Du Bartas his deuine weekes and workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent maiestie by Josuah Sylvester.
Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur Du Bartas (1544-1590)..
Category
Books
Date
1611
Materials
Measurements
192 x 158 x 70 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3048644
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Remains of printed waste guard at front and back Structure: English Edges: Plain cut and polished Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, no linings End Bands: Worked L-R 2x2 in blue andwhite thread over rolled paper cores, 3 tiedowns Bookmark: None Boards: 4mm paper pulp boards, back-cornered, all slips laced in, perpendicular Covering: brown tanned calf, polished. Small partched hole head edge of front board Tooling Spine: painted shll gold with arabesque pattern, appaently over a tooled direct title in panel 2 Tooling Sides: Blind tooled thin /think/thin fillet border, gold-blocked centrepiece; blind-tooled single fillet on board edges Furniture: 2 pairs of green textile ribbons on the foredge Enclosure: None Binding Notes: second text: G. Salust, Lord of Bartas, The Historie of Ivdith, in Forme of a Poeme, 1611
Bibliographic description
697,[4],698-819,[46],87,[1]p. : ill. ; 8vo. Printed shelfmark label on front pastedown with manuscript annotation: Case M Shelf 6. Purchased from Anthony Gibb, 22nd August 2000. 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: Calf; gilt centrepiece on upper and lower boards; remains of ties; spine heavily gilt.
Provenance
original to Lyme, purchased 2000
Makers and roles
Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur Du Bartas (1544-1590).. Odet de La Noue, seigneur de Téligny (d.1618) Guy du Faur, seigneur de Pybrac (1529-1584) Josuah Sylvester (1563-1618)