Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - Britain

Lot Comprises:

Howard M. Nixon & William A. Jackson, English Seventeenth‐Century Travelling Libraries (off‐print from Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1979), 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, presentation copy from Enid Nixon to Phiroze Randeria, with latter's bookplate

New Castle upon Tyne, King's College (University of Durham)

William S. Mitchell, British Signed Bindings in the Library of King's College, New Castle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1954, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers

Shrewsbury School

James Basil Oldham, Shrewsbury School Library Bindings, (London, 1948), reprint New York, Garland Publishing, 1990, fol., publisher's blue cloth

Victoria & Albert Museum

W. H. James Weale, Bookbindings and rubbings of bookbindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington., London, HMSO, 1898, 4to., brown morocco, signed Jakob Baden, tooled in blind, gilt edges, gilt dentelles, decorated endpapers, bookplate of Joseph Rubenstein

Victoria & Albert Museum

John P. Harthan, Bookbindings, Second revised edition (Victoria & Albert Museum, Illustrated Booklet, 2), London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961, small 4to., publisher's green cloth gilt

Victoria & Albert Museum

John P. Harthan, Bookbindings, Third edition, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984, small 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Victoria & Albert Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum: A picture book of bookbindings. Part 1: Before 1550, London, HMSO, 1933 - - Part 2: 1550-1800, London, Board of Education, 1933, 8vo., publisher's printed wrappers (and another copy)

Westminster Abbey, Chapter Library

Howard M. Nixon, British bookbindings presented by Kenneth H. Oldaker to the Chapter Library of Westminster Abbey, London, Maggs Bros., 1982, 4to., publisher's brown cloth

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