The speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons.
The Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox MP (1749-1806)
Category
Books
Date
1815
Materials
Measurements
222 x 148 x 35 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3027328.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: white mouldmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Tipped single fold of green drab Cobbe paper, made to a leaf of white wove paper and followed by a flylead of white wove paper, the outer coloured leaf pasted to the board Structure: English Edges: plain cut, finely sprinkled with red pigment, polished Spine Lining: moderate round, square joints and artificial paper hollow with 5 false bands End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 in green silk thread over flat parchment cores Bookmark: None Boards: 2mm rope fibre board, no back-cornering, all slips laced in Covering: brown tanned calf, polished Tooling Spine: gold-tooled double fillet frame to each panel with central fleuron and corners; title label in panel 2 (missing), dark green leather volume number label in panel 3. Tooling Sides: gold-tooled single fillet border and on board edges. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Bookplate of William Gibbs inside front board on top of an earlier bookplate
Bibliographic description
v.1 ; 8vo. Pencil inscription on endpaper, possible former shelfmark: K3. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]; pasted over unidentified pictorial bookplate, possibly depicting Parthenon. Binding: nineteenth-century calf; gilt fillet border; remnants of gilt tooling on spine; only one spine label fragment remaining. (Water damage, staining.)
Makers and roles
The Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox MP (1749-1806) John Wright (1770-1844)