Gemme antiche figurate . date in luce da Domenico De' Rossi colle sposizione di Paolo Alessandro Maffei ...
Paolo Alessandro Maffei (1653-1716)
Category
Books
Date
1707 - 1709
Materials
Measurements
279 x 222 x 60 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3053960.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Text Substrate:handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing and engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: tipped single-fold of combed marbled paper, made to leaf 2 of a sewn double-fold of this plain, white handmade laid paper, the outermost plain leaf (?) and the outer marbled leaf pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: All edges gilt Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, no visible linings End Bands: sewn L-R 1x1x1 in blue pink and green silk over a rolled paper core with a cane crowning core, all cut at the joints. Bookmark: None Boards: 4 mm paper couched laminate rope fibre millboards, back-cornered, all slips laced, angled up in the left board, down in the right. Covering: full red tanned goat Tooling Spine: old-tooled 3-line tool frame to all panels, titled direct in panel 2, others with large corner tools and central ornament. Tooling Sides: gold-tooled 3-line and dog-tooth roll border frame, with two concentric frames with external corner tools on outer; gold -tooled roll on board edges Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
pt. 1., plates . ill.. . 4to.. Former shelfmark: Rr.9.5. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. - Inscribed in pencil on front free-endpaper: 'Mr Cooper / 9-15-0'. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco, gold-panelled and decorated, gold-decorated spine, gold-lettered.
Makers and roles
Paolo Alessandro Maffei (1653-1716) Domenico de'Rossi (17th/18th century)