The English baronetage: . containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing: their descents, marriages, and issues; ... Illustrated with their coats of arms, ... on copper-plates: ... Likewise exact tables of precedence; ... To which are added, an account of ... Nova-Scotia baronets ... and a list of such persons ... made Knights of the Royal Oak, ...
Thomas Wotton (c.1695 - 1766)
Category
Books
Date
1741
Materials
Measurements
205 x 136 x 42 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3049729.2
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: red and black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: sewn single fold of white handmade laid paper, the outer leaf pasted to th eboard Structure: British Edges: plain cut with plough marks, sprinkled with a red pigment, polished Spine Lining: slight round, quadrant joints, adhesive, no linings End Bands: sewn L-R 1x1 in red and white thread over a cord core, the slips cut off at the joint Bookmark: None Boards: 4 mm rope-fibre couched-laminate boards, no back cornering, slips 1, 3 and 5 only laced in, angled up in the left board, down in the right. Covering: Full brown tanned calf Tooling Spine: title label in panel 2(missing), the other panels gold-tooled with corner and centre tools, except panel 3 which has an arabic numeral 2 (retail binding?) Tooling Sides: gold-tooled two-line border frame, blind-tooled roll on the board edges Furniture: Enclosure: Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
v. 2.,116plates . 8vo.. Old Wimpole selfmarks: Tt/6; N.5.14 [brown ink]; Tt.1.52 [ink]; Bmu/n 5v.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770].. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf binding; gold-tooled fillets; gold-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas Wotton (c.1695 - 1766)