Holinshed's chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. In six volumes.
Raphael Holinshed (1529-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1807 - 1808
Materials
Measurements
308 x 251 x 55 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3022090.5
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & false bands Date of Binding: contemporary. 19.1Binder's Name: British End Leaves: Replacements: tipped single fold of cream wove paper, outer leaf pasted to board over original pastedown. Made flyleaf of 2 sheets of white handmade wove paper [watermark 1812] at front and back Structure: BritishEdges: plain-cut to show proof; fine dense sprinkle in brown pigment; polished Spine Lining: slight round, square joints; linings not visible; but with four broad false bands End Bands: worked L-R 1x1 in plain uncoloured thread over rolled paper cores, slips cut at joints. Bookmark: NoneBoards: 4mm rope fibre boards; back-cornered; 3 slips laced into each board, perpendicularlyCovering: full brown tanned calf, diced on the book (external board surfaces only). Rebacksed with new tanned calf spineTooling Spine: 4 broad false bands filled with gold-tooled pallets; blind-tooled roll at head aand tail; titled direct in panels 2 and 3; gold-blocked crest in panel 5Tooling Sides: blind-tooled roll on board edges and turn-ins. Furniture: NoneEnclosure: BookshoeBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
v.5 ; 4to. Shelf mark label: Case B Shelf 3. [i.e.: a Lyme Park book].. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119).. Binding: Nineteenth-century full diced calf; single gilt fillet to form a border; rebacked, spines entirely replaced; spines direct lettered in gilt: Holinshed's Chronicles; Nineteenth-century gilt crest on spine: Ram's head [i.e.: a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Raphael Holinshed (1529-1580)