Detail View: Early Printing Collection: JRL233102829

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: 
Creative Commons License
Educational Notes: 
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead: 
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead: 
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead: 
Ed Potten