A POET’S BOOKS - ANNOTATED GLASWEGIAN AUCTION SALE CATALOGUE - Mr Motherwell’s Library..

Interleaved auction catalogue annotated by a former Keeper of Manuscripts at Glasgow University, with the poet’s signature tipped in. Smart modern blue buckram binding; bookplate of the antiquary Adam Sim Coulter (1829-1887) to the first paste-down with ‘Ex libris J L Weir’ above. Weir, whose binding this seems certain to be, has interleaved the 50 page auction catalogue with blank leaves which he has annotated throughout. A printed obituary of Motherwell precedes Weir’s prefatory remarks: ‘An extremely interesting collection. Motherwell possessed many rare and curious book, a number of which would now command a high price.... J.L. Weir, Sept. 1939.’ Motherwell’s signature is tipped onto the following blank leaf. Weir has added bibliographical clarification and information throughout the rest of the text, so lot 186 ‘See a letter from D Laing to Wm. about this Thick Paper copy, in the Robertson Collection (MSS), deposited in the Hunterian Library, but not catalogued’ and much additional copy-specific information, often noting the arrival of choice editions in Glasgow University’s collections.