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Lot 320

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. FLOWER, Desmond and SYMONS, A.J.A., ed...

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[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. FLOWER, Desmond and SYMONS, A.J.A., editors. The Book?Collector?s Quarterly. Numbers I?XVII. London: Vols. I?XVI: Cassell and Co.; Vol. XVII: The First Editions Club, December 1930?June 1935. 17 volumes, 8vo. A few volumes illustrated. Vols. I?IV: original gilt?lettered red buckram, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines sunned); Vols. V?VIII: Original marbled cloth, leather lettering?pieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spines sunned); Vols. IX?XVII: Original printed wrappers (spines sunned). Provenance: A.J.A. Symons (book label in Vol. I). FIRST EDITIONS, VOLS. I?VIII ARE LIMITED ISSUES, ONE OF 100 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER (Vols. I?IV: number 96 of 100 copies; Vols. V?VIII: number 4 of 100 copies). With articles including: Collecting Fashion Plates, by Vyvyan Holland; The Shirley Library by Shane Leslie; A Bibliography of Bookbinding by G. D. Hobson; A German Library by Hans Farstenberg; Art and Art Books by Eric Gill; Eric Gill?s Art Nonsense by D. H. Lawrence; Two Great Printers: William Morris (by Holbrook Jackson) and Rudolf Koch (by Paul Beaujon); The Nineteenth Century Forgeries, by A. J. A. Symonds; and an entire number devoted to English bookbinding. ASSOCIATION COPY, the first set of volumes previously owned by one of the editors. From the private library of a distinguished Chicago book collector.