English Restoration Binding.- Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected...
English Restoration Binding.-
Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, W. Whittingaam, and others, second edition, title page in black and red within typographical border, pages ruled in red, woodcut initials and ornaments, printed music throughout, very light age yellowing, minor spotting and dust soiling, contemporary 0range and brown English goat skin, gilt-tooled to a cottage-roof design, incorporating hearts, and all-over floral motif and foliage, trace of ties, slightly rubbed, a.e.g., new comb-marbled endpapers, 24mo, Printed by T. C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1637.
***The cottage-roof design, typical of the Restoration period, remained in use until the early 18th century. Bookbindings in this style are often attributed to Robert Steel. Steel was apprenticed to Royal Binder Samuel Mearne. His wife Jane took over the workshop at his death in 1718. The literature on the bindings of this period includes H M Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, London, 1974; H M Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, London, 1978, n. 53; M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1983.
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English Restoration Binding.-
Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, W. Whittingaam, and others, second edition, title page in black and red within typographical border, pages ruled in red, woodcut initials and ornaments, printed music throughout, very light age yellowing, minor spotting and dust soiling, contemporary 0range and brown English goat skin, gilt-tooled to a cottage-roof design, incorporating hearts, and all-over floral motif and foliage, trace of ties, slightly rubbed, a.e.g., new comb-marbled endpapers, 24mo, Printed by T. C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1637.
***The cottage-roof design, typical of the Restoration period, remained in use until the early 18th century. Bookbindings in this style are often attributed to Robert Steel. Steel was apprenticed to Royal Binder Samuel Mearne. His wife Jane took over the workshop at his death in 1718. The literature on the bindings of this period includes H M Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, London, 1974; H M Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, London, 1978, n. 53; M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1983.
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