The Wormsley Library: A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E. H. George Fletcher, ed. Forward by Sir Paul Getty. Preface by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Introduction by Christopher Gibbs.

London, Maggs Bros. for the Wormsley Library, in co-operation with The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1999.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (29.2 x 20.25 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. xii, 278 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely and excellently illustrated, most illustrations in color, bibliography, index, 106 entries. *** Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 27 January-2 May 1999. In addition to the cataloguers mentioned above, cataloguing was done by William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck. From the introduction: "The books reflect some of their collector's catholic enthusiasms. Early purchases include examples of fine printing in rich array, from incunables to modern private-press books, many on vellum, English hand-coloured aquatint books, chiefly travel and scenery, the flower of French illustrated books from Vérard to Vollard, and, above all, a spectacular assemblage of fine bindings from medieval times to today. There are also splendid manuscripts, such as the magnificent Gradual from the monastery of Ottobeuren, the unique pages from the life of St. Thomas Becket, repatriated from Belgium some fifteen years ago, exquisite Books of Hours from France, Flanders, and England, and works that especially delight the English like the Psalter of Queen Anne Boleyn; there is also the jewel-like Renaissance psalter, once ascribed to Giulio Clovio, which belonged to Lord Arundel and Dr. Mead and was entombed in its inlaid and painted wooden box by Horace Walpole, the delicious little volumes of Songs of Innocence and of Experience that William Blake coloured so singularly, and Cobden-Sanderson's binding of Marx's Das Kapital for 'William Morris and friends'.…"***