The English topographer: . or, An historical account, (as far as can be collected from printed books and manuscripts) of all the pieces that have been written relating to the antiquities, natural history, or topgraphical description of any point of England. Alphabetically digested, and illustrated with the draughts of several very curious old seals, exactly engraven from their respective originals.
Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)
Category
Books
Date
1720
Materials
Measurements
217 x 171 x 80 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3109523
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper with larger interleaving also of handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink, extensively annotated on text and interleaving with iron gall ink. Interleaving foliated in pencil Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: 19.3 Binder's Name:British End Leaves: tipped single fold of handmade wove paper followed by two leaves of discoloured machine wove paper, the outer laid leaf pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: cut before present sewing, no decoration, not polished for this binding. Spine Lining: moderate round, square joints, artifical hollow of dark grey paper End Bands: stuck-on woven ‘double’ endbands in red and yellow thread Bookmark: None Boards: 8mm double thickness rope-fibre board, with 50% peripheral cushion. Attachment not known. Covering: full tanned brown calf, rebacked with a polished tanned brown calf Tooling Spine: blind-tooled 3-fillet at head and tail of panels 1, 4, 5 and 6 with blind-tooled floral ornament in centre; red tanned goat label in panel 2, titled in gold; black tanned goat label in panel 3, lettered in gold. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 3 fillet boarder with blind-tooled rosette over joins at corners and blind-tooled roll inside the fillets, blind-tooled 2-fillet inner frame with ornament at corners; blind-tooled rolls on board edges and turn-ins. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: heavily annotated by Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford.
Bibliographic description
[8], xliv, 275, [13] p. . ill.. . 8vo.. Provenance: Inscribed in pencil on front pastedown: 'From the Library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford / with his MS additions'. - Illustrated 'Ex libris Jacobi D.R. Lyell'. - Loosely inserted typescript as from a sale catalogue: 'From the Library ... / Interleaved and / with manuscript notes & comments / By him'. - Interleaved copy with extensive additional matter in Harley's hand. - Affixed to front free-endpaper, an ALs (four pages) in ink dated '307 Regent Street W / Saturday night' ... 'To Messrs / Puttick and Simpson'. The letter is in a nineteenth-century hand and is sign on p. [3]: Charles Wright. This volume has had illustrations (some at least printed?) removed from the blank interleaves which may explain why Wright's letter has a p.s. below the singature "Although I would much rather that the added cuttings respecting Seals were awry from the Harley Vol. - they really are very interesting in themselves.". Binding: Nineteenth-century blind embossed calf, blind-decorated spine, red and black spine-labels, gold-lettered, joints cracked.
Makers and roles
Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)