Corporate Author |
Sotheby's (Firm) |
Title |
Catalogue of the celebrated library : the property of Major J.R. Abbey : part II, comprising the valuable and extensive collection of books on bookbinding, printing, book-illustration, bibliography, paper and watermarks, illuminated manuscripts, book-collecting and libraries ; heraldry ; and runs of learned journals ; the extensive collection of private library catalogues ; a long run of Roxburghe Club books, including many printed on vellum ; a collection of the Rev. T.F. Dibdin's works, including an extra-illustrated copy of Reminiscences of a literary life, with an illumination and many letters inserted ; letters of Dibdin to George Lewis and of Leopold Delisle to Sir Sydney Cockerell ; a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pamphlets on libraries ; bindings by Sybil Pye, Sarah Prideaux, Douglas Cockerell, Sydney M. Cockerell and Bryan Maggs ; and Katharine Adams' collection of photographs and designs of her own bindings, 1898-c.1935 ; Owen Jones's illuminated drawings for the History of Joseph and his brethren ; a series of presentation copies of T.J. Wise's bibliographies. |
Publisher |
London : Sotheby & Co., 1966 |
Physical desc. |
133 pages, [4] leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Note |
14/11/1966; 15/11/1966; 16/11/1965. |
Second portion: lots 695-1590. |
Printed label from Maggs Bros. Ltd. attached to front cover. |
Date & place of sale |
Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 November 1966, London. |
Person as subject |
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland) 1896-1969 -- Library -- Catalogs |
Subject |
Rare books -- Catalogs |
Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
Authors' presentation copies -- Catalogs |
First editions -- Catalogs |
Illustrated books -- Catalogs |
Extra-illustrated books -- Catalogs |
Reference books -- Catalogs |
Bookbinding -- Bibliography -- Catalogs |