Io. Bodini Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem; . accurate denuo recusa: subiecto rerum indice.
Jean Bodin (1530-1596)
Category
Books
Date
1650
Materials
Measurements
132 x 79 x 32 mm
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3112780
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing and engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: Sewn single-fold of plain white handmade laid paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: plain cut, sprinkled with red and brown pigment, polished Spine Lining: slight round, quadrant joints, no visible lining End Bands: sewn L-R 2x2 in blue and white thread over split-cane cores Bookmark: Nnne Boards: 3 mm paper pulp boards, no back cornering, all slips laced - perpendicular? Covering: Full tanned brown polished calf Tooling Spine: 5 pairs of blind-tooled 2-line tools, with a late 18th century green tanned goat title label with 6 gold-tooled 1-line tools across the spine. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 2-line border frame with internal corner tools, blind-tooled 2-line tool on board edges. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes:
Bibliographic description
Add. engr. t.-pl., [10], 410, [10] p. . 12mo.. Former shelfmark: Ff.1.1. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century mottled calf, gold-ruled spine, gold-lettered, boards detached.
Makers and roles
Jean Bodin (1530-1596)