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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR Bishop collection, the first book printed in France (Barzizi Epistolae 1470)~ Chatsworth copies of the Sweynheym and Pannartz Livy the (the gift of Mr Kraus) and Lucan, the Colard Mansion Boccaccio and the French Valerius Maximus c. 1477, the first edition of Orlando Ftrrioso, the proposals for Pine's Horace (a present from Tim Munby, no more, alas, an honorary fellow), and Auden's notoriously rare 1928 Poems. The bindings include one by Claude de Picques for Grolier and another, even more striking, for an unknown 'BDN', perhaps by the Mahieu Aesop Binder. A ravishing calligraphic showpiece by Guillaume Le Gangneur is at once a manuscript and a binding. Literary manuscripts include the first draft of Canto XI11 of D o n Juan, Trollope's T h e W a y we L i v e N o w (1212 pages), a letter from William Harvey and 149

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T S H A N D Y H A L L , S T E R N E ' s last rectory, the rambling medieval house that he fitted up with an eye to the day (did he seriously imagine that it would come? Or were wish and fulfilment now indistinguishable in his rich imagination?) when Eliza Draper should come to grace it, is in need of help. It is a cause not unknown to readers of THE B O O K C O L L E C T O R : those of you who have subscribed for twenty years or more will remember when Kenneth and Julia Monkman set up the Laurence Sterne Trust to take possession of the then tumble-down building, and first enlisted our help to rescue and restore it. Over the years they have wrought

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The Book Collector NEWS IT IS COMMENT high time that someone wrote a life of Frank Sidgwick. The reviwl of the Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell, in itself a splendid notion, has been aptly commemorated by the publication of Frank Sidgwick's Diary, his hitherto unpublished record of the early days of the Press. From there he went on to found Sidgwick and Jackson, and to become one of the liveliest figures of the postwar ~ublishin~ scene. He was the editor, with E. K. Chambers, of Early English Lyrics, the first biographer of Stanley Morison, and the author of two thin little books, Some Verse and More Verse, which contain some of the best parodies even written in English, and his matchless life of Shakespeare in limericks. All these talents can be seen growing in the Diary; the influence of Bullen, mercurial, ever hopeful, daring more and, if always on the brink of

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The Book Collector T h e old Trinity Church school buildings now sympathetically converted provide the setting for the extensive stock of antiquarian and scholarly books Appoi~~ted agents to the Bibliographical Society f 4~ f f f * f * f Shop hours. Visitors welcome Subject catalogues issued 46 f 46 f f 4~ f 46 f * ' ' A 000 Trinity Hall, Brayhrooke Terrace, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 IHQ * f * * f * Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. Antiquarian Bookdealers since 1881 EARLY P R I N T E D BOOKS 175 Fifth Avenue New York City (212) 10010 529-1960 NEWS A N D C O M M E N T cheinical laundering. The first edition of Crescentius (the third copy to appear on the market in as many years) was an avowed case of rembor"tage but found a willing trade buyer at FF 170,000. No one, however, could argue with the condition of the copy of the first edition of Serres' Le t h i t

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT any of the sacred yardsticks, as literature, science and medicine, travel, and the rest, but uniformly considered as the printed evidence of their time. In this, Arthur Freeman's hand can be seen: headings like 'Dry Barbecued in the ~arbados' 'A Sociological Dialogue, not by or ~hakes~eare' as good as a signature. This goes with a cautious are attitude to sources ('The "W. Amis" whom S T C thinks published the book in 1644 is of course Dr William Ames, who died in 1633. There would seem no reason to doubt the 1621 date as given, but this is a completely reset text of "STC" 1640.'), and to condition ('some rather obtrusive staining, especially 'at the beginning'). If occasionally critical, however, the revisers of S T C and Wing will find much to be grateful for, as well as a few errors to crow over (but

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT and s ~ ~ b s e ~ u e nthe~Royal Library at the Hague. W e await further at t l news of this. T H E R E I S M U C H A C T I V I T Y on the wood engraving front. The Society of Wood Engravers was founded in 1920 by Robert Gibbings, Lucien Pissarro, Eric Gill and others and this year is mounting its 50th exhbition. After a period of dormancy in the 1970's the Society was revived in 1984 and since then has put on an annual exhibition of members' work whlch has helped to satisfy and to fuel the renewed interest in the medium on the part of practitioners and the public. The 50th exhibition will continue the good work and sets out to put the present burgeoning practice of the art in the historical

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T L E S S I N G J . R O S E N W A L D has died at the age of eighty-eight, and with him has gone the senior and most splendid book collector of our time. Happily enough he had lived to see the great catalogue, T h e Lessing]. Rosenwald Collection, compiled and published by the Library of Congress, to which his gift is the greatest in its history. All those who visited the collection in its special building next his house, Alverthorpe, outside Philadelphia, will have carried away the most vivid impression of that figure, gigantic it seemed both in size and achievement yet genial and generous. To walk round the shelves with him was a truly unforgettable experience: every book was a treasure, many uniquely so, but to listen to him you

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT I AM, at this moment, looking at two books (or, to be more accurate, a box and a book) both bound in the same cloth, a rough russet brown weave, agreeable to look at and in texture. One has a leather label with the words Portfolio honoring Harold Hugo; the other is lettered Vision G Revision Meriden-Stinehour Incorporated. Harold Hugo and Roderick Stinehour are a phenomenon of more than merely national importance. Together, they have shown that, in a world of generally declining standards, accurate and well-spaced composition, reproduction in which the photographic means are ~ e r f e c t balanced with the object l~ to be reproduced, and crisp presswork, letterpress or lithographic, can be not only achieved but even made to pay. Although the two businesses are distant from one another, the bond between them, the shared passion for good design and

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The Book Collector SCOLAR PRESS Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England Basil Hui~ilisett Steel engraving, so popular in the nineteenth century, has in modern times tended to be ignored, denigrated and to some extent n~isunderstood.Dr Hunnisett's book, the first detailed and coinprehensive survey of the subject, ranges from the identification problems and early history of steel engravings through the production and printing of the plates to a study of several of the engravers and artists as well as the books themselves. xvi 4- 256 pages ( i t d 67 plates) 254 x 170 lnnl ISBN 0 85967 538 6 L17.50 James Scott and William Scott, Bookbiilders ]. H. Loudor1 The output of thc Edinburgh binders Ja~ncsand William Scott stands out in the work of eighteenth-century Scottish bookbinders. Though few William Scott bindings arc known today, a substantial number of James's bindings havc survived. Mr Loudon's book, the first detailed examination of thc Scotts, gives dcicriptions of

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The Book Collector NEWS & C O M M E N T ' T H E W O R L D ' , said Stanley Morison, when asked what he thought of Reynolds Stone's work. Stone died on 23 June last, and there will now be no more of those incomparable engravings, on metal, stone, but principally on wood; no more unassuming, yet subtle, drawings; no more, and here the loss is hardest to bear, of a man notably shy and diffident, who had a natural genius for friendship (whom to know was to love) and for clear observation, of people and things. This last gave a special value to his company and to his opinions -- when he chose to express them, no less firmly than gently; it also gave his woodengravings their special quality, easy to recognize but hard to define. He did not have the mechanical facility of

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The Book Collector Vestern Americu, California & the Pacific Fine Printing Nuturul History Medicine & Science Manuscripts & Maps English & American Literuture Prints, Drawings & Puintings of the West Warren R. Howell, President 434 Post Street San Francisco, California 94102 Cable address: Bookman, San Francisco (415) 781-7795 NEWS A N D COMMENT (P.O. Box 326, Carn~el,California 93921) devoted catalogue 3 to China, 200 items (A-M) all well-chosen and including Morrison A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, Macao, I 8I 5-23. Elizabeth Spindel (12 Canonbury Grove, London NI 2HP) listed modern firsts in her first catalogue, among them Liam O'Flaherty's A Tourist's Guide to lreland 1928, a hard book to find with (as here) its jacket. T H E S I X T H triennial prize of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers has been awarded to Blanche Henrey for her monumental British Botanical and Horticukural Literature before I 800. No better choice could have

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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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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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EXHIBITIONS
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 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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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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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

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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

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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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pE generally cold weather of the first quarter of the year seems A to have extended to the sale-rooms, which were remarkably quiet. At the same time, the much-discussed recession had little or no effect on what sales there were. A first edition, third issue, of Ortelius Theatmm orbis terrarum with 'minor faults' including a title-page possibly of the fourth edition,

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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

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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

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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CATALOGUES - Autumn 2005


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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,

CATALOGUES - Autumn 2007


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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

CATALOGUES - Spring 2006


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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

CATALOGUES - Spring 2007


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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

CATALOGUES - Spring 2008


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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

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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

AMERICAN LIBRARIES


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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

AMERICANA


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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

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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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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 BOOK COLLECTOR * EDITORIAL BOARD I A N FLEMING J O H N H A Y W A R D CBE P . EI. M U I R EDITOR: CHRISTOPHER D O B S O N COMMENTARY s B I B L I O P H I L E S , we are inevitably concerned with any well-printed rnise en page and its attendant typographical .subtleties. For some time we have thought that a slightly heavier text type might well offer our subscribers a more readable page. From now on the BOOK COLLECTORwill be set in Monotype Bembo, which supplants Monotype Forrrnier, certainly no less beautiful than Bembo but, as we have come to see, that touch too light in weight for use with photographic illustration. THE RECENT ACQUISITION by the Pierpont Morgan Library of one of the three recorded copies of the Missale speciale Constanticrise has raised once again the vexed but exciting question

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The Book Collector one in the Library of Congress-'the richest it possesses for any major American author'-of which an Exhibition Catalogue has recently been published, price 65 cents, by the Governnlent Printing Office, Washington 25 D.C. * * * AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, which included extensive collections of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Bclloc and Sir Max ~ e c r b o h mwas , recently held in the Central Library, Manchester. This was the first exhibition organised by a group of bibliophiles who had founded in December 1954 the Manchester Society of Book Collectors. The Society aims to provide opportunities for book collectors in Manchester and surrounding districts to rncct one another at regular intervals to discuss their interests; to arrange exhibitions periodically, xvith the object of stimulating intercst in books and book collecting; and to make known to book collectors the bibliographical resources of the Manchester area. W e hope that the

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Ken Spelman Rare Books

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Librairie Thomas-Scheler

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Maggs Bros Ltd

50 Berkeley Square
London, W1X 6EL
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Sotheby's

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

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Tayler & Fletcher

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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 NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 142 (Autumn 1960). D. G. ROSSETTI'S EARLY ITALIANPOETS.1 In his Note on Rossetti's Early Italian Poets, Professor W. B. Todd discusses a variant of Rossetti's first volume in the Wrcnn Collection at the University of Texas. Dr Todd states at the outset that 'no suspicion attaches to the book', that is that it is not a Wise fabrication. A year or more ago, my own suspicions regarding this variant were aroused, but these were quickly dispelled by the two Wise specialists,John Carter and Graham Pollard. That the Wrenn variant is not a Wisc forgery or piracy does not, however, dispose of the volume, and Dr Todd's identificationis less than adequate, as I shall show, first, by clarifying positively the state of the variant in question, and second, by offering evidence that Dr Todd has overlooked. In his Bibliography ofDante Gabriel Rossetti (p. 13),

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 548. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY'S FAMILIAR I N T R O D U C T I O N T O T H E T H E O R Y A N D PRACTICE OF PERSPECTIVE. Two 'editions' of this work appeared, the first in 1770, the second in 1780. It has hitherto escaped notice that the second 'edition' constitutes a reissue of the sheets of the first. This, and some further complications, form the subject of this note. Printing of the work started in October 1769~ and was presumably nearing completion when Priestley wrote to John Canton on 28 February I770 as follows: I have given orders to cancel the paragraph at the conclusion of the preface to my Perspective . . . and I have inserted a recommendation of Mr. Naime's composition (as he calls it). Tell him I think it is fair that

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The Book Collector T H E BOOK COLLECTOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S A N D QUERIES I N O T E NO. A CRESTED ROLL Chapter Library. It seems that Davenport must have presented his manuscripts about the latter date, Twelve of the medieval manu- and Hutchinson could well have been scripts of Bishop Cosin's (now in- responsible for the more decorative corporated in the University) Lib- but sound portions of the earlier rary, Durham, are still in bindings coverings are commonly preserved, blind-stamped with a crested roll re- so that it is possible that none of the sembling Mr Oldham's CR(3), No. volumes dated between 1665 and 1670, nor any of the undated ones, 910, illustrated on pl. LIV, but lacking the letters T and M there shown, were ever in such crested-roll bindin a pattern like his No. 5 on pl. I1 ings. O f this present group only with the

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 462. JANE AUSTEN AND JOHN MURRAY It seemed until recently that the publication by John Murray of the second edition of Mansfield Park and the first editions of Enin~aand of hTorthanger Abbey and Persuasion (A7, A8 and A9 in my A bibliography ofJane Airsten 1982) was the full extent of that firm's involvement in Jane Austen's publishg history. But there has come to light in the firm's archives a letter of 20 May 1831 written from Chawton by the novelist's sister Cassandra, which makes it clear that John Murray was then considering a re-issue ofJane Austen's novels; by kind permission of the present representatives of the name I give the text here : 'Sir, In answer to your letter received the 14'~,1 beg to inform you that I am not disposed to part with the Copy-right of my late Sister's works, but 1

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 369 (Summer 1974). SWINBURNE'S NOTES ON POEMS AND REVIEWS (I 866) Mawin L. Williams,Jr, in his Note 369, is right about the two distinct editions of Swinburne's pamphlet, and T. J. Wise's role in first distinguishing between the two. I am a little surprised that he did not go further and discuss whether the second edition might be an unrecognized Wise counterfeit. Carter and Pollard(An Enquiry, p.291) were a little vague in their dismissal of the pamphlet, and it is noteworthy that they dismissed other Swinburne pamphlets which have subsequently been proved to be part of the canon. There is certainly cause for suspicion: I. Carter andPollard(AnEnquiry, p.77) writing about the proven Wise counterfeits said: 'Their very nature draws suspicion to them. The original edition would presumably have satisfied the private purpose which calledit into being; and if a

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 309. HORNE, ORION: AN EPIC POEM 1843 The unpriced Orion is of such a rarity that the University of Texas was pleased to secure at the Hayward sale (Sotheby's, 14 March 1966, lot 203) a specimen which supposedly completed its array of early variants. On later inspection, however, this 'issue' turned out to bc of the ordinary variety with the line '(Price One Farthing)' carefully scraped away. Subject to later advice, I now presume that the several other copies which may be extant are similarly defaced and thus of no consequence. Since an erasure would hardly be to the advantage of present sophisticates, as the priced variant generally commands a premium over the unpriced (A35 as against A7 in this sale), any accusation may well be directed against certain booksellers of the time, many of whom, presumably, were eager to make a little

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTES 130 & 131 (Spring 1960). THE FIRST EDITION OF ON T H E O R I G I N O F SPECIES I hoped that the two Notes by Professor Todd and myself on the Origin would evoke replies from other readers. Since they did not I assert that Professor Todd's alleged B binding (Note I 3 I ) of the first edition of the Origin is, in fact, an exact description (except in one detail) of that rare bird the 'Fifth Thousand' (in effect the second edition). The differing detail is the 'flat' back. I have never seen any unsophisticated copy o f an English book of this period with a 'flat' back. This is an American style, later adopted in England in, for instance, Dent's famous Everyinan series. While one must never discount the possibility of the last sheets of a first printing

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 551. Summer 1994. A line was omitted from this note. The second sentence in the second paragraph should have read: Although the titles issued in this 55 volume set (see Gimbel D38) were uniformly bound, they were sold individually over the ten year ~eriod 1861-1871 by W . A. Townsend, James G. Gregory, Sheldon & Co. and Hurd & Houghton and were not numbered as a single series or set. NOTE 554. THE BOWEN-MERRILL ISSUE OF TRILBY. In the centennial year of George Du Maurier's Trilby, I thought it might be appropriate to report an American issue that I have not seen recorded previously - indeed, one that is likely not to be catalogued adequately by librarians. This issue consists of Harper sheets and has the original Harper title-page, dated 1894; but its casing is not the familiar American one, designed by Margaret

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The Book Collector NOTES O N SALES Maggs. The highest price paid was £3000 (by Sabin) for a series of eight engraved views of Stockholm b y Martin, exquisitely coloured by hand (reputedly the artist's), and this was closely followed by a collection of 50 water-colour drawings of late 18th-century North American views made by Thomas Davies, at EzGoo (also Sabin). An album of 13 water-colour drawings by Lycett of Australasian views fetched E ~ o o o (Maggs). Of the printed books the majority were fine and worthy colour-plate and travel books.,large of format and " lustrous of early 19th-century binding, which for the most part had miraculously supported their elephantine folio contents without breaking asunder. These more than fulfilled-their expectations as, Angas The KaBrs Illustrated, £1 65, Maximilian Travels into the Interior o f North America, £600, Smyth and others Views in Canada (uncoloured) £460, Phillips Mexico IIlustrated, £230,

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES QUERY 364. THOMAS HOLLIS AND BARON'S MILTON: A STRANGE DEVICE. In 1753 Andrew Millar published the monumental two-volume quarto edition of Milton's Prose works edited by Richard Baron. In it he used the text of the first edition of Eikonoklastes. In 1755 Baron came upon a copy of Milton's revised and enlarged second edition, and had it printed (in 1756) and substituted as a cancel (longer, of course, than the cancellandum) in remaining copies of the edition. Signatures and pagination were cobbled together to make it appear to fit; it was then reprinted as a separate with normahzed pagination and signatures (all except sig. Bz, which was accidentally left as Fffz). The copies of Baron's Milton specially bound for Hollis for presentation all contain this cancel section. On both titlespage and colophon of the cancel and the reprint appears a symbol that I have

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 413. DUPLICATE SETTINGS O F COMPLETE BOOKS In Note 413 Nicolas Barker asks for locations of four books. The Newberry Library. has : I . Charles Blount, Miscellarleous Works 1695 ; and both issues, as specified in Wing, of 2 . George Digby, Earl of Bristol, Lettcrs . . . 1651; we also have 3. Sir Ralph Freeman, Iti~periak 1655; and have the first edition of 4. Sir Robert Naunton, Fragtilet~taregalia 1641. RICHARD COLLES JOHNSON T h e Newberry Library NOTE 417. A MEDAL O F LORD BYRON, DATED 1824, AND APPARENTLY PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING A number of medals commemorating Lord Byron were issued after his death in April 1824. One of these is a handsome medal engraved by Alfred Joseph Stothard, 1793-1864, who was a son of Thomas Stothard, R. A. This seems to have been his

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 320. THE DELFT METHOD OF WATERMARK REPRODUCTION That betaradiography is the best technique for watermark investigation and reproduction purposes is now generally accepted. It has the great advantage of producing a film negative with an image that is perfectly accurate as to size and quality and which, in the case of originals incorporating overwritten or overprinted matter, reproduces the watermark and mould-lines only. The systematic application of the process to watermark reproduction is associated with the name of D. P. Erastov of the Consemation and Restoration Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in Leningrad, who published the results of his experiments (using Calcium-45 as h s radioactive source) in 1960. This so-called 'Leningrad Method' was first described in an English language bibliographical journal in a note in the Autumn 1961 issue of THE BOOK COLLECTOR.^ Since

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL N O T E S & QUERIES NOTE 182. THE DIDOT HORACE, 1799 I recently looked through a collection of autograph letters in the Gennadius Library, Athens, and came upon the following communication from the elder Didot to Talleyrand. Since it relates to one of the monuments of French typography it seemed to me worth transcribing for publication in these Notes. Gennadius MS 190, f. 48 Le 17 Niv. an 8. Au Citoyen Ministre de l'ExtCrieur [8 January 18001 Citoyen Ministre, J'ai l'honncur de prisenter aujourd'hui au Premier-Consul Bonaparte le premier Exemplaire de mon tdition in fol. $Horace. C'est mon excuse pour ne vous offrir que le second. Je dtsire qu'il puisse vous 6tre agrtable: et mon espoir est fondt sur votre gofit, qui I'emporte tvidemment sur cette suptrioritt d'extcution de cet ouvrage, qui l'emporte tvidemment sur celle du Viyile. Les vignettes sont d'aprks les dessins de

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 549. AN UNRECORDED TOLKIEN REVIEW It is possible to make a small, but not insignificant, addition to the recent bibliography ofJ. R. R. Tokien.1 O n 14 April, 1946 Tolkien reviewed E. K. Chambers, Etlglish Literature at the Close ofthe Middle Ages in the Sunday Tinzes under the title 'Research v. Literature' (p. 3). The review is of interest on more than one ground. Tolkien rarely reviewed books. Indeed, his bibliographers record only one review and three review articles, all from much earlier in his ~ a r e e rAlso, .~ both the title and the argument anticipate T o k e n ' s later animadversions on research and English studies.3 Chambers is criticized for a misleading title: 'We are given, in fact. three "essays" ' which offer 'little more than a compendium of research.' His biographical speculations about Malory are

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The Book Collector B I B L I O G R A P H I ~ A LNOTES & QUERIES I Miss Elspeth Yeo and I are hoping to produce the definitive catalogue of Esther Inglis manuscripts, thadks to Mrs Jackson's generosity in giving us all her notes for her catalogue. IGformation about previously unrecorded manuscripts will be gratefully recdived. Especially we would like to know the location of the following, prer/rously recorded but now untraced: Esteram Inglis Gallam, Edemburgi, anno 1600'. Harcourt, Gentleman Commoner of Seen by Hearne, mentioned in Guil. Newdedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, January I , 1609'. Contains the arms and cr!sts of 64 peers. Described in the 1872 (privately printed) Catalogue of thb Pictures at Hengrave Hall. Bound in green velvet, embroidered with eed earls. Possibly included, anonymously and $ inadequately described, i the 1897 Sale Catalogue of Hengrave Hall. 3 'The Psalms of David, written

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHlCAL NOTES & QUERIES NOTE 400 (AUTUMN 1976). MONTAGUE SUMMERS: AN UNRECORDED ITEM To my Note 400 and Timothy d'Arch Smith's Note 359 (Winter 1972) re his addenda to his Bibliography qf the Works of Montague Summers (London: Nicholas Vane 1964)~ following items may now be added: the 'Mysterious Figures: Pictures with Moving Eyes', Notes G Queries, CXLIX (1925)>83-4. A reply to a query in CXLVIII, 441. 'Allusions in Byron's Letters', Notes G Queries, CLXXIII (1937)~ 357. A reply continuing a correspondence in CLXXIII, 187-8, 227-8, 241-2, 268, 285 and in earlier volumes. [Letter about Summers's The Gothic Quest.] Modern Language Notes, 56 (1941)~ 561-2. A reply to an article by Ernest Bernbaum, Modern Languqe Notes, 55 (1944, 64. [Letter about Aphra Behn and Montfleury.] Moderr? Language Notes, 56 (1941), 562. 'The Order of La Merced', Notes G Queries, CLXXXII (1942) 66-7. A reply to a query in

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES A N D QUERIES was an inveterate collector of all extant material relating to Junius. Parker obtained the George Woodfall MS and incidental letters from Henry Dick Woodfall (son of Gcorge Woodfall) who had printed the Bohn Junius in 1850.~ Thc George Woodfall MS notes make clear that neither Henry Sainpson Woodfall nor George Woodfall knew the identity ofJunius; and assert that all of the Junius anecdotes are fabrications. The collcction of letters afford a good commentary on the Junian hypotheses of the early 19th century. Montclair State College FRANCESCO CORDASCO Ibid., p. 153. QUERY 246 (Spring 1970) EARLY PRINTED BOOKS O N TINTED PAPER With legard to Mr Harry W . Pratley9sQuery 246, 'Early Printed Books on Tinted Paper', Professor Robert Allen of the University of Illinois has called to my attention the following item in the Illinois Library: S T C 2245. T h e holy

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The Book Collector BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES A N D QUERIES Chapttiarz G. Hall I toothed gilt line ( two narrow gilt lines I hcavy gilt line I two narrow gilt lines. The copy in this binding is idcntical tcxtually with the others-or, at least, to be more prccisc, with the five separate variants (in my possession and in the British Museum) which I have collated-with the exception of the title-page, which has bccn cropped so that this shorn copy omits the line: [The Author reserves the right of translating this Work.] Compensation has been made on the top margin so that it measures 2.4 cm against an average of 2 cm in the other variants. The cropping and compensation are consistent throughout thc book. Obviously this copy is uniquc In sevcral respects. It is uniquc because it is the only cropped-or, if I may so put it, shorn copy hitherto reported. It

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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 BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review LIVES IN PRINT; Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. Ed. by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote. (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2002.) Pp. xiv+z18 incl b/w figs. ISBN 0-7123-4796-8. A25.00. INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM 1600-1966. By J. M. De Bujanda. (Centre d'8tudes de la Renaissance, Universiti de Sherbrooke, Librairie Droz, Geneva, 2002.) Pp. 980. I S B N 2-60040818-7. FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRINTING IN LONDON 1500-1900. Ed. by Barry Taylor. (The British Library, 2002.) Pp. vii+z73 incl. b/w figs. I S B N 0-7123-11289. A30.00. DIZONARIO ILLUSTRATO DELLA LEGATURA. By Federico Livio Macch. (Edizione Sylvestre Bonnard, Milan, 2002.) Pp. xxix 617 incl. b/w figs. +48 col. plates. I S B N 88-86842-41-4. €260.00. + FORM AND MEANING IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK. By Nicolas Barker. (The BritishLibrary, 2002.) Pp. xiii + 514.

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review VIAGGI, POPOLI E PAESI NELLA LIBRERIA DI FERDINAND0 MARTINI CONSERVA DALLA BIBLIOTECA FORTEGUERRIANA DI PISTOIA. By Rossella Dini and Franco Savi. (Giunta Regionale Toscana/ Editrice Bibliografica, 1993.) Pp. xxxiv+316+37 b/w & col. illus. I S B N 887075-336-0. L~O.OOO. QUATRE SIECLES DE RELIURE BELGIQUE 1 5 0 ~ 1 9 0 0 By Claude 11. Sorgelos and Paul Culot. (Eric Speeckaert, Brussells, 1993.) Pp. 404 incl. 20 col. plates and every binding illus. b/w. FB.z.5ooo. LEGATURA DI PREGIO IN VALLE D'AOSTA. By Francesco Malaguzzi. (Umberto Allemandi & C. Turin, 1993.) Pp. 139 incl. 95 col. & b/w illus. SERIALS AND THEIR READERS 1620-1914. Edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris. (St Paul's Bibliographies, Winches er & Oak Knoll Press, New I Castle, Delaware, 1993.) P p xxii+ 170. I S B N 1-873040-20-2 (m):S B N 0-93 8768-48-4

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BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN CAMBRIDGE. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One in 2 vols. Ed. by Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova. (Har­vey Miller Publishers in assoc. with The Modern Humanities Research Associ­ation, 2009). Vol. I. The Frankish Kingdoms. Northern Netherlands. Germany. Bohemia. Hungary. Austria. Pp. 255 fully illus. in col. Vol. II. The Meuse Region. Southern Netherlands. Pp. 292 fully illus. in col. ISBN 1 905375 47 9 (two vol. set). €i5o.00. THE IBIS JOURNAL 3. Diverse Talents. (The Imaginative Book Illustration Society, London, 2009.) Pp. 144. ISBN o 9535 5963 7. 20.00. PAST INTO PRINT. The Publishing of History in Britain 185o-i95o. By Leslie Howsam. (The British Library & University of Toronto Press, 2009.) Pp. xvi+ 182 incl. b/w figs. ISBN 0712350273. JOHN KEATS. A Poet and his Manuscripts. By Stephen Hebron. (The British

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review THE ST BRIDE NOTEBOOK. By Caroline Archer and Robert Harling. With wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Published to celebrate the centenary of his birth. (InclinePress, 2003. Published for the Friends of St. Bride Printing Library.) Pp. unnumbered, illus. from engravings by Ravilious. EDWARD ARDIZZONE: A Bibliographic Commentary. By Brian Alderson. (Private Libraries Association, The British Library, Oak Knoll Press, 2003.) Pp. 309 incl. 4 col. plates and b/w illus. I S B N I 900002 47 6 (PLA). I S B N 07123 4759 3 (BL). L45.00. THE OSTEND STORY: Early tales of the great siege and the mediating role of Henrick van Haestens. By Anna E. C. Simoni. (Hes & De Graaf publishers BV, Goy-Houten, 2003.) Pp. 231 incl. 27 b/w illus. I S B N 90 6194 159 8. €75.00. WORDS FOR

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The Book Collector T H E BOOK COLLECTOR some other wanderers in the no-man's land between Rome and Reform, is to appear twice, in erroneous forms, in the General Catalogue of the British Librarv. There are signs that some of these pieces have been long in the press (Neil Harris has missed Philip Weimerskirch's article on the Harris family of facsimilists and Jeremy Potter the decisive re-ordering of Arrighi's career in Stanley Morison's Early Italian Writing Books: Renaissance to Baroque), but this is a common accident: 1 was unaware of David Shaw's decisive ordering of the 'Lyons counterfeits' of Aldus here, when attempting the same subject. The main thing is that this apt tribute to the scholarship of Dennis Rhodes has appeared, within the month of the event it celebrates, and all that can make it obsolete is the still continuing fecundity of the subject himself. If this is a fault,

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not subsequent review A DIRECTORY OF THE PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES of the Church of England and the Church of Wales. Ed. revised by Michael Perkin. (The Bibliographical Society, London, 2004.) Pp. 490 incl. 42 b/w illus. I S B N o 948170 13 I. CATALOGUE OF THE A PEPYS LIBRARY at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Supplementary Series Vol. I. Census of PrintedBooks. Edited by C. S. Knighton. (D. S. Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004.) Pp. xxi+377. I S B N I 84384 004 9. L95.00. COLLECTING ARMS, CRESTS AND MONOGRAMS. A Forgotten Pastime. By Edward J. Law. (Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Kilkenny, 2003.) Pp. 48. I S B N o 9536399 3 2. TYPE NOW. A MANIFESTO. Plus W O R K SO FAR. By Fred Smeijers. (Hyphen Press, London, 2003.) Pp. 142 incl. 16 col. plates & 6 b/w illus. I

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS A N D EXHIBITION CATALOGUES friendship. The exhibition, based on his own collection, was organized by William Reese who also published an illustrated catalogue. His succinct and informative notes are a model of caption-writing. THE SECOND PART of The Company They Kept: Alfred A. and Blanche W. KnopJ Publishers opens at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, on 4 September and runs until 22 December. It includes books, business records, correspondence, photographs and artwork from the Knopf archive, one of the largest collections at the Ransom Center. The library is currently in the middle of a two-year project to create a comprehensive inventory and on-lme catalogue record of the Archive. Two archives of a different variety, those of Harry Houdini and Aleister Crowle~, provide some of the material for Magic: a Brief History of the Unknown also at the H R C until 8 December. Rudolph Ackermann and the

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Incltrsion in this list does not preclude subsequent review WYNKYN DE WORDE. Father of Flect Street. By James Moran. A new edition with a chronological bibliography of the works of Wynkyn de Worde compiled by Lotte H e h g a and Mary Erler and a preface by John Dreyfus. (British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003.) Pp. 72 incl. 9 b/w illus. I S B N o 7123 0667 6. L r 2 . g ~ . WILLIAM TINSLEY (183 1-1902). 'SPECULATIVE PUBLISHER'. A Commentary by Peter Newbolt with a check-list of books published by the Tinsley brothers 1854-1888. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001.) Pp. xv+370 incl. 9 b/w illus. I S B N 0 7546 0291 5. L59.95. MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE 1855~1907, Flippancy or Abuse Allowed'. 'No By George J. Worth. (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003.) Pp. m i + 188. I S B N o

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR Mehmed's successor, Bayezid 11, oversaw a consolidation of Ottoman binding technique. The drawing-inspired hand-decorated bindings of the previous reign were supplanted by a more standardizing use of pressure-moulded designs. In retrospect it is possible to see that this was setting the foundations for what we now recognize as the typical Ottoman binding, its central medallions impressed in gold with 'saz leaf and rosette' design on burgundy morocco. Most books have a few printing mistakes, but in this case there is a hint of hurried final proof-reading. In addition to a few niggling errors, two valuable tables of manuscripts commissioned during the reign of Mehmed I1 are devoid of descriptive headings. Oversights of this nature can only reduce the ease of use of a book which, after its initial serious perusal, must inevitably be used in the future for quick reference. Provision of an errata slip

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review ISAAC D'ISRAELI O N BOOKS. Pre-Victorian Essays on the History of Literature. Edited by Marvin Spevack. (The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2004.) Pp. xxxvii+z66+b/w frontis. I S B N 0 7123 4829 8. SHEPPARD'S BOOK DEALERS IN THE BRITISH ISLES 200314. (Richard Joseph Publishers, Torrington, Devon, 2003.) I S B N I 872699 78 2. IMPRIMATUR: Ein Jahrbuch fur Bucherfreunde Neue Folge XVIII 2003. Edited by Ute Schneider. (Munich, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 2003.) Pp. 328 incl. b/w & col. illus. I S B N 3 447 04723 2. LES METAMORPHOSES D U LIVRE. Entretiens avec Jean-marc Chatelain et Christian Jacob. By Henri-Jean Martin. (Editions Albin Michel, Paris, 2004.) Pp. 299. I S B N 2 226 14237 I. €21.50~. THE BEINECKE LIBRARY of Yale University. Edited by Stephen Parks. (Beinecke Rare Book

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review CIMELIA RHODOSTAUROTICA. Die Rosenkreuzer im Spiegel der zwischen 1610 und 1660 enstandenen Handschriften und Drucke Aussetellung, der Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel. (In de Pelikaan, Amsterdam, 1995.) Pp. xii+191 illus. throughout in b/w. I S B N 90-71608-ow. A LIFE IN CATALOGUES AND OTHER ESSAYS By George Sims. (Holmes Publishing, Philadelphia, 1994.) Pp. 158 incl. 17 b/w illus+col. frontis. I S B N 0-961969305-0. $25. SIERPAPIER marmer-, brocaat-en sitspapier in Nederland By J. F. Heijbroek and T. C. Greven. (Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam, 1994.) Pp. 158 66 fully illus. throughout in b/w and full col. ISBN~O-703866. Hfl59.50Guilders. PRINTING A BOOK AT VERONA IN 1622. The Account Book of Francesco Calzolari Junior Edited and with an introduction by Conor Fahy. (Fondation Custodia, Paris, 1993.) Pp. 195 incl. 58 b/w plates. L60. WRITERS, BOOKS

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review JOHN CARTER. The Taste and Technique of a Bookman. By Donald C. Dickinson. (Oak Knoll Press, Newcastle, Delaware, 2004.) Pp. xxi+416 incl. 39 b/w illus. I S B N 9 781584 561378. TOLKIEN'S GOWN and other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books. By Rick Gekoski. (Constable, London, 2004.) PP. xvii + 250. I S B N I 84119 929 X. SCRITTI SULL'EDITORIA POPOLARE NELL'ITALIA DI ANTIC0 REGIME. Edited by Edoardo Barbieri and Alberto Brambilla. (Archivio Guido, h i , 2004.) Pp. 355. ISBN9 788885 760998. e25.00. THE DIAMOND SUTRA. CD Rom. (British Library, 2004.) L g . 9 ~ . THE ILLUSTRATED BEATUS. A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse. Volume Four. The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. By John Williams. (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004.) Pp. 355 incl. 418 b/w

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The Book Collector BOOK REVIEWS for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland but the discussions came to nothing. Presumably if he had undertaken the project his name might now be as known as that of the Dalziel Brothers to whom it was eventually entrusted. After the detailed chronicle of Jewitt's illustrations Mr Broomhead completes his work with chapters devoted to devices and decorations,andJewitt and Company, where the story continues beyond the death of the man himself. The latter half of the volume is devoted to appendices on Jewitt as author, the bookplates and a checklist of illustrated books and periodicals. It is this modestly titled checklist which will perhaps attract a majority of readers, for it is essentially a meticulous catalogue packed with recondite bibliographical information. It is difficult to imagine that it could be better done. Finally it is refreshing to read the author's balanced view of the status of his subject:

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review A CENTURY IN BOOKS. Princeton University Press 1905-2005. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005.) Pp. xvi 167 incl. b/w figs. I S B N 0 691 I2292 X. A9.95. + TRADE BOOKBINDINGS IN CLOTH, 1820-1920. By Margaret Lock. (Queen's University Library, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K L 5 ~ 4 , 7 2005.) Pp. 28 incl. 27 b/w figs & 16 col. figs. I S B N I 55339 082 2. $~o.oo. ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IIOC-1700. Vol. 12. Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700. Edited by Peter Beal and A. S. G. Edwards. (The British Library, 2005.) Pp. vi+266 incl. b/w plates. I S B N 071234894 8. A45.00. CATALOGUES ~ G I O N A U XDES INCUNABLES DES BIBLIOTHEQUES PUBLIQUES DE FRANCE. Vol. XVII. Haute-Normandie. By Vakrie Neveu. (Droz, Geneva, 2005.) I S B N 2

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The Book Collector BOOK REVIEWS colour plate opening will show this catholic taste; James Fitton, Claud Lovat Fraser, Bamett Freedman, Annie French and Michael Foreman are together on one typical spread. There are also essays on wood engraving (with much that is new on contemporary engraving), book jackets and a stimulating essay by Brian Alderson on children's book illustration, which is highly informative about the past and yet looks to the future. Good and informative as these are this is not, however, a text book, but a dictionary and, therefore, a work of reference. As such it invites us all to dip in, check omissions and find faults: it is hard to do so. The lengthy essays, lists of illustrated books and references to further readmg are not likely to be surpassed. They are as full as anyone could wish and invoke sympathy for their proof reader. The dictionary lists over

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Inclusion in this list does not preclude subsequent review THE LICHTENTHAL PSALTER and the manuscript patronage of the Bohun family. By Lucy Freeman Sandler. (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2004.) I Pp. 179 incl. 70 b/w illus. + 40 col. ~lates.S B N I 872501 13 3. €90.00. EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM. By John Lane. (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004.) Pp. 344 incl. 15 b/w figs+4inserted folding plates. I S B N 9 7807 12 3488 12. A60.00. JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS. By John Goldman. (Lund Humphreys in association with Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.) Pp. 71 incl. 21 col. plates & 30 b/w illus. I S B N o 85331 911 I. R16.50. PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS 1999, 2000, 2001. Edited by Paul W. Nash, Margaret Lock and Asa Peavy. (Private Libraries Association, Pinner.) A BOOK OF BOOKSELLERS. Conversations with

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The Book Collector BIBLIOLRAPHICAL NOTES A N D QUERIES in listing and locating the letters to and from Linnaeus. Until now (February 1996) 5400 letters have been registered but there is reason to believe that there are many more. A request has been sent out to more than 200 libraries all over the world. Many letters are, however, kept by private collectors and the editors would be very glad to information about them. To begin with, a selection of the letters will be published on the Internet later this year (www.voltaire-foundation@ox.ac.uk). The Linnean Correspondence Box 510 S-751 20 Uppsala Sweden E-mail :Thomas.Anfalt.@ ub.uu.se B O O K S RECEIVED TOMAS ANFALT JOHN KEATS Bicentennial Exhibition. (The Grolier Club, New York, 1995.) STEPHEN CRANE An Exhibition from the collection of Stanley Wertheim. (The Grolier Club, 1995.) REGIAM SIB1 BIBLIOTHECAM INSTRUXIT. LEGATURE DI PREGIO DEL SECOND0 CINQUECENTO DALLA RACCOLTA DI GIAM FEDERICO MADRUZZO. By Francesco Malaguzzi. (Societa di Studi

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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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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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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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 Bayntun. George . . . . 159 I IOO Nebenzahl. Kenneth . lackw well's Rare Books . . onh ham's. . . . . . Burrnester. James . christies . . . . . 2 Oak Knoll Books . . 154 Olschki. Leo S. . . . . 3 Pagan. Hugh . . 159 . . 146 . . . . . . . . . 109 Parikian. D . . 151 22 . . . . 160 . I 59 Cox. Claude . Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering & Chatto . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard Cummins. James . Editions du Cercle . . . . S IF c DeBeaumont. Robin . 160 . . . Edwards. Christopher . Fletcher. H . M . . . . Forum Booksellers BV . Harrington. Peter Hordern House . Hunter. Andrew . . 26 Ramer. Richard C. . BC . . 155 84 Rare Book Review . . 160 Reese Company. William . I 5s . 157 . 154 Rootenberg. B . & L . . 115 . 158 . . Rota. Bertram . . . . 152 . . I 57 Heritage Book Shop Inc . Schulz-Falster. Susanne . Shepherd's Directories . Smithsettle . Sotheby's . . . . . .

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Bayntun. George . . . Blackwell's Rare Books . Bonham's . . . . . Burrnester. James . . . . . . . 307 161 Nebenzahl. Kenneth . Oak Knoll Books . . 162 . 302 244 Olschki. Leo S. . . . . 163 304 307 Pagan. Hugh . . . . Parikian. D . . . Christies . . . . . Christies International . Cox. Claude . . . . Chelsea Bindery. The Cummins. James . Editions du Cercle . 270 . 264 . 275 . 299 . 182 . . . . . 186 Edwards. Christopher . . BC Fletcher. H . M . . . . . 308 Forum Booksellers BV . . 304 Rota. Bertram Heritage Book Shop Inc . HordernHouse . Hunter. Andrew . Lawson. E . M . Les Enluminures MaggsBros . Mott. Howard S. . . . 306 . 306 . . . . . Philadelphia Rare Books . Pickering & Chatto . . Quaritch Ltd.

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The Book Collector LIST O F ADVERTISERS Bayntun. George . Blackwell's Rare Books . Bonham's . . 635 Oak Knoll Books . Olschki. Leo S. . 629 . . . . . . . . 479 . 631 Pagan'Hugh . Parikian. D . Bonhams & Butterfields . Bromer Booksellers . Burrnester. James . Cox. Claude . Cummins. James . Editions du Cercle . . . . 635 Philadelphia Rare Books . 635 Pickering & Chatto . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . Ramer. RichardC. Rare Book Review . . . . 481 . IFC . . . . . . . 630 . . . . . ~dwards. Christopher Fletcher. H . M . . Forum Booksellers BV . Heritage Book Shop Inc . HordernHouse . . . . . Hunter. Andrew . Jonkers Ltd . 562 Reese Company. William . 630 Rootenberg. B . & L. . 632 Rota. Bertram . 627 Schulz-Falster. Susanne . . 636 Shepherd's Directories . . 501 Smith Settle . . 626 . . 628 Sokol. A . Sotheby's . . . . . . . . . 486 Lawson. E . M

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Abrams, Harry N., Inc. Alastor Rare Books Association of Research Libraries . . . . Bayntun, George. Blackwell's Rare Books . Bonham's. Nebenzahl, Kenneth . Oak Knoll Books. Olschki, Leo S. Pagan, Hugh . . . . 302 . . . 448 . . 303 . . . . . Bonhams & Butterfield . Burmester, James. . . Christie's International . . . . . 451 Parikian, D. . . . . . 455 Phdadelphia Rare Books . 45 5 Pickering&Chatto . . . 305 Quaritch Ltd, Bernard Ramer, RichardC. . Rare Book Review . . . . IF c . . 450 . 352 . Cox, Claude . . . . Christie's King Street Cummins, James . Editions du Cercle Fletcher, H. M. . . . . Reese Company, William . 449 Rootenberg, B. &L. Rota,Bertra~n . . . 452 . . . 447 . 456 . 325 Edwards, Christopher . . Forum Booksellers BV Hauswedell Stuttgart. HordernHouse . . Hunter, Andrew . . Lawson,E. M. . . Les Enluminures . . Maggs

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Alastor Rare Books . Bayntun.George . Bonham's . . . . 164 Oak Knoll Books . . . . . 163 Olschki. Leo S. . . . . I . 4 . 3 Blackwell's Rare Books . Burmester. James . Cox. Claude . Cummins. James . Editions du Cercle Pagan. ~ . u . ~. h . . 159 . . . . . 88 . . Parikian. D . . . . . . 163 . 163 . 162 Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering & Chatto . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . . . . 154 . . . 22 . . . . S IFC . . . 26 Ramer. Richard C . . . . 158 Edwards. ~ h r i s t o ~ h e r. . B C Rare Book Review . . . 34 Fletcher. H . M . . . . . 163 Reese Company. William . I 58 Forum Booksellers BV . . 159 Rootenberg. B . & L . . . 160 Hauswedell Stuttgart . . . . . 21 Rota.

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Alastor Rare Books . Bayntun. George . . . 300 OakKnoll Books . . 293 . . . 299 Olschki. Leo S. . . . . 167 Blackwell's Rare Books . . 165 Pagan. Hugh . . . . . 296 Bonham's . . . . . . 263 Parikian. D . . . . . 299 Burmester.James . . . . 298 . 272 Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering & Chatto . Christie's International . Christie's King Street . . 299 . 169 . IFC . 268 Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . Cox. Claude . . . . . 279 Ramer.RichardC . . . Cummins. James . . . . 200 Rare Book Review . . Editions du Cercle . . . 244 Reese Company. William Edwards. Christopher . . B C Rootenberg. B . & L . . Fletcher. H . M . . . . . 299 Rota. Bertram . . . Forum Booksellers BV . Hauswedellstuttgart . HordernHouse . Hunter. Andrew

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The Book Collector 1Lo Remember me I, v i No acmunt R, iiri winter 2006 UnwwiQnd L"noa Rowan w l a M NOlES ON COMRBUTORS THE BOOK COLLECTOR Those who already frequent THE B O O K COLLECTOR website will already know the value of the complete index to its contents, 1952-zoos. They will now find yet more, a virtual transformation. The entire archive of its past and recent contents, and even forthcoming features, will be freely available to subscribers on the internet via w w w .thebookcollector. co.uk T o keep you even more up to date, there will be an electronic newsletter. Non-subscribers will also have the opportunity to purchase individual articles from thearchive, and to subscribe ~ O T H E O O K COLB LECTOR and receive forthcoming features or buy past issues. Advertisers will find that their wares will reach a wider market. All these additional benefits willnot changeT~E O O K COLLECTOR asit is now, andcertainly B

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Alastor Rare Books . Bayntun. George . Bonhams . Bookdealer . . 180 Oak Knoll Books . Olschki. Leo S. Pagan. Hugh . Parikian. D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 4 Blackwell's Rare Books . . . . . . . I40 . I34 . . . . . . Bonhams & Butterfield Burinester. Jaines . Cox. Claude . Drury. John . . . . I 39 Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering & Chatto . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . . . . . . . 178 . . . I 33 Christie's International . Cummins. James . Ramer. Richard C . . . Rare Book Review Rootenberg. B . & L. Rota. Bertram . . . 144 . . . . 36 58 BC Reese Con~pany. William . . . . . . . 179 Editions du Cercle Fletcher. H . M . Edwards. Christopher . Schulz-Falster. Susanne . Shepherd9sDirectories . Sinith Settle . Sok01. A . Sotheby's . . . . . . . . Forum Booksellers BV . Hauswedell Stuttgart . HordernHouse . Hunter. Andrew . Laws0n.E . M . 179 . I75 . 18 . 52 . 171 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I72 . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . Spelman. Ken . . 173

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The Book Collector LIST OF ADVERTISERS Alastor Rare Books . Bayntun. George . Blackwell's Rare Books . Bonhasns . . . 324 . 305 . I 8I Oak Knoll Books . Olschki. Leo S. Pagan. ~~~h . . . . . 317 . 183 . . . . . . . 319 . . . . . ~ 9 6 Parikian. D . . 286 .323 . 324 BOnhams Bc Butter Bookdealer . . . . 295 Philadelphia Rare Books . . . 321 . 285 . 298 . 208 . 199 . . . 322 Burmester.James . Pickering & Chatto . . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard . . 185 . IFC Christie's International . Combined Academic Publishcrs . . . Cox. Claude . Drury. John . Editions du Cercle Edwards. Christopher Fletcher. H. M . Foyles . HordernHouse . . . . . . Ramer. Richard C . . . . 318 Rare Book Review . Rootenberg. B . & L . Rota. Bertram . . . . . 216 . Reese Company. William 318 320 Cummins. James . . 315 . 323 . 200 205 ~c11ulz.Falster. Susanne . Shepherd's Directories Smith Settle . Sokol. A . Sotheby's . . .

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The Book Collector LIST O F ADVERTISERS Alastor Rare Books . Bayntun. George . . . . Olschki. Leo S. Pagan. Hugh . Parikian. D . . . . . . . . 475 . 636 Blackwell's Rare Books . Bonhams . . . . . . 640 . 639 . . . 477 . IFC . . . . . . . . Philadelphia Rare Books Pickering &Chatto . Quaritch Ltd. Bernard Bonhams & Butterfield . Bookdealer Cox. Claude . . . . . . Ratner. Richard C. . . . 635 Rare Book Review . . . 497 Cummins. James . Dallas. T . L . . . . . Reese Company. William . 63 5 Rootenberg. B . & L . Rota. Bertram Drury. John . . . . . . 637 . . . 632 Editions du Cercle . . . Edwards. Christopher Fletcher. H. M . Schulz-Falster. Susanne . Shepherd's Directories . Smith Settle . Sotheby's . Sokol. A . . 640 . 486 . . . Forum Booksellers BV . Hauswedell Stuttgart . HordernHouse . . . . . . . . . . 631 . 610 . . . . . . . . . . 633 Hunter. Andrew . Spelman. Ken . . . . . 633 .

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The Book Collector newly established 'News and Comment' and book reviews. Occasionally, he would introduce other contributors, too - I am not likely to forget the Baroness Derra de Moroda, whose collection of books on ballet and the dance he had helped to form, and who proved an entertaining if exigent author on the subject. Percy's death in 1979 removed the last of the founding fathers of T H E B O O K COLLECTOR, breaking a link with a past which I only knew by hearsay; it is a gap that I still feel. But his memory has been kept green by his indefatigable widow, Barbara Muir, who has already published T h e Company W e Kept, her own memories. Next spring, Werner Shaw and Oak Knoll Books are jointly to publish Second Impression, or Rural Liji with a Rare Bookman, which, she writes, has 'quite a bit

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The Book Collector THE BOOK COLLECTOR collection of original paintings of the North American Indians painted from the life. This collection was eventually, and most appropriately, to find its permanent home at the Gilcrease Foundation at Tulsa, Oklahoma, being acquired by our client (and friend) Thomas Gilcrease, the pure-blooded Red Indian Chef on whose lands oil was found and who conceived the idea of creating a great museum and art gallery of the Indian Nation sited at the geographical centre of the United States. We were, of course, very conscious of the responsibility of the custody of such material and of the danger of fire and water. Although we had insurance, the responsibility far transcended that. At this stage, our wonderful cataloguer, Ralph Lewis, a middle-aged bachelor of austere tastes, offered to live in the house. It was a noble gesture which relieved Lionel and me enormously. Mr Lewis left his

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The Book Collector J A N E AUSTEN AND EUROPE Family (Carcanet N e w Press, 1983). References t o the novels are t o the standard Oxford edition, edited by R. W. Chapman, 1923 and later printings, while Jane Austen's letters are quoted o r referred t o f r o m Deirdre Le Faye's third edition (Oxford University Press, 1995; paperback edition 1997). Details o f most other sources are given in the text. NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S C A R O L I N E D U R O S E L L E - M E L I S H has been recently appointed Assistant Curator in the Printing and Graphic Arts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library. DAVID GILSON P. is the author of the Soho Bibliography ofJane Austen. D . A . H A R V E Y is

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The Book Collector B O O K REVIEWS earliest recorded gardens in Scotland, 'planted with all kynds of fruit, herbes, and floures, used in this kingdom, and aboundance of good Saphron, Tobacco, and Rosemarie', according to Sir Robert Gordon, who enthused about the excellent fruit, 'Chieflie the peares and cherries'. The Countess of Sutherland's papers include a battered, anonymous recipe book of 1683 full of recipes for jams, jellies and preserved fruits. The house steward's account book for I704 adds more information about provisions and among the papers is a Diet Book covering the same period. Geddes weaves information from the Sutherland archive together with biographical material and background history, putting the diet of a privileged but not extravagant Scots household in its social and economic context. And so on, using the rich archve material of the National Library of Scotland, from gooseberry custard among the lush pastures of Saltoun, to

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The Book Collector NEWS AND COMMENT fairs would be enlivened by an exhibition of major items not for sale, as is common practice in art fairs. But how many other European cities would be able to compete, if the theme were again to be complete sets of Shakespeare folios? NOTES O N C O N T R I B U T O R S B I L L BELL is Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at The University of Edinburgh. He is a General Editor of the forthcoming A History ofthe Book in Scotland. DILWYN KNOX is Reader in Renaissance Studies at University College London. He has written articles on Bruno's cosmology. DAVID PAISEY, formerly of the British Library, has written extensively on the history of the book in Germany.

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The Book Collector B O O K S RECEIVED Antiquaries of London, 1993.) Pp. 486+8 col. plates & 60 b/w plates. o 85431 261 7. Egg. ISBN INTO PRINT. Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production. By John Dreyfus. (The British Library, 1994.) Pp. 339+b/w frontis. I S B N o 7123 0343. E45. THE HOURS OF MARY OF BURGUNDY. Codex Vindobonensis 1857 Vienna, Osterreichesche Nationalbibliothek. Manuscripts in Miniature. Commentary by Eric Inglis. (Harvey Miller Publishers, 1994.) Pp. Manuscript 178 unnumbered+80. I S B N 1872 501 77. E48. THE ARNOLFINI BETROTHAL. Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck's Double Portrait. By Edwin Hall. (University of California Press, Berkeley CA, London, 1994.) Pp. xxi 180 incl. 62 b/w figures 16 col. plates. I S B N o 520 08251 6. E37.50. + + JOHANNES GUTENBERG. Der Erfinder des Buchdrucks. By Andreas Venzke. (Benziger, Zurich, 1993.) Pp. 370 incl. b/w illus. I S B

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The Book Collector NEWS & COMMENT most encouraging evidence of the vitality of the business. With the lamented retirement of our old friend Lucien Goldschmidt in January, Zeitlin and Ver Brugge is now the only bookseller left to continue the famous tradition of sellmg books and works of art under one roof that distinguished the American trade. There is too much specialization these days, and Zeitlin and Ver Brugge are visible and vital evidence of the value of humane generalization. Jacob Zeitlin, 84 last November, has survived a series of illnesses that would have felled a lesser man. Long may Josephine and he and all who have made the Red Barn on North La Cienega the first port of call for bibliophdes on the West Coast enjoy the tradition that he has established. ' L I B R A R I E S A T T I M E S of cultural

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The Book Collector BOOK REVIEWS Italian libraries. The OPAC of the ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane),locates a copy of Niccolb Tartaglia's Quesiti et inuentioni diuerse published 'In Vinegia, per Curtio Troiano dei Navb, 1562' (item 296, 'the existence of a 1562 Quesiti edition remains, at best, dubious') in the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina in Rome (other copies are located by EDIT 16, CNC 47968). Also recorded by the ICCU are copies of Matteo Baccellini's Aforismi politici e militari (extracts from Machiavelli's Arte della guerra) published by G. B. Ciotti in 1620 (item ~ g a ) three other books for which , Breman is unable to provide any locations (items 89, 119, 225), and yet more candidates for inclusion (among them a reprint of item 114, dated 1688, in BNC Rome). A trawl through Italian libraries would have given polish to this catalogue and assured it a

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The Book Collector visitors. If the third dimension is always lacking in an exhibition of book pages, the sight of so many different works of art, so many different approaches to the task of magnifying a text by illumination, more than made up for it. As in Alexander's book, the illuminator seen at work, and the works themselves, can lead to an understanding of the creative impulse b e h d the patronage that inspired them. The effort of concentrating on something so small (even in the largest antiphoners) gives the mind and eye the chance to penetrate that impulse in a way that more familiar monuments, books or buildings, cannot do. MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATORS AND THEIR METHODS OF WORK. By Jonathan J. G. Alexander. (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992.) I S B N o 300 06073 4. Pp. viiifz14. THE PAINTED PAGE: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, 14p-ISSO. Edited

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The Book Collector THE B O O K C O L L E C T O R tively simple bindings of leather and thin wood combined are shown together, and so is a group of bindings the design of which is formed by using the long grain of the leather in different directions. The designs are impressive, several are witty, some are ingeniously clever, almost all are beautiful. Their impact could not be so strong were it not that both the forwarding and the finishing have been carried out to perfection, and it seems a little sad that these craftsmen (though listed in the catalogue) do not get a greater share of the credit. The introduction to the catalogue by Franqois Chapon is interesting and perceptive; the descriptions of the individual bindings are not wholly consistent and the colour reproduction leaves, as is so often the case, a certain amount to

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The Book Collector BOOKS RECEIVED Wintherthur Museum, Garden and Library, 2003.) Pp. xi b/w and col. I S B N I 58456 I I O 6. $45.00. Paperback $24.95. + IOO fully illus. in GENDER AND THE LONDON THEATRE 1880-1920. By Margaret D. Stetz. (Rivendale Press in association with Bryn Mawr College Library, 2004.) Pp. 141 incl. 8 col. plates & b/w illus. I S B N I 904201 00 8. A30.00, $45.00. WINE INTO WORDS. History and bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language. By James Gabler. (Bacchus Press Ltd, Baltimore, 2004.) Pp. xix+ 503 incl. 25 b/w illus. ISBN 0 9613525 5 8. $75.00. AMERICAN MASONIC PERIODICALS I 81 1-2001. A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 3310, S.J. By Larissa P. Watkins. (Oak Knoll Press and Library of the Supreme Council, 3310, S.J., 2003.) Pp. xxxiiif331 incl. b/w figs. I S B N I 58456 I13 0.

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS A N D EXHIBITION CATALOGUES balanced by his phdanthropic determination 'to make it a public library' when he had done with it. White's collecting followed his scholarly interests and he determined to acquire primary material for research and teaching rather than great high spots. Witchcraft, Luther and the Reformation, the French Revolution, slavery and abolition, and architecture were areas where he collected with notable determination. In 1891 he gave his library to Cornell. An exhibition devoted to White and his collections, A Legacy of Ideas is at the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell until 20 September. Mark G. Dimunation and Elaine D. Engst have prepared the excellent catalogue. ' H O W D O I L O V E T H E E ? 'was the engaging title of this spring's exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia. Drawing on the variety and wealth of the

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The Book Collector BOOK REVIEWS it be possible to say that nobody ever read Chaucer in thc Kclmscott edition. While carrying out research on legibility under Nash's direction Alvin Eisenman did just that. BROOKE CRUTCHLEY BRITISH CIVIL ENGINEERING 164~1840:A Bibliography of Contemporary. Printed Reports, Plans and Books. By A. W. Skempton. (Mansell Publishing Ltd., 198~.) xviii + 302 incl. index + 16 pp. b/w illus. A45. Pp. Books on civil engineering have generally been collected as an offshoot of architectural or scientific history and are to be found in booksellers' catalogues under these categories. They also lurk in bibliographies of economic history or, if splendidly illustrated, they will be listed in Abbey. Railway engineering, of course, has always been a well-recognised area with its own bibliography but tends to be dominated by the steam engine rather than by its civil engineering aspects. However, civil engineering covers a very much broader field than just

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The Book Collector B O O K REVIEWS literature, is the reader's first contact with a book, and which bears witness to the marketing strategies of modem publishing, as well as having, in some cases, its own intrinsic merit. The book belongs to a useful series of 'Pocket Encyclopedias' aimed at bibliographers and librarians, and its size (17 x I I x 1 . 3 cm) and bulk (158 pages) fully justify this epithet. But it suffers from two unfortunate editorial choices, which make it unnecessarilyinconvenient to consult. Because of the tight cloth binding, it cannot easily be laid open on a table, or held open in the hand. And, more italico, it has no index. C O N O R FAHY NOTES O N CONTRIBUTORS C O N O R F A H Y is Emeritus Professor of Italian in the University of London. He has published widely on Italian printing, with particular

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The Book Collector Colin & Charlotte FRANKLIN H O M E FARM CULHAM,OXFORD OX14 4NA Tilephone 01235-522544 Fax 01235-550120

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The Book Collector B O O K REVIEWS THE NIJMEGEN PROOF. A romance of rare books. By S. Barkworth. (Holmes Publishing Co., Philadelphia 1988). Pp. 151. $25. Ever since S. ('Trainset' to his friends) Barkworth disappeared on what was understood to be a sabbatical after a series of stunning coups in the auction houses a few years ago, there has been speculation as to how he would announce his return. This is the answer. Never willing to waste an opportunity, he has reassembled the tale of one of the most astonishing, yet most neglected, contricks in the murkv annals of international bibliofaction. Libel laws have re vented him from naming his sources, who therefore appear here as noms de vente, some scarcely recognizable; but he nowhere disclaims the central object of his attention, a small group of printed fragments said to have been printed from movable types at Nijmegen a generation

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The Book Collector THE B O O K O F C O M M O N P R A Y E R those who can write 'whose nature' instead of 'whoseproperty is always to have mercy', who think that Univers or Gill Sans are appropriate types for a liturgy, pass all comprehension. The sad thing is that they have brought to an end a tradition, not only in the church, but in all the different ramifications of the book trade, that has been a staple in the life of both. No doubt both will survive this unnecessary shock. But this admirable record, undertaken, like most such enterprises, in the nick of time, before what it records becomes 'history', is an apt and noble monument to Cranmer's masterpiece, The Book o Con~mon f Prayer. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, 1549-1999. By David N. Griffiths. (London and New Castle: British Libray and

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The Book Collector A C O R O N A T I O N M A N U S C R I P T B O U N D BY R O B E R T S T E E L recorded along with his name in pencil on the bottom of page 6 1 . ' ~ Twentieth-century owners of the formulary include the late Robert Clarke, an Oxford bookseller ; Edward Bayntun-Coward, the binding specialist and book dealer; and, Dr Alan Coleman, a book collector who purchased it in 1998. 13 John Beer is included in W. C. Hazlitt's exhaustive list of collectors. See A Roll of Honour: A Calendar of the Names of Over 17,000 Men and Women who throughout the British Isles and in Our Early Colonies Have Collected MSS. and Printed Booksfrom the XIVth to the XIXth Century (London, 1908),p. IS. NOTES O N C O N T

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The Book Collector EXHIBITIONS A N D EXHIBITION CATALOGUES There is an almost equally vast series of Housman events. Details o f events abroad have yet to reach us, but the Housman Society is arranging events at Bromsgrove and Ludlow. The Bromsgrove dates are 22 and 27 March and 4-6 October, and those at Ludlow 27 April and 19-21 July. There will be exhibitions at Bromsgrove Museum, Durham University Library, the Poetry Library, South Bank, the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, and University College, London. At University College, too, there wdl be a celebration at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 24 July, following the opening of the exhibition, and an all-day conference, 'Aspects of Housman', on 1 1 October. Details of all this from the Housman Society, 80 N e w Road, Bromsgrove, ~ o r c e s t e r s h i r e 6 2

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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

'the Gardyners Passetaunce',c.1512 (summer 1986)


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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

'TRIUMPHS OF ENGLISH'


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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 ,

. . . V Okrestnostyakh Moskvy:iz Istorii Russkoi Usadebnoi Kul'tury Xvii-xix Vekov (summer 1981)


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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.

1.die Leihbibliothek Als Institution Des Literarischen Lebens Im 18 Und 19 Jahrhundert (winter 1983)


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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

150 JAHRE 'KINDER- UND HAUSMARKHEN' DER BRUDER GRIMM


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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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Nicolas Barker

1776 Independence (spring 1978)


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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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