[Rarebooks] FS: THE ROXBURGHE CLUB: ITS HISTORY

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Bigham, Clive [Mersey, Charles Clive Bigham, Viscount], Roxburghe 
Club.  THE ROXBURGHE CLUB: ITS HISTORY AND ITS MEMBERS, 1812-1927. BY 
LIEUT.-COL. THE HON. CLIVE BIGHAM, C.M.G., C.B.E. WITH PORTRAITS. 
PRINTED FOR THE ROXBURGHE CLUB.  Oxford: At the University Press, 
1928.  Frontis, 156 pp., [1].4to. (31 cm). Quarter brown morocco over 
burgundy cloth-covered boards, gilt title on spine, fore and bottom 
edges untrimmed, top edge gilt (hardback). First edition. Illus. with 
port frontis plus 10 b/w portraits with tissue guards, engraved 
coats-of-arms vignette, headpieces. 

"As the oldest extant bibliophilic society in Great Britain [founded 
1812], if not the world, the Roxburghe Club has exerted a positive 
influence on the world of books in preserving medieval and 
Renaissance texts which might otherwise have been lost, stimulating 
the collecting of books by the affluent, viewing the book as an 
artifact and consequently upholding the highest standards of 
typography and book production, and inspiring the foundation of such 
scholarly and bibliophilic associations as the Bannatyne (for 
Scottish literature and documents), Percy (for shorter medieval 
poems, ballads, and broadsides), Hakluyt (for travel and geography), 
Camden, Surtees, New Shakespeare, Wyclif, Browning, and Shelley 
societies, and, above all, the Early English Text Society, 
specializing in scholarly editions of Anglo-Saxon and medieval 
literature and lore, which incidentally undertook critical editions 
of not a few works that first appeared under the Roxburghe aegis," 
Valerie Lagorio, The Roxburghe Club Collection.

Contents include: History; Lives of the members; Chronological list 
of members; Officers of the Roxburghe Club; Members who have 
entertained the club at dinner; Names of persons who have edited 
books for the club; Catalogue of the books presented to and printed 
by the club; List of books belonging to the club; List of spare 
copies of books; Index.

Spine rubbed at the hinges, free endpapers offset at the edges, some 
finger-soiling to the fore-edges of the front matter, thin, faint 
soil line on the members list, otherwise leaves crisp, impressions 
fresh, binding solid, a very good or better copy of this scarce 
title.  [26249]   $1800   


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