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  • Flower (Desmond), 1907-1997; Symons, A.J.A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941, editors

    London, Cassell and Co. Ltd, 1930-1934
    Sixteen parts (20 cm), gathered in four volumes (1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16), bound in brown buckram, original printed wrappers retained. 1 (December 1930-February 1931): (8), viii, 132 (12) pp., including advertisements. 2 (March 1931): (2), viii, 115 (13) pp., including advertisements. 3 (June 1931): xiv, 111 (11) pp., including advertisements. 4 (October 1931): viii, 123 (9) pp., including advertisements. 5 (January 1932): xvi, 117 (3) pp., including advertisements. 6 (April 1932): xvi, 89 (7) pp., including advertisements. 7 (July 1932): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 8 (October 1932): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 9 (January 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 10 (April 1933): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 11 (July 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 12 (October 1933): xvi, 96 pp., including preliminary advertisements. 13 (January-March 1934): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 14 (April-June 1934): xii, 99 (1), including preliminary advertisements. 15 (July-September 1934): xvi, 95 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. 16 (October-December 1934): xvi, 93 (1) pp., including preliminary advertisements. - A final (17th) part, published privately by A.J.A. Symons in April-June 1935, after Cassell and Co. Ltd pulled out, is not present here. “Having no distribution organisation [Symons] did not sell very many, which is why this swan song is now so scarce” (Desmond Flower, “The Book Collector’s Quarterly, 1930-1933” in The Private Library, third series, volume 1, Spring 1978, pp.39-48). ¶ Some spotting on fore-edges, endpapers, and on wrappers; very good, unmarked set.
  • Donati (Lamberto), 1890-1982, editor
    Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

    Vatican City (latterly Milan), Libreria Vaticana (latterly Hoepli), 1936-1940
    Five volumes bound in two (25.5 and 27 cm), I (1936): 269 pp. II (1937): 240 pp. III (1938): 362 (2) pp. IV (1939): 313 (3) pp. V (1940): 314 (2) pp. Very numerous illustrations. Uniformly bound in half-morocco, a collector’s binding (original wrappers bound in). - Includes contributions by Roberto Almagià, Alessandro Baudi di Vesme, A.E. Popham, Max Sander, Albert Schramm, W.F. Volbach, Campbell Dodgson, Albano Sorbelli, P.O. Kristeller. Cf. Simone Misiani, La stampa periodica romana durante il fascismo (1927-1943): Repertorio (Rome 1998), II, p.591 no. 1791; Prause p.347; Nievo & Girard p.825 (duplicate entry 1607). ¶ From the auction sale of the Handbibliothek L’Art Ancien, Zürich, conducted by F. Zisska & R. Kistner, Munich, 27-28 March 1984, lot 949. Very fine set.
  • Horrox (Reginald), 1904-1994

    London, Book Centre Ltd (latterly, The Dropmore Press Limited), 1947-1951
    Two volumes bound as one (19 cm), I (nine parts, 1947-1950): 1 ([February] 1947): xvi, 1-64 pp. 2 (1947): xvi, pp.65-112 [pp.113-126 (2) are bound after p.272; pp.129-176 are bound after p.476], and 2 folding plates. 3 (1947): xvi, pp.177-224. 4 (1947): xvi, pp.225-272. Supplement (1947): vi pp., two plates, (2) pp. (review by Jacob Blanck, reprinted from Publishers’ Weekly, 26 July 1947). 5 (1948): xvi, pp.273-320, and folding plate. 6 (1948): xvi, pp.321-368, and folding plate. 7 (1948): xvi, pp.369-416. 8-9 (1950): xvi, pp.417-476. Volume 2 (in four parts, 1951-1952). 1 (1951): xiv, 50 pp. 2 (1951): xiv, pp.51-104. 3 (September 1951): xiv, pp.105-162. 4 (December 1951-March 1952): xiv, pp.163-216. Index ([1952]): pp.477-484 (2), iv. Bound in blue buckram (upper wrappers are bound in place; lower wrappers have been discarded). - Edited by Reginald Horrox, a cataloguer at Sotheby’s, later editor of Book-prices Current. Publication began in February 1947 “when there was not enough coal or electricity to work the printing machines. Some power was supplied by hand and some by means of a trailer-pump, which had been used during the war to pump water into the fires caused by the Germans in their air raids. The first six parts were printed on rationed paper by the Broadwater Press Ltd., of Welwyn Garden City; the other three parts… were printed by Messrs W.S. Cowell Ltd., of Ipswich”. The second volume appeared under the imprint of The Dropmore Press, a venture of the newspaper proprietor Viscount Kemsley of Dropmore. In late 1951 The Dropmore Press was revamped as The Queen Anne Press, with Ian Fleming, Percy Muir and John Hayward as directors; and Book Handbook was revamped as The Book Collector, with the same three men serving as editors. ¶ Occasional discreet ink notation (denoting a catalogue received); otherwise unmarked, and in fine state of preservation.
  • Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

    Cambridge, Bowes and Bowes (latterly, Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Library), 1949-1976
    Six volumes (vols. I-V: 26 cm; vol. VI: 22 cm), bound in harmonious blue buckram (latterly by John P. Gray & Son Ltd, Cambridge), sprinkled edges (vols. IV-VI, only), printed part wrappers bound-in. I (in 5 parts, 1949-1953): viii, 444 pp., 25 plates, “List of members corrected to December, 1949 (pp.iii-x). II (in 5 parts, 1954-1958): viii, 389, (1) pp., 15 plates, “List of members at November 1954” (pp.[v]-xvi). III (in 5 parts, 1959-1963): vi (2), 428 pp., 15 plates. IV (in 5 parts, 1964-1968): viii, 401 (1) pp., 29 plates, advertisements and editor’s notes for each part (pp.i-vi; i-xii; i-iv, i-viii, i-viii. V (in 3 parts, 1969-1971): viii, 240 (2) pp., 28 plates, advertisements and editor’s notes for each part (pp.i-vi; i-viii; [viii]). VI (in 5 parts, 1972-1976): vi (2), 350 (2) pp., 18 plates (numbered I-XIII, portrait of A.N.L. Munby, I-IV), editor’s notes for each part ([2] i-ii; [2] i- ii; [2] i-ii; [2] i-ii; [2] i-ii). - An unbroken run of the first 28 years’ issues of the publication. ISSN 0068-6611. ¶ From the library of Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884-1969), Cambridge University Librarian, 1923-1949 (occasional inscriptions on wrappers, insertions). Excellent set.
  • Libreria Leo S. Olschki (Florence)

    Florence, L. S. Olschki, 1950-1987
    Thirty-eight volumes bound as thirty (29.5 cm), volumes 52-73 bound individually, thereafter two volumes are bound together, in harmonious quarter-vellum bindings (some original wrappers discarded). With: Indice venticinquennale 1924-1948 [volumes 26-50] (Florence 1956), (29.5 cm), 217 (7) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers; Indice trentennale 1949-1978 [volumes 51-80] (Florence 1984), (29.5 cm), 161 (1) pp. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A long run (1950-1987) of the leading Italian bibliographical journal, La Bibliofilía. From 1944-1978 editorship of La Bibliofilía was in the hands of Marchese Roberto Ridolfi (1899-1991), “the one great twentieth-century Italian analytical bibliographer” (Conor Fahy), and during his tenure the journal published many outstanding articles. ISSN 0006-0941.

    Offered with The useful “Indice venticinquennale” (1924-1948) was compiled by Giuseppe Sergio Martini; the “Indice trentennale” (1949-1978) by Clementina Rotondi. ¶ “Exlibris Aleramo Spada” (in volumes 52-68 only). Shelf-wear along edges of the earliest volumes. Loosely inserted in appropriate volumes: “Indici cumulativi dei volumi LI-LII (1949-1950)”, 16 pp.; Anni LIII-LV (1951-1953), [24] pp; Anni LVIII-LIX (1956-1957), [16] pp.; Anni LX-LXI (1958-1959), [16] pp.; other volume indices are bound in place. The index “Anni LVI-LVII” (1954-1955) is lacking.

  • Hayward (John Davy), 1905-1965; Barker (Nicolas), born 1932; Fergusson, James, successive editors

    London, Queen Anne Press (imprint varies), 1952-2016
    Sixty-six volumes (vol. 1: 18 cm; vols. 2-62: 22 cm), vol. 1 bound in blue buckram (original printed wrappers discarded), vols. 2-40 bound in harmonious shades of red buckram (wrappers retained in vols. 21-40), thereafter as issued in publisher’s printed wrappers. Cumulative Index (vols. 1-10, 1952-1961) bound separately in matching red buckram. Annual indices bound-in (vols. 1-40; except in vols. 1, 3, where loosely inserted); in the unbound vols. 41-65 the indices are loosely inserted in the first part. - A superb, unbroken run of “the only journal in the world that deals with book collecting”. ISSN 0006-7237. ¶ This set consists entirely of original issues, and is in excellent state of preservation, without marks of ownership. Most sets now entering the market are ex-library, or else partly in reprint (vols. 1-14 were reprinted by Kraus, Nendeln). ● Vols. 63-65 (2014-2015) are omitted from our photographs; they are present in the set.
  • Amsterdam (latterly, Leiden), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd (latterly, Nico Israel; E.J. Brill; Koninklijke Brill), 1971-1998
    Twenty-eight volumes (24.5 cm), vols. 1-20 are bound in ten volumes, blue cloth, collector’s bindings, black skiver lettering-pieces; vols. 21-28, in publisher’s wrappers as issued. Contents bi-folium bound in (loosely inserted in vol. 14 and in all unbound volumes). - Long run of the most important scholarly journal for the history of books and manuscripts in the Low Countries. Most texts are in English. ISSN 0014-9527. ¶ Fine set.
  • Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne (Bordeaux) and Société Française d'Histoire du Livre (Lyon)

    Bordeaux, Société des bibliophiles de Guyenne, 1971-1994
    Eighty-five parts (24 or 25 cm), in 70 volumes (nos. 58-85 published as 14 volumes), as issued in the publisher’s printed wrappers. - Unbroken run of the first twenty-three years of Revue française d’histoire du livre, a journal published under the aegis of the Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne, a scholarly society founded in 1866. The objective of the Revue is described in the fourth issue (1972) in the following terms: “The intention of this review is to synthesize the different currents represented in the works of book historians: study of the printed book as an instrument of communication and of its historical functions; technical and economic aspects of production; bibliographical analysis of the constitution of the book with a view to publication and the study of texts; study of mentalities through the printed books of an era; recourse to archives to reconstitute the world of the book and that of its readers; history of taste through the book, its typography, its illustration, and its binding; history of public and private libraries; study of new methods to perform a census of the mass of books published up to our times; history of periodical classifications and the contribution of printed books and their illustrations in the rise of modern sciences.” (publisher’s translation). The current distributor of the journal (Librairie Droz, www.droz.org; link) can supply some issues 106-137 (2001-2016) only; earlier issues are out-of-print. ISSN 0037-9212. ¶ Tiny stain on wrapper of no. 3; otherwise fresh, entirely unmarked copies.
  • Belanger (Terry), born 1947, editor

    New York (latterly, Blacksburg, VA; South Range, MI), 1973-1989
    Sixteen volumes (28 cm), as issued: Volume I (12 issues, 1973): 2; 6; 6; 6; 8; 12; 12; 12; 12; 10; 10; 10 pp. II (11 issues, nos. 1-2 are combined, 1974): 8; 8; 8; 8; 4; 4; 8; 8; 6; 8; 6 pp. III (8 issues, nos. 1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 10-11 are combined, 1975): 16; 8; 16; 8; 8; 16; 16; 8 pp. IV (7 issues, nos. 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 are combined, 1976): 14; 8; 16; 8; 16; 16; 10 pp. V (8 issues, nos. 1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 are combined, 1977): 16; 8; 8; 14; 14; 18; 8; 14 pp. VI (7 issues, nos. 1-2, 4-6, 7-8, 10-11 are combined, 1978): 8; 12; 8; 8; 16; 16; 8 pp. VII (4 issues, nos. 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 are combined, 1979): 16; 16; 12; 16 pp. VIII (3 issues: nos. 1-3, 4-8, 9-12 are combined, 1980): 52 pp. (consecutively paginated). IX (”4” issues, nos. 1-2, 3-5, 6-9, 10-12 are combined, 1981): 56 pp. (consecutively paginated), and “dummy” leaf of explanation for nos. 10-12. X (4 issues, nos. 1-4, 5-8, 9-11 are combined, 1982): 52 pp. (consecutively paginated). XI (4 issues, nos. 1-2, 3-4, 5-11 are combined, 1983): 94 pp. (consecutively paginated). XII (3 issues, nos. 1-7, 8-11 are combined, 1984): 78 pp. (consecutively paginated). XIII (1 issue, nos. 1-12 are combined, 1985): 8pp. XV (1 issue, nos. 1-12 are combined, 1987-1988): 8 pp. XVI (two issues only: no. 1, January-March 1989, pp.1-12; and no. 4, October-December 1989): 12 pp. In publisher’s self-wrappers, variously assembled (stapled or secured with an adhesive). - A near-complete run of this irregular serial, a gaufumaury of news, gossip (and vitriol), edited 1973-1988 by Terry Belanger, and briefly thereafter by one of Belanger’s former students in the Rare Books programme at Columbia University, Bryan R. Johnson. In its heyday, BiN attracted 600 subscribers. - Included in this set is a page of suppressed printed text intended for the April June-1978 issue (a diatribe on the “National Center of the Dog” interwoven with comments on LC’s Center for the Book). ISSN 0145-3084. ¶ The single issue produced in 1986 (designated “volume XIV”) is lacking in this set; also lacking are volume XVI nos. 2-3 (April-September 1989). Duplicates of nine issues are added (V, nos. 5-6, 7-8, 12; VI, nos. 1-2, 3, 4-6, 10-11; X, nos. 1-4; XI, nos. 5-11).
  • Gutenberg-Gesellschaft (Mainz)

    Mainz, Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1983
    (27.5 cm), 273 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s quarter-linen binding.
  • Grolier Club (New York)

    New York, Grolier Club, 1987-2014
    Twenty-five volumes (22 cm), vols. 40-41 and 59-60 combined, other volumes bound individually. For Jean Grolier & His Friends: 125 Years of Grolier Club Exhibitions and Publications, 1884-2009 (New York 2009), p.434 no. 2. ¶ Very good, unmarked copies.
  • Bibliographical Society (London)

    London, Bibliographical Society / Oxford University Press, 1989-2016
    Twenty-eight volumes (23.5 cm), each comprising four quarterly issues, as issued, in the publisher’s printed wrappers, the annual contents and index leaves loosely inserted, gathered in the publisher’s binding cases (cases lacking for sixth series, vols. 12-15, 1990-1993). ISSN 1744-8581. ¶ Unmarked copies showing very slight shelf-wear; overall in fine state of preservation. ● Vols. 15-17 (2014-2016) omitted from our photographs; they are present in our set.
  • Biblioteca di via Senato (Milan)

    Milan, Biblioteca di via Senato, 2012
    (25.5 cm), 96 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Seven essays accompanying the exhibition “Aureae ligaturae: Dal Quattrocento al Novecento nella Biblioteca di via Senato di Milano”. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
  • Biblioteca di via Senato (Milan)

    Milan, Biblioteca di via Senato, 2012
    (25.5 cm), 96 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Seven essays accompanying the exhibition “Aureae ligaturae: Dal Quattrocento al Novecento nella Biblioteca di via Senato di Milano”. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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