The great teacher . characteristics of Our Lord's Ministry by the Rev. John Harris.
John Harris (1802-1856)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Measurements
208 x 29 x 34 mm
Place of origin
England
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3098062
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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: contemporaryBinder's Name: English End Leaves: Single fold of spanish marbled paper made to a sewn single fold of white wove paper followed by a sigle leaf of white wove paper. Outer leaf of marbled paper pasted to boardStructure: EnglishEdges: Plain cut, spirnkled with a brown pigment and polished Spine Lining: Slight round, square joints and paper hollow tube on the spine. 4 false bands marked up with dividers. End Bands: Worked L-R 2x2 in red and grey silk over flat parchment cores.Bookmark: Broad beige silk ribbon glue to spine under centre of headband Boards: 2.5mm rpe fibre boardback cornered, all slips laced in Covering: Brown tanned calf, varnished (?) Tooling Spine: old-tooled fillet frame to each panel, title tooled direct in panel 2, author’s name in panel 4, fleuron in panels 1,3,5Tooling Sides: gold-tooled dpuble fillet border, outside broad blind-tooled roll over blind dicing done on the book; gold-tooled roll on board edges. Furniture: None Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes: Presented to to Sir George Crewe in 1837. There is a curipous impression across the top of the title page and following leaves, perhaps from a misplaced pressing board?
Bibliographic description
xvi, 427, [12]p. . 20cm.. Front board loose. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: "Presented to Sir George Crewe by M? Fox of Ruddington Hall. April 1837" [ie Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet 1795-1844]. Inscription written transversely across title page: "Calke Abbey Library 1837" [ie Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet 1824-1886]. Binding: Nineteenth century diced and blind tooled calf binding.
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John Harris (1802-1856)