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Lot Comprises:

William Younger Fletcher, English bookbindings in the British museum : illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, 1895, large fol., limited edition of 500 copies, contemporary 3/4 brown morocco over cloth, decorated endpapers, head‐edge gilt, bookplates of Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledeclune and Morar, Bt (sale Sotheby's, April 22, 1901); Templeton Crocker (1884‐1948); Warren Howell (d. 1984), San Francisco bookseller (ex-Swann, September 19, 1985, lot 134)

William Younger Fletcher, Foreign bookbindings in the British Museum : illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, 1896, large fol., publisher's blue moiré cloth gilt, decorated endpapers, head‐edge gilt, no. 213 of an edition of 500 copies

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