Marlborough Rare Books (London)
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 146] Fine bindings and distinguished provenances
London, Marlborough Rare Books, 1992
(24 cm), 58 pp., [6] p. of plates, illustrations (some in colour). 87 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Includes books bound in Paris for Thomas Wotton (items 7, 11), Paolo Giordano Orsini (8), François d’Anjou (19), Henry IV (28), and perhaps François de Coligny (22); books bound in Rome for “G.A.C” (1), an unidentified collector using the motto “Quo fata trahunt / Retrahuntque sequamur” (14), and for two members of the Parthenopean Academy (24); a book bound in Bologna for “Marco Anotimo” (3); books bound in England for Robert Dudley (4), the “Wizard” Earl of Northumberland (17), Sir Robert Harley (26), James I (30, 32). Some of these are re-offered in Catalogue 160 (1995). Noticed in The Book Collector, Autumn 1992, p.361. ¶ Unmarked copy.