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Folger Shakespeare Library Bindings Image Collection
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Folger Shakespeare Library Bindings Image Collection
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Image Caption:
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Front cover, ART Vol. f111 copy 2.
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Front cover, ART Vol. f111 copy 2.
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General Description:
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A "Cosway binding" by Riviere & Son, 1928. Dark blue goatskin over millboards with inset miniatures of William Shakespeare surrounded by gold tooling.
General_Description
A "Cosway binding" by Riviere & Son, 1928. Dark blue goatskin over millboards with inset miniatures of William Shakespeare surrounded by gold tooling.
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Binder:
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Riviere & Son.
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Riviere & Son.
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Country / Style:
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England, London
Country_Style
England, London
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Period:
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1928
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Call Number:
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ART Vol. f111 copy 2
Classification
ART Vol. f111 copy 2
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Author:
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Boaden, James, 1762-1839.
Author
Boaden, James, 1762-1839.
Author
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Title:
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An inquiry into the authenticity of various pictures and prints which, from the decease of the poet to our own times, have been offered to the public as portraits of Shakspeare ...
Title
An inquiry into the authenticity of various pictures and prints which, from the decease of the poet to our own times, have been offered to the public as portraits of Shakspeare ...
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Created / Published:
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London : Printed for Robert Triphook, 1824 (B. M’Millan, printer)
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London : Printed for Robert Triphook, 1824 (B. M’Millan, printer)
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Author:
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Currie, C. B., d. ca. 1940, artist.
Author
Currie, C. B., d. ca. 1940, artist.
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Title:
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Five miniatures of Shakespeare
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Five miniatures of Shakespeare
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Created / Published:
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1928.
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1928.
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Technical Description:
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Sewn on five raised cords. Blue watered silk doublures. Three plain wove endpapers, with blue watered silk drummed onto the first and last, over a pasted-in mitered leather joint. Rounded and backed spine. Green, blue, and white double head- and tailbands. Laminate upper board with four round and one oval recesses. Boards slightly cushioned and back cornered. Head- and tailcaps tied round. Mitered corners. Plated and polished covers.
Technical_Descriptio n
Sewn on five raised cords. Blue watered silk doublures. Three plain wove endpapers, with blue watered silk drummed onto the first and last, over a pasted-in mitered leather joint. Rounded and backed spine. Green, blue, and white double head- and tailbands. Laminate upper board with four round and one oval recesses. Boards slightly cushioned and back cornered. Head- and tailcaps tied round. Mitered corners. Plated and polished covers.
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Dimensions:
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287 x 220 x 21 mm.
Display_Dimensions
287 x 220 x 21 mm.
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Decorative Description:
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Mitered two-line fillet panel on both covers. Upper cover: two-line gouge work surrounds the portraits with sprays of leafy stemmed roses filling the rest of the panel. Lower cover: small sprays of roses form cornerpieces. Stemmed roses and double panels occupy four of the spine compartments with the title and author tooled in the second and third and the date 1824 in the small panel at the tail. A pin-head line decorates each band. Hatching on head- and tailcaps with a narrow two-line fillet running around board edges. Turn-ins tooled with a double fillet border and leafy roses at angles. A gilt stamp on the lower edge of the front doublure: "BOUND BY RIVIERE & SON. FROM DESIGNS BY J. H. STONEHOUSE"; on the lower turn-in of the same doublure: "BOUND BY RIVIERE AND SON" stamped in gilt. The gilt inscription, "Miniatures by C. B. Currie" is stamped on the back doublure. "H. SOTHERAN & CO. OF PICCADILLY LONDON" is ink stamped on the lower corner of the first endpaper.
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Mitered two-line fillet panel on both covers. Upper cover: two-line gouge work surrounds the portraits with sprays of leafy stemmed roses filling the rest of the panel. Lower cover: small sprays of roses form cornerpieces. Stemmed roses and double panels occupy four of the spine compartments with the title and author tooled in the second and third and the date 1824 in the small panel at the tail. A pin-head line decorates each band. Hatching on head- and tailcaps with a narrow two-line fillet running around board edges. Turn-ins tooled with a double fillet border and leafy roses at angles. A gilt stamp on the lower edge of the front doublure: "BOUND BY RIVIERE & SON. FROM DESIGNS BY J. H. STONEHOUSE"; on the lower turn-in of the same doublure: "BOUND BY RIVIERE AND SON" stamped in gilt. The gilt inscription, "Miniatures by C. B. Currie" is stamped on the back doublure. "H. SOTHERAN & CO. OF PICCADILLY LONDON" is ink stamped on the lower corner of the first endpaper.
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Other Details:
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"Cosway bindings" take their name from Richard Cosway (c. 1742-1821), the English miniaturist, and were the invention of J. H. Stonehouse (1864-1937), the managing director of Sotheran & Co. Miss C. B. Currie, the miniaturist employed by Riviere & Son, is not mentioned in Sotheran catalogues before 1912. Nixon notes that "by 1930 Sotheran's had commissioned nine hundred examples — but then production slackened and ceased with Miss Currie's death about 1940." The five miniatures of Shakespeare are copied from well-known portraits described in Boaden's text.
Other_Details
"Cosway bindings" take their name from Richard Cosway (c. 1742-1821), the English miniaturist, and were the invention of J. H. Stonehouse (1864-1937), the managing director of Sotheran & Co. Miss C. B. Currie, the miniaturist employed by Riviere & Son, is not mentioned in Sotheran catalogues before 1912. Nixon notes that "by 1930 Sotheran's had commissioned nine hundred examples — but then production slackened and ceased with Miss Currie's death about 1940." The five miniatures of Shakespeare are copied from well-known portraits described in Boaden's text.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Raised bands -- England -- 20th century.
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Raised bands -- England -- 20th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Goatskin bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Goatskin bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Fillet tools -- England -- 20th century.
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Fillet tools -- England -- 20th century.
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Leather bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Leather bindings -- England -- 20th century.
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Literature:
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Foot, vol. 2, no. 239; Middleton, pp. 199-200; Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 100; Sotheran Catalogue 812 (1928), p. 104.
References
Foot, vol. 2, no. 239; Middleton, pp. 199-200; Nixon, Five Centuries, no. 100; Sotheran Catalogue 812 (1928), p. 104.
Literature
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Literature:
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Folger 13:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
References
Folger 13:2 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
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