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Catalogue of the celebrated library: the property of Major J.R. Abbey
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Catalogue Record 10290
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Sotheby's (Firm)
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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.
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London : Sotheby & Co., 1966
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133 pages, [4] leaves of plates ; illustrations ; 26 cm.
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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.
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Abbey, J. R. (John Roland) 1896-1969 -- Library -- Catalogs
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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
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