![PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas (1792-1872). A list of books chiefly printed at Middle Hill. [Middle Hill: privately printed, 1859]. Half-sheet (313 x 181 mm) of wove blue paper, broadside printed on recto only. Roman and italic type, double column, with prices. This list of Phillipps's own Middle Hill Press publications was issued with and without printed prices. It advertises 73 publications, the last of which is described as "in Press": Juan de Tovais' History of Mexico (1860). Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (Hodgson's Rooms, 15 May 1969, lot 113).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01593_0104_000(094328).jpg?w=1)
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PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas (1792-1872). A list of books chiefly printed at Middle Hill. [Middle Hill: privately printed, 1859]. Half-sheet (313 x 181 mm) of wove blue paper, broadside printed on recto only. Roman and italic type, double column, with prices. This list of Phillipps's own Middle Hill Press publications was issued with and without printed prices. It advertises 73 publications, the last of which is described as "in Press": Juan de Tovais' History of Mexico (1860). Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (Hodgson's Rooms, 15 May 1969, lot 113).
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH of Sir Thomas holding a 10th-century Horace (ms. no. 15363), seated at a Georgian tripod circular tea table on which is displayed a 13th-century Armenian illuminated Gospels manuscript (no. 15364). (280 x 235 mm), apparently one of only two vintage prints known. This photograph of Phillipps (age 68) was taken at the same session and shows a closely similar scene as that reproduced in vol. 4 of A.N.L. Munby's Phillipps Studies. The manuscripts in the photograph had both just been acquired by the collector in the sale of the Rev. John Mitford's collection on 9th June 1860. The only other known print, from the Harrison Horblit collection of Phillippsiana, is now in the Grolier Club and was reproduced as the frontispiece to H.P. Kraus's Special Subject Bulletin no. 5, A catalogue of publications printed at the Middle Hill Press (1972), a copy of which is included with the lot. FINE CONDITION. Added to the lot are two other photographs: a smaller portrait of a seated Sir Thomas apparently taken at the same session, and a contemporary picture of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, the seat of the Philipps family from which Sir Thomas liked to claim descent. Also added is Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick's privately printed Middle Hill Press catalogue of 1886.
Sir Thomas Phillipps was arguably the most voracious collector of all times. His private press at Middle Hill turned out hundreds of catalogues, pamphlets and broadsides. With Guglielmo Libri he was one of the earliest collectors to see the important possibilities of photography for bibliographical use. T. Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938) was Phillipps's grandson, whose custodianship of the Phillipps Library was marked by a long series of gradual dispersals at auction and by private treaty. (6)
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH of Sir Thomas holding a 10th-century Horace (ms. no. 15363), seated at a Georgian tripod circular tea table on which is displayed a 13th-century Armenian illuminated Gospels manuscript (no. 15364). (280 x 235 mm), apparently one of only two vintage prints known. This photograph of Phillipps (age 68) was taken at the same session and shows a closely similar scene as that reproduced in vol. 4 of A.N.L. Munby's Phillipps Studies. The manuscripts in the photograph had both just been acquired by the collector in the sale of the Rev. John Mitford's collection on 9th June 1860. The only other known print, from the Harrison Horblit collection of Phillippsiana, is now in the Grolier Club and was reproduced as the frontispiece to H.P. Kraus's Special Subject Bulletin no. 5, A catalogue of publications printed at the Middle Hill Press (1972), a copy of which is included with the lot. FINE CONDITION. Added to the lot are two other photographs: a smaller portrait of a seated Sir Thomas apparently taken at the same session, and a contemporary picture of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire, the seat of the Philipps family from which Sir Thomas liked to claim descent. Also added is Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick's privately printed Middle Hill Press catalogue of 1886.
Sir Thomas Phillipps was arguably the most voracious collector of all times. His private press at Middle Hill turned out hundreds of catalogues, pamphlets and broadsides. With Guglielmo Libri he was one of the earliest collectors to see the important possibilities of photography for bibliographical use. T. Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938) was Phillipps's grandson, whose custodianship of the Phillipps Library was marked by a long series of gradual dispersals at auction and by private treaty. (6)