Clues and Conclusions (Bran and Crowe Secondhand Books)
I don't really know how to structure this yet.
Printed Ephemera from Hamilton Golding
Hamilton Golding has a manuscript codex for sale by auction at Bonham's before Easter. This leaflet has a first draft of a catalogue entry for the lot. Decoding the abbreviations, the exterior is half hide, metal boards, Folio, with bosses, clasps, and corner-pieces. The interior is vellum folios, manuscript, historiated initials, Latin inscribed in various hands, with a Latin manuscript vellum letter laid inside. It's 500 years old at least. Oddly, it doesn't say what the contents are, apart from historiated - decorated with histoires, i.e., figures of men or animals, rather than with floral or formal designs. If it's named like Codex Sinaiticus that's not mentioned either.
- Document Analysis
- It was typeset and printed on Saturday 17 Mar 1934 by a jobbing printer.
- Occult
- A wishlist of occult codices. Number 1 is reputed to be bound in iron in the lost original. Number 4 is reputed to be bound in steel.
- Book of Iod
- Book of Skelos
- Emerald Tablet
- Firenze Tome
- Ghorl Nigral
- Key Of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis)
- Lesser Key Of Solomon (The Goetia)
- Parchments of Pnom
- Sepher Ha-Zohar (Book Of Splendor)
- Sepher Yetzirah (Book Of Formation)
- Testament of Carnamagos
- Document Analysis
- Typeset in Rockwell, a very new typeface from Monotype released this year. Printed with an Albion hand press. A jobbing printer with a Monotype system and the very latest Monotype matrixes, and an iron hand printing press designed in 1820 but still manufactured today? That's no ordinary jobbing printer.
- Craft (papermaking)
- It's printed on laid (i.e., handmade, chain lines & wire lines) art (i.e., coated, glossy) paper, normally used for expensive limited edition books of etchings or prints.
- Bibliography 1-point spend
- Golding's ephemera was printed by the Fanfare Press in St Martin's Lane, London. They aren't a jobbing printer as such. They do fine printing and advertising work.
Hamilton Golding
- Credit Rating
- You've (i.e., Frances Bradley) never met Hamilton Golding before. His accent marks him as upper middle class.
- Golding is a catalogue agent. (Sebastian & Malcolm know that already, you'll learn much more about Golding at the bookshop)
Walled Up Manuscript
- Bibliography
- Thomas Pettigrew served as librarian to the Duke of Sussex from 1818 to 1845. His three-volume catalogue of His Grace’s collection, the Bibliotheca Sussexiana, covers only a portion of the whole, mostly theological and religious works from all over the world.
