Specimens of antient sculpture, . Ægyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain, by the Society of Dilettanti.
Society of Dilettanti
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Measurements
538 x 380 x 64 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3041398
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing and black and brown engraving ink.Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & false bands Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British - Hering?End Leaves: sewn single fold of thick white, wove paper, another sheet of the same tipped to the recto of the outer leaf and made to a sheet of pale green wove paper, trapping the edge of the leather joint. Single piece of the green paper as doublure Structure: BritishEdges: plain-cut, gilded, polished Spine Lining: semi-elliptical, square joints, no visible linings, 6 pairs of false single bandsEnd Bands: worked L-R 12x6 cream and brown silk over a rolled paper core with a thinner rolled paper crowning core Bookmark: NoneBoards: 5mm rope fibre boards, back-cornered, no lacing visibleCovering: full tanned red-brown genuine russia calf with faint original dicing, polishedTooling Spine: large gold-tooeld made-up ornament in centre of panels 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, gold-tooled 1-fillet on each side of and across centre of each band, gold-tooled floral roll between each pair of bands, gold-tooled rolls across head andtail, titled direct in panel 2, place and date at tail.Tooling Sides: gold-tooled roll with thin/thick 2-fillet on each side as border, gold-tooled disk roll on boards edges and gold-tooled floral on turn-ins and joints. Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: Bookplate of the Earl of Morley inside front board. [Earl Morley was a member of the Society of Dilletanti]
Bibliographic description
[2],lxxxi,[1],128p, lxxv plates . ill.. . fol.. Provenance: Bookplate: Earl of Morley.. Binding: Gold tooled Russia, gilt edges. Bookshoe.
Provenance
Listed at Saltram by 1898 and by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and offered by his executors to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in part payment of Estate Duty.
Makers and roles
Society of Dilettanti