be obvious, though it is a responsibility increasingly centralised information bureaucracies seem less and less aware of, with

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P. H. Muir THE BOOK COLLECTOR adorned copies produced quickly and cheaply for someone who simply wanted a copy of the text. The exhibition has a particularly literary slant towards the influence of these manuscripts, and their contents, on Danish poetry and art, stressing the revival of interest in the old ancestral literature, and its appearance as motifs in Danish painting and sculpture of all periods, from the elegant classical interpretations ofAbildgaard in the 18th century, through the Romantic revival to some horrendous expressionist visions of this century. This year's publication from the Royal Library stretches from the Library's own inception in 1665 to the German occupation. Knus Bsgh suggests that the extremely elegant hall which used to house the Royal Library until it was moved to its present site in 1906 was in fact based on the original design for the Mazarine in Paris, and that the idea was brought

16-C. TYPEFOUNDERS; 16-C. PRINTING TYPES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES; BELGICA TYPOGRAPHICA 1541-1600; R. GRANJON A ROME 1578-89; THE TYPE-SPECIMEN OF THE VATICAN PRESS 1628; THE TYPE-SPECIMENS OF C. LAMESLE


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Thomas R. Adams and Albert R. Schmitt T H E B O O K COLLECTOR THE NEW WORLD IN THE TREASURES OF AN OLD EUROPEAN LIBRARY. EXHIBITION OF THE DUKE AUGUST LIBRARY WOLFENBUTTEL. DIE NEUE WELT IN DEN SCHATZEN EINER ALTEN EUROPAISCHEN BIBLIOTHEK. AUSTELLUNG DER HERZOG AUGUST BLBLIOTHEK WOLFENBUTTEL. Exhibition and catalogue compiled by Yorck Alexander Haase, and Harold Jantz. (Wolfenbiittel: Herzog August Bibliothek, Ausstellungskatalog Nr 17, 1976.) Pp. 164. Illus. M 1776 INDEPENDENCE. DIE AMERIKANISCHE REVOLUTION I SPIEGEL ZEITGENOSSISCHER DRUCKWERKE. AUSTELLUNG DER NIEDERSACHSISCHENSTAATS- U N D UNIVERSITATSBIBLIOTHEK GOTTINGEN. (Giittingen: Niederdchsische Staats- und Universitsts48 plates. Col. frontis. bibliothek, Band 14, 1976.) P p [iv] 191 $ [iii] Among the many events which took place in the Federal Republic of Germany to conlmemorate the Bicentennial of the founding of the United States of America, two stood out for the historian, Americanist, Germanist and biblie phile : the exhibition of some of the

400 LET RUSSKOGO KNIGOPECHATANIYA; KNIGA: ISSLEDOVANIYA I MATERIALY; VOZNIKNOVENIE KNIGOPECHATANIYA V MOSKVE: IVAN FEDOROV


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J. S. G. Simmons C. A. CHIESA - LIBRI ANTICHI I I, via Bigli - Milan Illuminated Manuscripts, Incunabula, First editions from the 15th to the 20th century, Illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, Early scientific works, Italian Theatre and Literature, Architecture, Aeronautics, Geography, Early Engravings, Fine Bindings, Autographs. SAWYERS RARE BOOKS ENGLISH LITERATURE FINE BINDINGS SPORTING BOOKS C O L O U R E D PLATE B O O K S EARLY P R I N T E D B O O K S R A R E AFRICANA LISTS A N D C A T A L O G U E S AVAILABLE 12-13 Grafton St, New Bond St London W I , England Tel: Hyd 3 8 I o. Cable: Vespucci London W I 228 B O O K REVIEWS the text a frustrating business), and smely any work of this kind ought to have running-headlines. On the credit side, the work is authoritative, there is an

450 HOD BELARUSKAHA KNIHA-DRUKAVANNYA; PRADMOVY I PASLYASLOWI


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J. S. G. Simmons BOOK REVIEWS subject abridgemcnts, of which that on printing is now rcpublishcd. The material in it is extraordinarily heterogenous, and reflects the diversity of sources from which the liaplcss prc-1852 patcnt agents must llavc derived their information. It bcgins with a very sound historical introd~~ction, charting, with surprising accuracy, the major landinarks in the development of printing, cnding with photography. The cl~ronological that follows begins in the 16th list century with summaries of the enactments regulating the press, and privilcgcs for books and processes. These primitive forms ofprotection die out in favour of pntcnts for specific inventions with the 17th century, likc LCBlo11's (No. 423 of 1719) for colour printing. At this point, it should be madc clcar that every conceivable kind of printing (cxccpt, and only in the later period, 'felted and textile fabrics') is included: music, globes, 'paper, silk, cloatl~ canvas in gold, silver and

60 Let Sovetskoi Knigi;tezisy Dokladov-60 Years Of The Soviet Book;summaries Of Papers (winter 1977)


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J. S. G. Simmons THE BOOK COLLECTOR 28p 4) La Fh no ha menefter Armas./De Don Rodrigo de Herrera. 5) la defenfa Gaditana, y Venida del Inglts. 6) FIN./Con Licencia: EN VALENCIA, la en Imprenta de la Viuda delJoleph de Orga, Calle de la Cruz Nueva, en donde re hallarilelta, y otras de diferentes Titulos. Aiio 1762. 7) A4v liBqv Que C4v ef- 8) 74 9) my copy Readers will note various minor differences involving accents, use of land s, catchwords, etc. The sueltas are clearly different editions, although this discovery raises a new question: are both correctly dated? I think not, and that the Cambridge one, with its modern ss, is probably later. It is not Mr Bainton'sjob, in a descriptive catalogue, to deal with false dates; the point is that the detail of his description has enabled a problem to be identified which was previously unnoticed. Earlier catalogues of

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THE WRITINGS OF THORNTON WILDER


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Bertram Rota BOOK REVIEWS &e other editions of the same work; on p. 449 the Christian name of Mordente should be spelt Fabritio (as it is in fact correctly spelt in the BM copy of Le propositioni, 1598) and not Fabrilio. G. AQUILECCHIA A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF THE WRITINGS OF THORNT O N WILDER. Compiled by J. M. Edelstein. (Yale Univ. Library, 1959. Photolitho-offset. $2.50.) Pp. [viii]f62. Thornton Wilder's output is comparatively small. This bibliography records five novels, four separate plays, two volumes of short plays and a few miscellaneous pieces, in addition to 124 contributions to books and periodicals, published between 1915 and 1958. The first novel, The Cabala, appeared in 1926 and was followed in the next year by that little masterpiece The Bridge of Sun Luis Rey. Amongst the plays, Our Town in 1938 and The Skin ofour Teeth in 1942 made the deepest impression on the contemporary theatre.

A Bibliographical Introduction To Seventy-five Modern American Authors (autumn 1979)


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Patricia Mclaren-Turner BOOK REVIEWS the history of America could not be divorced from that of the rest of the world, and that the aspects of trade of the Old World profoundly influenced the New. In 1953 he installed his library at the University of Minnesota, initially with six hundred or so of the finest Americana. The Librarian, John Parker, worked together with Bell, travelling abroad, searching bookshops, studying catalogues and above all, 'reading', ~mtil Bell's death in 1961 (coincidentally, a few years before that of Streeter). Today its holdings are some ten thousand titles, and its reputation as a distinguished collection of primary source material is established beyond any doubt. John Parker has written a fascinating account of the development of the library. The 14 chapters give a synopsis of the scope of the contents: Portuguese trade in Africa in the 15th century; the role of the bankers in the beginnings

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR MACHEN


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S. A. Reynolds BOOK REVIEWS one of the Golden Legend. Scandinavian incunabula remain, as usual, impossibly rare, and the only new acquisition is Johann Fabri's Articuli abbreviati which is, however, a variant copy of that already held by the Library. Liibeck, which is traditionally includcd among Swedish early printing, is enriched with 18 new volumes. Two of these are mica, two of the four now in the Library. Amongst important books for the history of printing, we find one which allowed the 'Printer of the Heiiricus Ariminensis' to be identified as Georg Reyser of Strassburg. The cataloguc follows the same arrangement as the two previous volumes, the standard volume of Collijn ~ublished 1907, and the supplement of Dr in Sallander himself up to thc year 1953. Descriptions, in the main, follow those of the standard incunabula catalogues, the Gesamtkatalog, Hain, or the British Museum. As it is frequently inconvenient to work

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR WALEY


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R. J. Roberts BOOK REVIEWS obvious than those of most other forms of antique, but for the person who has a sense of the past it will have subtler virtues than aJacobean chest. The Copenhagen Auction House and the people who made their splendid catalogue must be congratulated, and it is to be hoped it will set a new standard for the future in Scandinavia. BENT JUEL-JENSEN A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR WALEY. [By] Francis A. Johns. (New Brunswick, New Jcrsey: Rutgers University Press, 1968. $12.50). Pp. xi, 187, frontispiece portrait. Readers of THE BOOK COLLECTOR (Winter 1960) may havc noticed a note by a Mr F. A. Johns seeking copies ofArthur Waley's first book, the anonymous and privately printed Chinese Poctns of 1916. Since then more copies of this rare book have turned up, but none, alas, at the British Museum where Waley worked from 1913 to 1930. With a modesty

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL


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John Byrne BOOK REVIEWS A BLBLIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. In three volumes. By Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja. (London and New York, Routledge, 1994.) Vol. I Separate Publications 18961990. Pp. xlv+61o+b/w frontis. ISBN 0-415-10487-4. 1 Vol. 1 Serial Publications 1890-1990. Pp. mvt574. I S B N 0-41s-10913-2. Vol. III Indexes. Pp. xi+304. I S B N o-413-110864. Boxed Set I S B N c-415-1164.4-9. Azso. This massive work was some thirty-five years in the making. Its Introduction (or apologia) extends to nearly the same number of pages and requires close study for the user to appreciate how it is arranged, why it is so massive and why it took so long. Of course it was commenced in the Dark Ages, long before computer technology was available to help, but the compilers seem to have resisted the adoption of some newly developed techniques. The numbering was apparently done in the Ice Age,

A Bibliography Of D.h.lawrence,by Warren Roberts (autumn 1963)


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R. J. Roberts BOOK REVIEWS of themselves in their dealings with printers and publishers as did Ronald ~ i r b a n kwho meddled constantly and zestfully with what he called 'the sordid , side of literature'-as he was certainly entitled to do, since he paid for nearly all his books himself; it was not till two years before his death that Brentano's American publication of Prarzcirlg Nigger brought him his first royalty cheque, for $695. Since Firbank had more literary than visual taste, it must be said that his meddling was to singularly little effect: even by the standards ofthe times the first editions resulting from his love-hate tussles with Grant Richards werc no great beauties, and all are marred by those spelling and pmictuation mistakes which the author had not the knowledge nor the publisher the staff to correct. Miss Benkovitz presents us with a generous and coherent
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