Detail View: LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection: Decorative paper on front cover and spine, STC 3992 copy 2.

Image Caption: 
Decorative paper on front cover and spine, STC 3992 copy 2.
General Description: 
18th century Dutch pulled paste paper and half vellum binding.
Country / Style: 
Netherlands
Period: 
18th century
Call Number: 
STC 3992 copy 2
Provenance: 
Harmsworth copy.
Author: 
Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.
Title: 
Rerum Scoticarum historia, auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. Ad Iacobum VI. Scotorum Regem. Accessit De iure regni apud Scotos dialogus, eodem Georgio Buchanano auctore.
Created / Published: 
[Antwerp : Printed by G. van den Rade] M.D.XXCIII. Ad exemplar Alexandri Arbuthneti editum Edimburgi, [1583]
Hamnet URL: 
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=161932
Dimensions: 
319 x 220 x 32 mm
Covering Material: 
Half vellum and paste paper boards.
Sewing: 
Sewn on four vellum slips adhered to the inside of the boards.
Headbands: 
Stuck-on green silk with a front bead sewn on a vellum support.
Edge Treatment: 
Colored red.
End Papers: 
Single flyleaf and paste-down.
Decorative Description: 
Half vellum and pulled paste paper boards.
Binding Terms (RBMS): 
Decorated papers -- Netherlands -- 18th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS): 
Paper bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS): 
Paste papers -- Netherlands -- 18th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS): 
Quarter bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS): 
Vellum bindings -- Netherlands -- 18th century.