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Catalogue of the well-known collection of rare and valuable books illustrating the history of printing formed by George W. Jones, Esq., Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 1-2 July 1936)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1936(25 cm), 74 pp., 11 leaves of plates (one in colour), illustrations. 507 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of the printer and type designer George W. Jones (1860-1942), intended as a guide and inspiration to working printers. An “Index of printers, publishers, presses, type-founders, type-designers, etc.” to this sale catalogue was separately published: Leonard Jay, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice: notes on the libraries of George W. Jones, Esq., formerly at Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex, and at the Sign of the Dolphin, Gough Square, London, EC4 ([Birmingham]: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1942). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list. -
Catalogue of the well-known collection of rare and valuable books illustrating the history of printing formed by George W. Jones, Esq., Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., 1-2 July 1936)
London, Sotheby & Co., 1936(25 cm), (8) 74 (2) pp., 11 leaves of plates (including frontispiece, some folding), text illustrations (1 printed in red). 507 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Library of the printer and type designer George W. Jones (1860-1942), designed to be a guide and inspiration to working printers. An “Index of printers, publishers, presses, type-founders, type-designers, etc.” to this sale catalogue was separately published: Leonard Jay, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice: notes on the libraries of George W. Jones, Esq., formerly at Monkbarns, Northwood, Middlesex, and at the Sign of the Dolphin, Gough Square, London, EC4 ([Birmingham]: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1942). ¶ Annotated by E.P. Goldschmidt (1887-1954), with viewing notes, prices and buyers’ names. -
Índice de nombres latinos de ciudades con imprenta 1448-1825 (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Instrumenta bibliographica, 2)
Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1973(21.5 cm), 143 pp., [4] leaves of plates. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A useful gazetteer of printing history. ¶ Good copy. -
Valuable collection of illustrated books and books illustrating the art of printing formed by the late W.R. Jeudwine (sold by order of the executors) [other title:] The first portion 15th and 16th centuries § Valuable collection of illustrated books and books illustrating the art of printing formed by the late W.R. Jeudwine (sold by order of the executors) [other title:] The second portion: the 17th to the 20th century (catalogues for auctions conducted by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 18 September 1984 and 29 November 1984)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1984Two volumes (25 cm), I (18 September 1984): [80] pp., text illustrations. Lots numbered 1-130. II (29 November 1984): [126] pp., text illustrations (1 in colour). Lots numbered 1-464. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The library of the collector, dealer in drawings and old master prints, Wynne Jeudwine (1920-1984), utilised for his uncompleted survey Art and style in printed books: six centuries of typography, decoration & illustration (London: the author, 1979). “It was a tribute to the elegant and informed taste of the owner that such books, many of them purchased within measurable time, made such prices” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1985, p.98). ¶ Annotated with viewing notes, prices. -
Valuable collection of illustrated books and books illustrating the art of printing formed by the late W.R. Jeudwine (sold by order of the executors) [other title:] The first portion 15th and 16th centuries (catalogue for Sale 24 conducted by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 18 September 1984)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1984(24.5 cm), [80] pp., text illustrations. Lots numbered 1-130. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The highest price (£16,500) was paid by the American collector George Abrams for Sebastian Brant’s edition of Aesop (Basel: Jacob Wolff, 1501), a fine (albeit sophisticated) copy formerly in the Duke of Sussex and Huth collections (returned to the market in the Abrams sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16-17 November 1989, lot 131; afterwards in the library of Ladislaus von Hoffmann, his sale by Christie’s, London, 27 October 2010, lot 1, £139,250). The Robert Hoe copy of Orlando Furioso (Venice: Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1568), in a contemporary Venetian binding with yapp edges, was bought by Pierre Berès for £13,200 against Quaritch (reappeared in New York in 2016 with PrPh Rare Books, ‘Orlando Furioso: Five exceptional copies, including the editio princeps’); the same buyer paid the same price, this time with Breslauer as underbidder, for Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines (Rome: Giacomo Mazzocchi, 1517), in a mid-16th century German red morocco binding decorated in Italianate style (reappeared in the sale of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño’s collection, Sotheby’s, London, 21 April 1998, lot 113). Saleroom report by Sarah Bradford, in Times Literary Supplement, 28 September 1984, p.1107. ¶ Occasional pencil annotation. Photocopy of List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted.
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