Davenport, Cyril. Samuel Mearne Binder to King Charles II. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1906.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: pages uncut, 1 of 252 copies, spine ls moderately faded,

Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1906.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: frontis, 24 plates (with captioned tissue guards), Small snag at head of backstrip. Title label browned. Minor spotting internally. Unopened. No jacket (probably as published). Edition limited to 255 copies, all but 3 on American Hand-Made Paper (as is this copy).

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II. Caxton Club, Chicago, (IL), 1906.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, 1/252 copies. 4to. 118 pp. Color plates from Mearne bindings, in-text vignettes, frontispiece from a manuscript. Small stain at lower part of rear board, touching the spine joint, else very good. Orig. cloth-backed boards (corners badly bumped), printed paper spine label. (9551).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. Samuel Mearne, binder to King Charles II. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1906.

Price: US$312.50 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 255 copies, this one of 252 on American hand-made paper, 4to, pp. 118, [2]; color facsimile frontispiece, 24 plates in color, and 17 illustrations on Japanese paper mounted throughout text; original red linen-backed gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, wear to extremities, label on spine darkened and scratched, water stain at bottom of spine affecting lower inner margins of p. 19-76; otherwise good or better. Caxton Club 1909, XVI.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1906.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1/252. 4to. 118pp. Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with title-label. Deckled fore- and bottom page edges. Ex-libris of Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson (* see below) on free front endpaper. Frontispiece with captioned tissue guard. Contents: I. English Bookbinding from the Time of Thomas Berthelet, in the Sixteenth Century, to that of Samuel Mearne, in the Seventeenth Century. II. Historical and Biographical Details. III. Samuel Mearne as State Bookbinder. IV. John Bagford and Samuel Mearne. V. The Bindings of Samuel Mearne. Index. Illustrated with 24 numbered full-page photographic color reproductions of various types of bindings by Samuel Mearne, as well as in-text illustrations. All full-page plates protected by captioned tissue guards. Printed on hand-made American paper. Some pages unopened, as issued. Slight offsetting from bookplate on inside of front board. Wear to corners. Scuffing and minor staining on boards. Few tissue guards creased. Binding in good+, interior in near fine condition. Tight copy with plates in rich vibrant colors. * Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson was the daughter-in-law of Countess Carrie Estelle Doheny (1875-1958). E. Doheny was a Los Angeles socialite and the second wife of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

DAVENPORT, Cyril.. Samuel Mearne, Binder to King Charles II.. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1906.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 118 [1] pp. 25 plates (24 color) and 17 engravings tipped in text. Folio, original cloth-backed boards. First edition; one of 252 copies. Unopened; spine label slightly tanned with a few minor scrapes; light wear to boards.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.