Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library the Property of the Late Sir Robert Leighton.The Second Portion: Fine Bindings, Early Printed Books and a Few Manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 17-18 October, 1960 ].

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Published by Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960, 1960

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Green printed wrappers, 4to, 98 pp, 27 plates. 415 lots (715-1129). Among the highlights noted were the following: French and Italian Renaissance bindings, including examples for P.L. Farnese and sir William Pickering; two bindings by Jakob Krause; John Stanbridge, Vulgaria Sanbrige, Wynkyn de Worde, N.D.; books from the Aldine, Elzevir, Baskerville and Strawberry Hill Presses; English and Continental embroidered bindings; Restoration bindings by the Saumel Mearne bindery, the Queen's Binders, Alexander Cleeve, Roger Bartlet and Richard Balley; 18th century bindings for Elkanah Settle and by Moore of Cambridge, Richard Montagu, Wier, Staggmeier and Welcher, and the Edwards of Halifax bindery; French bindings for Mme. de Pompadour, and by A.M. Padeloup le jeune and N.D. Der�me le jeune, and Voltaire's Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge paintings; an inlaid Philadelphia binding; a Greek silver binding, c. 1812; a binding by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; Whittaker's Magna Carta, 1816, printed in gold; five bindings by Roger Payne. Disbound from a collected volume, datestamp on front wrapper which is slightly loose, small library stamp at foot of title-page, contents otherwise Good.

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Catalogue of the Valuable and Extensive Library the Property of the Late Sir Robert Leighton.The Second Portion: Fine Bindings, Early Printed Books and a Few Manuscripts. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 17-18 October, 1960 ].

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Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960

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1960

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