Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)

(27 cm), 241 (11) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 389 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “A sterling performance by a revitalized book department with a much improved standard of cataloguing” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1992, pp.375-376). Sale includes Greek classical texts from the libraries of the 2nd (1872-1956) and 3rd (1906-1979) Viscounts Mersey, and writing books from the collection of Renato Rabaiotti (lots 222-257; cf. the collector’s “A collection of Italian writing-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries” in The Private Library, 1989). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.