Greetings to all. This list is the revised list after all the books which have been sold are removed. If you wish to make an offer for any or all of the remainder please do so to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All offers will be considered, remember we are not book sellers but book binders. This collection has been donated to the Guild to both further the Library Collection of the Guild, and to raise funds for Guild activities. The original list has been left on the site so those interested can see the collection as offered to us. All offers here are subject to prior sale, and I don't edit the list of sold items daily.
Regards Jim Finger President. January 2021
Maurice Betteridge was a member of the Guild and passed away early this year 2020. Maurice was an interesting man with a passionate interest in Christianity, being over time a minister, and the head of several Christian organizations, and including a time as Principle of Ridley College in Melbourne. With this came a strong interest in books, book collecting, and bookbinding. His chief interest was his collection of historic Bibles, most of which he restored, and which now reside in a special collection at Ridley College Library. But Maurice collected widely in related fields, and many of those books have been given to the Guild, some to be added to the Guild Library, and the others to be sold to raise funds for the future operations of the Guild.
I have chosen to list the collection in its entirety, as it reveals something of the nature of the owner. The lists will appear online showing the Guild Library items as already sold. I have done this for those curious about the breadth of the collection, but without the Christian Books and Bibles have already been sent to Ridley. I hope to provide a list of those in due course for those interested in such historic works.
We have labelled these as the Maurice Betteridge Collection, and are offering these to members and those of the book loving community. I have chosen the prices by a comparison of what's available worldwide, and chosen the mid range prices for similar description of quality. I hope my choices are to your liking. The prices listed do not attract GST. Members will receive a discount on the prices listed. Freight can be arranged.
We do not have a shopping cart. If you want to order, send me an email, with a list of the book numbers, plus any questions about the titles if you have them. Extra large photos are shown in the Maurice Betteridge Photo Gallery on the home page. Upon receipt of the order, I will reserve the books showing them online as sold, give the details for the payment by direct deposit along with tracking references, and arrange with you how to get them to you. If you need more information email me and I will reserve and send any additional information. Sale of the books is final and no refunds are offered if the books are not as you require. Ask first please, as we are volunteers not book sellers. All reports are to the best of our knowledge.
All sales will be accompanied by a detailed VBG invoice and receipt. At present the collection of 14 boxes is at my home in Belgrave for contactless pickup. We hope that you will find something to enjoy. There is about 150 items on the list so be prepared to do a bit of scrolling down. The box numbers are so I can find them when you order!!. Don't hesitate to ask questions or send comments.
For more information email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
My regards Jim.
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MBC002 Albert Garrett British Engraving of the 20th century 1980 scolar press a4 223pp vg $72.00 |
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MBC004 James Thorpe, and Simon Marmison book of hours Huntington press 2005 a5 38pp17 plates fine dj plus Huntington leaflet $72.00 |
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MBC006 Daniel De Simone, ed Seven Perspectives on Woodcuts 2008 Lib of Congress sm a4 106pp PB fine$72.00 |
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MBC009/10 David Chambers and Joan Hassall engravings and Drawings 1985 pinner 160pp fine no dj $60.00 |
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MBC011/12 Edward Hodnett English woodcuts 1480-1535 1973 oxford up a4 483pp plus adds and corr 1973 82pp no dj $48.00 |
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MBC013 Arthur M Hind an introduction to a History of Woodcut 2 vols 1963 Dover a5 PB 850ppplus adds 2 vol vg no dj $60.00 |
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MBC014 Arthur M Hind a History of Engraving and Etching from 15th to 1914 1963 dover a5 pb 487pp plus adds $15 |
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MBC016 Lewis Grewn, ed George Mackley wood engraver 1981 gresham books a4 136pp dj fine $85.00 |
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MBC017 Albert Garrett A history of British Wood Engraving 1978 midas books a4 407pp dj fine $60.00 |
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Box 2 Catalogues printing history MBC017 Christies The Evelyn Collection 4 volumes 1977 including printed and hand written prices realized. spines all sunned spine vol iv damaged due to inserted Catalogue A20 Blackwells 1981 sale. Good to very good small a4 $240.00 for the a set |
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MBC023 Edward, Sulivan Bart and Johan Adolf Brun the Book of Kells 1986 studio editions large a4 158pp 24 cp dj rubbed otherwise fine $34.00 |
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MBC024 Harthan, John Books of Hours 1977 thames and Hudson large a4 192pp 72cp dj fine $120.00 |
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MBC025 Backhouse, Janet The Illuminated Page, Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting. 1997 British library large a4 240pp most with colour plates dj rubbed slightly otherwise fine $60.00 |
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MBC026 Sheppard Gerald the Geneva bible 1989 pilgrim press large a4 PB about 300pp vg spine sunned no dj $18.00 |
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MBC032 Miller, Malcolm. Chartres the cathedral and old town guide book 1981 with additional b/w postcard. VG $12.00 |
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MBC041
The Library a periodical $10.00 |
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Box 4 Bookbinding
MBC049/50 Middleton, Bernard A history of English Craft Bookbinding Technique 1963 this 2nd ed 1978 Holland press A5 pp326 plus 12 b/w plates no dustjacket cloth fine $84.00 |
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MBC073 Jones, Michael Wynn George Cruikshank His life and London 1978 Macmillan sm a4 112 pp dj cloth fine $20.00 |
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MBC074/75 Armstrong, Elizabeth. Robert Estienne Royal Printer, an historical study of the Elder Stephanus. 1954 Cambridge UP a4 310pp embossed cloth missing dj and one corner bumped very good. $30.00 |
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MBC078 Hamilton, Harlan W Doctor Syntax A silhouette of Willian Combe esq 1969 kent state up large a5 340pp cloth djchipped otw fine $20.00 |
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MBC081
Greg, W.W. A companion to Arber being a calendar of documents in Edward Arbers’s Transcripts of of the registers of the company o stationers London 1554-1640 1967 Oxford at clarendon press a5 451pp dj sl faded otw fine $100.00 |
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MBC086 Blake, N. F. Caxton England's First Publisher 1976 Osprey publishing sm a4 pp220 cloth dj fine $20.00 |
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MBC089
Febvre, Lucien, and Martin, Henri-Jean The Coming of the Book, The impact of printing 1450-1800 1958 second ed 1976 NLB London a5 378pp $42.00 |
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MBC092 Southerbys Catalogue of Valuable printed books property of Prof S T Bindoff 1981 large a5 pp112 wrappers no dj estimates pamphlet included fine $30.00 |
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Box 6 Catalogues MBC097/98/99 Pollard and Redgrave A short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640 2nd edition 1986 all 320mm x 245mm. Vol 1 620pp, Vol 2 494pp, vol 3 405pp cloth. dj all sl marked fine (in 2005 the paid price was $795usd ) $600.00 |
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MBC100/101 Quaritch, Bernard, Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book Collectors. reprinted 1968 Burt Franklin NY sm a4 unpaginated ( maybe 300pages) cloth no dj vg $36.00 |
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MBC102/103/104 Bennett, H S English Books and readers 1965 Cambridge UP 3 volumes 1475 -1557 337pp ( 2nd ed 1970), 1558-1603 320pp first ed , 1603 – 1640 253pp first ed. All in matching dj fine $150.00 |
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MBC109 Nixon, Howard M Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge Vol iv Bindings 1984 D S Brewer a4+ pp i-xxxii catalogue, pp1-45 Standard bindings, pp 52 Plates and facing text, Rubbings 3pp rubbings of tools. Cloth with Pepys crest with edges frayed otherwise fine $250. |
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MBC110 Stocks, Bronwyn and Morgan, Nigel eds The Medieval Imagination. 2008 SLV and Macmillan 310 x 250mm 256pp gloss plates throughout paperback no dj fine $35.00 |
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MBC111/12 Christopher de Hamel Glossed books of the Bible and the origins of the Paris Booktrade.1984 d.s.Brewer A4 pp105 plus 24 gloss b/w plates no dj cover grubby contents fine. $300.00 |
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MBC113 Hodnett, Edward Image and Text Studies in the illustration of English Literature 1982 scolar a4- 271pp mainly engravings cloth dj damaged vg $50.00 |
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MBC116 Backhouse, Janet The illuminated manuscript 1979 Phaidon Oxford a4 80pp colour plates dj fine $20.00 |
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MBC117 Millar, Eric G The Parisian Miniaturist Honore 1959 Faber and Faber a4- 31pp 8 tipped in cp dj chipped otw fine $15.00 |
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MBC118 Avril. Francois Manuscript Painting at the Court of France the fourteenth Century 1310-1380, 1978 Chatto and Windus, a4 pp119 mainly colour plates PB wrappers illustrated fine $30.00 |
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MBC119 Pacht, Otto. Book Illumination In the Middle ages An introduction 1986 Harvey Miller Oxford UP a4 223 pp mainly b/w col section dj fine $40.00 |
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MBC122 Dunkerton, Jill et al Giotto to Durer Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery 1991 Yale UP National Gallery Publications 28 x 24cm 408pp lots of colour plates wrappers PB no dj very good $20.00 |
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Box 8 Libraries MBC124A Goodrum, Charles Treasures of the Library of Congress1980 harry abrams large a4 319pp b/w and colour plates dj sl rubbed otw fine. $40.00 |
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MBC125 Harthan, John The History of the Illustrated Book 1981 Thames and Hudson 310 x 250mm 288pp cloth dj faded on spine otw fine. $36.00 |
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MBC126 Kraus, H P Fifty Years An anniversary catalogue of 120 outstanding books sold from 1931 to 1982. 1982 Kraus 310 x 230mm 264 pp cloth dj faded otw fine $60.00 |
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MBC127 Pierpoint Morgan Early Printed Books Major acquisitions of the Pierpoint Morgan Library 1924-1974 New York 290 x230mm unpaginated with 50 case studies PB wrappers with printed marbled ep vg $35.00 |
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MBC128 Pierpoint Morgan Mediaeval and Renaissance Manuscripts Major acquisitions of the Pierpoint Morgan Library 1924-1974New York 290 x230mm 106pp PB wrappers with printed marbled ep vg $35.00 |
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MBC129 Barker, Nicholas et al Treasures of the British Library 1988 British Library 300 x 200mm 272pp cloth with printed marbles end papers, colour plates dj fine $345.00 |
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MBC130 Palmer, Richards and Brown, Michelle P eds Lambeth Palace Library Treasures from the collection of the Archbishops of Canterbury Scala ND 280 x 240mm 176pp colour plates cloth dj fine. $50.00 |
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MBC131 Macdonald, Robert h. The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden 1971 Edinburgh U press 280 x 210mm 245 pp b/w illust cloth dj faded otw fine $42.00 |
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MBC132 Rogers, David The Bodleian Library and its Treasures 1320-1700 1991 Aidan Ellis a4 p176pp mainly col illustrated cloth dj rubbed otw fine $36.00 |
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MBC133 Anon A Treasure House of Books The Library of Duke August of Brunswick-wolfenbuttell An exhibition at the Grolier Club 1999 New York 1998 PB 280 x 220mm pp270 col plates fine $36.00 |
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MBC135 George Fletcher, H ed. The Wormsley Library A personal selection by Sir Paul Getty KBE 1999 Wormsley Library a4 pp278 mainly colour plates PB fine $60.00 |
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MBC136 Dickenson, Donald C Henry E Huntington’s Library of Libraries. 1995 Huntington Library Press a4 286 pp cloth dj fine $36.00 |
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MBC136 Wormold and Wright the Engish llibrary before 1700 $40.00 |
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MBC140/41 VBG Victorian Bookbinders Guild Newsletters Volume 15 1996 compiles by John Willis Bound cloth MB. A4 about 100 pages vg $60.00 |
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MBC144 Needham, Paul Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600 1979 Pierpoint Morgan Oxford UP 300 x 230mm 338pp PB wrappers cover grubby very good $96.00 |
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MBC150 Thompson, Elbert a and Lawrence S Fine Binding In America The Story of the CLUB Bindery 1956 Beta Phi Mu A5 pp51 cloth leather spine strip very good. $25.00 |
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The book collector set ( not complete) Under offer Other offers considered. |
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Box 15 Willliam Blake MBC156
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, ed William Blakes water colours illustrating the Poems of Thomas Gray J Philip Oharar Chicago 1972 a4 pp32 plus 32 b/w pages plates. DJ fine $100.00
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MBC157 Gilchrist, Alexander, Life of William Blake London Dent and sons 1942 good $10.00 |
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MBC158 Kathleen Raine, William Blake 156 plates 28 in colour pb Thames and Hudson 1974 fair $15.00 |
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MBC159 James Thorpe, William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Huntington Library California 1975 Illustrated a5 single section card cover reproductions of the original in the Huntington Library 31pp full colour plates. $30.00 |
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MBC160 Wilson, Mona, the life of William Blake Oxford PB 1971 VG $15.00 |
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MBC161 Keynes, Geoffry. Blake Complete Writings oxford PB 1972 a5 944pp Good $15.00 |
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MBC 163 Martin, Butlin William Blake a complete Catalogue of the works in the Tate Gallery Tate Gallery Publications 1957 VG dustjacket $30.00 |
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MBC 164 Milton Klonsky, William Blake, the seer and his visions harmony new york 1977 139pp with 104 pages of illustrations a4 PB $30.00 |
