Alberti RubenI Petri Pauli f. De re vestiaria veterum, praecipue de lato clavo libri duo, et alia eiusdem opuscula posthuma, quorum seriem adversa pagina exhibet.
Albert Rubens (1614-1657)
Category
Books
Date
1665
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3210958
Summary
Bibliographic description
[28], 328 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 4to. Running number: 6104. Provenance: manuscript initial on front free endpaper: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "ε'." [i.e. epsilon' = Greek number 5]. Manuscript codes on front pastedown: "e/l", "i"[underlined], and on front free endpaper: "u"[underlined] and "s"[underlined]. Manuscript number below imprint on title page: "3701". Manuscript code on rear pastedown: "(+/+)". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; sewn onto four vellum sewing supports; foredges folded-over; spine cracked, partially missing; manuscript title and number on spine; green head and tailbands.
Makers and roles
Albert Rubens (1614-1657), author Joannes Georgius Graevius (1632-1703), editor Giovanni Battista Doni (1593-1647), author Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615 - 1678), engraver (printmaker)