COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233101584
Reference Number:
9796
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Binding of book
Parent Work Title:
M. Valerii Martialis Epigramatum opus in Amphitheatrum Caesaris..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Epigrammata. 1475
Creator:
Chapman, Christopher, -1758
Creator Role:
Binder
Date Created:
18th century
Page/Sheet:
Upper cover
Description:
England, eighteenth-century gold-tooled red goatskin over wooden boards, bound for Lord Harley by Christopher Chapman (approximately 1704-1758); sewn on six raised bands. On both covers double fillets form two concentric frames: within the outer frame is an ornamental roll of three-quarter circles containing alternately a sun and anthemion (H. Nixon, 'Harleian bindings', pl. 14, Chapman roll 2), within the inner frame is a floral roll (Nixon, 'Harleian bindings', pl. 13), and on the inside of the border is an alternating fleur-de-lis and three-petalled flower roll (Nixon, 'Harleian bindings', pl. 14, Chapman roll 1); both covers have an elongated lozenge-shaped centrepiece made-up of numerous individual tools, mostly of the leafed volute type with numerous curving lines both solid and dotted, the other tools mainly unidentified (but including Nixon, 'Harleian bindings', pl. 15, Chapman no. 8).
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Technique Used:
Gold tooling
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Goatskin
Item Height:
300 mm
Item Width:
210 mm
Provenance:
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, former owner
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Provenance:
Kloster Petershausen, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
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