Aischylou tragodiai hepta = Æschyli tragoediæ septem :. cum scholiis græcis omnibus; deperditorum dramatum fragmentis,
Aeschylus (c.525 - c.456 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1663
Materials
Measurements
326 x 220 x 65 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Greenway, Devon
NT 3167272
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: red and black printing ink with ms ink on presentation leaf. Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: Low Countries - Amsterdam End Leaves: sewn double-fold of white, handmade, laid paper, the outer leaf torn back to a stub before covering, the second leaf pasted tothe board. Structure: BritishEdges: palin cut, spirnkled with red and blue pigment, polished Spine Lining: moderate round, quadrant jonits, transverse parchment linings End Bands: worked L-R 4x4 in green and cream silk over rolled paper core.Bookmark: NoneBoards: 5mm paper laminate board, no back cornering, all slips laced in.Covering: full cream calf parchment linend with white handmade laid paper (spine lined separately onto back edges of boards) Tooling Spine: gold-tooled 1-fillet at head and tail of each panel and across bnads, and above and below a band of blind-tooled cross hatching at head and tail, gold-tooled rosette in centre of each panel, late 18th-century red leather lettering piece in panel 2m, titled in gold.Tooling Sides: gold-tooled 2 fillet border and doubled frame with small Amsterdam arms at corner and large Amserdam arms block in centre. Furniture: 2 pair of green silk ties on foredgeEnclosure: NoneBinding Notes: name of recipient cut out from presentation leaf
Bibliographic description
[28], 886 p., plate :. ill. ;. 33 cm.. fol. Provenance: Price in pencil on inside front cover: `15/-'. Extract from printed sale catalogue pasted on fly-leaf, with a former library classmark in pencil. Printed Amsterdam college degree certificate bound before half-title page, with (apparently) a name cut out; dated 1675 in Roman numerals (part printed, part in ink), with name of Cornelius Sladus [rector of the Latin School] in ink. Binding: Full contemporary vellum binding, with gold borders and heraldic arms of an Amsterdam college on front and rear covers. Spine title in gold on red label. Raised bands. Some damage to spine. Coloured edges.
Makers and roles
Aeschylus (c.525 - c.456 BCE) Thomas Stanley (1625-1678)