The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic.
Abbé René-Aubert de Vertot d'Auboeuf (1655-1735
Category
Books
Date
1770
Materials
Measurements
216 x 136 x 37 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3179621.1
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Sewn single fold of white handmade laid paper, the outer leaf pasted to the board Structure: English Edges: plain cut, finely sprinkled with red pigment and polished Spine Lining: moderate round, square joints, no visible linings. End Bands: worked L-R in red and yellow(?) silk over rolled paper cores Bookmark: None Boards: 3mm rope fibre boards, no back cornering, slips 1, 3 and 5 only laced in, angled up in the back board, down in the back Covering: brown tanned calf, sparsely sprinkled with a black pigment Tooling Spine: gold-tooled single fillet at head and tail of each panel, gold tooled arabic numeral in panel 3, red leather lettering piece in panel 2 Tooling Sides: gold-tooled hatched roll on board edges only. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Bookplate of William Gibbs inside front board
Bibliographic description
v.1. ; 8vo. Incorrect upper board with preliminary leaf bearing half title: Les six codes; on verso: Imprimerie de Casimir, Rue de la Vieille-monnaie, no 12, Près la rue des Lombards et la place de Châtelet; pencil manuscript on pastedown: 193 Codes. $. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "William Gibbs.", with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo y Esperanza." [i.e. William Gibbs (1790-1875)]; Inscribed on endpapers in separate hands: Anthony Gibbs [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1756-1815)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt on spine and board edges; five raised bands; gilt lettered spine label: Vertot's Roman revolutions. Detached calf upper board with triple blind fillet border.
Makers and roles
Abbé René-Aubert de Vertot d'Auboeuf (1655-1735 John Ozell (d.1743)