[BINDING -- HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley]. HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley (1882-1949). Les Reliures a la Fanfare le Probème de l's Fermé. London: Chiswick Press for the Société des Bibliophiles Français, 1935.

Large 4to (312 x 245 mm). 37 plates, some printed in color. BOUND Á LA FANFARE BY LEIGHTON-STRAKER. Green morocco elaborately gilt tooled, top edge gilt, others uncut (a touch of even sunning to spine). Provenance: Estelle Doheny (green morocco booklabel, presentation inscription, see below, sold her sale Christie's New York, 1 February 1988, lot 384).

A SPECIALLY-BOUND COPY OF THE LIMITED EDITION, number 5 of 30 copies on paper Batchelder of a total edition of 215 SIGNED BY HOBSON.

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOBSON TO ESTELLE DOHENY: "This copy is for Mrs. Edward Lawrence Doheny Geoffrey D. Hobson March 3, 1936." The binding of the present copy bears a strong similarity to the copy that was also bound by Leighton-Straker for Hobson himself (the Bernard Breslauer copy, sold Christie's 27-28 June 2005, lot 1382, and sold again Christie's London, 9 December 2010, Lot 183). Hobson's note in his own copy of the work reported that his binding differed from other copies in that it was bound in morocco, not in niger (also as the present copy). Fanfare bindings "were the subject of one of Geoffrey Dudley Hobson's most ingenious investigations, written in French" (Breslauer, Uses p. 14). [Laid in]: A clipping from the Times Literary Supplement describing the present work, London, 13 June 1936.

[BINDING -- HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley]. HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley (1882-1949). Les Reliures a la Fanfare le Probème de l's Fermé. London: Chiswick Press for the Société des Bibliophiles Français, 1935.