A brief commentary on the Revelation of St John. . From the German of the celebrated Herder. To which is prefixed, a short biographical account of the author.
Johann Gottfreid von Herder
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Measurements
187 x 110 x 25 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3144897
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade(?) white wove paperInk/Pigment: black printing ink and iron gall ink on the let made endleaf verso. Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, recessed supports & hollow Date of Binding: Contemporary Binder's Name: BritishEnd Leaves: Tipped single fold of green drab paper made to f.ii outer side of a sewn double fold of white handmade wove paper, the outer full green leaf and the outermost white leaf(?) pasted to the board Structure: BritishEdges: plain cut, marbled, polishedSpine Lining: near flat, square joints, a continuous lining of woven linen textile, artificial hollow back with a thin card spine inlay and 4 broad, flat raised bandsEnd Bands: sewn double endband (rolled paper cores) with a bead core in red, cream, green and yellow-ochre silk in bands of varying widths.Bookmark: blue silk ribbon marker Boards: 2.5mm rope-fibre couched laminate boards, slips 1, 3 nd 5 only laced in, angled down in the left board up in the right. Covering: full brown tanned calfTooling Spine: title direct in gold in panel 2, the other panels filled with a large gold-tooled arabesque tool, with a gold-tooled roll in the in-fill panels at head and tail, flat raised bands tooled in gold; Tooling Sides: Furniture: NoneEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
xii,291,[1]p. . 12mo.. Former shelfmarks: Tt.8.10; G.. Provenance: Inscribed: Harwicke. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; gilt- and blind-rolled on boards; gilt-tooled on spine; gilt-lettered on spine: Herder on St. John, marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Gottfreid von Herder