The history of signboards, . from the earliest times to the present day. By Jacob Larwood, and John Camden Hotten. With one hundred illustrations in fac-simile by J. Larwood.
Jacob Larwood (1827-1918)
Category
Books
Date
1866
Materials
Measurements
200 x 140 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074395
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: machine-made calendered wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink, with ms inscription on left flyleaf and hand-coloured frontispiece Type:BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Case binding, bds & cover Date of Binding: Contemporary 19.3 Binder's Name: British. Bound by W. Bone and Son. 76. Fleet St. London. EC End Leaves: tipped single-fold of brown coated machine-made wove paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: British (Zaehnsdorf) Edges: plain cut on fore-edge and tail, opened bolts at head, no decoration Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, overall lining of mull under a continuous lining of grey paper End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: 2mm rope-fibre couched laminate (?) paper board Covering: full purply-brown pebble-grain bookcloth Tooling Spine: double line at head and tail and title at head of spine blocked in gold. Tooling Sides: blind blocked thin/thick 2-line border frame, gold-blocked inn-sign on left board.. Furniture: None Enclosure: Bookshoe Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
x,536p.,plates . ill.. . 4to.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endpaper (very faint): "Bought in the late Thomas Willam's sale. George Browne" [i.e. George Browne, 1834-1914]. Bookbinder's label attached to rear pastedown: 'Bound by W. Bone & Son. 76 Fleet St. London. E.C.'.. Binding: Publisher's brown cloth binding.
Makers and roles
Jacob Larwood (1827-1918) John Camden Hotten (1832-1873).