18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Arts and Crafts Binding
Le livre d'or de J.-F. Millet. Par un ancien ami, Paris: A. Ferroud, E. Bénézit-Constant, [1891]. 4to (333 x 248 mm), near-contemporary tan morocco by the Marygold Bindery (dated 1924 on rear turn-in), overall design of massed leaves, interlacing fillets and interstitial dots in blind, corners of central panels with red morocco onlays gilt-tooled with sunburst design, pink morocco doublures with similar sunburst designs gilt to corners, hand-printed endpapers, edges untrimmed, half-title, 9 etched plates including frontispiece, etched vignettes to title-page and in text, extra-illustrated with a lithograph and 2 woodcuts after Millet (each mounted to an initial blank with manuscript caption in French mounted opposite), original wrappers bound in at rear, light staining to pp. 111-12. Together with 2 others (Cresset Press, The Shepheards Calendar, 1930, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper, and John Evelyn, Memoirs, 1827, 5 volumes, red dark half morocco for Sotheran's, these not collated) (qty: 7)
First edition, one of 500 copies on hand-made Holland paper, this copy inscribed on the limitation page to 'Monsieur Vicaire, bien sincère hommage de l'editeur'; there were also 50 copies on japon. The Marygold Bindery was established by Sangorski and Sutcliffe trainee Rosamund Philpott in Cambridge c.1904, operating until 1932.
Sold for £250
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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