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Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882-1949) Les reliures à la fanfare 1935 HOBSON, Geoffrey Dudley (1882-1949). Les reliures à la fanfare. Le problème de 1's fermé. London: Chiswick Press for the Société des Bibliophiles François, 1935. Author’s copy, specially bound à la fanfare, of a limited edition of 252 copies, 36 of which were reserved for the members of the Bibliophiles François. Fanfare bindings ‘were the subject of one of Geoffrey Dudley Hobson's most ingenious investigations, written in French’ (Breslauer, Uses p. 14). Complete with A.R.A. Hobson’s Additions et Corrections (Amsterdam: 1970) laid in, and with three letters of appreciation from members of the Bibliophiles François and a correspondence between Hobson and Fred Adams on a Madruzzo binding. Large quarto (310 x 235mm). 37 plates, some in colour. Bound à la fanfare for the author by Leighton-Straker: gold-tooled green morocco, top-edges gilt, others uncut, morocco-backed chemise lettered in gilt, slipcase. Provenance: G.D. Hobson (author’s copy), inscribed by him on endpaper: ‘The author's copy: it differs from the other copies printed on handmade paper in the following respects: 1. It is bound in morocco, not niger. 2. It contains the cover, preliminary leaves, & colophon, of the copies prepared for the Société des Bibliophiles français, thirty-six in number. 3. It contains the photograph of the binding from which the cover was copied.’ – Bernard Breslauer (sale Christie’s, Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, 27-28 June 2005, lot 1382).