Book production - Bookbinding - Booksellers' catalogues

Lot Comprises:

A group of four Maggs Bros. catalogs, comprising:

Catalogue 489: Bookbindings, historical & decorative, London, Maggs Bros, 1927—Maggs Bros., Catalogue 893: Bookbinding in Great Britain, sixteenth to the twentieth century, London, Maggs Bros, 1964—Catalogue 1075: Bookbinding in the British Isles : sixteenth to the twentieth century, London, Maggs Bros, 1987, 2 vols.—Catalogue 1212: Bookbinding in the British Isles : sixteenth to the twentieth century, London, Maggs Bros., 1996, 2 vols.

A group of three Quaritch catalogs, comprising:

Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue 367: A catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings, London, 1921, fol., publisher's printed wrappers (ex-Swann, December 13, 1973, lot 478)—Bernard Quaritch, A catalogue of fifteen hundred books remarkable for the beauty or the age of their bindings, or as bearing indications of former ownership by great book- collectors and famous historical personages, London, 1889, fol., modern half brown morocco over brown boards, head‐edge gilt—Bernard Quaritch, A collection of facsimiles from examples of historic or artistic bookbinding, illustrating the history of binding as a branch of the decorative arts, London, 1889, small fol., 3/4 tan morocco gilt over marbled boards (signed GAZ), marbled endpapers, head‐edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Pepperell (baronet), inscription evidently from the binder George A. Zabriski (1868‐1954) "the finisher" to Oliver L. Sheean dated 1952

Sold as a group, not subject to return.