Beschreibung:

PERRINS, Charles William Dyson (1864-1958) -- Collection of his sale catalogues, all London: Sotheby & Co., comprising: Catalogue of the Magnificent Library Principally of Early Printed and Early Illustrated Books. The First [-Fourth and Final] Portion . 17 June 1946-9 June 1947. Four parts in one, 8 o. Later cloth. -- Catalogue of Fine Bindings, Valuable Printed Books... 9 February 1948. Original wrappers. Includes one lot from Perrins. -- The Dyson Perrins Collection. Part I [-II]. 9 December 1958 and 1 December 1959. 2 volumes, 4 o. Original printed boards. PRICED WITH BUYERS' NAMES, with newspaper clipping showing H.P. Kraus bidding at the sale mounted on pastedown of vol. I. Printed price lists with buyers' names laid in. -- Catalogue of Highly Important Manuscripts and Books... 31 May 1960. Original printed wrappers. PRICED WITH BUYERS' NAMES, printed price list laid-in. B.H. Breslauer notes that the one lot in the sale consigned by Perrins, the Venice, 1554 edition of Pagano (sold to Chiesa for £2,600), was discovered to be a fake. Dyson Perrin's "main period of his book-collecting lay in the two decades from 1900 to 1920, when he boldly took opportunities, the like of which will hardly recur, to acquire manuscripts and printed books of the finest quality from a series of great auction sales such as those of the libraries of Lord Amherst, Bishop Gott, and A. H. Huth. He was no less inspired in his purchases by private treaty: in 1906 he bought 33 manuscripts from Charles Fairfax Murray and in the same year acquired en bloc, on the eve of its dispersal by public auction, the great collection of early woodcut books formed by Richard Fisher of Midhurst. His prowess as a collector was recognized in 1908 by his election to the Roxburghe Club, and though he wrote nothing himself his patronage and his collections led to the publication of a notable series of volumes written by scholars who enjoyed his friendship" (DNB). (5)