Two catalogues (22 cm), as issued, in publisher’s printed wrappers. - The first two (of seven) catalogues issued by Clifford King, 1970-1978. ¶ Fine, unmarked copies.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1] Catalogue of rare and interesting books [other title:] Primum regium
London, Clifford King, [1969?]
(22 cm), 82 pp., illustrations. 506 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The first six items are incunabula, all but one in contemporary English bindings: 1482 Rood Expositio in threnos Jeremiae (Rood and Hunt Binder); 1486 Basel Liber Sententiarum (Oldham’s “Floral Binder”); 1487 Nuremberg Nicolaus de Lyra (Hain 3171) (London binding, possibly by Half-stamp binder); 1494 Zwolle Rosetum exercitionum spiritualium (Unicorn binder). Item 6 is a copy of Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis sive Expositio decalogi ([[Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen, c. 1485]), inscribed “Lib[er] Ricardj Kylgo[r?] clericj in Westminst[er] M. d. l. 4 Edvardj vj.” (now Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Inc.fol.11780 b).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 2] Catalogue of rare and interesting books [other title:] Secundum regium
London, Clifford King, [1970]
(22 cm), 82 pp., illustrations. 405 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Items 78-310 are Italian books, Clifford King’s defining speciality. A “Tertium regium” was issued in 1971; the bookseller’s last catalogue (no. 7) was issued in 1978.