Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789, . undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity, of the kingdom of France. To which is added, the register of a tour into Spain. By Arthur Young, Esq. F.R.S. ... In two volumes.
Arthur Young (1741-1820)
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Measurements
207 x 138 x 47 mm
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065309.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding Date of Binding: Contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Replaced with a tipped single fold of calendered white machine-made wove paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: English Edges: Plain cut with plough marks, coloured yellow, polished Spine Lining: slight round, with no visible linings End Bands: worked 1x1 L-R in beige and red silk over rolled paper cores Bookmark: No Boards: 3mm rope fibre boards, back cornered, slips 1, 3 and 5 only laced in Covering: Brown tanned hairsheep, marbled Tooling Spine: gold-tooled single fillet at head and tail of each panel, title gold-tooled on a red leather label in panel 2, volume number tooled direct in panel 3. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled hatched roll on the board edges. Furniture:None Enclosure: Bookshoe Binding Notes: Bookplate of Charles and Mary Trevelyan
Bibliographic description
v.1.,plates . maps (folded) . 8vo.. Some marginal marks.. Provenance: MS. on half-title: GO Trevelyan May 1888. Bookplate: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Bart. of Wallington 1870-1958 & Mary Trevelyan 1881-1966].. Binding: Full calf; sewn onto five raised bands;gilt fillets on spine; red spine label. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Arthur Young (1741-1820)