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Richard Fisher (1809-1890)

Lot 178
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 3 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 178 | Richard Fisher (1809-1890)
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
Richard Fisher (1809-1890)

Catalogue of [his] Library 1906

FISHER, Richard (1809-1890) & R.C. FISHER (1841-not before 1906) -- Catalogue of the Valuable and Interesting Library of R.C. Fisher, Esq. (of Hill-Top, Midhurst, Sussex), which will be sold by auction. London: Dryden Press, J. Davy and Sons for Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21-24 May 1906.



Bound to a design by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and executed at his Doves Bindery, presumably as a gift for R.C. Fisher, his brother-in-law. Fisher had made important additions to his father's extensive collection of early illustrated books, including some in fine bindings. Although the collection was destined to be auctioned and this catalogue prepared, it was bought en bloc before the auction by C.W. Dyson Perrins for more than £10,000 (cf. P. Needham, ‘Lessing Rosenwald and the 'Magnificent Library' of C.W. Dyson Perrins,’ in: D. DeSimone, A Heavenly Craft: the woodcut in early printed books, Library of Congress 2004, p. 9). Fisher was married to Kate Cobden, sister of Annie Cobden-Sanderson. M. Tidcombe, The Doves Bindery 726; exhibited at Harvard, 1991, no. 50 and repr. (binding there described as a present from Cobden-Sanderson to Fisher).



Quarto (247 x 182mm). 6 chromolithographic plates by W. Griggs (occasional faint spotting). Bound at the Doves Bindery to a design by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson: gold-tooled russet goatskin, panelled sides with multiple fillets and open circles, spine panelled and lettered in compartments, gilt turn-ins signed and dated 1908, gilt edges (a few minor spots). Provenance: Sydney Cockerell (autograph note of identification on a cutting of a Times article dated 26 Feb. advertising the sale, loosely inserted), whose brother Douglas had been apprenticed to Cobden-Sanderson and one of whose bindings was bought by Fisher (cf. Tidcombe p.68) – Bernard Breslauer (sale Christie’s, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 21 March 2005, lot 121).

Place of origin:Northern Europe
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