Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - Britain - Oxford

Lot Comprises:

Bodleian Library

William Salt Brassington, Historic bindings in the Bodleian library, Oxford with reproductions of twenty-four of the finest bindings, London, S. Low, Marston and Co., 1891, fol., publisher's half morocco over brown cloth gilt, head‐edge gilt

All Souls College

John James Wild, Bookbinding in the library of All Souls College, twelve plates drawn by John James Wild, [Oxford?, s.n.], 1880, fol., contemporary green half roan, gilt‐lettered spine, bookplate of John Roland Abbey (1894‐1969), Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana (ex-Christie's NY, June 27, 2005, lot 1446)

Robert Shackleton, Fine Bindings 1500‐1700 from Oxford Libraries: catalogue of an exhibition Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1968, 4to., publisher's blue cloth

Sold as a group, not subject to return.