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Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, STC 4247 copy 1. General Description Mid 19th century English armorial vellum binding with the arms of William Henry Miller. Binder Bedford, Francis, Country / Style England Period 19th century (mid) Call Number STC 4247 copy 1 Author Byrd, William, 1539 or Title [Cantiones sacrae, liber 1] Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum. Autore Guilielmo Byrd organista regio, Anglo. Created / Published [London] : Excudebat Thomas Est ex assignatione Guilielmi Byrd. Cum priuilegio. Londini, 25. Octob Hamnet URL Provenance James Bartleman - Britwell Court - Harmsworth copy. Dimensions 210 x 153 x 13 mm Covering Material Calfskin vellum. Sewing Sewn on three recessed supports. Headbands Green and white silk with a front bead over a vellum core. Edge Treatment Tightly sprinkled red and waxed. End Papers Two flyleaves and a single paste-down. Decorative Description Tooled with a gilt double line fillet frame with a five petal flower gilt over the corners. A floral bouquet in a vase is gilt at angles. The title, and author and date are gilt on the front covers above and below the gilt coat of arms and monogram of William Henry Miller. The smooth spine is divided into five panels by gilt double line and pointille dot pallet. The author is gilt along the spine from bottom to top in the second panel. All others are filled with an elongated quatrefoil floral ornament. The board edges and turn-ins are gilt with a solid and pin dot crosshatched roll. Binding Terms (RBMS) Armorial bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Vellum bindings -- England -- 19th century.

Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, B3152. General Description A London binding by the "Charity School Binder," ca Red goatskin over rope-fiber boards with gilt decoration. Repaired (20th century). Binder Charity School Binder. Country / Style England, London Period ca Call Number B3152 Author W. B. (William Blake), fl Title The Ladies Charity School-house roll of Highgate: or a subscription of many noble, well-disposed ladies for the easie carrying of it on. Created / Published [London : s.n., 1670] Hamnet URL Provenance Sir William Clayton, Bart. (d. 1744), bookplate and name inside upper cover; purchased in 1936 from Dobell's Antiquarian Bookstore, Tunbridge Wells, Catalogue 18, no Technical Description Sewn on five raised cords. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Slightly rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Red and white head- and tailbands. Lap corners. Remnants of two fore-edge ties. Dimensions 156 x 100 x 23 mm. Decorative Description An all-over design incorporating a pointille centerpiece, volutes, floral triangular and semicircular tools, corner ornaments, grouped fleurons and flowers, with a type of tulip roll border. Small floral semicircular and triangular tools occupy each compartment of the spine, while the edges of the boards are decorated with a roll. Other Details William Blake, a woolen draper, founded the Ladies' Charity School on Highgate Hill, where poor or orphaned children were taught reading and writing and a minimum of mathematics. A number of pious ladies supported the school with donations. Several copies of this book were bound and decorated with the same tools, evidently to reward and stimulate the donors' generosity. Literature Folger 6:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Literature M. M. Foot, "A Binding by the Charity School Binder," The Book Collector, Spring 1983, pp Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pointillé tooling -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Ties -- England -- 17th century.

Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover, STC copy 1. General Description A binding by the Club Bindery for Robert Hoe, finished by Leon Mallard, Red goatskin over millboards with green goatskin onlays and all-over gilt decoration. Binder Club Bindery. Period 1907 Call Number STC copy 1 Author Shakespeare, William, Title [King Henry VI. Part 2-3]. The vvhole contention betvveene the tvvo famous houses, Lancaster and Yorke... Created / Published Printed at London : For T.P., [1619] Hamnet URL Provenance Robert Hoe ( ); his sale at Anderson Auction Company, January 8, 1912, lot 3036, where H. C. Folger purchased this book. Technical Description Apparently sewn on five raised cords. Three plain and two made marbled endpapers. Pasted-in leather joint and red goatskin doublure. Spine rounded and backed. Rough gilt edges. Head- and tailbands worked in red and gold silk thread. Head- and tailcaps tied round. Polished covers. Dimensions 180 x 135 x 16 mm. Decorative Description Onlays of green goatskin in geometrical shapes applied in a symmetrical design. Outer panel of green goatskin filled with volutes and other small tools flanked by double fillets and decorative rolls. Panel filled with 28 onlays of different shapes, each bordered by a double fillet and filled with volutes and fleurons. Second of six spine compartments tooled with title; remaining compartments have small green goatskin onlays within two-line panels and borders. Date and place of publication tooled in bottom panel. Edges of boards gilt with a volute roll. Leather doublure tooled with a roll border and two-line fillets. At bottom a gilt monogram of Robert Hoe, "THE CLUB BINDERY 1907," and "LEON MAILLARD FINISHER." Other Details In 1897 Robert Hoe obtained for the Club Bindery the services of Leon Maillard who was considered by some the best finisher in Paris. Maillard was quite temperamental, working with great intensity on the tooling of designs, and while at the Club Bindery he insisted on working in a room by himself. He produced bindings of outstanding quality, incorporating the very best materials, but they were expensive and only affordable to very wealthy collectors. The Club Bindery was dissolved in April Maillard and his associates moved to Cleveland where they reopened as the Rowfant Bindery. This firm also encountered financial problems, and Leon Maillard was reduced to selling electric carpet sweepers. He took his own life in Literature Folger 15:9 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- United States -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- United States -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- United States -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- United States -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Onlays -- United States -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- United States -- 20th century.

Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, STC General Description Late 17th century Queen's binder style bound mid 19th century by Roger De Coverly. Binder De Coverly, R. (Roger), b Country / Style England Period 19th century (mid) Call Number STC Title Almanacke for.xiiij. yeres. Created / Published [London] : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge in Saynt Martyns parysshe, at the sygne of Saynt Ioh[a]n Euangelyst, besyde Charynge Crosse, [1539] Hamnet URL Dimensions 150 x 102 x 6 mm Covering Material Maroon goatskin with green goatskin onlays. Sewing Sewn on four recessed supports. Headbands Green silk over a vellum core. Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges. End Papers Peacock marble paper in red, yellow, blue, and teal. Decorative Description Gilt over all in a late 17th century Queen's binder style, with a cats tooth roll and a triple line fillet border, to an all-over design incorporating drawer-handle tools, (with green leather onlays), pointille quatrefoil flowers and stylized tulips, and dots. The smooth spine is divided into three panels with the title and date gilt in the center panel from bottom to top, and the top and bottom panels filled with pointille flower design over a green leather onlay. The turn-in is gilt with a double and single line fillet frame with a leaf stamp at the corners. The binders name DE COVERLY is gilt in the bottom center of the front cover turn-in. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Onlays -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pointillé tooling -- England -- 19th century.

Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover, STC fo.1 no.08. General Description First Folio no.08, late 18th century, "possibly bound by Roger Payne" Binder Payne, Roger, Country / Style England, London Period 18th century (late) Call Number STC fo.1 no.08 Author Shakespeare, William, Title [Works. 1623] Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies : published according to the true originall copies. Created / Published London : Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount, Hamnet URL Dimensions 346 x 218 (shoulder to fore-edge) x 49 mm, 4 mm board thickness Covering Material Bound in brown diced "Russia" calfskin Sewing Sewn on 5 single raised cords, laced through the boards, and with a second false band positioned along side each true cord for aesthetic design on the spine. Headbands Front bead, double tiered headband, sewn with green and rose and white button-hole thread. Edge Treatment Rough gilt on all three edges (gilt before sewing). End Papers Red, pink, green, yellow, brown, and black, spot pattern, marbled paper pastedown and flyleaf (lined to the first of two laid endpapers). Decorative Description Gilt border comprised of a 6 mm wide roll with alternating curved triangular forms resulting in elliptical negative space (#172, Maggs Bro. Bookbinding in the British Isles), inside this roll border is a gilt border comprised of a repeated pattern of four tools, a small diamond tool surrounded by pointille, a floret sprig, a pointille floret, rose on stem with two leaves, in the four corners is an individual forget-me-not on stem. The spine is divided into six panels with SHAKESPEARE in the second, and at the bottom of the 6th in very large numbers the date 1623 both framed with curved laurel sprigs. The tops surface of the double bands are tooled with the same wide roll used on the covers as are the edges and squares of the boards. The rest of the spine panels are filled with a diaper pattern of a solid diamond tool framed in pointille, and an unusual ornate rectangular floral band. Other Details Boxed in a "Folger Phase box" a three flap housing with ribbon / Velcro closure Literature West 66 (West, The Shakespeare first folio : the history of the book, New York, 2001, vol.2). Literature Maggs Bros., Bookbinding in Great Britain, no Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pointillé tooling -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Russia leather bindings -- England -- 18th century.

Image Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, B3651. General Description A binding by "Queen's Binder B," ca Black goatskin over rope-fiber boards with gilt decoration. Rebacked and repaired (19th century?). Binder Queen's Binder B. Period ca Call Number B3651 Author Sternhold, Thomas, d Title [Whole book of Psalms] The Whole book of Psalms; collected into English metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. Created / Published London : printed by A.C. for the Company of Stationers, Hamnet URL Author Church of England. Title [Book of common prayer] The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. Created / Published London : printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, Hamnet URL Provenance Christian Pawlett 1680, inscription on front endpaper; purchased in 1973 from L. Rostenberg, New York. Technical Description Sewn with blue thread onto raised supports. Made marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Stuck-on head- and tailbands (which may be contemporary with rebacking). Mitered corners. Dimensions 178 x 116 x 26 mm. Decorative Description Pin-head one-line fillet and roll border to an all-over design with dotted drawer-handle tools, floral volutes, a stylized flower tool, fleurons, dots, roundels, and small spangles. Paneled spine with small and large flower tools in each compartment. Edges of boards and turn-ins decorated with a roll. Literature Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, p. 35, pls ; Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 42. Literature Folger 6:9 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking -- 19th century.

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Image Field Data Digital Image File Name 6325 Image Title Jan van der Straet. Nova reperta. Engraving, ca Source Title Nova Reperta Source Creator Straet, Jan van der Image Details plate 19, Scuptura in aes Physical Description plate 19 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number ART Vol. f81 no.19