Murray John R Compiler (2 results)

Pp. 24(last colophon), 2 photographic plates, the frontispiece and 2 full page illustrations by Osbert Lancaster; cr. 8vo; qr. dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green papered boards, upper board lettered and decorated in black; original glassine wrapper, edges a trifle split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; John Murray, London, 1964. Limited edition [number not stated]. *Compiled and printed by John Murray VII for his friends and the friends of 50 Albemarle Street [the address of John Murray Publishers Ltd.]. Collection of correspondence and poems in tribute to various members of the Murray family from some of their best known authors, including Lord Byron, George Borrow, and David Livingstone. The compiler (John Murray VII) joined the family firm in 1964 and assumed management of the company in 1987. At that time, it was the oldest independent family-run publishing house in the world, founded in 1768 by John Murray I (1737-1793).…

Pp. 24(last colophon), 2 photographic plates, the frontispiece and 2 full page illustrations by Osbert Lancaster; qr. dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green papered boards, upper board lettered and decorated in black; original glassine wrapper, edges a trifle chipped; top edges of leaves slightly foxed; John Murray, London, 1964. Limited edition [number not stated]. *Compiled and printed by John Murray VII for his friends and the friends of 50 Albemarle Street [the address of John Murray Publishers Ltd.]. Collection of correspondence and poems in tribute to various members of the Murray family from some of their best known authors: Lord Byron, George Borrow, David Livingstone, a.o. This copy with a signed inscription from Murray (to Australian bookseller Albert Ullin, dated 23/7 [1967]) on the upper free endpaper. John Murray VII joined the family firm in 1964 and assumed management of the company in 1987. At that time, it was the oldest independent family-run publishing house in the world, founded in 1768 by John Murray I (1737-1793). Signed.…