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  4. > 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)
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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 green printed wrappers. - Second portion of the library of the late Sir Robert Leighton (1884-1959), 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. Maggs paid £380 for a manuscript from the collection of 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); 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. The lot numeration continues that of the previous sale (Sotheby & Co., London, 9-11 May 1960). ¶ Price list dusty; a good, unmarked copy.

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