Science and literature in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance. / By Paul Lacroix (Bibliophile Jacob), ... Illustrated with thirteen chromolithographic prints by F. Kellerhoven and upwards of four hundred engravings on wood.
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884)
Category
Books
Date
1878
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3038543
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvii, [1], 552 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (part. col.) ; 4to. Pencil code on title page verso: "CB/E pub @ AC/E". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century full green morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; gilt tooled decorative design on boards: sprays of leaves, flowers and interlocking fillets; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Science and literature in the Middle Ages' and 'Lacroix'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: Birdsall & Son Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Paul L. Jacob (1806-1884), author Franz Kellerhoven (1814-1872), illustrator