FOREST BOOKS
CATALOGUE 115
241. O’HIGGINS (Paul) A Bibliography of Irish Trials and other Legal Proceedings. Abingdon: Proffessional Books Ltd.1986. £145 First edition, 8vo (245 x 155), xxviii, 504pp., orig. cloth, d.w. Provides a comprehensive listing of published materials relating to civil and criminal proceedings in Ireland. Each item contains a detailed description of the title page of the work concerned, its pagination and details of libraries where it may be seen. Annotations give information to where further information may be found on the legal proceedings concerned. A scarce book.
242. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKBINDINGS. Binding Exhibit Paris, 1900. Oxford: Henry Frowde,1900. £35 Small 4to (230 x 160 mm), 50pp., 24 illustrs., of bindings, orig. printed wrappers, uncut. An exhibition catalogue of 232 bookbindings produced by the Oxford University Press which were exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900.
243. PAISLEY LIBRARY. Memorial Volume of the Proceedings in Connection with the Establishment of the Free Library and Museum, Paisley. Paisley: J. & J. Cook,1871. £50 First edition, 4to (325 x 255mm), [4], 96pp., portrait frontispiece of the library benefactor Sir Peter Coats, 5 full-page plates of the library and it’s interior, orig. blind stamped cloth, bevelled edges, upper cover stamped in gilt, a.e.g
244. PAYNE AND FOSS. A Catalogue of Books in various Languages, on Sale by Payne and Foss, 81, Pall-Mall. London: [Printed by W. Nicol,1840-48. £125 2 Vols., [4], [12, adverts], 369, [1]; [2], 328pp., ex-library, orig. printed boards loose, in need of rebacking. Two large catalogues from this well-known firm of London Booksellers, listing 6908 and 6199 items respectively.
LARGE PAPER COPY 245. PEIGNOT (Gabriel) Essai Historique et Archéologique sur la Reliure des Livres, et sur l’État de la Libraire chez les Anciens. Dijon: Victor Lagier,1834. £395 First edition, large 8vo (262 x 175 mm), 84pp., with half-title, large paper copy, limited to 200 copies, 2 engraved plates, endpapers lightly spotted, text a little browned, corner of blank margin torn away from half-title and final leaf, final two leaves bound in reverse, near cont. boards, red morocco spine title label lettered in gilt. An account of bookbinding styles and the book trade during classical times. Arguably the first history of bookbinding preceding Hannett’s Bibliopegia by three years.
246. PEOPLE’S PRINTING PRESS. Advert flyer for “Berri’s People’s Printing Press. (Patented.) Used by the Army and Navy...” London: D. G. Berri,[1864]. £75 Single sheet printed on both side (240 x 193mm), small wood-engraving of the press, slight dust soiling to folds, small closed tear to upper blank margin. Berri claimed that this press, a small cylinder design, could be used for letterpress, lithographic and copper-plate printing and was used by the army and navy. As well as listed it’s numerous uses, dimensions and prices are given for various prizes of presses, as well as type, lithographic stones, printing inks, etc.
247. PERKINS (Henry) The Perkins Library. A Catalogue of the Very Valuable and Important Library Formed by... Comprising many Splendid Illuminated Manuscripts of the Highest Class, A Remarkable Collection of Ancient Bibles, Examples of Printing on Vellum of the Greatest Beauty and Rarity... which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Gadsden, Ellis & Co. in the Great Library at Hanworth Park on Tuesday, June 3rd, and three following days. [London: 1873]. £75 4to (280 x 190 mm), 99pp., 11 plates (one folding), cont. cloth, 865 lots. The small but very select library of Henry Perkins (1778-1855) a wealthy brewer, was begun at the Sykes sale of 1824 and augmented at the Dent sale of 1827; it comprised illuminated manuscripts, a remarkable collection of