Detail View: LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection: Fore-edge, STC 25259.
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Image Caption:
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Fore-edge, STC 25259.
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General Description:
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A binding by Francis Bedford, with Elizabethan style gauffering, ca. 1850. Black goatskin over millboards with gilt decoration. Gilt and gauffered edges.
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Binder:
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Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883.
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Country / Style:
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England, London
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Period:
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ca. 1850
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Call Number:
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STC 25259
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Provenance:
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Sale of the stock of W. J. Leighton, Sotheby's, November 14, 1918, lot 800; Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937).
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Author:
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Werdmü̈ller, Otto, 1511-1552.
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Title:
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[Kleintot, von trost und hilff. English]. A spirituall, and most precious pearle ...
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Created / Published:
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Printed at London : By Robert Robinson, 1593.
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Hamnet URL:
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http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=168111
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Technical Description:
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Sewn on five thin raised cords, with made marbled endpapers and pastedowns with one plain endpaper. Rounded and backed spine. Double head- and tailbands worked in brown, white, and pink silk. Boards back cornered. Head- and tailcaps tied round. Mitered corners. Plated covers.
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Dimensions:
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98 x 72 x19 mm.
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Decorative Description:
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Edges gilt and gauffered in an interlaced herringbone design. Binding, signed "BOUND BY F. BEDFORD," is decorated with gilt corner tools which in turn form a centerpiece set on a seme of stars. Border comprises a roll and two-line fillet. Full gilt spine. Edges of the boards and turn-ins gilt with fillet and roll.
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Other Details:
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The gilt gauffering on this little binding resembles the edge decoration on Constantius Felicius, The Conspiracie of Catiline, London, John Waley, [1557], bound ca. 1560-65.
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Literature:
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Folger 9:13 (Folger Shakespeare Library, Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, New York, 1992).
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Decorated edges -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Fillet tools -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Gauffered edges -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Gilt edges -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Goatskin bindings -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 19th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Leather bindings -- England -- 19th century.
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