Vathek . translated from the original French.
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Measurements
194 x 129 x 24 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 3069741
Summary
Full description
Orientation: VerticalText Substrate: Handmade wove paper by Balston, watermarked 1822Ink/Pigment: black printing and engraving inkType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: EnglishEnd Leaves: Tipped single fold ofplain white wove paper, with a second single, tipped, flyleaf following the firstStructure: EnglishEdges: Plain cut, finely sprinkled with faded brown pigment and polished Spine Lining: Slight round with quadrant joints, no visible linings.End Bands: Worked L-R 1x1 in blue and white thread over rolled paper cores. Bookmark: NoneBoards: 2mm rope fibre boards, back cornered, lips 1 and 4 only laced in, perpendicular.Covering: Brown tanned calf, polishedTooling Spine: gold-tooled double fillet at head and tail of each panel with fleuon within a blind-tooled frame; red tanned leather lettering piece in panel 2Tooling Sides: gold-tooled roll border - no other tooling.Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: A leaf of handmade laid paper ( watermarked [A]LLNUTT) is folded with a stub and tipped to the recto of the front flyleaf with an ms note and quotation from Byron.
Bibliographic description
1v. . 8vo.. Provenance: Manuscript quotation from Byron tipped in; marked "Scarce" in a nineteenth-century hand. Binding: Nineteenth-century plain calf binding.
Makers and roles
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) William Clarke [publisher]