The excellencie of a free state.
Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678)
Category
Books
Date
1767
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 3017090
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxviii, 176 p. . 8vo. With two eighteenth-century press cuttings loosely inserted. With stencilled figures on front flyleaf (Britannia; a cock) and back flyleaf (a female figure of Liberty, with staff and cap of liberty; the owl of Minerva).. Provenance: From the evidence of the binding, made for Thomas Hollis (1720-74), probably by John Matthewman, who made most of Hollis's simpler bindings from 1761 until about 1769. The emblematic tools were the work of G. B. Cipriani. See: Howard M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding (London: Scolar Press, 1978), p. 168.. Binding: Eighteenth-century green morocco binding; gold-tooled fillets; front cover with gold-tooled stamp (Aesculapian wand and serpent); back cover with gold-tooled stamp (wand and two serpents); spine with three gold-tooled devices (two short swords and a cap of liberty).
Makers and roles
Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678)