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Lot Comprises:

Henry B. Wheatley, Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum Selected for their Beauty or Historic Interest, London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889, fol., publisher's green paper boards gilt, no. 93 of 150 copies, bookplate of Cornell University Library from the Benno Loewy Library (1851‐1919)

Mirjam Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, A Collection of Bookbindings, 2: A catalogue of North-European bindings, London, British Library, 1983, fol., publisher's beige cloth, red morocco spine label

Mirjam Foot, The Henry Davis Gift: A Collection of Bookbindings, 3: A Catalogue of South European Bindings, London, British Library & Oak Knoll, 2010, fol., publisher's beige cloth, red title label

Howard M. Nixon, Royal English Bookbindings in the British Museum, London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1957, large 8vo., patterned green silk, plain edges, bookplate of Donald Beaty Bloch

W. H. James Weale & Lawrence Taylor, Early Stamped Bookbindings in The British Museum: descriptions of 385 blind-stamped bindings of the XIIth-XVth centuries in the departments of manuscripts and printed books … With 490 illustrations of the stamps used on them, London, British Museum, 1922, 8vo., quarter cloth and paper covered boards, booklabel of A.N.L. Munby and ticket of H.P. Kraus Reference Library

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