Sotheby & Co. (London)

(25 cm), (8) 74 (2) pp., 11 leaves of plates (including frontispiece, some folding), text illustrations (1 printed in red). 507 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of the printer and type designer George W. Jones (1860-1942), designed to be 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 by E.P. Goldschmidt (1887-1954), with viewing notes, prices and buyers’ names.