A chronicle of the late intestine war in the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. . With the intervening affairs of treaties, and other occurrences relating thereunto. As also the several usurpations, forreign wars, differences and interests depending upon it, to the happy restitution of our sacred soveraign, K. Charles II. In four parts, viz. the commons war, democracie, protectorate, restitution. By James Heath, Gent.
James Heath (1629-1664)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Measurements
308 x 208 x 54 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3089576
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black and red printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: F: separate pastedown with a single laid leaf tipped to frontispiece and in inserted early mould-made wove paper. B: separate pastedown only. Structure: English Edges: plain cut, marbled (early ‘turkish’), polished Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, no visible lining End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 plain(?) thread over rolled paper cores Bookmark: loosely inserted green ribbon (19th century?) Boards: 3.5mm laminated couched laminate(?) boards with pieces of tanned skin between the laminations showing in the lower back edge of the back board, no back cornering, all slips laced , perpendicular Covering: brown tanned calf, sprinkled with large drops of a black corrosive stain, polished Tooling Spine: blind-tooled 3-fillet frames within each panel Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 3-fillet board and quarter line, fleurons head and tail of ‘quarter’ panel small fleuron in corners of other panel; gold-tooled roll on the board edgesFurniture: Enclosure: None Binding Notes: None
Bibliographic description
[8],604,[18]p., plate . ports.. . fol.. Ms. inscription on front pastedown [possibly in the hand of Charles Winn (1795-1874)?]: Dibdin vol. 3 348 ... manuscript bookseller's inscriptions, including price: 14/. Old manuscript price inscription on recto of frontis.: 18s - altered in manuscript to 28/s.. Binding: Seventeenth-century full quarter blind ruled calf; sewn onto five leather thongs.
Makers and roles
James Heath (1629-1664) John Phillips