Cyril Davenport. Thomas Berthelet: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England. With Special Reference to his Bookbindings. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$153.92 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good. Limited edition of only 252 copies printed on hand-made paper. Publishers quarter cloth with printed paper label to spine. Slightly foxed and toned. Uncut pages. 102pp.

Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom

Davenport, Cyril. Thomas, Berthelet. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$175.00 + 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. THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 102pp. LIMITED EDITION of 252 copies on handmade paper. Contains eighteen full-page plates (8 are color chromolithographs) of bookbindings executed by Berthelet. Six text engravings. Original quarter red cloth over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label. Un-opened, untrimmed. Cloth spine is darkened, rubbed and frayed at ends. Spine label is browned and chipped. Some of the tissue guards are creased. Toning to edges. Some foxing, mostly to first and last few pages. Neat ownership signature on fly-leaf; small stamp last page. A good, solid copy.

Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. THOMAS BERTHELET, ROYAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER TO HENRY VIII, KING OF ENGLAND, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS BOOKBINDINGS. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$210.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. 102 pages. First edition, limited to only 252 copies. (Mejer no.288; Brenni no.803; S-K 4201). Ex-library copy with mark on spine, spine label has pieces missing. Light wear to extremities. Only the slightest hint of offsetting to opposite pages for a handful of the color plates. All tissue guards are present. Earlham College Library bookplate stamped "withdrawn" on front free endpaper and another bookplate of William Dudley & Mary Taylor Reeves on the front pastedown. Contains eighteen full color plates of bookbindings executed by Berthelet. Three chapters including English Bookbinding Up to the Time of Henry VIII, Documentary Evidence Concerning Berthelet and His Work, and The Bookbindings of Thomas Berthelet with Detailed Descriptions. There is an index at rear. original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Davenport, Cyril. THOMAS BERTHELET: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King Of England, with Special Reference to His Bookbindings Printed for the Caxton Club By R. R. Donnelley & Sons company at the Lakeside Press, Chicago, 252 Copies.. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The lower corner of the title page is missing, otherwise a near fine hardcover first edition copy, one of 252 pages, red cloth spine with pasted label, gray paper boards, untrimmed edges. A lovely copy with 18 tissued guarded plates plus 8 text illustrations. Photos on request.

Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

DAVENPORT, Cyril. Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII. King of England. With special reference to his bookbindings.. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. 102pp. With 18 plates including 10 in color and in gilt. 5 illustrations of identification marks or seals are printed on tissue and inserted into the text. Partially uncut pages. Re-backed preserving the original spine. Paper spine label rubbed. Boards re-papered after original fashion.

Seller: Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books, Concord, MA, U.S.A.

[BERTHELET, Thomas] Cyril DAVENPORT.. Thomas Berthelet, Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England. With special reference to his bookbindings.. Caxton Club, 1901., Chicago:, 1901.

Price: US$395.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. 95 pp. 18 full-page tissue-guarded plates (8 color chromolithograph), 6 color text engravings. Original quarter red cloth over grey paper boards, printed paper spine label. Ink presentation gift inscription (1904), bookplate of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College Library. Fine. AA2407 LIMITED EDITION of 252 copies on handmade paper.

Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland

DAVENPORT, Cyril.. Thomas Berthelet: Royal Printer and Bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England. With Special Reference to his Bookbindings.. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 102 [1] pp. 18 plates (8 color) and 6 engravings tipped into text. Folio, original cloth-backed boards. First edition; one of 252 copies. An unopened copy; spine label tanned and with a few scrapes and one small chip; some cover wear, with a few small gouges.

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

[Davenport, Cyril.]. Thomas Berthelet, royal printer and bookbinder to Henry VIII, King of England. With special reference to his bookbindings. Chicago, 1901.

Price: US$531.25 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 255 copies, this one of 252 on hand-made paper, 4to, 102pp., color frontispiece, 18 plates (9 in color), and 8 text illustrations (6 printed on Japanese tissue, mounted); a very good copy in original red linen-backed gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, some wear to extremities, 1/2" x 1/4" dent at top fore-edge of front cover, water stain at bottom of spine affecting inner margin of text pp. 11-69. Caxton Club 1909, X.

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