Lettre du Chev. Antonio Canova; et deux mémoires lus a l'Institut Royal de France sur les ouvrages de sculpture dans la collection de mylord Comte d'Elgin par le Chev. E.Q. Visconti, [...].
Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 - Venice 1822)
Category
Books
Date
1816
Materials
Measurements
220 x 143 x 23 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3048639
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing inkType: BOUND BOOKBinding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollowDate of Binding: contemporaryBinder's Name: English ticket of J. and J. Haddock / Printers Bookbinders / Stationers &c. / WarringtonEnd Leaves: Sewn bifolium of white wover paper with tipped fold of stone marbled paper inserted between first and second white leaves. Outer marbled leaf pasted to the board.Structure: ??? Edges: Plain cut, marbled in orange purple and black stone pattern, polished. Spine Lining: slight round with square joints, paper hollow (printed waste) End Bands: Worked L-R 2x2 in red and white over flat leather (?) coresBookmark: single narrow green silk ribbon stuck to spine under the headband Boards: 3mm rope fibre boards, back cornered, angled up in the front board, down in the backCovering: Pink tanned calf embossed on the book with plated straight grain patternTooling Spine: fragment only survives with traces of gold-tooled triple fillet across spine to create panels. Originally had a lettering pieceTooling Sides: border consisting of a narrow gold-tooled roll enclosing two blind-tooled rolls, single gold-tooled fillet on board edges; blind-tooled hatched roll on turn-ins Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[6],ii,196,[4]p. ; 8vo. Printed shelfmark label on front pastedown with manuscript annotation: Case P Shelf 2. Purchased from Anthony Gibb, November 2000. Bookseller's label on front pastedown: J. & J. Haddock printers, bookbinders stationers &c. Warrington. 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 grained red calf; blind and gilt rolled; spine mostly missing; spine label missing.
Provenance
Purchased from Anthony Gibb, November 2000.
Makers and roles
Antonio Canova (Possagno 1757 - Venice 1822), author Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751-1818), author