Bibliography, Incunabula and Early Printing - [Sotheby (Samu...

Hammer

£260

Bibliography, Incunabula and Early Printing - [Sotheby (Samuel Leigh)], A Collection of Nearly 500 Facsimiles of The Water Marks, Used by The Early Paper Makers [...], [&] A Collection of Facsimiles of The Types, Woodcuts and Capital Letters, Used by Early Early Printers, two parts in one (as issued), London: [s.n.], 1840, 26 lithographs of watermarks, 42 of early printing (ff. 36-41 wrongly numbered), original boards (disbound, chipped), crown folio (36.5cm x 26cm), [1]

Provenance: 1) Sir Charles Bunbury, 8th Baronet, FRS (1809-1886); his defaced armorial bookplate; 2) Charles Clark (1806-1880), of Totham, Essex, the noted publisher and satirist; his printed label dated 1866; 3) Sotheby & Co., their book label.