$5,040
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Auction: May 20, 2021 1:00:00 PM EDT
A fine and complete run of the most comprehensive journal on printing and the private press in English.
(Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire): The Whittington Press, 1983-2020. In 37 volumes. Vols. 1-36, plus Index for Matrix 1-21. 4to. Deluxe edition reprints of volumes 1-2, deluxe editions of 3-8, limited editions of 9-36. Edited by John and Rosalind Randel, et al. Profusely illustrated with various paper, type, and printing specimens, as well as other color and black and white plates and illustrations, many tipped in and folding; many volumes with various ephemera laid in, including prospectuses, and other printed matter. Volumes 1, 3-8 bound in deluxe quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, in slip cases; volumes 2, 9-36 bound in stiff printed wrappers, in dust-jackets; volume 20 in glassine; each with book-plate on front paste-down.