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On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes-A Lecture As Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle Street, Friday Evening May 9, 1856. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland in the Chair. Henry Bradbury, Esq. M.R.I. Published by Bradbury Evans, 1856. Superbly Bound in Quarter Leather with Marbled Boards. Internally Fine.
Rare work, expertly conserved and bound now very nicely to strengthen and beautify by Gabrielle Fox, Cincinnati, Ohio. Quarto, 22.5cm by 28.5 cm. Green quarter morocco with green marbled pattern boards, plain end papers. Gilt titled spine BANK NOTES HENRY BRADBURY. Additional end pages to thicken volume. Inside front cover library paste down. The book is complete with original paper covers bound in, olive green, these are a bit brittle. Pages (vi), 30, three engraved wide margin intaglio proof plates on cards with tissue guards. Plates 1 and 3 are similar Bank of England 10 Pound sample notes, but the last with color added to it. Plate 2 is for a mock 100 Pound Bank of England note. Expanded text from the original speech and well footnoted. Minor internal handling only and some perimeter cover brittleness as made and previously noted. Very few copies cited, one being from the Bass Library. This is a stellar presentation by Fox, distinctive, and important Bradbury content with excellent plates. Significant and this is so much, much rarer than many Bradbury banknotes. A key treatise from this period in exceptional format.
Estimate: $2500.00- $3500.00 1500
2110 GREAT BRITAIN Specimens of Bank Note Engraving & c. & c. & c. Designed and Executed by Henry Bradbury, M.R.I." London, 1860. Presentation Copy in Original Full Green Morocco. Very Fine.
A glorious Bradbury volume and created as special presentation type with an engraved "Presentation Copy" frontis page. Inscribed and signed by Henry Bradbury "with compliments" at upper of right of front interleave. Quarto, 21.5cm by 28.cm. Full original green morocco. Embossed gilt perimeter lines front and back. Front and back gilt garter emblems, HENRY BRADBURY'S on garter in reversed on green; title gilt within. Five raised bands with compartments. Gilt titled SPECIMENS OF BANK NOTE ENGRAVING. Turned in gilt floral edges to inside covers. Gilt edge pages and interleaves, the interleaves are thicker paper. Presentation emblem page, title page and plates on thinner proofing paper. Bradbury intro on thick page 5. Plates printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars on thinner, special paper. Plates I-XXXIV are assorted elements, concentric, eccentrics, bands, bands with titles , "water grounds" etc.; Plate XXXV (2) Watermark Groundwork in black and in full vibrant blue; Plate XXXVI (2), Different Watermark, both in black; Plates XXXVII-XLII additional bands and groundwork; Plates XLIII-XLV are vignettes; Unnumbered plates (13): Coats of Arms (1); Bank Note uniface essay proofs. Bank of Scotland 100 Pounds, Bank Maua & Cia., Montevideo 1 Onza, Banco Do Brazil (7, different denominations 1A and 2A series), Bank Maua & Cia., Rosario, 1 Onza and 2 Pesos, Bank of England 10 Pounds and 100 Pounds sample notes as included in 1856 Bradbury Speech . Following is single text page, "Bank Note Paper-Manufacture" by T. H. Saunders. Six watermark plates on special paper with Saunder's special interleaves including two watermarks in color. Total 66 Plates with just a few pages of inserted texts. A gorgeous volume overall, internally and externally. Still fully original with some minor, natural cover wear and petty scuffs. Internally bright, vibrant and exciting. The Banco do Brazil, Bank of England sample notes, and Maua & Co. essays are quite important. There is a diverse discourse across the plates of numerous elements, bands, circles and the like. A treatise for the serious student and collector of Bradbury notes that very rarely meets the gavel. Numismatic book collectors of course recognize this as a lovely volume when they see it. We have only encountered one other example and that is in a private collector research library. This beauty was last sold in Bowers & Merena Halpern-Warner Sale (the so-called "Rasmussen Sale"), March 6-7, 1997: 3167 where it justifiably realized a hefty $1,375. Off the market now for nearly eighteen years and worth considerably more with the impressive growth in world banknote collecting and particularly the craftsmanship of Bradbury and Wilkinson banknotes.
Estimate: $6000.00- $8000.00
Rare work, expertly conserved and bound now very nicely to strengthen and beautify by Gabrielle Fox, Cincinnati, Ohio. Quarto, 22.5cm by 28.5 cm. Green quarter morocco with green marbled pattern boards, plain end papers. Gilt titled spine BANK NOTES HENRY BRADBURY. Additional end pages to thicken volume. Inside front cover library paste down. The book is complete with original paper covers bound in, olive green, these are a bit brittle. Pages (vi), 30, three engraved wide margin intaglio proof plates on cards with tissue guards. Plates 1 and 3 are similar Bank of England 10 Pound sample notes, but the last with color added to it. Plate 2 is for a mock 100 Pound Bank of England note. Expanded text from the original speech and well footnoted. Minor internal handling only and some perimeter cover brittleness as made and previously noted. Very few copies cited, one being from the Bass Library. This is a stellar presentation by Fox, distinctive, and important Bradbury content with excellent plates. Significant and this is so much, much rarer than many Bradbury banknotes. A key treatise from this period in exceptional format.
Estimate: $2500.00- $3500.00 1500
2110 GREAT BRITAIN Specimens of Bank Note Engraving & c. & c. & c. Designed and Executed by Henry Bradbury, M.R.I." London, 1860. Presentation Copy in Original Full Green Morocco. Very Fine.
A glorious Bradbury volume and created as special presentation type with an engraved "Presentation Copy" frontis page. Inscribed and signed by Henry Bradbury "with compliments" at upper of right of front interleave. Quarto, 21.5cm by 28.cm. Full original green morocco. Embossed gilt perimeter lines front and back. Front and back gilt garter emblems, HENRY BRADBURY'S on garter in reversed on green; title gilt within. Five raised bands with compartments. Gilt titled SPECIMENS OF BANK NOTE ENGRAVING. Turned in gilt floral edges to inside covers. Gilt edge pages and interleaves, the interleaves are thicker paper. Presentation emblem page, title page and plates on thinner proofing paper. Bradbury intro on thick page 5. Plates printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars on thinner, special paper. Plates I-XXXIV are assorted elements, concentric, eccentrics, bands, bands with titles , "water grounds" etc.; Plate XXXV (2) Watermark Groundwork in black and in full vibrant blue; Plate XXXVI (2), Different Watermark, both in black; Plates XXXVII-XLII additional bands and groundwork; Plates XLIII-XLV are vignettes; Unnumbered plates (13): Coats of Arms (1); Bank Note uniface essay proofs. Bank of Scotland 100 Pounds, Bank Maua & Cia., Montevideo 1 Onza, Banco Do Brazil (7, different denominations 1A and 2A series), Bank Maua & Cia., Rosario, 1 Onza and 2 Pesos, Bank of England 10 Pounds and 100 Pounds sample notes as included in 1856 Bradbury Speech . Following is single text page, "Bank Note Paper-Manufacture" by T. H. Saunders. Six watermark plates on special paper with Saunder's special interleaves including two watermarks in color. Total 66 Plates with just a few pages of inserted texts. A gorgeous volume overall, internally and externally. Still fully original with some minor, natural cover wear and petty scuffs. Internally bright, vibrant and exciting. The Banco do Brazil, Bank of England sample notes, and Maua & Co. essays are quite important. There is a diverse discourse across the plates of numerous elements, bands, circles and the like. A treatise for the serious student and collector of Bradbury notes that very rarely meets the gavel. Numismatic book collectors of course recognize this as a lovely volume when they see it. We have only encountered one other example and that is in a private collector research library. This beauty was last sold in Bowers & Merena Halpern-Warner Sale (the so-called "Rasmussen Sale"), March 6-7, 1997: 3167 where it justifiably realized a hefty $1,375. Off the market now for nearly eighteen years and worth considerably more with the impressive growth in world banknote collecting and particularly the craftsmanship of Bradbury and Wilkinson banknotes.
Estimate: $6000.00- $8000.00