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GOLDSCHMIDT, Ernst Philip. (1887-1954). Seventy Five Books from a Library formed by E. Ph. Goldschmidt of Trinity College Cambridge 1905-1909. Cambridge: privately printed at the Cambridge University Press, [1909].
4° (233 x 100mm). Collation: π2; 1-74. [4], 56 pp. LIMITED EDITION OF FIFTY COPIES. Printed on "air-dried vellum" paper. Roman types. Original wrappers, the collector's bookplate reproduced on front cover. Olive half morocco by J.P. Gray & Son of Cambridge for Goldschmidt, the collector's initials gilt-tooled at foot on spine, edges uncut (binding rubbed). Provenance: AUTHOR'S OWN COPY (bookplate), interleaved with "municipal superfine" paper, autograph notes to five entries relating to provenance and rebinding, autograph list of the distribution of presentation copies on recto of front free endpaper. Printed acknowledgement from Cambridge UL, signed by Francis Jenkinson and dated 4 August 1909, loosely inserted; autograph postcard from Dr. Victor Goldschmidt, dated 20 May 1910, thanking "Lieber Ernst" for the catalogue, but admitting "Leiden bin ich wenig Kenner, um ihn recht zu verstehen."
The young Goldschmidt explains in the preface that "on leaving Cambridge, that some of my friends might find a small list of books from my library a suitable memento, not only of my books, but perhaps also of their collector." Recipients of presentation copies included Trinity College Cambridge, the University Library, John Rylands Library, Charles Sayle, Stephen Gaselee, John Maynard Keynes, Cosmo Gordon, Vyvyan Holland, G.D. Duff ("my tutor"), Sydney Cockerell, "My mother", "Onkel" Max von Portheim, the booksellers F.S. Ferguson (Quaritch), Gustave David, Leighton, Baer, Heinrich Ranschburg, Martin Breslauer, "and two copies printed and bound for myself." Already at this early date the future author of Medieval Texts and Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings paid special attention in his descriptions to textual questions, bindings and provenance.
4° (233 x 100mm). Collation: π2; 1-74. [4], 56 pp. LIMITED EDITION OF FIFTY COPIES. Printed on "air-dried vellum" paper. Roman types. Original wrappers, the collector's bookplate reproduced on front cover. Olive half morocco by J.P. Gray & Son of Cambridge for Goldschmidt, the collector's initials gilt-tooled at foot on spine, edges uncut (binding rubbed). Provenance: AUTHOR'S OWN COPY (bookplate), interleaved with "municipal superfine" paper, autograph notes to five entries relating to provenance and rebinding, autograph list of the distribution of presentation copies on recto of front free endpaper. Printed acknowledgement from Cambridge UL, signed by Francis Jenkinson and dated 4 August 1909, loosely inserted; autograph postcard from Dr. Victor Goldschmidt, dated 20 May 1910, thanking "Lieber Ernst" for the catalogue, but admitting "Leiden bin ich wenig Kenner, um ihn recht zu verstehen."
The young Goldschmidt explains in the preface that "on leaving Cambridge, that some of my friends might find a small list of books from my library a suitable memento, not only of my books, but perhaps also of their collector." Recipients of presentation copies included Trinity College Cambridge, the University Library, John Rylands Library, Charles Sayle, Stephen Gaselee, John Maynard Keynes, Cosmo Gordon, Vyvyan Holland, G.D. Duff ("my tutor"), Sydney Cockerell, "My mother", "Onkel" Max von Portheim, the booksellers F.S. Ferguson (Quaritch), Gustave David, Leighton, Baer, Heinrich Ranschburg, Martin Breslauer, "and two copies printed and bound for myself." Already at this early date the future author of Medieval Texts and Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings paid special attention in his descriptions to textual questions, bindings and provenance.