Catalogue of Books selected from the Library of An English Amateur.
London.
[Printed at the Leadenhall Press] For private circulation only, 1893-97
First edition.
Large 8vo.
Limited edition, one of 153 copies printed. In two volumes. [2], 49, [1]; [2], 56pp, [2]. Titles in red and black. With 21 collotype plates (two colour, one folding). Uncut in original publisher's plain tan wrappers. Rubbed, some loss to spines. Bookplate of Raphael Esmerian to FEP of Vol. I. Internally immaculate.
The sole edition, printed for private circulation, of a catalogue of the choice library - comprised primarily of French books, with particular emphasis on fine bindings and distinguished provenance - collected by sportsman and Egyptologist George Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923).
Primarily remembered as the financial backer of the search for, and excavation of, Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Carnarvon maintained the library until his death, after which it was sold en bloc to the French bookselling firm Damascène Morgand. Its stacks notably contained the celebrated copy of the Aldine Hypnerotomachia (1499) in a 'gold-powdered' binding.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 13966
Primarily remembered as the financial backer of the search for, and excavation of, Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Carnarvon maintained the library until his death, after which it was sold en bloc to the French bookselling firm Damascène Morgand. Its stacks notably contained the celebrated copy of the Aldine Hypnerotomachia (1499) in a 'gold-powdered' binding.
