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MORAZZONI, Giuseppe. La rilegatura piemontese nel'700. Milan: Walter Toscanini, 1st September 1929.
Small 2o (296 x 213 mm). 60 plates of binding reproductions. BOUND FOR MAJOR ABBEY BY SIDNEY MORRIS COCKERELL, signed with monogram and dated 1949 on back turn-in (also signed by the binder in 1972 on back endpaper): gold-tooled black morocco, with small roundels INLAID WITH ORANGE MOROCCO, dashes and stars, geometric pattern of blind fillets, Abbey arms in central compartment flat spine with longitudinal lettering, similarly decorated turn-ins, patterned endpapers, gilt edges. Cloth case.
PROVENANCE: John Roland Abbey (binding, bookplate, Sotheby sale 1970, Part VI, lot 2754) -- Jean-Paul Getty (later Sir Paul Getty), PRESENTATION COPY inscribed in 1974 on a laid-in sheet of letter-paper to -- B.H. Breslauer: "For Bernard --Who has the loveliest taste in books and music (it must be the loveliest -- he loves the sames things I do!) Paul."
LIMITED EDITION, number 19 of 300 copies. Sidney M. Cockerell (1906-1987) joined his father Douglas in 1924 and remained active as a binder until the end of his life. He closely collaborated with the designer and calligrapher Joan Rix Tebbut, and with William Chapman developed a distinctive style of strikingly patterned endpapers. Getty was an important client of Breslauer's until the bookseller sued the collector in the late 1970s.
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PROVENANCE: John Roland Abbey (binding, bookplate, Sotheby sale 1970, Part VI, lot 2754) -- Jean-Paul Getty (later Sir Paul Getty), PRESENTATION COPY inscribed in 1974 on a laid-in sheet of letter-paper to -- B.H. Breslauer: "For Bernard --Who has the loveliest taste in books and music (it must be the loveliest -- he loves the sames things I do!) Paul."
LIMITED EDITION, number 19 of 300 copies. Sidney M. Cockerell (1906-1987) joined his father Douglas in 1924 and remained active as a binder until the end of his life. He closely collaborated with the designer and calligrapher Joan Rix Tebbut, and with William Chapman developed a distinctive style of strikingly patterned endpapers. Getty was an important client of Breslauer's until the bookseller sued the collector in the late 1970s.