Gemmae selectae antiquae e museo Jacobi de Wilde, sive L. tabulae diis deabusque gentilium ornatae, per possessorem conjecturis, veterumque poetarum carminibus illustratae.
Jacob de Wilde (1645 - c.1725)
Category
Books
Date
1703
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3079112
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 177, [7] p., [1], 50 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 4to. Running number: 6235. Interleaved with blank leaves, some containing manuscript notes in an unidentified eighteenth-century hand. Binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled full vellum over boards; sewn onto four supports; both covers have a blind-tooled framework consisting of an outer border of double and single fillets and an inner panel of double fillets, the inner panel with blind cornerpiece stamps, and a large blind decorative strapwork centrepiece stamp; manuscript title at head of spine; spine cracked, partially missing at foot. Blue and red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jacob de Wilde (1645 - c.1725) , author Adriaan Schoonebeek (1657-1705), engraver (printmaker) Maria de Wilde (b.1682), engraver (printmaker)