The life of William Wilberforce.
Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802 - 1857)
Category
Books
Date
1838
Materials
Measurements
195 x 128 x 28 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3075218.4
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Machine-made wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Tipped single-fold of white wove paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: English Edges: Plain cut, sprinkled with brown pigment, polished Spine Lining: slight round, hollow back made with printed waste. End Bands: Stuck-on, green textile folded over core. Bookmark: None Boards: 2mm rope fibre, slips 1, 3 and 5 laced in, perpendicular Covering: Half, dark brown, tanned calf and ‘spanish’ pattern veined marbled paper Tooling Spine: 8 gold-tooled double fillets with black leather lettering piece in panel 2, arabic volume number in panel 6. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled double fillet along edges of leather Furniture: None Enclosure: Bookshoe Binding Notes: Bookplate of Charles and Mary Trevelyan
Bibliographic description
v.4. . ill.., facsims.., ports.. . 12mo.. MS. notes. Thumbprints (Macaulay's?). Provenance: Bookplate: Charles & Mary Trevelyan (i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan of Wallington, 3rd Bart. 1870-1958, & Mary Trevelyan, 1881-1966).. Binding: Nineteenth-century half leather; marbled boards; black title label lettered in gilt: `Life of Wilberforce'. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802 - 1857) Samuel Wilberforce (1805 - 1873), Bishop of Winchester