The second portion: fine bindings, early printed books and a few manuscripts … including French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and Sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Sanbrige, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Samuel Mearne bindery, the Queen’s Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlet and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Stagemeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Derome le jeune, and Voltaire’s Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker’s Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby & Co., London, 17-18 October 1960)