ID 470139
Lot 182 | Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949)
Valeur estimée
£ 8 000 – 12 000
Bindings in Cambridge Libraries 1929
HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley (1882-1949). Bindings in Cambridge Libraries. Cambridge: Walter Lewis at the University Press, 1929.
Limited edition, one of 230 copies, of Hobson’s important study, specially bound for Major J.R. Abbey by Roger Powell and Peter Waters, in collaboration with Sheila Waters. The decorative panels reproduce English Gothic and Renaissance panels represented in the Abbey collection. The binding was exhibited at The Arts Council in 1965 and at the Wittockiana in 1986. Roger Powell (1896-1990) did not take up binding professionally before 1930. He worked as a partner in Douglas Cockerell & Son from 1935 until 1947, when he set up on his own, taking Peter Waters (1930-2003) into partnership in 1956.
Folio (369 x 238mm). 72 plates including 27 in colour. Bound by Roger Powell Bookbinders, signed on back turn-in and dated 1963: gold-tooled and blind-stamped citron morocco, sides and flat spine with vertical fillets, three rows of historiated and decorative panels after English Renaissance examples, pastedowns with ink impressions of the same, gilt edges; matching chemise and slipcase. Provenance: Major Abbey (bookplate, Sotheby sale 1970, Part VI, lot 2726) – Bernard Breslauer (sale Christie’s, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 27-28 June 2005, lot 1381).
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