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SCARCE EARLY-C19TH ENGLISH BRASSFOUNDER'S CATALOGUESmall oblong folio (ca. 20.5x32.5 cm). No title-page. 92 copperplates, some folding, showing several hundreds of hardware designs with their sizes in inches. Plates numbering: 20 n.n. (not numbered), 42-3, 2 n.n., 44-5, 47, 46, 33, 48-9, 1 n.n., 21-2, 20, 24, 23, 2 n.n., 25-6, 1 n.n., 29, 3 n.n., 30, 27, 32, 1 n.n., 41, 1 n.n., 106, 2 n.n., 108-9, 1 n.n., 110, 116-7, 114, 70-5, 2 n.n., 78-80, 1 n.n., 88, 1 n.n., 85, 2 n.n., 65, 127, 125, 126, 133-4, 2 n.n. Some pen annotations by some items throughout (prices?). Most plates are numbered and bound in mixed order. As usual, the catalogue includes both new items in production at the unidentified brass foundry and older standard hardwares already in production, thus the mixed plates and their not-always sequential numbering. Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper over pasteboards, corners stiffened with vellum. A mark pencilled on the upper pastedown reports the catalogue number and the initials… Read More

SUMPTUOUS ROMAN BINDING, ELABORATELY GILTFIRST EDITION. 8vo, 2 works in 1 vol., IV, [20], 407, [1] pp. Vignettes on both t-ps, frontispiece engraved by Arnold van Westerhout after Giuseppe Passari, 13 full-page copper plates in the text and numerous tailpieces. Text and titles printed in red and black as well as the decorated initials. Sporadic light marginal foxing and occasional mild browning, masterly restored headcap. An excellent copy. Beautiful and elegant contemporary Roman binding in full mottled calf, richly gilt-tooled with classical floral motifs. Spine in six compartments. Round red morocco inlays to the centre of the boards with embossed initials "M. V." (Maria Vergine), surrounded by stars and within shining suns; stamped putti at the four cardinal directions. Original marbled endpapers, soberly gauffered edges gilt.