La géometrie pratique, . divisée en quatre livres. ... Ouvrage enrichi de cinq cens planches gravées en taille-douce. ... Par Allain Manesson Mallet, ...
Allain Manesson-Mallet (1630-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1702
Materials
Measurements
226 x 155 x 32 mm
Place of origin
France
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139451.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing and engraving ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemorary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: sewn 2-leaf outside hook endleaf of white handmade laid paper with separate stubs, the stubs and the first full leaf originally pasted to the board Structure: British Edges: plain-cut, sprinkled with red and brown pigment, polished Spine Lining: moderate round, square joints, transverse parchement doucment linings in panels 1 and 6 End Bands: sewn L-R 1x1 in blue and white thread over a rolled paper core Bookmark: None Boards: 4 mm rope-fibre couched-laminate board, all slips laced, 3-hole at had and tail, 2-hole elsewhere angled up in the left board, down in the right Covering: full cover of brown tanned calf, sprinkled with a black pigment, spine stained black. Tooling Spine: titled in gold direct in panel 2, vol. number in panel 3 other panels with gold-tooled dog-tooth roll at head and tail, 2-line tool at left and right, with corner and centre tools, all in gold, gold-tooled roll in in-fill panel. Tooling Sides: None Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Same binder as Tt.6.57
Bibliographic description
v. 1., plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: [brown ink] AK.k.46; [pencil] B/7; [black ink] B.2.40. 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: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; five raised bands; gilt tooled on spine; gilt lettered spine: Geome de Malle.
Makers and roles
Allain Manesson-Mallet (1630-1706)