Derby printing – Anon. a Natural History of Beasts and Birds...

Hammer

£55

Derby printing – Anon. a Natural History of Beasts and Birds, Derby, Thomas Richardson n.d. [c. 1830], small 32mo, 27pp, woodcut illus., buff paper covers, front with engraved bird and ‘Price one Penny’; Anon., The Life of Wolfe: A Notorious Robber and Murderer who was Captain of a Desperate Gang of Thieves in habiting the haunted Castle in the Black Forest, with an Account of the Singular Manner in which he was at last taken for Robbing a Church and his Full Confession at his Trial, Derby, Thomas Richards/London, Simpkin, Marshall, 12mo, 24pp, with foldout hand coloured engraved plate of vignettes of Wolfe’s arrest and trial, printed paper cover, cover worn and torn in places, inscribed on title page Thomas Halford/Ludlow; also a hand printed facsimile of printed type faces by S. P. Fournier, 1742, made by Printing History Society 1971 32mo, with explanatory sheet inserted, 40 loose samples on yellow paper within grey paper cover (3)