Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 5,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
J. R. ABBEY'S ANNOTATED SET GOLDSCHMIDT, ERNST PHILIP. Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings. Illustrated. 2 volumes. 4to, original cloth, bottom of spines stained, Volume 2 shaken, rear cover blistered. (EHLS) London, 1928

Additional Details

first edition; de luxe issue, limited to only fifty numbered sets, with an additional 50 mounted photographic plates not included in the trade issue. j. r. abbey's set, with his bookplates and extensive marginalia consisting of notes and dated inventory numbers of books purchased by him from Goldschmidt or comparable items from other dealers; contemporary auction results; and cross-references to J. B. Oldham's works on early English bookbinding. Mounted on the front free endpaper of Volume 1 is an ANS from Oldham regarding a Goldschmidt item acquired by Abbey in a 1955 sale at Sotheby's. One page, 12mo. Shrewsbury, 23 May 1958.