Detail View: LUNA: Folger Bindings Image Collection: Front cover, STC 12459 c.5.
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Image Caption:
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Front cover, STC 12459 c.5.
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General Description:
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Armorial binding with the arms of James I.
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Country / Style:
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England
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Period:
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17th century (early)
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Call Number:
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STC 12459 copy 5
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Provenance:
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royal arms of James I in gilt on front and back covers; inscriptions on t.p., some crossed out in ink, affecting legibility: monogram "A T R" and "Art: [Arthur] Maynwaring 1614"; bought by Folger from Anderson sale, 12 December 1917:382
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Author:
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Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.
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Title:
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[Historia d'Italia. English] The historie of Guicciardin: containing the vvarres of Italie and other partes, continued for manie yeares vnder sundrie kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same: and also the arguments, with a table at large expressing the principall matters through the whole historie. Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton.
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Created / Published:
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England, London : by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate, 1599.
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Hamnet URL:
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http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=168691
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Dimensions:
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290 x 195 x 67 mm
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Covering Material:
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Dark brown calfskin (repaired with beige calfskin).
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Sewing:
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Sewn on six single raised alum tawd supports laced through the boards.
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Headbands:
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Missing.
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Edge Treatment:
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Colored red.
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End Papers:
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New single flyleaf and paste-down.
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Decorative Description:
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Blind tooled with a simple variable width triple line fillet border (tooled over later with a thin triple line fillet). In the center of the cover is a gilt rhombus shaped centerpiece stamp with faces at the top and bottom points, and with the coat of arms of James I in an oval garter belt. The spine is divided into seven panels with the author and title gilt on a red leather label framed with a gilt dog's tooth roll in the second panel. All other panels have a gilt cone with crowning floret stamp in the center.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Armorial bindings -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Blind tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Calf bindings -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Fillet tools -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Gold tooled bindings -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Leather bindings -- England -- 17th century.
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Binding Terms (RBMS):
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Raised bands -- England -- 17th century.
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