COLLECTION NAME:
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
mediaCollectionId
BINDINGS~1~1
LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection
Collection
true
Image Caption:
Back cover, STC 2129.
view_description
Back cover, STC 2129.
Image Caption
false
General Description:
Mid 17th century English dated dedication binding.
general_description
Mid 17th century English dated dedication binding.
General Description
false
Country / Style:
England
country_style
England
Country / Style
false
Period:
17th century (mid)
style_period
17th century (mid)
Period
false
Call Number:
STC 2129
classification
STC 2129
Call Number
false
Provenance:
Note of baptism of Francis Newby, St. Dunstan's Church in the West, April 2, 1624; "My father Samuell Newby gave me this booke ye 7th of October 1644 ... F.N."; signature of William Wall, 1827; Elizabeth Boggis 22 April 1789, Harmsworth copy.
provenance
Note of baptism of Francis Newby, St. Dunstan's Church in the West, April 2, 1624; "My father Samuell Newby gave me this booke ye 7th of October 1644 ... F.N."; signature of William Wall, 1827; Elizabeth Boggis 22 April 1789, Harmsworth copy.
Provenance
false
Title:
Bible. English. Geneva. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteyned.
title
Bible. English. Geneva. The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the epistle to the reader. And also a most profitable concordance for the readie finding out of any thing in the same conteyned.
Title
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Created / Published:
Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1580.
created_published
Imprinted at London : By Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1580.
Created / Published
false
Hamnet URL:
repository_number
http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=169623
Hamnet URL
false
Dimensions:
222 x 160 x 84 mm
display_dimensions
222 x 160 x 84 mm
Dimensions
false
Covering Material:
Black goatskin, rebacked with black goatskin.
materials
Black goatskin, rebacked with black goatskin.
Covering Material
false
Sewing:
Sewn on five single slit leather supports. Supports one, two, three, and five are alum tawed. Four is a tanned leather support.
technique
Sewn on five single slit leather supports. Supports one, two, three, and five are alum tawed. Four is a tanned leather support.
Sewing
false
Edge Treatment:
Gilt on all three edges.
edge_treatment
Gilt on all three edges.
Edge Treatment
false
End Papers:
New, single flyleaf and paste-down over earlier paste-down with hidden provenance inscription.
end_papers
New, single flyleaf and paste-down over earlier paste-down with hidden provenance inscription.
End Papers
false
Closures:
Two fore-edge clasps hinging from the front covers and catching on the back cover. Both catch plates, one hasp, and both strap plates are extant. The original straps were double layers of vellum reinforcing a leather strap, now mostly missing.
closures
Two fore-edge clasps hinging from the front covers and catching on the back cover. Both catch plates, one hasp, and both strap plates are extant. The original straps were double layers of vellum reinforcing a leather strap, now mostly missing.
Closures
false
Decorative Description:
The covers are gilt with a two panel design. The frames are built up of two cats tooth on a line decorative rolls with a leaf on a vine decorative roll in-between. At angles is a gilt tulip-topped floral fleuron. In the middle of the of the outer panel at the top and bottom front cover is FRANCIS NEWBY HIS BOOKE GIVEN HIM BY - continued on the back cover - HIS FATHER SAMVELL NEWBY 1645. The inner panels are tooled with numerous small tools, double walled rhombus, tulip stamps of various sizes, circles, and annular dots, creating corner and center designs. The spine is divided into six panels with cats tooth on a line decorative roll tooled above and below the bands and at the top and bottom. The panels are gilt with the double walled rhombus tool and flanked with an extended tulip fleuron. The board edges were gilt with a hatched bar and three dots decorative roll.
decorative_description
The covers are gilt with a two panel design. The frames are built up of two cats tooth on a line decorative rolls with a leaf on a vine decorative roll in-between. At angles is a gilt tulip-topped floral fleuron. In the middle of the of the outer panel at the top and bottom front cover is FRANCIS NEWBY HIS BOOKE GIVEN HIM BY - continued on the back cover - HIS FATHER SAMVELL NEWBY 1645. The inner panels are tooled with numerous small tools, double walled rhombus, tulip stamps of various sizes, circles, and annular dots, creating corner and center designs. The spine is divided into six panels with cats tooth on a line decorative roll tooled above and below the bands and at the top and bottom. The panels are gilt with the double walled rhombus tool and flanked with an extended tulip fleuron. The board edges were gilt with a hatched bar and three dots decorative roll.
Decorative Description
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Clasps -- England -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Clasps -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Goatskin bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.
binding_terms__rbms_
Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false
Binding Terms (RBMS):
Rebacking.
binding_terms__rbms_
Rebacking.
Binding Terms (RBMS)
false