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Binding.- Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) Auswahl von Goethes Inrischen Gedichten, signed presentation copy from Robert S.Turner to Mrs. [Elizabeth Jenny] Ashbee "...as a souvenir of her first visit to the library in Park Sq..." inscribed on front free endpaper, book-label of Janet and C.R.Ashbee, with mounted photograph of R.S.Turner and manuscript note on Turner by the latter on rear endpaper, handsomely bound in brown morocco elaborately ruled and stamped in gilt, by Bedford, spine gilt in compartments, gilt decorated edges, preserved in cloth drop-back box, 8vo, G.Schulze, 1833. ⁂ Interesting association copy belonging to both the bibliophile R.S.Turner (1818-87) and the Arts and Crafts designer C.R.Ashbee (1863-42) who writes, "This is one of the books of that strange and loveable bibliophile R.S.Turner, who gave it to my mother. He lived for his library, & ruined himself for it. When one day he found that he had been living on his capital as the result of too great expenditure on his books, and that the only way to save himself was to sell his library, he couldn't face it; so he killed himself to save his books. After his death his heirs sold the library...C.R.Ashbee 1924". Note at end. "Robert Samuel Turner was an extremely refined collector of the Beckford type, a great connoisseur of French, Italian and Spanish books...Sales on 18 June 1888 (over £13,000) and 23 November 1888 (about £4000), to which should be added the £12,000 obtained in Paris (12 March 1878) for his rarer French books." De Ricci p.164 note.