1. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover, 265527. General Description Mid 18th century binding with early 20th century artist / altered (?) book decoration. Binder Stewart, C.S. Country / Style England Period 20th century Period 18th century (mid) Call Number 265527 Author Campeggi, Tommaso, 1483-1564. Title Thomae Campegii Bononiensis episcopi Feltren. De coelibatu sacerdotum non abrogando. Created / Published Venetiis : Ad Signum Spei, 1554. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=230040 Provenance A note by the binder or former owner is written on recto of the first fly leaf: "On the cover I have shewn the Priest tempted by dressed & undressed women. [signed] ? C. S. Stewart? London Feb. 7, 1917." "Stigliz[cropped]" written on title page. Dimensions 153 x 97 x 13 mm Covering Material Brown sheepskin. Sewing Sewn on five single raised cords. End Papers Pulled paste papers. Decorative Description The covers were unadorned, the spine was tooled with gilt florets in the panels (now worn). In 1917 C. S. Stewart gold tooled the elegant figure of a woman dressed in a gown tooled with gilt lines and pointille circles and dots and quatrefoil flowers. On the back cover is the figure of a naked woman holding a robe tooled with hundreds of gilt dots. Both figures have monograms. On the front cover is SEC (?) on the back cover CSE (?). Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pointillé tooling -- England -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Sheepskin bindings -- England -- 18th century.

2. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Open silver book cover, STC 3492. General Description Early 18th century German (?) silver book cover, over a 20th century calfskin binding. Country / Style Germany? Period 18th century (early) Call Number STC 3492 Author Bradford, John, 1510?-1555. Title [Godlie meditations upon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes] Holy meditations vpon the Lords prayer, the beliefe, and Ten Commaundements. With many holy and comfortable prayers, for sundry purposes. By Iohn Bradford, martyr. Corrected after an ancient copie. Created / Published London : Printed by Edw: All-de, dwelling neere Christ-Church, 1622. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=165481 Provenance Signature of Elizabeth Barwick; Harmsworth copy. Dimensions 113 x 72 x 30 mm Covering Material Silver book cover with green goatskin-edged blue silk moiré board liner. The bound book is covered in brown calfskin. Sewing Sewn on two recessed supports. Headbands Red and white stuck-on headbands. Edge Treatment Colored red (original?). End Papers Offset dye decorative paper in blue and pink. Closures Single solid silver hasp hinging from the back cover and catching on a pin. Decorative Description The front cover of this ornate rococo silver book cover has angels at the corners and the Crucifixion in the center with the words "Consumatum est" ("It is finished", the last words of Christ) along side, with an open book with the Alpha and Omega symbols. The spine has a relief of the Madonna and Child in the center with an open grill work above and below. At the top is an open cartouche, and at the bottom is an cartouche with three worn silversmith marks. The back cover is similar to the front with angels at the corners, but with a Resurrection scene in the center. Other Details The silver book cover originally had leather pockets that held the book into the cover; now torn away. Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Silver bindings -- Germany -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Treasure bindings -- Germany -- 18th century.

3. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, STC 19362. General Description 18th century Dutch? silver book cover. Country / Style Netherlands? Period 18th century Call Number STC 19362 Author Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Title [First booke of the Christian exercise] A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first vvherof apperteining to resolution, is only conteined in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv againe vvith many corrections, and additions by th'authour him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edm. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with two tables, and a preface to the reader, which is necessarie to be reade. Created / Published [Rouen : Printed at Fr. Parsons's press], Anno. 1585. Augusti. 30. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=165323 Provenance initials of 'M B' on t.p.; inscription on p.1 of Margaret Brograve; armorial bookplate of W. Richardson; William Herbert - Harmsworth copy Dimensions 144 x 87 x 61 mm Covering Material Silver metal book cover over a light blue paper cover. Sewing Sewn over four recessed hemp cord supports. Edge Treatment Gilt. End Papers Single flyleaf and paste-down at the front. At the back there are 63 blank pages to build up the thickness of the volume to fit the silver book cover. Closures Evidence of two fore-edge clasps, indeterminate orientation in what direction the silver hasps swung. Decorative Description The silver book covers are in a filigree design that has an outer raised frame with a lower flat interlacement band surrounding a floral center panel. The back cover has the same outer frame and interlacement band surrounding the inner panel, which is a full interlacement panel with raised floral corner motifs; in the center is a raised floral branch with two birds. The spine is divided into five panels by four raised bands. The second and fourth panels are chased with a intertwining vine pattern on a pin-dot ground. The Hebrew initials (inverted) for 'H M' are inscribed in the bottom panel. The caps on the binding are flat shaped extensions with engraved "walking" lines. At the top there is a silversmith's mark. Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Netherlands -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Interlace bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Netherlands -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Silver bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Treasure bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century.

4. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, B3651. General Description A binding by "Queen's Binder B," ca. 1680. Black goatskin over rope-fiber boards with gilt decoration. Rebacked and repaired (19th century?). Binder Queen's Binder B. Period ca. 1680 Call Number B3651 Author Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549. 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, 1677. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=154599 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, 1678. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=142883 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. 65-69; 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.

5. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, STC 2892. General Description Mid 17th century London binding with crowned monogram of "Carolus Rex". Country / Style England Period 17th century (mid) Call Number STC 2892 Author Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549. Title [Whole book of Psalms] The whole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Tho. Sterneholde, Iohn Hopkins, and others: conferred with the Hebrue. Created / Published Imprinted at London : by Iohn Windet; for the assignes of Richard Day, 1595. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=170020 Dimensions 78 x 50 x 39 mm Covering Material Red goatskin. Sewing Sewn on two recessed supports. Headbands Linen thread with a front bead over a reed core. Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges. End Papers Nonpareil marble paper in red, blue, and yellow colors. Decorative Description The covers were gilt with a fern-tip decorative roll and a clematis and broad leaf vine roll border. In the center are the crowned initials CR (Carolus Rex). The spine is divided into three panels by gilt lines with pin-dot lines in-between. The top and bottom is gilt with the clematis and broad leaf vine roll. The panels are filled with oval and diamond rolls. The board edges and turn-ins are gilt with the clematis and broad leaf vine roll. 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.

6. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover (detail), STC 2588. General Description Early 17th century English royal embroidered binding, once the property of Charles I. Country / Style England Period 17th century (early) Call Number STC 2588 Title The Whole Book of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by ThomasSternhold, John Hopkins and others. Created / Published London, Printed by the company of Stationers. Cum privilegio Regis Regali, 1624. Provenance Grace Whitney Hoff. Dimensions 86 x 50 x 25 mm Covering Material Embroidered on a background of purple velvet. Sewing Sewn on three recessed alum tawed supports. Headbands Blue and white linen thread with a front bead. Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges. End Papers Single blank flyleaf and paste-down. Decorative Description The covers are embroidered with silver and gold frames, with flowers made with alternate silver and gold knot work and stump work. The flowers in the corners of the covers are made of silver stump work stems with gold stump work leaves followed by silver wire petals. The spine is divided into four panels each filled with a rosette each topped with a seed pearl, surrounded by silver spangles. Binding Terms (RBMS) Cloth bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Embroidered bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Velvet bindings -- England -- 17th century.

7. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Back cover, Curio, case 1152. General Description A papier-mache binding, ca. 1857. Black papier-mache boards with terra-cotta cameos and sheepskin spine blocked in gold. Period ca. 1857 Call Number Curio, case 1152 Author Shakespeare, William. Title Sentiments and Similes. Created / Published London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 Provenance Purchased by H. C. Folger in 1923 from Holland Bros., Birmingham, Catalogue 284, no. 123. Technical Description Sewn on three tapes cut off flush to the spine. One plain and made endpaper of crimson paper which also forms the pastedowns. Gilt edges. Boards made of a black compo backed with papier-mache (made from a mold) adhered to a crimson-faced thin card. Leather spine sandwiched between card and cover. Green and white stuck-on head- and tailbands. Dimensions 198 x 154 x 15 mm. Decorative Description Black relief plaques on both covers, decorated with strapwork and lettered with the title, are pierced and molded with terra-cotta cameos in the center of each. Upper cover cameo bears a bust of Shakespeare; lower cover, a WS monogram with laurel. Title runs up the smooth spine, blocked in relief. Edges of boards and turn-ins decorated with a gilt roll. Other Details Henry Noel Humphreys, the artist and editor of this work, writes in his introduction that his idea was to create a vehicle for displaying book decorations. He describes his design for the cover as a casket, a jewel case, in the style of decorative art which prevailed in the age of Shakespeare. This is the second edition of Sentiments and Similes; the first had the same cover plaques but with a gold paper underlay. The Folger collection contains four copies, all with slight differences in the tone of the cameos and the linings. The process for creating these bindings was probably invented by Messrs. Jackson and Son in the 1840's. See McLean, p. 13. Literature Folger 14:4 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Literature Stanley Bray, Christie's (New York), catalogue 7156 (November 9, 1990): The Chevalier Collection, p. 33; Antiquariaat Frits Knuf, catalogue 154, no. 93; R. McLean, Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper, 1983, pp. 12-13 and 56. Binding Terms (RBMS) Interlace bindings -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Papier-mâché bindings -- 19th century.

8. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, B3152. General Description A London binding by the "Charity School Binder," ca. 1670. Red goatskin over rope-fiber boards with gilt decoration. Repaired (20th century). Binder Charity School Binder. Country / Style England, London Period ca. 1670 Call Number B3152 Author W. B. (William Blake), fl. 1650-1670. 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 http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=143396 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. 287. 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. 78-79. 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.

9. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Back cover, B3651. General Description A binding by "Queen's Binder B," ca. 1680. Black goatskin over rope-fiber boards with gilt decoration. Rebacked and repaired (19th century?). Binder Queen's Binder B. Period ca. 1680 Call Number B3651 Author Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549. 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, 1677. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=154599 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, 1678. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=142883 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. 65-69; 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 -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking -- 19th century.

10. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, D2689. General Description A binding by the "Geometrical Compartment Binder," ca. 1700. Maroon goatskin over stiff pasteboards with gilt decoration. Binder Geometrical Compartment Binder. Country / Style England, London Period ca. 1700 Call Number D2689 Author Church of England. Title [Book of common prayer. French] La liturgie. C'est à dire, Le formulaire des prieres publiques, de l'administration des sacremens, et des autres ceremonies & coûtumes de l'Eglise, selon l'usage de l'Eglise Anglicane: avec le Pseautier, ou les Pseaumes de David, ponctuez selon qu'ils doivent estre, ou chantez, ou leûs dans les eglises. Created / Published A Londres : pour Robert Scott, & se vend chez Geo. Wells, & Sam. Carr, dans le Cymitiere de St. Paul, 1678. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=140547 Provenance Diana Dormer, of the Dormer family of Rousham, Oxfordshire, signature on title page; purchased in 1958 from Messrs. W. Dawson, London. Technical Description Sewn on five raised cords. Marbled pastedowns with two plain and made marbled endpapers; stitched on with yellow thread. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Double green, pink, and yellow headband (tailband now missing). Lap corners. Dimensions 161 x 96 x 24 mm. Decorative Description Both covers marked with blind lines prior to gold tooling. A roll border surrounds a characteristic design of square compartments with side lobes; tooled with leafy flowers, small fleurons, and a heart with hatched outline and a knot in the center. Six spine compartments tooled with small corner ornaments and lozenge fleurons; a roll decorates each band, turn-ins, and edges of both boards. Other Details The "Geometrical Compartment Binder," an anonymous craftsman to whom H. M. Nixon gave this awkward title, was active in London from c. 1700 to c. 1715. His designs were of considerable originality, often influenced, as on this example, by French fanfare patterns. Literature Foot, vol. 2, nos. 146-147; Foot, "A Binding by the Geometrical Compartment Binder, c. 1703," The Book Collector, vol. 35 (1986), pp. 76-77; Nixon, Broxbourne, no. 82; Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 56. Literature Folger 11:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 18th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 18th century.

11. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption front cover General Description early 17th century Italian recycled binding Country / Style Italy Period 17th century (early) Call Number 210- 968q Author Zucchi, Bartolomeo, d. 1631. Title Breue historia della corona ferrea, e catalogo di quei re, et imperadori, che in Monza, citta imperiale, et altroue l?hanno vsata... / di Bartolomeo Zucchi monzese. Created / Published In Milano : Per gli heredi di Pacifico Pontio, & Gio. Battista Piccaglia, MDCIX [1609] Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=245850 Dimensions 226 x 162 x 10 mm Covering Material chestnut brown sheepskin Sewing sewn on two flat supports Edge Treatment fragmentary evidence of original ink inscription on the bottom edge End Papers new flyleaf and paste-down Closures evidence of four ties two at the fore-edge and one at the top and bottom edge Decorative Description tooled to a multiple panel design with the outer panel a crude blind tooled decorative roll of a floral spray on a scroll base. Along side two blind tooled single line fillets. The center is gilt with a double line and leaf decorative roll frame with a acanthus leaf and spike decorative roll inside. At the corners is a large tulip with broad leaf curls stamp with large gilt dots surrounding. The center panel is also formed by the large tulip with broad leaf curls stamp with dot and rosettes around a diced pattern tooled with a diamond and square decorative roll filled with a small gilt star. Other Details This binding cover was taken from a larger volume and used to cover this fragment of a book that was much thicker (the ink inscription on the bottom edge is evidence that this is only small portion of a much larger book) the new endpapers cover only part of the earlier original paste-downs.

12. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover and spine, B2045. General Description A London binding with inlays and onlays, ca. 1684. Black goatskin over rope-fiber(?) boards. Gilt decoration with cream and citron leather inlays and onlays. Country / Style England, London Period ca. 1684 Call Number B2045 Author Bernières Louvigny, Monsieur de (Jean), 1602-1659. Title [Chrestien intérieur. English] The interiour Christian; or The interiour conformity: which Christians ought to have with Jesus Christ... Created / Published Antwerp : [s.n.], printed in the year 1684. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=137531 Provenance Geo. Wilmer; William Gossip 1744 (1705?-1772), signatures on title page; Randall Hatfield (1800-1853), bookplate; purchased in 1950 from Myers & Co. Ltd., London. Technical Description Sewn on five raised cords. Three plain endpapers and pastedowns. The endpapers stitched at the back of the book are also tipped to the last page of the text. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Light blue and white head- and tailbands. Lap corners. Dimensions 176 x 115 x 28 mm. Decorative Description A fine pin-head fillet divides each cover into eight parts; from these guide-lines spring pointillë flower tools, leaves, and dots. The cream inlays are undecorated. The citron leather onlays are decorated with small tools. Paneled spine with semicircular floral tools, volutes, and floral triangles. The border roll also decorates the edges of the boards. Other Details The gilt-tooled citron and cream leather inlays and onlays are more roughly executed than the rest of the design and were perhaps an afterthought. They may have been added in place of the name of a customer who ordered, but failed to buy, the volume. Literature Folger 6:13 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Inlays -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Onlays -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pointillé tooling -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.

13. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover, B2569.5 General Description An English binding with silver center plate and monogram, ca. 1690. Red goatskin over pasteboards with gilt decoration. Silver clasps, corner, and center plates. Country / Style England Period ca. 1690 Call Number B2569.5 Title Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. The psalter or Psalms of David, after the translation of the great bible, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. With the addition of morning and evening prayer. Created / Published London : printed by J. M[acock] for the Company of Stationers, anno Dom. 1689. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=145390 Provenance "William Smith his book Oct 19, 1725"; purchased in 1958 from F. Edwards, London. Technical Description Sewn on five raised cords. A made marbled endpaper plus four plain with marbled pastedowns. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Headband worked with linen thread over a cane core (tailband missing). Lap corners. Dimensions 152 x 92 x 20 mm. Decorative Description A center panel and outer border formed by a two-line fillet. Floral cornerpieces on the inside of the panel with floral tool at angles. Edges of boards tooled with a floral roll. Paneled spine with a six-petal rosette in each compartment. Other Details The floral tool at the angles was used on a binding attributed to the "Center Rectangle Binder" in Maggs, Part I, no. 84. FURNITURE: Quarter round silver corner plates and spade-shaped catch and hinge plates with engraving resembling a cat's tooth. Silver center plates bear an engraved monogram, "J W P. - Hasps are missing but were hinged from the upper cover. Literature Folger 10:13 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- England -- 17th century. 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) Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.

14. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Back cover, PA6295 A3 1543a cage. General Description An early 17th-century Eton binding by Williamson. Binder Williamson, Vincent, fl. early 17th century. Country / Style England Period 17th century (early) Call Number PA6295 A3 1543a cage Author Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Title M. Tullii Ciceronis De philosophia prima pars id est: academicarum quaestionum editionis primae liber secundus, editionis secundae liber primus. de finibus bonorum et malorum libri V. Tusculanarum quaestionum libri V. Created / Published Parisiis, Ex Officina Roberti Stephani tyypographi regii, 1543. Dimensions 170 x 104 x 28 mm Covering Material Dark brown/ black calfskin. Sewing Sewn on four recessed tanned leather supports. Headbands Traces of blue and white threads. Edge Treatment Colored red. End Papers Two blank flyleaves and a single stone pattern marble paper flyleaf and paste-down in pink and dark blue colors. Decorative Description The covers are tooled with a gilt double line fillet border with a small fern leaf stamp gilt at angles. In the center of the covers is a gilt blocked stamp of an olive tree with a tablet hanging from its branches inscribed, "NOLI ALTUM SAPERE", based on the device of the Estienne family of printers and adopted by the publishers Bonham Norton and his cousin John Norton. The piece of gold leaf cut for the central block on the front cover was too small for the design. The smooth spine is divided into six panels with gilt double lines. The author and title are gilt in the second panel and the others have a gilt circle in the center. The date is gilt at the bottom. The board edges and the turn-ins are gilt with a vented band with rosette roll, also known as a pentaglyph and metope roll. Other Details According to Nixon, Williamson appears to be the first English binder to tool the title of a book on the spine (the labels on this volume are much later). He is probably the Vincent Williamson apprenticed to George Singleton, stationer, on March 7, 1603. Parish records of St. Giles Cripplegate show that he married Elizabeth Dawson in December 1584. He is referred to in the records of Eton College until 1621. Literature Folger 2:4 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold blocked bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century.

15. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Back cover, 182271. General Description A Roman binding with the Barberini arms, ca. 1635. Red goatskin over stiff pasteboards with gilt and blind decoration. Repaired (19th century). Country / Style Italy, Rome Period ca. 1635 Call Number 182271 Author STROZZI, Giovanni Battista Title ORAZIONI ET ALTRE PROSE. Created / Published Rome Lodovico Grignani 1635 Provenance The arms on both covers are those of Barberini impaling Magalotti, for Costanza Magalotti, of a Florentine patrician family, widow of Carlo Barberini, Duke of Monterotondo (d. 1630), the brother of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII (r. 1623-1644); Monastery of the Incarnation, Rome, inscription on title page; purchased in 1961 from Leo S. Olschki, Florence. Technical Description Sewn on four recessed cords. New single endpaper and pastedown at the front of the text; original pastedown and evidence of endpapers at the back. Rounded and backed spine. Gilt edges. Contemporary tailband worked in blue and gold silk over leather (?) core. (Gold headband is new.) Lap corners. Evidence of two pink textile fore-edge ties. Dimensions 270 x 197 x 33 mm. Decorative Description Large gilt panel design, comprising two-line stopped fillets and a fleuron tool outer border with two inner borders of roll work. A one-line pallet intersects each border at the corners and links up with the corner ornaments of volutes and a laurel spray. Gilt two-line gouge, pallet, and fillet work form a central space, outlined in blind by a small three-line tool (see note). In the center a gilt crown with cherub supporters and the Barberini arms are surrounded by a cherub and winged female figures with other baroque motifs. The smooth spine bears a two-line fillet panel divided into three compartments by the use of a floral tool and two-line pallet. Each compartment is decorated with volutes and fleurons with a group of three flaming crescents stamped in the center. Other Details The three crescents of the Strozzi arms on the spine suggest that the book was bound for presentation to the Duchess of Monterotondo by the deceased author's family. (We are grateful to Dr. Guido Vianini Tolomei for his help in identifying the arms on this binding.) The creases to the blind semicircular work on the covers suggest the use of a small hand tool other than a fillet, roll, or pallet. Literature Folger 12:7 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Armorial bindings -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Pallet tools -- Italy -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Ties -- Italy -- 17th century.

16. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover, STC 26101 copy 1. General Description A binding by the Club Bindery for Robert Hoe, finished by Leon Mallard, 1907. Red goatskin over millboards with green goatskin onlays and all-over gilt decoration. Binder Club Bindery. Period 1907 Call Number STC 26101 copy 1 Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 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 http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=163925 Provenance Robert Hoe (1839-1909); 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 1909. 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 1921. 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.

17. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Original ca. 1800 front cover, STC 22273 fo.1 no.79 General Description First Folio no.79, rebound in the 1990s by Scott Husby, original binding fragments (possibly by Christian Samuel Kalthoeber) circa 1800s, housed in folder under the new binding Binder Husby, Scott. Binder Kalthoeber, Christian Samuel, 1752-1819. Call Number STC 22273 fo.1 no.79 Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 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, 1623. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=79284 Dimensions 323 x 212 (shoulder to fore-edge) x 79 mm, 5 mm board thickness Covering Material Bound in medium brown calfskin. Sewing Sewn on 5 raised cords laced through the boards. Headbands New, wrapped, back bead sewn with unbleached linen over a cord core. End Papers New, off-white handmade paper. Decorative Description The covers are blind tooled with a simple single line fillet. Above and below the bands on the spine are single blind tooled lines, in the second panel is blind tooled SHAKESPEARE 1623. Other Details Boxed in a clamshell box with the original binding. Literature West 137 (West, The Shakespeare first folio : the history of the book, New York, 2001, vol.2). Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- 19th century.

18. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Back cover, BR336 T4 G3 1522 Cage. General Description A mid-16th century German or Austrian binding of brown calfskin over wooden boards with blind tooled decoration. Country / Style Germany? Country / Style Austria? Call Number BR336 T4 G3 1522 Cage Author Melanchthon, Philipp. Title Die Haubtartickel und Furnemesten Punct der Gantzen Hayligen Schrift. Created / Published Augsburg, 1522 Provenance Augustin Disculi, Vienna, inscription on title page; G. von Camuzi, Dirmstein (Rhineland), printed label; Von K6th family, stamp; purchased in 1959 from Van Gendt, The Netherlands, List 17:108. Technical Description Sewn on three raised double cords. Evidence of single front endpaper, which had been folded in a hook guard around the first section, and remains of a pastedown. The back endpaper is intact; the pastedown has been trimmed out on the board. Rounded spine, with naturally formed backing, lined with vellum between the sewing supports. Remains of fore-edge leather tabs throughout text. Pink and natural linen thread endbands, worked over a tawed core(?). Boards given slight inside bevel on three edges with an exterior bevel at the joint. Recesses have been cut on the lower board to receive hasp straps (now missing); two small scoops on the fore-edge of the upper board were cut for the catch plates (also missing). Head- and tailcaps slit to accommodate endbands. Lapmitered corners. Evidence of a central boss and four edge guard corner bosses on both boards. Dimensions 207 x 166 x 61 mm Decorative Description Blind tooling to a border and panel scheme, using a three-line fillet and four rolls. The first roll, a bold vase of flowers. The second, a roll cut with a horn, a drum, and a stylized vase of flowers, of a type codified by Oldham as "musical instruments" roll. The third roll, a floral design. And the fourth, a smaller version of the "musical instruments" roll as described above. The four compartments of the spine are decorated with a Rautent-anke, fleurons, and three-line pallet work. Other Details Although Haebler illustrates a roll of floral devices with a drum, and lists others used in central Europe from c. 1520, the two rolls used here include a horn and are much closer stylistically to those in Gibson and Oldham which Ker has proven from manuscript pastedowns were used on books bound in Oxford c. 1530. The structure of this binding, however, as well as the book's place of printing and provenance, strongly suggest central European work. Literature For "musical instruments" rolls, see Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings, p. 29, pl. XXXVII; Oldham, Blind-stamped, p. 24, pl. LVI. For central European ornamental rolls with "Trommel," see Haebler, p. 412, pl. IV, no. 5; Ker, Pastedowns, p. 224. Literature Folger 2:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Bosses -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Clasps -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Furniture -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- Germany -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Austria -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- Germany -- 16th century.

19. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover, STC 14600 copy 3. General Description A London binding for Robert Dudley by the "Morocco binder," ca. 1567. Rebound by F. Bedford in light brown calfskin over millboards (19th century). Original covers of light brown calfskin, with blocked and tooled gold and silver decoration, inlaid. Rebacked in brown goatskin (20th century). Binder Morocco Binder. Country / Style England, London Period ca. 1567 Call Number STC 14600 copy 3 Author Jewel, John, 1522-1571. Title A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorth by M. Hardinge... Created / Published Imprinted at London : in Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Elephante, by Henry Wykes, anno 1567. 27. Octobris. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=171429 Provenance Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532?-1588), with his signature "R. Leycester" on verso of title page; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849- 1919), from his library at Florence, his sale at Sotheby's July 17,1922, lot 568; Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937). Technical Description Resewn on five raised supports. Colored endpapers and pastedowns. Spine rounded and backed. Gilt edges. Triple worked headbands in red and brown (all 19th-century work). Evidence of metal clasps on original covers. Dimensions 306 x 212 x 48 mm Covering Material Rebound in light brown calfskin over millboards (19th century). Original covers of light brown calfskin, with blocked and tooled gold and silver decoration, inlaid. Rebacked in brown goatskin (20th century). Sewing Resewn on five raised supports. Spine rounded and backed. Headbands Triple worked in red and brown (19th century). Edge Treatment Gilt. End Papers Colored endpapers and pastedowns. Closures Evidence of metal clasps on original covers. Decorative Description Original decoration in gold and silver, worked to a panel design with an egg and dart roll border, framed by two gilt fillets on either side, plus a set of arabesque corners blocked in gold. A ragged staff stamped in silver is placed on all four sides of the central roundel (99 mm in circumference) of the Dudley badge, blocked in gold and silver with green paint on part of the base. 20th-century finishing on the spine. Other Details The "Morocco Binder," so-called by H. M. Nixon since he used morocco leather wilier more frequently than was common in Elizabethan England, was active in London from c. 1563 to c. 1576. He was probably the best English finisher of his time. The same corners found on this binding appear on a book bound for Archbishop Matthew Parker by the "Morocco Binder," c. 1569; see Needham, Twelve Centuries, p. 267. Literature LITERATURE: MOSS, no. 51, pl. 13; Nixon, "Elizabethan Gold-tooled Bindings," p. 238, no. 17. Literature Folger 3:4 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Armorial bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Goatskin bindings -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold blocked bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Painted bindings -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- England -- 16th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Rebacking -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Silver tooled bindings -- England -- 16th century.

20. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover, Folio BS635.A2 T8 1610 Cage. General Description A binding with a stamp of Pyramus and Thisbe, ca. 1615. Brown calfskin over pasteboards with gilt and blind decoration. Some repair (20th century). Period ca. 1615 Call Number Folio BS635.A2 T8 1610 Cage Author Tornielli, Agostino, 1543-1622. Title Annales sacri ab orbe condito ad ipsum Christi Passione reparatum cum praecipuis ethnicorum temporibus apte ordinateque dispositi. Created / Published Mediolani : Ex typographia her. Pacifici Pontij et Io. Bapt[ist]ae Picalia, MDCX [1610] Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=187964 Provenance J. Lane bookplate; Sotheby sale, November 22, 1926, lot 269; purchased by H. C. Folger from Maggs Bros. in 1927. Technical Description Sewn on five raised alum-tawed thongs. Three tipped-on endpapers and pastedowns (20th century). Rounded and backed spine. Edges colored red with gilt gauffering (see below). Blue and pink double head- and tailbands over cord core. Boards back cornered. Lap corners. Evidence of two fore-edge ties. Dimensions 340 x 231 x 63 mm. Decorative Description Gilt one-line and blind two-line fillets form a panel with stemmed carnations at angles. Gilt blocked corner ornaments of foliage sprouting cherubs are further embellished with an acanthus bud tool. The imbricated surround to the Pyramus and Thisbe centerpiece features clasped hands and a flaming heart pierced by two arrows. The outer border of a twoline gilt and blind fillet bears small neurons at angles. A two-line pallet with a large floral volute decorates the eight compartments of the spine, flanked by laurel sprays on either side. The third compartment is tooled with the title, once worked in a smaller type, now dislodged. Bands and half-bands, as well as the board edges, are worked with a roll (much worn). The fore-edge is gauffered with snail and lion motifs encircled in laurel wreaths, plus large and small gilt neurons, which also embellish head and tail edges. Other Details The centerpiece tells the tragic story of Pyramus who "kills himself most gallant for love" (Shakespeare, MND I, ii, 23). Nixon describes the action depicted by the block, citing Arthur Golding's 1565 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book IV. The Pyramus and Thisbe legend was well-known to the Elizabethan public and was used by Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream, written in 1595-96. The block shows Pyramus lying on the ground, apparently dead, and Thisbe committing suicide by falling on a sword. A lion runs away on the right. On the left, a statue of Cupid with bow and arrows stands in the middle of a fountain. The rebus-signature of the blockmaker, binder, or bookseller, "I S" on either side of a key (John Keyes?), can be seen on the trunk of a tree on the right. Only three other bindings with the Pyramus and Thisbe block are recorded: one on a copy of Ben Jonson's Workes, 1616, and the others on books of 1541 and 1600. Literature Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 25. Literature Folger 5:3 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992). Binding Terms (RBMS) Blind tooled bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Fillet tools -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Raised bands -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Ties -- 17th century.

21. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Open covers, STC 2646. General Description Mid 17th century English miniature gilt panel stamped binding. Country / Style England Period 17th century (mid) Call Number STC 2646 Author Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549. Title [Whole book of Psalms] The vvhole booke of Psalmes. Collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, Ioh. Hopkins, and others. Created / Published London : Imprinted for the Company of Stationers, 1633. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=159257 Provenance Gift of Bertita E. Compton in memory of the Reverend William Meade Brown, Jr.; Britwell Court copy. Dimensions 84 x 54 x 25 mm Covering Material Light brown calfskin. Sewing Sewn on two recessed alum tawed supports. Headbands Linen thread with a front bead over a reed core with a white and red silk braided ribbon page marker. Edge Treatment Gilt on all three edges. End Papers Bifolio folded, creating a guard adhered under paste-down and leaving a single flyleaf. Decorative Description The covers were gilt with a fern-tip on a line decorative roll frame. The cover is filled with a gilt pin-dot ground, and arabesque strapwork panel stamp. The front cover has the letter J gilt in the center of the panel stamp. The spine is divided into four panels with fern-tip on a line decorative rolls. The panels are gilt with three rows of dots and ovals on a line. The board edges are gilt with a pin-dot roll. Binding Terms (RBMS) Calf bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Interlace bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Panel-stamped bindings -- England -- 17th century.

22. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Open covers vol. 5, PR 2752 1848f Sh. Col. General Description Mid 19th century English publisher's binding. Country / Style England Period 19th century (mid) Call Number PR 2752 1848f Sh. Col. Author Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Title [Works. 1848. Bohn] The plays and poems of Shakespeare : according to the improved text of Edmund Malone, including the latest revisions : with a life, glossarial notes, an index, and one hundred and seventy illustrations, from designs by English artists / edited by A.J. Valpy ; in fifteen volumes. Created / Published London : Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=264044 Dimensions 172 x 110 x 3 mm (slightly varied thickness) Covering Material Purple diaper and diamond book cloth. Sewing Sewn on two recessed supports. Headbands None. Edge Treatment Rough cut. End Papers Single yellow flyleaf and paste-down. Decorative Description The covers were embossed with a three horizontal panel design. The upper and lower panel is blind embossed with five figures, faces from Shakespeare's plays along with WS monogram all within a quatrefoil frame. The middle panel has blind embossed corner brackets and a gilt scene from Shakespeare's works. The volumes repeat the same three images (one is the image of David Garrick in Richard the III). The back covers are similarly embossed but all in blind and with a different center scene than what appears on the front cover. The spine is divided into five gilt panels with Shakespeare's coat of arms falcon with spear in the upper, title in the second, publisher's edition in the third, the volume and play content in the fourth, and the shield for Shakespeare's coat of arms in the fifth. Binding Terms (RBMS) Armorial bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Embossed bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Embossed cloth bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Publishers' bindings -- England -- 19th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Publishers' cloth bindings -- England -- 19th century.

23. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Image Caption Front cover (detail), ND3365 G7 A4 1906. General Description Early 20th century Italian velvet binding with embossed medallion portrait of Antonius Grimanus. Country / Style Italy Period 20th century (early) Call Number ND3365 G7 A4 1906 Title Grimani breviary. Le bréviaire Grimani à la Bibliothèque Marciana de Venise. Created / Published [Venise] F. Ongania, éditeur, anno MCMVI. Hamnet URL http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5114 Dimensions 244 x 165 x 30 mm Covering Material Burgundy red velvet. Sewing Unsupported, machine sewn. Headbands Blue and white stuck-on. Edge Treatment The top edge is gilt and gauffered. The other two edges are rough cut. End Papers Orange printed flyleaf and paste-down with floral frame and garland encircled armorial crests in the center. Decorative Description The cover is blind tooled with a hatched border and two single line frames. In the center of the front cover is an elaborate embossed design with the profile metal medallion portrait of Antonius Grimanus. In the center of the back cover is the blind embossed winged lion, the symbol of Mark the evangelist. At the bottom of the back cover is the stamped name LABORATORIO V DE TOLDO VENEZIA. Binding Terms (RBMS) Cloth bindings -- Italy -- 20th century. Binding Terms (RBMS) Velvet bindings -- Italy -- 20th century.

24. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 37033 Source Title [King Richard III] Shakespeare's tragedy of King Richard III / as presented by Edwin Booth. Source Creator Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Source Created or Published 1878 Physical Description Spine and front cover Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number PROMPT Rich.III 36 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD --- Creator (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Uniform Title (Hamnet) King Richard III Title (Hamnet) Shakespeare's tragedy of King Richard III / as presented by Edwin Booth. Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) New-York : Publisher (Hamnet) Printed for William Winter by Francis Hart & Company, Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1878. Physical Description (Hamnet) 6 p., 10-102 leaves, [103]-110 p. ; 17 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Acting editions -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. Associated Name (Hamnet) Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, associated name. Associated Name (Hamnet) Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893. Associated Name (Hamnet) Winter, William, 1836-1917. Associated Name (Hamnet) Parkins & Gotto (Oxford, England), binder. Associated Name (Hamnet) Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905, former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Series edited by William Winter. Notes (Hamnet) Text of play printed on one side of leaf only. Call Number (Hamnet) PROMPT Rich.III 36

25. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 64322 Source Title Vox piscis: or, The book-fish contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eue last, anno Domini 1626. Source Creator Frith, John, 1503-1533. Image Details digital composite of two images Source Created or Published [1627] Physical Description frontis and title page Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number STC 11395 copy 3 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Frith, John, 1503-1533. Uniform Title (Hamnet) Of the preparation to the Crosse, and to deathe. Uniform Title (Hamnet) Fountayne or well of lyfe. Title (Hamnet) Vox piscis: or, The book-fish contayning three treatises which were found in the belly of a cod-fish in Cambridge Market, on Midsummer Eue last, anno Domini 1626. Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) London : Publisher (Hamnet) Printed [by Humphrey Lownes, John Beale, and Augustine Mathewes] for Iames Boler and Robert Milbourne, Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) M.DC.XXVII. [1627] Physical Description (Hamnet) [4], 43, [1]; 237 [i.e. 239], [13]; [18], 47, [9], 127, [3]; [8], 180, [4] p. : ill. ; 12 ⁰. Subject (Hamnet) Annotations (Provenance) Associated Name (Hamnet) Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Beale, John, d. 1643, printer. Associated Name (Hamnet) Frith, John, 1503-1533. Associated Name (Hamnet) Tracy, Richard, d. 1569. Associated Name (Hamnet) Goad, Thomas, 1576-1638. Notes (Hamnet) Attributed as a whole to John Frith in part 1, which is sometimes attributed to Thomas Goad. Part 2, "The preparation to the Crosse and to death", is a reprint of "Of the preparation to the Crosse, and to deathe", 1540 (STC 11393), translated by and sometimes attributed to Richard Tracy as well as to Frith. Part 3, "A mirrour, or, glasse to know thy selfe" and "A briefe instruction, to teach a person willingly to die, and not to feare death", is a reprint of Frith's "A letter wryten unto the faythful folowers of Christes Gospell" (1548-49? STC 11385.5). Part 4, "The treasure of knowledge", is a revision of the anonymous "The fountayne or well of lyfe" (STC 11211), not by Frith. Notes (Hamnet) Stationer's Register: Entered 13 September 1626. Notes (Hamnet) Signatures: [superscript pi]A-B¹² A-K¹² L ⁶, ²A-H¹² I ⁶, ³A-H¹². Notes (Hamnet) P. 178-180 are blank except for marginal rules and pagination; the two last leaves are blank as reported by Folger. Notes (Hamnet) Parts 2-4 each have separate dated title page (parts 3,4 dated 1626), pagination, and register; that to part 2 identifies John Beale as the printer. Within part 3, "A briefe instruction" also has separate dated title page and pagination, but the register is continuous. Notes (Hamnet) "Lownes pr[inted]. pts. 1, 3.. Mathewes pt. 4"--STC. Notes (Hamnet) Part 2, p. 239 misnumbered 237. Notes (Hamnet) Part 4 formerly also STC 24198. Notes (Hamnet) Part 4 identified as STC 24198 on UMI microfilm reel 1085. Notes (Hamnet) Copy 1. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Lost at Sea. DFo Citations (Hamnet) STC (2nd ed.), 11395 Citations (Hamnet) ESTC (RLIN) S102646 Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet) HH91/17. MS. notes: bibliographical notes on slip tipped in at front and on front free endpaper, the latter headed by: 'W. D. Macray 22. Feb. 1855'. Imperfect: Parts 1 and 2 only, wanting sigs. [superscript pi]A1, and ¹L6 (blank at end of part 2: 'Preparation'); [superscript pi]A1 (frontis. ill. of unopened fish) replaced by sig. ¹A1 (ill. of opened fish) of pt.2; sig. [superscript pi]A2 (t.p.) mounted; copy badly stained and frayed. Provenance: pasted inside front cover is clipping identified as from the Scottish Ecclesiastical Guardian, 31 Aug. 1901, which relates the story of another cod with interesting innards, this one had swallowed a copy of the burial service for a funeral in 1884; W.D. Macray - Harmsworth copy. Call Number (Hamnet) STC 11395 Copy 3

26. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 143 Source Title The sonnets of William Shakespeare Source Creator Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1990 Physical Description Frank Mowery binding Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number PR2848 1990a Sh. Coll. HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Title (Hamnet) The sonnets of William Shakespeare. Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) New York City : Publisher (Hamnet) Petrarch Press, Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1990. Physical Description (Hamnet) [88] p. ; 27 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Folger Shakespeare Library -- Anniversaries, etc. Subject (Hamnet) Jewelled bindings. Subject (Hamnet) Privately printed books. Subject (Hamnet) Sonnets, English. Associated Name (Hamnet) Bishop, Peter. Associated Name (Hamnet) Mowery, John Franklin. Associated Name (Hamnet) Cohen, Peter. Associated Name (Hamnet) Petrarch Press. Notes (Hamnet) Designed, printed and bound at the Petrarch Press of New York City by Peter Bishop and Peter Cohen--Colophon. Notes (Hamnet) Library has copy no. 8. Notes (Hamnet) Limited edition of 189 copies, 14 on sheepskin parchment. Notes (Hamnet) Rebound and reboxed to commemorate the Folger's 60th anniversary, with a jewelled binding by Frank Mowery. Call Number (Hamnet) PR2848 1990a Sh.Col.

27. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 4552 Image Title The holie Bible. London, 1568 Source Title The. holie. Bible. Image Details binding, from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published [1568] Physical Description binding Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number STC 2099 Copy 3 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Title (Hamnet) Bishops' Bible Title (Hamnet) The nevve testament of our saviour Iesus Christe Title (Hamnet) The. holie. Bible. Title (Hamnet) The newe testament of our saviour Jesus Christe Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) [Imprinted at London : Publisher (Hamnet) in povvles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge, printer to the Queenes Maiestie, Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) [1568]] Physical Description (Hamnet) [25], cxxviii, clxxxv, xlvi, xlix-cciii, cxviii, clii, clv, clix l. : ill., maps ; 2 ⁰. Subject (Hamnet) Made-up copies (Publishing) rbpub DFo Associated Name (Hamnet) Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575. Notes (Hamnet) Signatures: pi ⁸ *¹ ⁰ ²* ⁸ A-Q ⁸ ; A-Y ⁸ Z¹ ⁰ ; A-E ⁸ F ⁶ G-2A ⁸ 2B¹²; A-O ⁸ P ⁶ ; A-T ⁸ U ⁶. Notes (Hamnet) Imprint from colophon. Notes (Hamnet) Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Notes (Hamnet) Includes Apocrypha. Notes (Hamnet) Each part has divisional title page and separate pagination. Notes (Hamnet) Imperfect: tightly bound, with loss of inner margin print. Notes (Hamnet) In five parts. Notes (Hamnet) Numerous errors in paging. Notes (Hamnet) "The nevve testament of our saviour Iesus Christe" has engraved title page and separate pagination. Notes (Hamnet) "A revision of the Great Bible version, undertaken by Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well known Biblical scholars. In correcting the Great Bible, both the Hebrew and Greek originals were consulted."--NUC pre-1956 imprints. Citations (Hamnet) STC (2nd ed.), 2099.2 Citations (Hamnet) ESTC (RLIN) S1185 Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet) Crimson velvet binding with engraved silver clasps and bosses with Tudor roses and Elizabeth I's coat of arms (rebacked). Possibly a made-up copy. Pt. 1, *2-10 bound after pi1, ²*7 bound after *1; pt. 1: ²*8 and pt. 5, U6, blanks, lacking. Purchased at Sotheby's July 3, 1922 (lot 1066). Provenance: a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth that was probably used in her private chapel; Honywood family library - Michael Tomkinson copy (with their bookplates) Call Number (Hamnet) STC 2099 Copy 3