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Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1712
Materials
Measurements
249 x 195 x 50 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3109269
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink with iron gall ink inscriptions on the flyleaves Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: sewn single-fold of handmade laid paper (foloowed by two stubs at the front); the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: plain-cut, srpinkled with red pigment, polished Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant joints, no visible linings End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 in plain thread over rolled paper cores Bookmark: None Boards: 5mm rope-fibre boards, no back-cornering, all slips laced through 2 holes, angled up in the front board, down in the back Covering: full, brown, tanned calf sprinkeld with black pigment Tooling Spine: gold-tooled 3-fillet froames in all panels, with centre and corner tools in panels 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6; lettering piece (now mising) in panel 2. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled roll on board edges Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Ownership inscription on front flyleaf recto: “Philip Yorke”
Bibliographic description
[44], 449, 21 p.; . 4to.. Former shelfmark: Ii.11.3. Provenance: Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper: 'Philip Yorke'; also 'Goriko' [in Greek characters]; Greek lettering on half-title; inscriptions on dedicatory page. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gold-decorated spine, blind-lettered. Boards detached.
Makers and roles
Demosthenes (384 - 322 BCE) Libanius (c.314-392/3) Giovanni Vicenzo Lucchesini (1660-1744)