6 Oct 2009
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A Selection of Books from the Collection of Richard Hatchwell; India and Beyond - Travel and Photography
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A Selection of Books from the Collection of Richard Hatchwell; India and Beyond - Travel and Photography
Back to auction 16854
RABELAIS (FRANCOIS)
Les Oeuvres... Augmentées de la vie de l'auteur & quelques remarques sur la vie & sur l'histoire, 2 vol. bound in 4, titles with woodcut globe device, title of volume one in red and black, tird volume with burn-hole in one leaf causing loss of a few words, bookplate of the College of Saint Augustine in Canterbury, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF RED TURKEY, BY QUEEN'S BINDER A (WILLIAM NOTT?), the covers tooled with an elaborate design made of strapwork, curved tools, dots, flowers etc., within gilt ruled and dotted borders, gilt panelled spines decorated with corner tools so as to leave an unadorned diagonal stripe in a zig-zag, g.e., preserved in a specially made red morocco-backed slipcase and single fitted sliding tray, 12mo (122 x 65mm.), [Brussels?], 1691
Sold for
£10,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Although slightly later than the usual accepted dates for the work of Queen's Binder A (William Nott?), whose main output dates from the 1670s and 1680s, it seems almost certain that these volumes came from his bindery. They bear a close affinity to two bindings illustrated in the 'Fine' Bindings section of Howard Nixon's Catalogue of Bindings in the Pepys Library, nos. 43a and 43b, and a very similar tool can be seen on a binding featured in Maggs Bros. Catalogue 1212, Bookbinding in the British Isles, item no. 54.
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