(32 cm), xx, 399 pp., text illustrations, 35 collotype plates (1 in colour), tissue guardsheets present. Publisher’s brown cloth, red morocco spine label. - 556 entries. Compiled by the Hove bookseller George Bates (died 1956) and Kenneth Romney Towndrow (1900-1953) for J.R. Abbey. ¶ Copy 71 of 500. From the library of R.N.H. Moore Stevens, with his exlibris on front pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy. Lacking dust jacket.

(32 cm), xxi, 427 pp., text illustrations, 33 collotype plates (1 in colour), tissue guardsheets present. Publisher’s brown cloth, red morocco spine label. - Divided into thirteen sections: Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazines, Decorative Printing, Illustrations of the Classics, High Life and Low Life, the Navy, the Army, Sports and Pastimes, Roads and Railways, the Stage-Music-Dance, Costume, Panoramas, and amongst this miscellany one section entitled Miscellanea. The sections range in size from nine to 183 items; there are 108 drawing books and artists’ sketch books, and 183 panoramas (these vary in length from a few feet to the 49 feet of a “Fête de l’agriculture” printed at Lausanne in 1792; one depicting the Coronation Procession of 1937 was made specially for Major Abbey). Compiled by George Bates for J.R. Abbey; edited by E. Jutra. Reviewed by Percy Muir, in The Times Literary Supplement, 19 June 1953, p.404, objecting to the catalogue sub-title (“a bibliographical catalogue”): “its occasional attempts at bibliographical elucidation are more bewildering than enlightening”; “an opportunity has been missed”. ¶ Copy 235 of 400. Clean, unmarked copy. Lacking dust jacket.

Two volumes (32 cm), I: xiii, 299 pp., text illustrations, 21 collotype plates (1 in colour). II: xiv, pp.301-675, text illustrations, 16 collotype plates. Tissue guardsheets present. Uniform publisher’s brown cloth, red morocco spine labels. - 728 entries. “An impressive contribution to bibliographical scholarship”, compiled by Michael Oliver for J.R. Abbey, and “bibliographically superior” to the previous two volumes of the collection catalogue on account of Oliver’s “important original notes to a number of entries,” which make full use “of contemporary catalogues (notably Mr Michael Sadleir’s collection in fourteen volumes of publishers’ lists from 1812-42 and H.G. Bohn’s catalogues of the 1840’s) and contemporary advertisements for ‘finding and checking published prices and bindings, as also for investigating the stages of past publication’” (quotations from John Hayward’s review, in The Book Collector, Winter 1957, pp.409-410). ¶ Copy 112 of 400. Ex-Harry Pratley (1905-1987), bookseller, ABA president in 1959-1960; his sale by Sotheby’s, The collection of the late H.W. Pratley, Esq., of Turnbridge Wells, Kent, 14-15 January 1988, lot 851. Clean, unmarked copy. Lacking dust jacket.