Catalogue of valuable and extensive library, the property of the late Sir Robert Leighton. The first portion: private press books, bibliography and other modern books … including runs of books from the Ashendene, Beaumont, Bremer, Caradoc, Cranach, Cresset, Cuala, Daniel, Doves, Essex House, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Lee Priory, Shakespeare Head and Vale Presses, including many copies printed on vellum; fine bindings by the Doves and Gregynog Press Binderies, and other leading craftsmen of the last seventy years; a collection of designs for the Doves Bindery by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson § The second portion: fine bindings, early printed books and a few manuscripts [Contents:] …including French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and Sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Stanbrigi, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Samuel Mearne bindery, the Queen’s Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlett and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Stagemeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derome le jeune, and Voltaire’s Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker’s Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne (catalogues for auctions conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 9-11 May 1960 and 18 October 1960)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1960
Two volumes (24.5 cm), I (9-11 May 1960): 101 (1) pp., [9] plates (one folding). 714 lots. II (17-18 October 1960): 98 pp., [27] plates (including folding frontispiece). Lots numbered 715-1129. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The collector (1884-1959) was chairman and managing director of the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Company, a director of the Nonsuch Library Ltd., and past-Chairman of the Master Binders’ Association. In addition to some notable French and Italian Renaissance bindings, English Restoration bindings, Leighton collected specially bound books from the Ashendene Press, Gregynog Press, and Kelmscott Press. ¶ Good, unmarked copies.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1960
- Bookbinding - Collections, UK - Leighton (Robert, Sir), 1884-1959
- Bookbindings - Auction sale catalogues
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby & Co. (London)
- Owners
- Leighton, Robert, Sir, 1884-1959
- Auction date
- 19600509
- 19601017
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Sotheby & Co. (London)
Catalogue of valuable and extensive library, the property of the late Sir Robert Leighton. The first portion: private press books, bibliography and other modern books … including runs of books from the Ashendene, Beaumont, Bremer, Caradoc, Cranach, Cresset, Cuala, Daniel, Doves, Essex House, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog, Kelmscott, Lee Priory, Shakespeare Head and Vale Presses, including many copies printed on vellum; fine bindings by the Doves and Gregynog Press Binderies, and other leading craftsmen of the last seventy years; a collection of designs for the Doves Bindery by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (catalogue for and auctions conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 9-11 May 1960)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1960(24.5 cm), 101 (1) pp., [9] plates (one folding). 714 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The top price (£380) was paid by Douglas for a binding by Katherine Adams (on Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, 1913). A collection of about 250 designs for details of bindings by Cobden-Sanderson was bought by Maggs (lot 210, £260); another of Cobden-Sanderson designs for complete bindings was bought by Quaritch (lot 211, £320). ¶ Good, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1960
- Bookbinding - Collections, UK - Leighton (Robert, Sir), 1884-1959
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby & Co. (London)
- Owners
- Leighton, Robert, Sir, 1884-1959
- Auction date
- 19600509
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Sotheby & Co. (London)
The second portion: fine bindings, early printed books and a few manuscripts … including French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and Sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Sanbrige, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Samuel Mearne bindery, the Queen’s Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlet and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Stagemeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derome le jeune, and Voltaire’s Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker’s Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 17-18 October 1960)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1960(24.5 cm), 98 pp., [27] plates (including folding frontispiece). Lots numbered 715-1129. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Top price in the first session was paid by Maggs for a manuscript from the collections of Charles Chardin (sale 1823, lot 1664) and Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms 838), “Aigle d’Argent présénte à Madame la Marquise de Pompadour”, bound in contemporary green morocco with arms of Madame de Pompadour (lot 28, £380). In the second session Theodore Besterman give £580 for Voltaire’s Henriade (Paris: Didot, 1819), one of 125 copies signed by the printer, extra-illustrated, the presentation copy to Louis XVIII. ¶ Annotated in ink with prices realised and buyers’ names.- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1960
- Bookbinding - Collections, UK - Leighton (Robert, Sir), 1884-1959
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby & Co. (London)
- Owners
- Leighton, Robert, Sir, 1884-1959
- Auction date
- 19601017
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