The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were. A work full of curiosity and learning.
Nostradamus (1503-1566)
Category
Books
Date
1672
Materials
Measurements
306 x 205 x 44 mm
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 3185380
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade laid paper Ink/Pigment: red and black printing ink. Inserted facsimile of an engraved frontispiece made by an unidentified process. Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Inboard binding, raised supports Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: British End Leaves: inserted single fold of toned wove paper with a single surviving flyleaf of white handmade laid paper from the original binding tipped to the outermost leaf of the textblock at each end. Structure: English Edges: plain cut, marbled, polished Spine Lining: slight round, quadrant joints, no visible linings End Bands: worked L-R 2x2 in red and cream silk over rolled paper cores Bookmark: None Boards: 4mm paper pulp board, no back-cornering, all slips laced, angled up in the left board and down in the right. Covering: full brown tanned calf, sprinkled with large drops of black pigment in different dilutions Tooling Spine: panels 1, 4 and 6 gold-tooled with centre and corner tools, panels 3, 5 and 7 filled with horizontal impressions of a gold-tooled roll, panel 2 with red tanned goatskin lettering piece, titled in gold, with corner tools in lower corners. Tooling Sides: blind-tooled 2-line frame and double quarter line with internal corner fleurons; blind-tooled roll on board edges. Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: Early marbled edges. Bookplate of Lord Vernon, and acidic stain of lost newspaper cutting above it inside the left board.
Bibliographic description
[36],522p.,plate. fol.. Shelflist entry - state unknown. Frontispiece in facsimile. Provenance: Bookplate "Vernon semper viret". Purchased in 2011. Binding: original or contemporary pebbled calf; spine gilt-tooled; gilt-lettered on red label 'Nostradamus'; marbled edges. Red diamond shaped label at head of spine with former shelfmark K.1[?]. Joints repaired.
Provenance
Purchased in 2011 with the aid of grants from Friends of the National Libraries and North Staffordshire NT Association.
Makers and roles
Nostradamus (1503-1566), author Theophilus Garencières (1610-1680), editor