COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL233102829
Reference Number:
3090
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Binding of book
Parent Work Title:
Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes rubrice p[ri]mi libri incipiu[n]t..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Works. 1465
Creator:
Kalthoeber, Christian Samuel, active 1780-1817
Creator Role:
Binder
Date Created:
18th century or 19th century
Page/Sheet:
Upper cover
Description:
Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century full gold-tooled red straight-grained goatskin over wooden boards; ornate border of a frame of intersecting rolls containing a stem with curling vine roll in the sides and wreath and annulet tools in the corners; centre panel with border of double fillets with curled sides and curved corners containing circular floral tools; 2nd Earl Spencer's coat of arms with crest, motto, supporters and coronet gilt-stamped (Spencer stamp 01 in British Armorial Bindings database). Binder's blue and gilt ticket on verso of first front fly-leaf: 'Bound by C. Kalthoeber London' [i.e. Christian Samuel Kalthoeber (active 1780-1817)].
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Sub-Category:
Coats of arms
Technique Used:
Gold stamping
Medium:
Gold leaf
Support:
Goatskin
Item Height:
330 mm
Item Width:
225 mm
Provenance:
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Provenance:
Reviczky von Revisnye, Karl Emerich Alexander, Graf von, 1737-1793, former owner
Provenance:
Ghesquiere, J. (Joseph), 1731-1802, 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
JRL233102829
