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Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 17th and 18th October, 1960. 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. Derôme le jeune, and Voltaire's Henriade, Didot, 1819, bound for presentation to Louis XVIII; fore-edge…
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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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