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MABERLY, Joseph (1782-1860). The Print Collector. With an appendix containing Fielding's Treatise on the Practice of Engraving. Edited, annotated and augmented by Robert Hoe, Jr. New York: Francis Hart & Co. for Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880.
4o (270 x 210 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, the only copy. Frontispiece of two wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick, other vignettes, 4 plates of monograms and engraving tools.
LONDON BINDING SIGNED BY FRANCIS BEDFORD, executed in 1880 for Robert Hoe: gold-tooled crushed citron morocco over thick pasteboard, panelled sides with multiple fillets, large floral tools of the angles, floral tooling in compartments of spine, roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, gilt edges. Blue straight-grained morocco pull-off case. Provenance: the editor (signed in pencil and dated 1880, inscription on this copy's printing history) -- A descendant of Robert Hoe's (Christie's Park Avenue, 5 December 1991, lot 358).
First American edition. UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR THE EDITOR ROBERT HOE, inscribed by him in pencil on front free endpaper: "This is the only copy upon vellum, and Mr. De Vinne, the printer selected the skins with great care. It is the most important example of printing upon vellum executed in this country up to the present date (1880)." By this date De Vinne had become the owner of Francis Hart & Co., which he renamed after himself in 1883.
REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, linking two giants of the American printing trade, both future founders of the Grolier Club (1884). The elegant Bedford binding is in immaculate condition. On Francis Bedford (1799-1883), one of the few English bookbinders included in the Dictionary of National Biography, see also Nixon Five Centuries 91.
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LONDON BINDING SIGNED BY FRANCIS BEDFORD, executed in 1880 for Robert Hoe: gold-tooled crushed citron morocco over thick pasteboard, panelled sides with multiple fillets, large floral tools of the angles, floral tooling in compartments of spine, roll-tooled borders on turn-ins, gilt edges. Blue straight-grained morocco pull-off case. Provenance: the editor (signed in pencil and dated 1880, inscription on this copy's printing history) -- A descendant of Robert Hoe's (Christie's Park Avenue, 5 December 1991, lot 358).
First American edition. UNIQUE COPY PRINTED ON VELLUM FOR THE EDITOR ROBERT HOE, inscribed by him in pencil on front free endpaper: "This is the only copy upon vellum, and Mr. De Vinne, the printer selected the skins with great care. It is the most important example of printing upon vellum executed in this country up to the present date (1880)." By this date De Vinne had become the owner of Francis Hart & Co., which he renamed after himself in 1883.
REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY, linking two giants of the American printing trade, both future founders of the Grolier Club (1884). The elegant Bedford binding is in immaculate condition. On Francis Bedford (1799-1883), one of the few English bookbinders included in the Dictionary of National Biography, see also Nixon Five Centuries 91.