A DOMINIC Winter sale of July 21 included a collection of Victorian bookbindings from the library of the late Dr Nigel Temple.
Top right: an 1862 facsimile of Tyndale's first English New
Testament sporting a remarkable binding of morocco-backed wooden
boards carved in high relief to a medieval design and fitted with
silver clasp and cornerpieces, made £700 (Lachman) and two lots
offering selections of 14 Mauchlineware bindings apiece brought
bids of £1650 for the tartan types and £840 for fern and leaf
pattern examples, one of which is seen bottom right.
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