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Lot 351

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[FINE PRESS]. A group of 10 Books about Books, comprising: 


WINSHIP, George Parker. William Caxton & His Work. Berkeley: The University of California Press for the Book Arts Club, 1937. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. One of 525 copies. -- The Dolphin. Fall 1940. No. 4, parts 1-3. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. 3 volumes, 4to. Part 1: original printed wrappers; parts 2 and 3: original cloth; glassine. -- WAGNER, Henry R. Collecting Especially Books. Los Angeles: Gregg Anderson for the Rounce & Coffin Club, 1941. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. One of 30 copies. -- A Commonplace Book for Typophiles. San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press for the Typophiles, 1961. 12mo. Original cloth-backed printed boards; glassine. One of 360 copies. -- MASON, John. Paper Making as an Artistic Craft. Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, 1963. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. SIGNED BY MASON. -- RITCHIE, Ward. François-Louis Schmied. Artist Engraver Printer. Tucson: Graduate Library School and University Library of the University of Arizona Tucson, 1976. 8vo. Original cloth with printed label to upper cover. One of 750 copies. -- MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. Die Officina Bodoni. Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1979 4to, original cloth. One of 1500 copies. -- AMELUNG, Peter. Johan Zainer. The Elder & Younger. Los Angeles: Patrick Reagh for Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc., 1985. 4to. Original leaf from Hugo Ripelin’s Compendium Theologiae Veritatis (ca 1478-81) printed by Johan Zainer laid in. Original cloth. One of 159 copies. -- Matrix 7. No. 7, Winter 1987. Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1987. 4to. Original boards; printed dust jacket. One of 960 copies. Original prospectus for Matrix 8 laid in. -- ORIOLI, G. Adventures of a Bookseller. Florence: Privately printed by G. Orioli, n.d. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (upper cover detached). Number 196 of 300 copies. SIGNED BY ORIOLI. 
 
Together, 10 works in 12 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated. 


Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation

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