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Lot 6094
A fine Victorian papier mache pedestal workbox in near-original condition, eaborately painted with birds and blousy bloooms, and richly gilded; the hinged rectangular top opening to reveal the original claret-coloured velvet and silver paper lining to the compartmented interior, with lidded boxes and lift-out tray containing a set of eight mother-of-pearl topped reels, a needle waxer, a tape measure and a needle cleaner, plus six miscellaneous tools; on a baluster stem, concave rectangular base and curled feet with brass castors. 46 x 35 x 75cm.
Lot 117
Renouard's copy.- Bisiaux binding.- Barclay (John) Euphormionis Lusinini sive Jo. Barclaii Satyricon, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, vellum endpapers, that at the front stamped 'Renouard' and with ink 'No. 1257' beneath, pink silk paper-backed endpapers and pastedowns, occasional spotting, handsome dark blue morocco, richly gilt, by Pierre Joseph Bisiaux for A.A. Renouard, covers with wide borders, including various foliage tools and floral corner-pieces, upper cover stamped 'Renouard', flat spine in compartments, of which 5 with fountain motif at centre of intersecting filets with a single star at four points encircling it, all within 'dog tooth' and other borders, spine little uniformly faded, g.e., 8vo (binding 210 x 126mm.), Leiden, Hackius, 1674.⁂ 'one of the leading binders of the transition from the Monarchy to the Directory' (C. Ramsden, French bookbinders, p. 33). For a similar binding see BL Database of Bookbindings (Davis 570, again for Renouard; and c152h3). Provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), bibliographer, book dealer and printer, bound for him; Sir Francis L.H. Goodricke, Bt. (engraved armorial bookplate); Robert J. Hayhurst (bookplate, bought by him Sotheby's, Tuesday, 20th February, 1968).
Lot 203
δ Brockman (James).- Miniature Book.- Gray (Thomas) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, limited edition, printed in Lutetia type designed by Jan van Krimpen, portrait and illustrations printed in green, bound in purple goatskin, by James Brockman in 2013, spine with label of onlaid church steeple of scarlet goatskin titled in gilt rising up from graveyard formed by strip of onlaid moss green goatskin along lower edge shaped as silhouetted gravestones and stamped with small crosses in grey, covers with 4 irregular horizontal lines of floral tools in gilt and palladium suggesting lines of verse, Japanese veneer endpapers, g.e., binder's ticket to corner of front free endpaper, 61 x 42mm., preserved in purple velvet-lined cloth drop-back box, scarlet goatskin label to spine, Worcester, Ma., printed by Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem for Achille J. St.Onge, 1960.⁂ James R.Brockman (b.1946) studied under Sandy Cockerell and Ivor Robinson and in 1987 became the first visiting lecturer at the Institute of Fine Binding and Book Conservation, Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas. He is a past President of both Designer Bookbinders and The Society of Bookbinders and his bindings are held by many public and private collections including the British Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Library of Wales, and Sir J. Paul Getty II Library.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
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