Martin Breslauer (London)

(23.5 cm), 58 (2) pp., frontispiece (pl.I), 7 leaves of plates (pls.II-VIII), text illustrations. 430 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue 52 was the first catalogue issued by the firm Martin Breslauer from London. Martin Breslauer had established his bookselling business in 1898 and issued catalogues from addresses in Berlin under this name from c. 1905 (no. 1) to 1937 (no. 51), when the business was relocated in London. There, Breslauer resumed issuing catalogues in 1939 with no. 52 (trading from 43, Bedford Court Mansions, Bedford Avenue, London W.C.1). His son, Bernard H. Breslauer, took over the firm after Martin’s death in 1940. The binding reproduced on the frontispiece (Order of St Michel, Le livre de statuts, c. 1550) is now British Library, Henry Davis Gift, 398 (M. Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, I, p.182, no. 22). ¶ Extracted from a binding. Good, unmarked copy.