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A Magnificent collection of Botanical Books.The Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Collection of Robert de Belder

2119London Sotheby's 1987. 4to. 388 botanical books described in 425 pages. Sotheby's London 1987. Cloth. Book Condition: Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgandy cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover; 426 pages. RARE.Book Description: Sotheby's 1987. 4to. Original cloth gilt with pictorial onlay. Pp. 425 illustrated throughout mostly in colour. 388 lots of "the finest collection of botanical colour-plate books ever offered at auction". Fine condition. A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books Being the Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Library Formed By Robert De Belder Book Description: Sotheby's London 1987. Cloth. Book Condition: Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgandy cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover; 426 pages. Has some rubbing to the cover cloth but the text is as-new and the binding square and tight. Beautiful color plates. Cloth with mounted colour illustration on front board as issued 4to 425 pp profusely illustrated with colour plates 388 lots. The catalogue introduction claims this to be "the finest collection of botanical colour-plate books ever offered at auction". Robert de Belder a diamond merchant who bought and restored the Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium in the 1950s built up the greatest private collection of botanical books in the world securing many of the very best copies from the Arpad Plesch collection the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library virtually the entire rare book collection of the Horticultural Society of New York as well as many other distinguished collections. His collection was initially offered for sale en bloc without success before being acquired by Quaritch who finally consigned the colour-plate books to auction - in the process revolutionizing price levels for this sort of material. Catalogued here are some 388 lots being the chief monuments of botanical illustration from the period 1600 -1900. Each lot is carefully described and annotated with the great majority of lots illustrated usually in colour. Fine. unknown

(SOTHEBY'S) Stainforth, Francis JohnBiblio.com

Catalogue of the Extraordinary Library … Consisting Entirely of Works by British and American Poetesses & Female Dramatic Writers

186732820633Original printed wrappers bound in modern full red buckram. Very good.FIRST EDITION. This is the catalogue of the pioneering Stainforth library of women's literature the first major auction devoted to the literary works of women writing in English from the mid-16th century to the Victorian era.Francis John Stainforth 1797-1866 an Anglican clergyman spent decades assembling the largest private library of Anglophone women's writing built in the mid-nineteenth century. Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge conducted the sale over six days in 1867. The catalogue lists 7122 titles in over 8000 volumes written and edited by more than 2800 authors almost all women."When we think of 19th-century private libraries in Britain we usually envision a gentleman's library like the one Jane Austen's brother Edward kept at Godmersham Park. Shelved in an English countryside estate the library contained works mostly in English and Romance languages written by men in the genres of biography history geography theology literature and travel writings. Stainforth's library rejects this patriarchal model and makes a political claim that women—struggling working mothers women of color disabled authors translators children aged writers Jews incarcerated poets printers schoolteachers women who co-author with their husbands survivors of assault hymnists those who publish only a single poem and more—have a valued place in book history and on the shelf. He collected works by women writers not only from Britain but from America Australia Canada and Asia who published between 1546 and 1866. His project according to his catalog was to collect a copy of every edition of every title by women poets dramatists and nonfiction writers before his death in 1866" The Stainforth Library of Women's Writing website.References:H. T. W. "The Stainforth Library." The Woman's Journal 22 Sept. 1883Leuner Kirstyn J. "Locating Women's Book History in The Stainforth Library of Women's Writing." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 vol. 60 no. 4 2020 p. 651-671. London: J. Davy & Sons hardcover

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