BINDING - NEWCASTLE

BINDING - NEWCASTLE
[BRUCE (JOHN COLLINGWOOD, editor)] Lapidarium Septentrionale: Or, a Description of the Monuments of Roman Rule in the North of England. Published by The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, FIRST EDITION, 15 plates and maps (one large folding in pocket at end as issued, several chromolithographed), numerous illustrations in the text, additional hand-coloured diagram of "A Pier of Tyne Bridge" pasted onto the front free endpaper, 4-page manuscript note by Collingwood Bruce loosely inserted, contemporary binding made of carved wooden sides (see footnote), the upper cover with the figure of a standing Britannia with a border of flowers and ornamental decorations, 3 Roman coins (Hadrian; Sabina; Faustina) mounted in 3 corners (one missing), lower cover with ornamental border, and one Roman coin (of 4) in corner, morocco spine elaborately tooled in gilt, brown morocco gilt paste-downs and endpapers, g.e., one (of 2) silver clasp (Birmingham, 1877 mark, loose), preserved in original felt-lined box, folio (365 x 230mm.), Bernard Quaritch, 1875