(25 cm), [96] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 50 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “This began with two Aldines, the 1515 Dante and the younger Aldus’s 1576 commentary on Horace De arte poetica, both bound by Storr and with the Syston Park bookplate…The collection ended with examples by Bonet and Creuzevault, as well as a respectable number bound by the house of Bayntun itself” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Autumn 2004, p.431).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 14] [EBC catalogue 14:] Particular bindings, mostly 19th century, mostly signed, by some 600 different binders, from 185 locations, mostly London…
Bath, George Bayntun, 2006
(21.5 × 14 cm), [208] pp., numerous black & white illustrations. 1029 items; priced. Slip loosely inserted: “The contents of this catalogue has been sold en bloc to the British Library. We are sending out a few copies to friends as a record.” Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - A collection of signed bindings, assembled and catalogued by John Collins. “892 come from the British Isles (271 England provincial, 36 Ireland, 435 London, 73 Scotland, 29 Wales), 98 from the rest of Europe, 29 from the USA and 23 from elsewhere” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Summer 2007, pp.246-247).