Sotheby & Co. (London)

Catalogue of the well-known collection of rare and valuable books illustrating the history of printing formed by George W. Jones, Esq., Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 1-2 July 1936)

London, Sotheby & Co., 1936
(25 cm), 74 pp., 11 leaves of plates (one in colour), illustrations. 507 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of the printer and type designer George W. Jones (1860-1942), intended as a guide and inspiration to working printers. An “Index of printers, publishers, presses, type-founders, type-designers, etc.” to this sale catalogue was separately published: Leonard Jay, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice: notes on the libraries of George W. Jones, Esq., formerly at Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex, and at the Sign of the Dolphin, Gough Square, London, EC4 ([Birmingham]: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1942). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list.

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