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ENGLISH BOOKBINDINGS 
 
 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 
 

ENGLISH 
 
 BOOKBINDINGS 
 
 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIXTY-THREE EXAMPLES 
 SELECTED ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR 
 BEAUTY OR HISTORICAL INTEREST 
 
 WITH 
 
 INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIONS BY 
 
 WILLIAM YOUNGER FLETCHER 
 
 F.S.A., LATE ASSISTANT KEEPER 
 DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS, BRITISH MUSEUM 
 
 THE PLATES PRINTED IN FACSIMILE BY W. GRIGGS 
 CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHER TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN 
 
 LONDON 
 
 KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER 
 AND COMPANY, LIMITED 
 
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Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty 
 
PREFACE 
 
 E bindings represented in the Plates contained in this 
 volume have been selected by permission of the Trustees 
 from the magnificent collection preserved in the Library 
 of the British Museum, and are all productions of English 
 or Scottish craftsmen, or of foreigners who were domiciled 
 in this country. Although they have been chosen 
 principally on account of their beauty or historical interest, they also serve 
 to illustrate the history of bookbinding in England from the end of the 
 twelfth century to the latter half of the eighteenth, when the genius of Roger 
 Payne raised the art from the low condition into which it had then fallen. 
 The Plates are the work of Mr. William Griggs, Chromo-lithographer to the 
 Queen; and all who are acquainted with the original bindings will not fail to 
 recognise and appreciate the admirable skill and accuracy with which they 
 have been copied. He has been especially successful in reproducing the 
 present condition of the embroidered books, many of which have been greatly 
 affected by time and exposure to light. 
 
 Each Plate is accompanied by a description of the binding represented, 
 and, when possible, some account of the binder, and of the person or persons 
 
 to whom the book upon which the binding is found once belonged, as well 
 
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 as any circumstances which give a special interest to the volume. It has 
 been thought that it would be more convenient to the reader to have this 
 information associated with the Plate itself than to have it buried in a long 
 and elaborate Introduction. The preliminary remarks therefore consist only of 
 a slight sketch of the binder’s art in this country. 
 
 I cannot more fitly bring this brief Preface to a close than by expressing 
 my grateful acknowledgments of the aid in obtaining photographs of the 
 
bindings which has been so readily afforded me by Sir Edward Maunde 
 Thompson, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Principal Librarian of the British Museum, 
 Mr. R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D., Keeper of the Department of Printed Books, 
 and Mr. E. J. L. Scott, Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts; and I also 
 offer my best thanks to my friends and late colleagues, Mr. G. F. Warner, 
 F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts, Mr. R. E. 
 Graves, Assistant Keeper, Department of Printed Books, Mr. C. J. Davenport, 
 F.S.A., and Mr. A. W. Pollard, of the same Department, for the kind and 
 valuable assistance they have rendered me in the preparation of this volume. 
 
 W. Y. F. 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 E Library of the British Museum possesses an unrivalled 
 series of English Bindings. Many of these are remarkable 
 for their historical interest, others for beauty of execution, 
 while not a few possess both these qualities. The greater 
 number are to be found on volumes of the Old Royal Col¬ 
 lection presented by King George n. to the Museum in 1757, 
 but many other notable examples are preserved in the 
 splendid Library of King George 111., acquired by the nation in 1823, and in the 
 fine collections bequeathed to the Museum by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode in 
 1799, and the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville in 1846. Others again have been 
 purchased by the Trustees from time to time as opportunities occurred. 
 
 The art of bookbinding flourished in England at a very early period, and 
 the researches of Mr. Weale, the learned Keeper of the Art Library of the 
 South Kensington Museum, show that during the latter half of the twelfth 
 century the professional binders of London and Winchester, and the monks 
 of Durham and other abbeys, had raised it to a degree of excellence not to be 
 found in other countries. Mr. Weale testifies that ‘ the leather and other 
 materials employed, and the binding itself, were excellent; and that the stamps 
 used for the ornamentation of the covers have never been surpassed for beauty 
 of design and execution.’ This assertion is fully substantiated by the binding 
 of the noble volumes of the Bible, written and bound at the Benedictine 
 Monastery, Durham, between the years 1153 and 1195, for Hugh Pudsey, 
 Bishop of that See, and given by him to the Cathedral Library, where they 
 are still preserved. Other fine examples of this period are the bindings of the 
 Liber de terris Regis reddentibus Langabulum et Brugium in JVinton , 
 generally known as the Winchester Domesday Book, which is now in the 
 possession of the Society of Antiquaries, and the Sententice of Petrus 
 Lombardus in the Bodleian Library. These bindings consist of wooden boards 
 covered with brown leather, and the ornamentation of the sides is composed 
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of numerous small stamps arranged in vertical and horizontal lines, forming a 
 border, which encloses other stamps in great variety. Two very characteristic 
 and well-preserved specimens of the binding of this time are represented in 
 Plates i. and n.; they are both of the end of the twelfth century, or quite the 
 
 beginning of the thirteenth, and are probably the earliest English bindings to 
 
 be found in the Museum. 
 
 The pre-eminence of English binding was not maintained for any length 
 of time, and, although some fairly good work was done during the next two 
 centuries, by the end of the fifteenth it had almost entirely lost its distinctive 
 style. This was principally due to two causes:—one being the necessity for 
 quicker and cheaper binding occasioned by the great increase of books due to 
 the invention of printing; and the other the number of foreign books which, by 
 
 an Act passed in the first year of Richard hi. (1484), were allowed to be 
 
 imported into this country. Many booksellers and stationers from the Continent 
 also opened establishments in London, Oxford, Cambridge, and other towns, 
 where they both sold and bound books, using the stamps which they had 
 brought with them from abroad for the decoration of the covers. One of these 
 was Theodore Rood, a native of Cologne, who settled at Oxford in 1478, and 
 took into partnership Thomas Hunte, an English stationer. They appear to 
 have been among the last of the binders who used small dies for the 
 ornamentation of their books, for the panel stamp, which was invented in the 
 Low Countries about the middle of the fourteenth century, was found to be so 
 suitable for the decoration of the smaller volumes that its use became almost 
 general for this purpose, and it was also occasionally employed, in combination 
 with the roll, for the larger ones. The earliest known example of it on an 
 English binding occurs upon a book-cover preserved in the library at West¬ 
 minster Abbey. Each side is impressed with the arms of King Edward iv., 
 enclosed by a border of fleurs-de-lis and other small ornaments. The few 
 bindings by Caxton which have reached our time are decorated with small 
 stamps of foreign make, the general design being distinctly German in character, 
 differing greatly from that found on English bindings (see Plate in.). The 
 binders who succeeded Caxton—the most important of whom were Richard 
 Pynson, Julian Notary, Henry Jacobi, Nicholas Spierinck or Speryng, Garret 
 Godfrey, and John Reynes—almost always used panel and roll stamps. Pynson 
 decorated the bindings of his books with his device in conjunction with a 
 panel bearing a Tudor rose surrounded with branches of vine with grapes, and 
 enclosed by a border of foliage and flowers (Plate iv.). Notary used two stamps, 
 which, with a few slight differences, were also employed by Jacobi and Reynes, 
 and by other binders of the time; one of these bears the royal arms, and the 
 
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other a Tudor rose, supported by angels, and enclosed within two scrolls, 
 inscribed with the verses:— 
 
 Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno 
 Eternum florens regia sceptra feret. 
 
 In the upper corners of these panels are generally placed the sun and 
 moon, as well as two small shields charged with the cross of St. George and 
 the arms of the City of London (Plate v.). In addition to these stamps, Reynes 
 used a very remarkable one representing the instruments of the Passion treated 
 as a coat of arms (see Plate vm.). The binder of the books bearing the arms 
 of Queen Katharine of Aragon (Plate vi.) and Queen Anne Boleyn (Plate vn.) 
 is unknown. 
 
 About the year 1540 the art of tooling in gold was introduced into England. 
 Thomas Berthelet, the King’s printer and binder, appears to have been the 
 first to practise it in this country, and the bindings represented in Plates x. 
 and xii. are no doubt early examples of his work. The designs which he 
 employed are evidently copied from Italian bindings, and in a bill for books 
 supplied to Henry vm., some of which Berthelet also bound for the King, he 
 charges, on the 15th of January 1542, among other items, six shillings for binding 
 ‘ a New Testament in latyne, and a Psalter englisshe and latyne, bounde backe to 
 backe, in white leather, gorgiously gilted on the leather; the bookes came to ij s ; 
 the byndyng and arabaske drawing in gold on the transfile iiij s . Summa 6 s ’; and 
 on the 14th of June in the same year he delivers for ‘ the Kinges hyghnes use ij 
 bookes of paper royall, bound after the Venecian fascion,’ for which he charges 
 eighteen shillings, about nine pounds of our present money. This bill, for which 
 Berthelet received payment on the 29th of September 1543, is again referred to 
 in the description of the binding of Elyot’s Image of Governance, represented in 
 Plate x. 
 
 After the death of Henry, Berthelet still continued to bind the royal books, 
 and two remarkably fine examples of his work, executed for King Edward vi. and 
 Queen Mary, are depicted in Plates xv. and xvi. King Henry vm., like several 
 of his predecessors, as well as successors, was a lover of fine bindings, 
 and possessed a very fair collection, or rather a number of collections, of 
 handsomely bound books; for besides his library at Westminster he possessed 
 others at Greenwich, Richmond, Windsor, Newhall in Essex, and Beddington in 
 Surrey. Many of his books, including the magnificent series on vellum bought 
 of Antoine Verard, the Paris printer and bookseller, which now forms one of the 
 choicest treasures of the national library, were bequeathed to him by his father, 
 King Henry vn. In the catalogue of his library at Westminster, compiled 
 towards the end of his reign, numerous notices occur of the binding of the 
 
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volumes. Some of these volumes were clothed in cloth of gold, or ‘ gilted and 
 covered with vellat,’ while others were bound ‘in lether and gorgiously gilted.’ 
 The King had also at Westminster two ‘ Masse Bookes,’ one of which was 
 ‘ covered with crimson vellat, with xij covers and peces of silver and gilte to 
 the same ’; the other being ‘ covered with tawney vellat, with claspes of 
 copper.’ 
 
 The inventory of his furniture at St. James’s contains entries of ‘a book 
 covered with green velvet, contained in a wooden case,’ ‘ a lyttel boke covered 
 with crymson vellat,’ a ‘ Description of the hollie lande ’—probably the book with 
 the handsome embroidered binding given in Plate ix.,—and a ‘boke covered with 
 vellat, embroidered with the Kings arms, declaring the same, in a case of black 
 leather, with his graces arms.’ 
 
 The rich and beautiful bindings which adorned many of the service-books 
 of the Church suffered greatly, during this and the succeeding reign, from the 
 religious intolerance of the age, and the opportunities afforded by it for plunder 
 by unprincipled persons. It is doubtful if any of these bindings survived an 
 Order in Council of Henry vm. * to strip off and pay into the King’s treasury 
 all gold and silver found on Popish books of devotion,’ and an Act of Edward vi., 
 passed in 1549, which orders that any person keeping one of these books, and 
 failing to give it up to the authorities by a certain date, for the purpose of having 
 it burnt, or otherwise destroyed, shall be fined ten shillings for the first offence, 
 four pounds for the second, and be imprisoned during the King’s pleasure for 
 the third. 
 
 Few bindings executed for King Edward vi. and Queen Mary are to be 
 found among the royal books presented to the British Museum by King George 11., 
 nor are there many which belonged to Queen Elizabeth. It is known, from the 
 account given in the Itinerary of Paul Hentzner, the German traveller, who in 
 1598 paid a visit to Elizabeth’s library at Whitehall, that it was well stored with 
 books in choice bindings, some of them ornamented with pearls and precious 
 stones; but these probably disappeared in the interval which elapsed between the 
 death of the Queen and the arrival of King James 1. in London. The dainty 
 little volume in rose-coloured velvet, with gold centre-pieces, corners, and clasps 
 (Plate xix.), came to the Museum with the library of King George in., and the 
 books with the fine bindings, represented in Plates xx. and xxi., were bequeathed 
 by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. Unfortunately we do not know who bound the 
 Queen’s books, nor are we acquainted with the names of the able craftsmen who 
 worked for the Earl of Leicester and Thomas Wotton. Some of the bindings 
 which belonged to the last named collector are but slightly inferior to those 
 executed for Grolier. 
 
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With respect to the volumes presented to Queen Elizabeth by Archbishop 
 Parker we are more fortunate. There is little doubt but that they were bound in 
 the workshop which the Archbishop established in his house for the printing, 
 decoration, and binding of his books. In this work he was greatly assisted by 
 John Day, the printer, and it is therefore not unlikely that the initials I D P, 
 which occur on the bindings of the Flores Historiarum of Matthew of West¬ 
 minster (Plate xx.) and The Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and English (Plate xxi.), 
 are those of that able man. 
 
 The reign of Elizabeth is remarkable for its embroidered bindings, several 
 of which are attributed to the Queen herself, who was a very skilful needle¬ 
 woman. Although there is no absolute proof that she executed them, still, as 
 some of them are found on volumes written by her, it is quite possible that 
 they are her work. One occurs on a copy of the Prayers or Meditations of 
 Queen Katharine Parr , translated into Latin, French, and Italian by Elizabeth 
 when Princess. The book is entirely in her own handwriting, with a dedi¬ 
 cation to her father, King Henry viii., dated Hertford, 20th December 1545. 
 The binding is crimson silk, embroidered with gold and silver thread and 
 coloured silks. In the centre of each cover is a large monogram of the names 
 Henry and Katharine. It is preserved in the Museum. Another is in the 
 Bodleian Library, and adorns a translation by Elizabeth from the French of 
 The Miroir or Glasse of the synneful Soule, made by her when only eleven years 
 old, and dedicated ‘ to our most noble and vertuous quene Katherin,’ to whom 
 ‘ Elizabeth her humble daughter wisheth perpetuall felicitie and everlasting 
 ioye.’ It is dated ‘Assherige, the laste daye of the yeare of our Lord God, 
 1544.’ The book is bound in blue silk, and has the Queen’s initials K. P. on 
 each cover, within an ornamental border worked in gold and silver thread. 
 
 King James 1. surpassed all our kings and queens in his admiration of 
 sumptuous bindings, and the British Museum possesses a considerable number 
 which were executed for him. Some are profusely studded with heraldic thistles 
 and fleurs-de-lis, and others with flaming hearts, tridents, etc. They generally 
 have ornamental corners, and always bear the royal arms in the centre of the 
 covers. They are imitations of the bindings of the books of Louis xm. of 
 France, which were often decorated with a semis of fleur-de-lis, sometimes 
 alone, and sometimes in combination with the crowned initial of the King. 
 
 Although it cannot be stated with certainty who executed these bindings 
 for James, it may be safely assumed that many of them are the work of John 
 and Abraham Bateman, the royal binders, but unfortunately it has not been 
 found possible to connect their names with any particular binding. Entries in 
 the Calendars of State Papers show that Robert Barker, the King’s printer in 
 
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ordinary, and John Norton, the King’s printer for the Latin, Greek, and 
 Hebrew tongues, also supplied bindings for the King’s service, but the titles of 
 the books are not specified, and they cannot therefore be identified. 
 
 In 1581, before James ascended the English throne, he appointed John 
 Gibson to the office of royal binder, and a bill for work done by him for the 
 King in 1580 has been printed by Dibdin in his Bibliographical Decameron ; 
 but as no binding bearing the arms of James as King of Scotland only has been 
 found on the shelves of the library of the British Museum, it would appear 
 that none of the books mentioned in this invoice are preserved in the 
 national collection. 
 
 English work of the early part of the seventeenth century is well shown 
 by the binding of the Book of Common Prayer, figured in Plate xlii. The 
 sides, which are decorated with a semis of a small floral device, have somewhat 
 heavy ornamental centre-pieces and corners. The leather, as usual, is brown 
 calf; for though morocco had long been used very generally in France and 
 Italy, it was only occasionally employed by binders in this country, until the 
 commencement of the reign of James 1. Although the tooling of this volume 
 is much inferior to that found on the fine French bindings of the time, the 
 design is not without merit, and possesses a rude grandeur which is by no 
 means unpleasing. 
 
 No prince contributed so greatly to the increase of the royal library as Prince 
 Henry, the eldest son of James 1., and a very large number of books bearing 
 his arms, or his badge and initials, are to be found in the British Museum ; 
 some of these books are presentation copies, but the greater portion belonged 
 to the library of his tutor, Lord Lumley, which was purchased by Henry 
 on the death of that nobleman. When these volumes were acquired by the 
 Prince he unfortunately had them rebound in calf, with his arms in the 
 centre of the covers, and large crowned Tudor roses, heraldic lions, fleurs-de-lis, 
 or Prince of Wales’s feathers at the corners (see Plate xxxvi.),—a process by 
 which many bindings of great value and interest must have been destroyed. 
 Prince Henry dying intestate, his library became the property of the King his 
 father, and was given with the other royal books to the Museum by King 
 George 11. 
 
 During the reign of Charles 1. the style of binding in England under¬ 
 went a very distinct change. Instead of the heavy patterns with which the 
 books of James 1. were decorated, delicate gold tooling, in imitation of French 
 work of the time, came into very general use. The binding of the Statutes of 
 the University of Oxford, presented by the University to the King, of which a 
 representation is given in Plate xlvii., is a very fine example of this kind of 
 
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ornamentation, and reflects much credit on the binder, who is unfortunately 
 unknown. 
 
 Although Charles i. was a great lover of the fine arts, and so excelled in 
 them that it is said he might, if it were necessary, ‘ have got a livelihood by 
 them,’ he does not seem to have possessed the same love for books, for he 
 appears to have made but comparatively few additions to the royal collection, 
 and the number of bindings bearing his arms in the library of the British 
 Museum is in consequence but small. 
 
 It is possible, however, that this is not entirely due to the indifference 
 of Charles, but may have been caused partly by the fact that some of the books 
 which had belonged to the King disappeared during the early days of the 
 Commonwealth, when the entire royal collection was with difficulty saved from 
 dispersion by the efforts of Selden, who persuaded his friend Bulstrode 
 Whitelocke, First Commissioner of the Great Seal, to apply for the office 
 of Keeper. Whitelocke was successful in his application, and the custody of 
 the library was intrusted to him; John Dury, the friend of Milton, being 
 appointed his deputy. 
 
 No notice of the bindings of this period would be complete without some 
 reference to those on the works prepared by Nicholas Ferrar and his relatives 
 
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 at their religious establishment at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire. A full 
 account of these works, which are very interesting on account of the peculiar 
 circumstances under which they were executed, is given with the description 
 of the binding of the famous Harmony of the Gospels prepared for King 
 Charles i. represented in Plate xlviii. Many of the exquisite embroidered 
 bindings of this time have also been attributed to the so-called nuns of 
 Little Gidding, but it is very doubtful if any needle-worked covers of books 
 can be traced to them; in fact, there is no record that they performed any 
 work of this description; the binding to which they specially devoted them¬ 
 selves being velvet stamped with gold ornaments. 
 
 During the second half of the seventeenth century bookbinding in England 
 reached a very high degree of excellence, as may be seen from the admirable 
 bindings on the books of Charles n., of which an exceedingly fine example is 
 figured in Plate lii. If these books were bound by Samuel Mearn—and of 
 this there can be little doubt, for he was the royal binder, and they were done 
 for the King,—his work is more worthy of being compared with that of the 
 great French artists than any other English craftsman. Although the elaborate 
 pointilld tooling plainly reveals the influence of Le Gascon, the designs remain 
 distinctively English in character, while the leather and the forwarding leave 
 little to be desired. Scant justice has been done to these remarkable bindings, 
 
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from which many of the patterns used by Roger Payne appear to have been 
 derived, and some of his tools copied. Samuel Mearn occupied the post of 
 royal binder until 1683, when he was succeeded by Charles Mearn, most likely 
 his son, who probably executed the noble binding of Scarburgh’s English 
 Euclide with the cypher of Queen Anne (Plate lx.), for several of the tools 
 used greatly resemble those on the bindings attributed to his predecessor. 
 Some Scottish work of considerable merit was also produced about this period 
 (see Plates lv. and lvi.), which was prolonged to the early years of the next 
 century. An admirable and characteristic example of English binding of the 
 beginning of the eighteenth century is that on a copy of A Paraphrase and 
 Annotations upon all St. Paul's Epistles , London , 1702 (Plate lviii.) ; its 
 binder is unknown, but it is to be hoped that eventually it will be found possible 
 to connect some name with so fine a piece of work. 
 
 William Churchill and Edward Castle were the royal booksellers, book¬ 
 binders, and stationers from about 1700 to 1755, and they were probably the 
 binders of the volumes depicted in Plates lxi. and lxii. ; but much of the best 
 work of this time was done by Eliot and Chapman, who bound the celebrated 
 library of Robert Harley, the first Earl of Oxford. The decoration they 
 generally adopted for their books consisted of a handsome centre-piece, sur¬ 
 rounded by a tooled border, which has since been known as the Harleian style. 
 
 The binding of the middle of the eighteenth century is so poor in quality 
 and debased in character as to be almost unworthy of attention, but perhaps 
 the volumes bound for Thomas Hollis, the eccentric editor of Neville’s Parlia¬ 
 ment of Ladies , Algernon Sidney’s Discourses concerning Government, and 
 other works, deserve some notice. He employed the medallist, Thomas Pingo, 
 to cut a number of emblematic tools for him, consisting of the Caduceus of 
 Mercury, a figure of Britannia, the Wand of Aesculapius, and other devices, 
 with which he decorated the interiors as well as the exteriors of his books. 
 Mention ought also to be made of James Edwards of Halifax, and afterwards 
 of Pall Mall, London, who acquired a considerable reputation on account of 
 the exquisite paintings with which he adorned the edges of the leaves of his 
 books. In 1785 he took out a patent for ‘embellishing books bound in 
 vellum by making drawings on the vellum which are not liable to be defaced 
 but by destroying the vellum itself.’ The vellum was rendered transparent by 
 a peculiar process, and upon its under surface drawings were made, or 
 engravings impressed, which could not be obliterated or injured. A Prayer- 
 Book bound by him in this manner for Queen Charlotte, preserved in the 
 British Museum, is a very creditable example of his work. 
 
 Roger Payne was a most excellent binder; the thoroughness and finish 
 
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of his work are admirable, and the highest praise is due to him for raising 
 English binding from the debased state into which it had sunk in the early 
 years of the second half of the eighteenth century. But the commendation 
 bestowed upon him has been somewhat excessive. His designs are wanting 
 in originality, for, as it has been stated, they were frequently suggested by those 
 found on the bindings of Mearn, whose stamps he sometimes copied; nor is 
 the execution of his tooling equal to that of the best French binders. An 
 account of him and his work accompanies the description of his binding of a 
 copy of Cicero’s De Oratore depicted in Plate lxiv. 
 
 Whitaker, who originated the style termed Etruscan, in which designs 
 from the Etruscan vases were copied on the leather by means of acids, 
 Mackinlay, for whom Payne worked towards the end of his life, Kalthoeber, 
 Hering, Staggemeier, Walther, Baumgarten, Faulkner, and Benedict, were 
 binders of ability, especially Hering and Kalthoeber, who did some very 
 creditable work in Payne’s manner; but the best of his imitators was Charles 
 Lewis. Dibdin, who was a great admirer of this binder, says of him, in his 
 Bibliographical Decameron , that ‘ the particular talent of Lewis consists in 
 uniting the taste of Roger Payne with a freedom of forwarding and squareness 
 of finishing peculiarly his own. His books appear to move on silken hinges.’ 
 
 Bedford, Riviere, and Zaehnsdorf, who flourished during the middle of the 
 present century, were all craftsmen of great excellence. Their work is of the 
 highest quality, the forwarding being remarkable for its solidity, and the tooling 
 for its finish. It is, however, entirely wanting in originality, but this is a fault 
 shared by all binders of their time. 
 
 The English binders have never hitherto received the appreciation they 
 deserve, but it is hoped that the representations of their work which this volume 
 contains will prove that, though they may not have been able quite to equal the 
 exquisite refinement and finish which distinguished the productions of their 
 fellow-craftsmen in France, yet they not only have possessed a sincere love for 
 their beautiful art, but have been able to give expression to it by many 
 admirable examples of which their countrymen may justly be proud. 
 
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PLATES 
 
 AND 
 
 DESCRIPTIONS 
 
PLATE I. 
 
 LIBER SAPIENTIiE. 
 
 Additional MS. 24,076. 
 
 VERY fine and interesting example of English binding of 
 the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth 
 century. It is composed of thick wooden boards, covered 
 with brown leather, and is ornamented with a great variety 
 of stamps in blind tooling, arranged in horizontal and 
 vertical rows. On the upper cover the stamps forming 
 the outer horizontal rows have a representation of a half- 
 length figure of a man holding a shield in his right hand and a club in his left; 
 the inner rows being made up of mounted knights. The outer vertical rows 
 consist of palmated leaves, and the inner ones of a lion passant. The centre 
 is divided into two compartments, each impressed with a stamp representing a 
 bishop in pontificals, holding a pastoral staff in his right hand and a book in 
 his left. 
 
 On the lower cover the outer horizontal rows are composed of impressions of 
 a stamp representing a king on horseback, holding a palm branch; while the 
 vertical ones consist of stamps bearing a saltire between four human heads in 
 profile. The central portion of this cover is filled with four horizontal rows of 
 stamps; the top and bottom rows being formed of two centaurs discharging 
 arrows at two stags; the second row, of three stamps, the man with shield and 
 club, flanked on either side by a winged ox, the emblem of St. Luke; and the 
 third, of three churches with turrets. Both covers are decorated also with rosettes 
 and dots enclosed within circles. 
 
 Purchased in 1861. 
 
PLATE I. 
 
 LIBER SAPIENTIAL. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
PLATE II. 
 
 HISTORIA EVANGELICA. BY PETER COMESTOR. 
 
 Eger ton MS. 272. 
 
 INDING of the beginning of the thirteenth century; dark 
 brown leather, blind tooled; each cover having a border 
 formed of separate stamps, the panel within being divided 
 into two parts by a vertical column of stamps. 
 
 On the upper cover the horizontal portions of the 
 border consist of palmated leaves; the vertical portion on 
 the left side being formed by a series of stamps of two 
 dragons with interlaced tails, and that on the right side by stamps bearing a 
 foliated ornament. The line which divides the panel is composed of stamps 
 representing a lion passant within a quatrefoil with trefoils in the outer corners ; 
 the divisions being occupied by dragons with foliated tails, and the intermediate 
 spaces with small quatrefoils. 
 
 On the lower cover the horizontal parts of the border consist of stamps with 
 a foliated ornament; those on the left vertical portion representing a lion passant, 
 and those on the right a griffin with a foliated tail. The dividing line is formed 
 by impressions of a stamp bearing a figure of King David, crowned, and 
 playing upon a harp. The divisions are ornamented with round stamps with a 
 griffin, and lobe ones having two dragons facing each other, from the union of 
 whose foliated tails arises a branch surmounted by a bird. The intervening 
 spaces are decorated with rosettes. 
 
PLATE II. 
 
 HISTORIA EVANGELICA. BY PETER COMESTOR 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
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PLATE III . 
 
 LIBER FESTIVALIS. SECOND EDITION. PRINTED BY WILLIAM 
 CAXTON AT WESTMINSTER ABOUT 1491. 
 
 FOUR SERMONS ON THE LORD’S PRAYER, THE APOSTLES’ 
 CREED, AND OTHER SUBJECTS; GENERALLY KNOWN AS 
 THE ‘QUATUOR SERMONES.’ SECOND EDITION. PRINTED 
 BY CAXTON AT WESTMINSTER ABOUT 1491. 
 
 Bound together in one volume. 
 
 INDING of the end of the fifteenth century, executed by 
 Caxton; brown leather, with blind tooling, consisting of a 
 border of a rectangular treble set of four-line fillets, enclosing 
 diagonal lines crossing each other; in the lozenge-shaped 
 compartments thus formed are impressed stamps with a 
 griffin, and in the triangular ones a small floral ornament. 
 The general design of the binding is foreign, and the stamps 
 are evidently not English. Caxton probably brought them with him from 
 Bruges, where his earlier books are believed to have been printed. 
 
 Purchased at the Sale of the Library of the Rev. 
 Edward James, Canon of Winchester, in 1854. 
 
PLATE III. 
 
 LIBER FESTIVALIS. CAXTON, WESTMINSTER, ABOUT I 49 I. 
 
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PLATE IV. 
 
 ABBREVIAMENTVM STATVTORVM. 
 
 COLOPHON: EXPLICIT ABBREVIAMENTV STATVTORVM IMPSSVM PER 
 
 RICHARDV PYNSON & TOTALITER FINITVM NONO DIE MENSIS 
 OCTOBRIS. ANNO Dfil MILL’MO OVATCENTESIMO NONAGESIMO NONO. 
 
 VERY interesting binding of the end of the fifteenth 
 century, executed by Richard Pynson. It is of brown 
 leather, having on the upper cover Pynson’s device, en¬ 
 closed within a border of floral design, with a falcon at 
 each of the upper corners, and figures of the Virgin Mary 
 and Sh Katharine at the lower. The lower cover 
 is decorated with a Tudor rose, surrounded by vine 
 branches; the whole being encompassed by a very graceful border of foliage 
 and flowers. 
 
 Pynson’s bindings bearing his device are extremely rare; this is the only 
 example possessed by the Museum. 
 
 Purchased in 1889. 
 
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 ABB RE VI AMENTUM STATUTORUM. R. PYNSON. LOND. 1499. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
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PLATE V. 
 
 OPVSCVLA QVAE IN HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR 
 
 HAEC SVNT. 
 
 DECLAMATIO PHILIPPI BEROALDI AN ORATOR SIT PHILOSOPHO & MEDICO 
 ANTEPONENDVS. 
 
 PHILIPPI BEROALDI LIBELLVS DE OPTIMO STATV! & PRICIPE. 
 
 ORATIO PROVERBIORVM CONDITA A PHILIPPO BEROALDO. QVA DOCTRINA 
 REMOTIOR CONTINETVR. 
 
 DECLAMATIO PHILIPPI BEROALDI CONTRA SCORTATOREM & DE EBRIOSO 
 ALEATOREM. 
 
 PHILIPPI BEROALDI HEPTALOGOS SIVE SEPTEM SAPIETES. 
 
 INDING of the early part of the sixteenth century; brown 
 stamped leather; each cover divided into two panels; one 
 bearing the arms of King Henry vm., the other the Tudor 
 rose, supported by angels, and enclosed within two ribbons, 
 inscribed with the motto:— 
 
 Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno 
 Eternu florens regia sceptra feret. 
 
 Beneath the Tudor badge are the initials and trade-mark of Julian Notary, the 
 printer, by whom the book was bound. At the upper angles of the panels occur 
 the sun, moon, and stars, together with two shields; one charged with the cross 
 of St. George, the other with the arms of the City of London. On the upper 
 cover the panel with the Tudor rose is placed first, and that containing the royal 
 arms beneath it; on the lower cover the order of the panels is reversed. Similar 
 stamps were used by several binders of the time, who frequently added their 
 initials and marks. 
 
 Purchased in 1845. 
 
PLATE V. 
 
 BEROALDUS. OPUSCULA. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
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PLATE VI. 
 
 ROBERTI WHITINTONI ALMA IN VNIVERSITATE OXONIESI LAV- 
 REATI DE OCTO PARTIBVS ORATIONIS OPVSCVLV: ITERVM 
 RECOGNITV, ETC. 
 
 COLOPHON: LONDINI IN EDIBVS WINANDI DE WORDE VICESIMO PRIMO SVPRA 
 SESQVIMILLESIMV NOSTRE SALVTIS ANNO. IDIBVS IVLII. 
 
 This volume contains also ten other tracts. 
 
 INDING of the first half of the sixteenth century; brown 
 calf, the upper cover bearing the arms of Queen Katharine 
 of Aragon, ensigned with the royal crown, and supported 
 by two angels. Above the arms are two floral sprays, and 
 
 below them a mound with herbage and flowers. On the 
 
 lower cover are impressed the arms of King Henry vm., 
 also surmounted by a crown, and having for supporters 
 a dragon and a greyhound, which he used in the early part of his reign, but 
 later he omitted the greyhound, placed the red dragon on the sinister side, and 
 
 took the lion which had been used as the royal crest for the dexter supporter. 
 
 Above the arms is a Tudor rose between two angels with scrolls, and under¬ 
 neath them two portcullises. 
 
 Purchased in 1842. 
 
WHITTINGTON. 
 
 PLATE VI. 
 
 DE OCTO PARTIBUS ORATIONIS. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
 LOND., 1521. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PLATE VII. 
 
 ROBERTI WHITINTONI ALMA IN VNIVERSITATE OXONIESI 
 LAVREATI DE OCTO PARTIBVS ORATIONIS ^EDITIO. 
 
 COLOPHON: IMPRESSVM DILIGENTERQVE ENVCLEATVM PER ME PETRVM 
 TREVERIS. [SOUTHWARK, ABOUT 1530.] 
 
 This volume contains also eight other works by Whittington. 
 
 HE binding of this volume is precisely the same as that of 
 the preceding, with the exception that the arms of Queen 
 Anne Boleyn take the place of those of Queen Katharine, 
 and the leather is of a different kind, sheepskin being used 
 instead of calf. 
 
 Although this binding and the one figured on Plate vi. 
 bear respectively the arms of Anne Boleyn and of 
 Katharine of Aragon, they were not executed for those Queens, but are only 
 trade bindings. 
 
 Purchased in 1862. 
 
PLATE VII. 
 
 WHITTINGTON. DE OCTO PARTIBUS ORATIONIS. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
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PLATE VIII. 
 
 HISTORICAL PAPERS. 
 
 Stowe MS. 141. 
 
 VERY curious and interesting binding of the first half of 
 the sixteenth century, executed by John Reynes; dark 
 brown leather; each cover impressed with two panel stamps 
 separated by a roll stamp in which a falcon, a bee, and the 
 binder’s device are artistically introduced amid sprays of 
 foliage and flowers. The upper panel bears an escutcheon 
 charged with the instruments of the Passion. In the centre 
 is a tomb, and a cross bearing the title, the crown of thorns, and the nails; the 
 spear and the reed with the sponge leaning against the arms. On the dexter 
 side are the three dice, the seamless coat, a hand, the hammer, and the reed; on 
 the sinister side, a head of Judas with a purse suspended from the neck, the 
 pincers, the lantern, and the thirty pieces of silver. The arms are ensigned with 
 a helmet and mantling; surmounted by the crest, consisting of a pillar, with two 
 rods and two scourges attached to it with a cord, and having on the top a 
 cock crowing. Two unicorns form the supporters, and on a scroll beneath the 
 arms is the inscription, redemptoris mvndi arma. On the upper part of the 
 panel are two small shields; one containing the monogram, and the other the 
 device of the binder. 
 
 The lower panel is divided into two portions ; one bearing the arms of King 
 Henry vm., ensigned with the royal crown ; the other the Tudor rose, supported 
 by angels, and enclosed within two ribbons, inscribed with the motto:— 
 
 Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno 
 Eternu florens regia sceptra feret. 
 
 Beneath is a pomegranate, the badge of Katharine of Aragon. In the angles 
 at the top of these two divisions are stamped the sun and moon, and two small 
 shields: the shields on the upper division bearing respectively a St. George’s 
 
PLATE VIII. 
 HISTORICAL PAPERS. 
 12% in. by 8 ^ in. 
 

cross and the arms of the City of London ; those on the lower the initials and 
 device of the binder. 
 
 John Reynes, who is the best known of the English binders of his time, 
 lived at the sign of St. George in St. Paul’s Churchyard, and was also a printer 
 and stationer. The earliest book he is known to have printed was published in 
 1527, and the latest in 1544. The date of his birth and that of his death have 
 not been ascertained. His curious design representing the instruments of the 
 Passion as a coat of arms was probably suggested by an engraving in a Book of 
 Hours printed by Thielman Kerver of Paris, but the idea of giving arms to our 
 Lord was not altogether a novel one. In the Book of St. Alban's , printed in i486, 
 and ascribed to Dame Juliana Bernes, it is written, ‘Off the ofspryng of the 
 gentilman Jafeth came Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys, and also the 
 Kyng of ye right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne very 
 God and man, after his manhood Kyng of the londe of Jude and of Jues gentil¬ 
 man by is modre Mary prynce of Cote armure ’; and in another place, ‘ Criste was 
 a gentilman of his moder behalve and bare cotarmure of aunseturis.’ 
 
PLATE IX. 
 
 TRES AMPLE DESCRIPTION DE TOVTE LA TERRE SAINCTE ET 
 CHOSES MEMORABLES FAICTES EN PLVSIEVRS LIEVX ET 
 VILLES, D’ICELLE EXTRAICTE DE LA BIBLE, ET LIVRES 
 SAINCT HIEROSME. [PAR MARTIN DE BRION.] 
 
 DEDICATION COPY TO KING HENRY VIII. 
 
 Royal MS. 20. A. iv 
 
 MBROIDERED binding of the first half of the sixteenth cen¬ 
 tury; crimson velvet; the arms of Henry vm., surrounded 
 by the Garter and ensigned with the crown, being worked 
 in the centre of each cover with gold thread and coloured 
 silks. Seed pearls are used in the decoration of the 
 crown ; and the initial of the King which occurs on each 
 side of the arms was also probably formed of small 
 pearls, but these have disappeared. At each angle of the sides is a Lancaster 
 rose of satin appliqud ornamented with gold thread. The volume formerly 
 possessed ribbons, but of these only fragments remain. 
 
 The manuscript is beautifully written on vellum, every page having a border 
 consisting of a broad gold line with a rose at the corners ; and the initial letter of 
 each chapter is illuminated. The arms and initial of the King are emblazoned on 
 the first leaf, and the dedication to him is inscribed in letters of gold on a red 
 ground, enclosed by a handsomely painted border in which flowers, birds, butter¬ 
 flies, and insects are very artistically introduced. 
 
 This book is probably the one referred to in the Inventory of Henry vm.’s 
 furniture at St. James’s under the title of a Description of the hollie lande. It 
 formed part of the old Royal Library, which was given to the British Museum in 
 1757 by King George 11. 
 
PLATE IX. 
 
 DESCRIPTION DE TOUTE LA TERRE SAINCTE. PAR MARTIN DE BRION 
 
 Actual size. 
 

PLATE X. 
 
 THE IMAGE OF GOVERNANCE COMPILED OF THE ACTES AND 
 SENTENCES NOTABLE, OF THE MOSTE NOBLE EMPEROVR 
 ALEXANDER SEVERVS, LATE TRANSLATED OVT OF GREKE 
 INTO ENGLYSHE, BY SYR THOMAS ELIOT KNIGHT, IN THE 
 FAVOVR OF NOBYLITIE. ANNO. M.D.XLI. 
 
 COLOPHON: LONDINI. IN OFFICINA THOMAS BERTHELETI TYPIS IMPRESS. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGE) AD IMPRIMENDVM SOLVM. 
 
 ANNO. M.D.XL. 
 
 INDING of the first half of the sixteenth century, executed 
 by Thomas Berthelet, the printer of the work, for King 
 Henry vm.; white leather—probably doeskin; each side 
 having an ornamental border, enclosing a handsome 
 arabesque design, in the centre of which occurs the royal 
 motto, diev • et • mon • droit •, flanked by the initials of 
 the King. On the edges of the leaves are the words rex 
 in eternvm vive, painted in gold. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
 Thomas Berthelet, or Bartlet, was appointed Printer to King Henry vm. 
 on 22nd February 1530, with an annual fee of £4. sterling. That he also 
 bound the books of the King is shown by a bill preserved in the British 
 Museum, in which he charges Henry the sum of £117, os. 6|d. for books 
 supplied and bound during the years 1541, 1542, and 1543. Although it 
 has not been found possible to identify any of the books now in existence 
 which belonged to the King with those mentioned in this bill, yet the 
 
PLATE X. 
 
 ELYOT. THE IMAGE OF GOVERNANCE. LONDON, I 54 I. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
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present binding and others executed for Henry so greatly resemble some of 
 those described in it that we are able to assign them without doubt to Ber- 
 thelet, who appears to have been the first to employ gold tooling in this 
 country. Berthelet worked also for King Edward vi. and Queen Mary. He 
 died at the end of 1555 or the beginning of 1556. 
 
PLATE XI. 
 
 BIBLIA SACROSANCTA TESTAMETI VETERIS & NOVI, E SACRA 
 HEBR/EORVM LINGVA GR^ECORVMQVE FONTIBVS, CON- 
 SVLTIS SIMVL ORTHODOXIS INTERPRETS. RELIGIOSISSIME 
 TRANSLATA IN SERMONEM LATINVM. 
 
 TIGVRI EXCVDEBAT C. FROSCHOVERVS ANNO M.D.XLIII. 
 
 MBROIDERED binding of the first half of the sixteenth 
 century; executed for King Henry vm.; velvet, once 
 crimson, but now rendered tawny by age. The covers 
 are elegantly ornamented with gold braid, and have the 
 initials of the King worked in each centre, with a Tudor 
 rose at the corners. The edges of the leaves are painted 
 with the royal arms, a fleur-de-lis, a Tudor rose, and other decorations. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 BIBLIA. TIGURI, 1543- 
 
 15 in. by gi in. 
 
PLATE XII. 
 
 COMENTARIA RERVM GESTARV APVD SANCTVM DIGERIVM AB 
 AVGVSTISSIMO IMPERATORE CAROLO QVINTO HISPANIARV 
 REGE, ETC. AD SERENISSIMVM INVICTISSIMVQVE REGEM 
 ANGL UE HENRICVM EIVS NOMINIS OCTAVVM. 1544. 
 
 [COMMENTARY ON THE CAMPAIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. AGAINST THE 
 FRENCH IN 1544; ADDRESSED BY ANTHONIUS DE MUSICA, OF ANTWERP, 
 TO HENRY VIII.] 
 
 Royal MS. 13. B. xx. 
 
 E of the most elaborate of the bindings executed by Ber- 
 thelet for King Henry vin.; brown leather, having in the 
 centre of each cover a vertical panel bearing the arms of 
 the King, ensigned with the royal crown and accompanied 
 by the initials H R. On the upper cover an oblong 
 tablet placed above the arms contains the words vero 
 defensori fidei, and one below them errorvmqve pro- 
 On the lower cover are two similar tablets, the upper 
 one having the words maximo henrico octavo, and the lower regi anglorvm 
 franc hibernieqve, followed by the letters p. m. p. p. d. g., the meaning of 
 which has not been ascertained. On each side of the centre panels are two 
 circular medallions containing heads of Plato and Dido, with an Aldine orna¬ 
 ment, four times repeated, placed between them; the whole being enclosed 
 within the border of Italian design, with floriated ornaments at the corners, 
 which Berthelet frequently used on his bindings. 
 

 
 
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 PLATE XII. 
 
 COMMENTARY, IN LATIN, ON THE CAMPAIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. 
 AGAINST THE FRENCH IN 1 544 ; ADDRESSED BY ANTHONIUS DE MUSICA 
 
 TO HENRY VIII. 
 
 12J in. by 8| in. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PLATE XIII . 
 
 IN TROGVM POMPEIVM SIVE IVSTINVM CHOROGRAPHICA AD 
 EXCELLENTISS. AC ILLVSTRISS. DOMINVM D. EDVARDVM 
 WALLIAE PRINCIPEM. 1546. 
 
 [alphabetical lists of countries and cities mentioned in trogus 
 
 POMPEIUS AND IN THE EPISTLES OF CICERO; ADDRESSED BY PETRUS 
 OLIVARIUS TO EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES.] 
 
 Royal MS. 15 . C. 1 . 
 
 INDING of the middle of the sixteenth century, executed 
 by Berthelet; light brown calf, each cover having in 
 the centre a circle of rays and flames, within which are 
 impressed the badge of Edward, Prince of Wales, his 
 motto and initials. The circle is surrounded by very 
 graceful arabesque tooling, interspersed with rosettes, 
 stars, etc.; the whole being enclosed within a border of 
 Italian character, with ornamental corners. 
 
PLATE XIII. 
 
 LISTS OF COUNTRIES AND CITIES NAMED IN TROGUS POMPEIUS AND IN 
 THE EPISTLES OF CICERO; ADDRESSED BY PETRUS OLIVARIUS TO 
 EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, I 546. 
 
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PLATE XIV. 
 
 IL PETRARCHA. CON L’ESPOSITIONE D’ALESSANDRO 
 
 VELLVTELLO. 
 
 DI NOVO RISTAMPATO CON LE FIGVRE AI TRIOMPHI, ET CON PIV COSE 
 
 VTILI IN VARII LVOGHI AGGIVNTE. 
 
 IN VENETIA, APPRESSO GABRIEL GIOLITO DI FERRARII. MDXXXXIIII. 
 
 VERY interesting example of English embroidery of 
 the middle of the sixteenth century; purple velvet, with 
 the arms of Queen Katharine Parr, ensigned with the 
 royal crown, worked, probably by herself, in gold and 
 silver thread and coloured silks on both covers. The coat 
 contains a large number of family quarterings, the place 
 of honour being given to the augmentation granted by 
 Henry vm. to the Queen :—Argent, on a pile, inter six roses, gules, three others 
 of the field. It will be noticed, however, that in these arms the field is gold and 
 not silver. Henry gave an augmentation to the arms of each of four of his 
 wives, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Katharine Howard, and Katharine Parr. 
 These augmentations, which were composed of some of the royal ensigns, were 
 bestowed as marks of the King’s favour, and were always marshalled in the 
 first place, before the paternal coat. 
 
 The arms and crown on this binding are worked on some material, most 
 likely linen, and then appliqudd, while the ornamental tracery surrounding them 
 consists of gold cord sewed on the velvet itself. The edges of the leaves are 
 gilt and gauffred. 
 
 As the shield is surmounted with the royal crown, and as the Seymour arms 
 do not appear on it, it is probable that this book was bound between the death of 
 Henry viii. and Katharine’s marriage with Lord Seymour of Sudley. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XIV. 
 
 IL PETRARCHA. VENETIA, 1544 
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PLATE XV. 
 
 PETRI BEMBI CARDINALIS HISTORIAE VENETAE LIBRI XII. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGIIS. VENETIIS. M.D.LI. 
 
 M^^^^^INDING of the middle of the sixteenth century, executed 
 
 for King Edward vi.; brown calf, the sides decorated with 
 a very beautiful geometrical and arabesque design in black 
 and gold, having in the central compartment formed by 
 the pattern the arms of the King, with his crowned initials 
 
 on each side. In a circle above the arms is the royal 
 motto diev • et • mon • droyt •, and in one beneath them 
 the date m.d.l.ii. The back of the book is made concave, and is gilt and 
 gauffred in imitation of the fore-edge. 
 
 This exceedingly fine specimen of English imitation of Italian work of the 
 period was doubtless bound by or under the superintendence of Berthelet. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XV. 
 
 PETRI BEMBI CARDINALIS HISTORIA VENETA. VENETIIS, I 55 I 
 
 Actual size. 
 
PLATE XVI, 
 
 EPITOME OMNIVM OPERVM DIVI AVRELII AVGVSTINI, EPISCOPI 
 HIPPONENSIS, PRIMVM QVIDEM PER IOHANNEM PISCA- 
 TORIVM COMPENDIARIA QVADAM VIA COLLECTA. 
 
 NVNC AVTEM DILIGENTIVS RECOGNITA, & MVLTORVM ADIECTIONE, QVJE 
 IN PRIORI ^EDITIONE, NON ABSQVE MAGNA AVGVSTINIANA2 SENTENTLE 
 IACTVRA, DESIDERABANTVR, AVCTA & LOCVPLETATA PER IOHANNEM 
 PESSELLIVM TYLANVM THEOLOGVM, ORDINIS PR/EDICATORV PER 
 GERMANIAM SVPERIOREM PROVINCIALEM. 
 
 COLONIZE EX OFFICINA MELCHIORIS NOVESIANI. 
 
 M.D.XLIX. 
 
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 NOTHER handsome binding of the middle of the sixteenth 
 century, executed by Berthelet; brown calf, the covers richly 
 ornamented with a geometrical pattern combined with arabesques, 
 having in each centre the arms of Queen Mary i. within a flamed 
 circle; her initials being placed at the sides. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XVI. 
 
 EPITOME OPERUM DIVI AUGUSTINE COLONIZE, 1 549 . 
 
 12 i in. by 8 ^ in. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PLATE XVII. 
 
 THE ACTIS AND CONSTITVTIOVNIS OF THE REALME OF SCOT¬ 
 LAND MAID IN PARLIAMENTS HALDIN BE THE RYCHT 
 EXCELLENT, HIE AND MYCHTIE PRINCEIS KINGIS JAMES 
 THE FIRST, SECUND, THRID, FEIRD, FYFT, AND IN TYME 
 OF MARIE NOW QVENE OF SCOTTIS, VISEIT, CORRECTIT, 
 AND EXTRACTIT FVRTH OF THE REGISTERS BE THE 
 LORDIS DEPVTE BE HIR MAIESTEIS SPECIALL COMMIS- 
 SIOVN THAIRTO. 
 
 ANNO. DO. 1566. 
 
 COLOPHON: IMPRENTIT AT EDINBVRGH BE ROBERT LEKPREVIK THE 
 XXVIII DAY OF NOVEMBER, THE ZEIR OF GOD ANE THOVSAND FYVE 
 HVNDRETH THRE SCOIR SAX ZEIRIS. 
 
 THIS BOOK IS USUALLY KNOWN AS THE ‘BLACK ACTS,’ FROM THE 
 
 CHARACTER OF THE TYPE. 
 
 VERY interesting specimen of Scottish binding of the 
 second half of the sixteenth century; dark brown calf, 
 each cover having a handsome arabesque border, enclosing 
 the arms of Mary, Queen of Scots, which are impressed in 
 gold, and painted, but traces only of the colours now 
 remain. Above the arms, on a scroll painted white, is the 
 motto in defens, and from them is suspended the Order 
 of St. Andrew. On the left side is the name of the Queen, maria, and on the 
 right side the word regina, stamped in gold on white scrolls. 
 
 Bindings bearing the arms of Mary, Queen of Scots, are excessively rare; 
 this is the only example possessed by the Museum. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
PLATE XVII. 
 
 THE BLACK ACTS. EDINBURGH, I 556. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PLATE XVIII. 
 
 LES QVATRE PREMIERS LIVRES DES NAVIGATIONS ET PERE¬ 
 GRINATIONS ORIENTALES, DE N. DE NICOLAY DAVPHINOYS, 
 SEIGNEVR D’ARFEVILLE, VARLET DE CHAMBRE, & GEO- 
 GRAPHE ORDINAIRE DV ROY. 
 
 AVEC LES FIGVRES AV NATVREL TANT D’HOMMES QVE DE FEMMES 
 SELON LA DIVERSITE DES NATIONS, & DE LEVR PORT, MAINTIEN, & 
 HABITS. 
 
 A LYON, 
 
 PAR GVILLAVME ROVILLE. 
 
 AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. 
 
 1568. 
 
 INDING of the second half of the sixteenth century; dark 
 olive morocco, having a border of gold and blind tooling, with 
 ornamental corners of inlaid white leather stamped with gold. 
 In the centre of each cover, enclosed by a bold and graceful 
 scroll-work pattern combined with arabesques, is a sunken 
 panel, on which are painted the arms of Queen Elizabeth, 
 together with her initials, upon a silver ground ; each side is 
 decorated also with four Tudor roses impressed in silver and ensigned with gold 
 crowns. The covers, each of which consists of two millboards curiously and 
 skilfully sewn together, formerly possessed green ribbons:—one set at the top 
 and bottom, and two sets at the front of the volume. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XVIII. 
 
 NICOLAY. NAVIGATIONS ET PEREGRINATIONS ORIENTALES. LVON, I 568. 
 
 14 in. by 9 ^ in. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PLATE XIX. 
 
 MEDITATIONVM AC PRECATIONVM CHRISTIANARVM LIBELLVS. 
 
 FORMANDIS TVM CONSCIENTIIS, TVM MORIBVS FIDELIVM, LONGE VTILLISSIMVS. 
 
 CVM ALUS PLERISQVE IAM ADDITIS, QVJE SEQVENS INDICABIT PAGELLA. 
 
 LVGDVNI, M.D.LXX. 
 
 VERY beautiful binding in rose-coloured velvet, executed for 
 Queen Elizabeth in the second half of the sixteenth century. 
 The covers are embellished with centre-pieces bearing a 
 crowned Tudor rose, and the initials E R, corners with a 
 floral device, and clasps also ornamented with a rose; the 
 whole being of gold decorated with colours in enamel. The 
 edges of the leaves are gilt, gauffred and painted. The 
 velvet is much faded, and has unfortunately lost a great part of the pile. This 
 charming little volume is preserved in the library of King George hi., which now 
 forms part of the British Museum. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth appears to have been particularly partial to these costly 
 bindings, and to have possessed a considerable number of them. 
 
 Paul Hentzner, a native of Brandenburg, when travelling in this country as 
 tutor to Christoph Rehdiger, a young nobleman of Silesia, paid a visit, in August 
 1598, to the Queen’s library at Whitehall; and he tells us in his Itineravium 
 that it was well stored with books in various languages, ‘ all bound in velvet of 
 different colours, although chiefly red, with clasps of gold and silver; some 
 having pearls and precious stones set in their bindings.’ 
 
PLATE XIX. 
 
 MEDITATIONUM AC PRECATIONUM CHRISTIAN ARUM LIBELLUS. 
 
 LUGDUNI, 1570 . 
 
 Actual size. 
 
PLATE XX. 
 
 FLORES HISTORIARVM PER MATTHiEVM WESTMONASTERIEN- 
 SEM COLLECTI, PRiECIPV^ DE REBVS BRITANNICIS AB 
 EXORDIO MVNDI VSQVE AD ANNVM DOMINI 1307. 
 
 LONDINI, EX OFFICINA THOM^E MARSHII, ANNO DOMINI 1570. 
 
 COLOPHON: LONDINI, EXCVDEBAT THOMAS MARSHIVS SECVNDO DIE IVNII, 
 
 ANNO GRATIS, 1570. 
 
 A PRESENTATION COPY FROM MATTHEW PARKER, ARCHBISHOP OF 
 CANTERBURY, TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 
 HIS magnificent specimen of English binding of the second 
 half of the sixteenth century, which was probably executed 
 in Archbishop Parker’s own house, is of brown calf, having 
 corners and side-pieces of inlaid white leather, beautifully 
 decorated with trophies of instruments of war and music 
 stamped in relief upon a gold ground. In the centre of 
 each cover is an ornament consisting of an elegant geo¬ 
 metrical and arabesque pattern, executed in the same style as the corners and side- 
 pieces, and enclosing the arms of Queen Elizabeth, surrounded by the Garter 
 and ensigned with the royal crown ; her initials being placed outside. The sides 
 are also studded with gold dots, arranged in groups of three. The book has 
 clasps, and the edges of the leaves are gilt, gauffred, and painted. In each of the 
 ornamental corners occurs a small tablet containing the letters I D P, and it has 
 been suggested that they may be those of John Day, Printer, as they occur also 
 on the binding of a copy of The Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and English , printed 
 by him in 1571. [See Plate xxl] 
 
 Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
 
PLATE XX. 
 
 FLORES HISTORIARUM PER MATTHTsUM WESTMONASTERIENSEM COLLECTI. 
 
 LON DIN I, 1570. 
 
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PLATE XXL 
 
 THE GOSPELS OF THE FOWER EVANGELISTES TRANSLATED IN 
 THE OLDE SAXONS TYME OVT OF LATIN INTO THE VVLGARE 
 TOVNG OF THE SAXONS, NEWLY COLLECTED OVT OF 
 AVNCIENT MONVMENTES OF THE SAYD SAXONS, AND NOW 
 PVBLISHED FOR TESTIMONIE OF THE SAME. 
 
 AT LONDON. PRINTED BY IOHN DAYE, DWELLING OVER ALDERSGATE, 1571. 
 CVM PRIVILEGED REGI/E MAIESTATIS PER DECENNIVM. 
 
 A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, JOHN FOX, THE MARTYRO- 
 LOGIST, TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, TO WHOM THE WORK IS DEDICATED. 
 
 A MS. NOTE ON THE TITLE-PAGE STATES THAT ‘ THIS WAS THE 
 DEDICATION BOOK PRESENTED TO THE QUEENES OWNE HANDS BY 
 MR. FOX.’ 
 
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 HIS volume, like that given in the preceding Plate, is bound in 
 brown calf, and has its covers inlaid with the same centre¬ 
 piece and corners; the side-pieces being omitted on account of 
 the smaller size of the book. The centre-piece encloses the 
 arms of Elizabeth; the initials of the Queen being stamped 
 outside. The covers are also studded with gold dots, and the edges of the 
 leaves are gilt, gauffred, and painted. The initial letters I D P are also found 
 on this binding. 
 
 Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
 
PLATE XXL 
 
 THE GOSPELS IN ANGLO-SAXON AND ENGLISH. LONDON, I 57 I. 
 
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 DE ANTIQVITATE BRITANNIC^E ECCLESL® & PRIVILEGIIS 
 ECCLESI^ CANTVARIENSIS, CVM ARCHIEPISCOPIS EIVSDEM 
 70. AN. DOM. 1572. 
 
 WRITTEN BY MATTHEW PARKER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, WITH 
 THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS SECRETARIES, JOHN JOSSELINE AND 
 GEORGE ACKWORTH, AND PRINTED BY JOHN DAY AT LAMBETH 
 PALACE. 
 
 THE FIRST BOOK PRIVATELY PRINTED IN ENGLAND, OF WHICH PRO¬ 
 BABLY NOT MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE COPIES WERE STRUCK OFF. 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS GENERALLY BELIEVED TO BE A PRESENTATION COPY 
 FROM THE ARCHBISHOP TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 
 embroidered binding in the British Museum is so well 
 known as the famous one which adorns this beautiful 
 copy of Archbishop Parker’s work. The material is green 
 velvet, and each cover has a curious border representing 
 the paling of a deer-park worked in gold and silver thread 
 upon yellow satin appliqud. Within the border on the 
 upper cover are four deer in different attitudes, one being 
 placed at each angle; in the centre of the panel is a rosebush bearing red and 
 white roses, and the remaining space is filled with various other flowers and 
 tufts of grass. A somewhat similar design is enclosed by the border on the 
 lower cover; a recumbent deer is worked in the centre of the panel, the rest 
 of the field being occupied by four other stags, two snakes, and some small 
 plants and flowers. The back is divided by gold cord into five panels, decor¬ 
 ated alternately with a white and a red rose. The embroidery is executed in 
 gold and silver thread and coloured silks, and is partly appliqud and partly 
 
PLATE XXII. 
 
 PARKER. DE ANTIQUITATE BRITANNIC/E ECCLESLE. LONDON, I 572. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
worked on the velvet. The volume once had red silk ribbons, but of these 
 only small portions now remain. 
 
 It is difficult to assign any meaning to the design; it may possibly have 
 some reference to the name of the author of the book. 
 
 Archbishop Parker established a workshop for printing, decorating, and 
 binding books in his own house, and this volume was probably bound as well 
 as printed there, for in a letter to Lord Burghley, dated the 9th of May 1573, 
 he writes with reference to this work: ‘ I haue within my House in Wagis, 
 Drawers and Cutters, Paynters, Lymners, Wryters, and Boke-Bynders ’; and 
 he adds that he has sent Lord Burghley a copy of it ‘ bound by my Man.’ 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXIII. 
 
 BIBLIA SACROSANCTA TESTAMENTI VETERIS & NOVI, E SACRA 
 HEBR^ORVM LINGVA GR/ECORVMQVE FONTIBVS, CON- 
 SVLTIS SIMVL ORTHODOXIS INTERPRETIBVS, RELIGIOSIS- 
 SIME TRANSLATA IN SERMONEM LATINVM. 
 
 TIGVRI, EXCVDEBAT CHRISTOPH. FROSCHOVERVS, ANNO M.D.XLIIII. 
 
 REMARKABLE and interesting binding of the second half 
 of the sixteenth century; green velvet, having the arms 
 of Queen Elizabeth, surrounded by the Garter and en- 
 signed with the royal crown, stamped upon coloured silks on 
 a panel formed of two gold lines with ornamental corners; 
 between the lines of the panel on the upper cover is the 
 verse esto fidelis vsqve ad mortem et dabo tibi 
 coronam vmE. apoc. 2; and between those on the lower, the verse fidem 
 
 SERVAVI QVOD SVPEREST REPOSITA EST MIHI CORONA IVSTITI/E : 2. TIM. 4. 
 
 The edges of the leaves are gilt, beautifully gauffred, and partly painted; 
 the fore-edges having impressed upon them the arms of the University of Oxford, 
 with one of the mottoes of the University, veritas liberabit, bonitas regnabit ; 
 on the upper edges is a crowned Tudor rose, accompanied by the initials E. R., 
 and surrounded by another motto of the University, dominvs lvx mea et 
 salvs mea qvem timebo ; and on the lower edges is the portcullis badge, sur¬ 
 mounted with the initials of the Queen, and encircled by a third motto of the 
 University, in principio erat verbv: et verbv: erat apvd dev. 
 
 This is probably the Bible which was presented to Queen Elizabeth by the 
 University of Oxford at Woodstock in September 1575 during her progress 
 through the counties of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Wor¬ 
 cestershire and Oxfordshire, for Laurence Humfrey, the Vice-Chancellor, in 
 offering a copy of the Scriptures to the Queen, refers to it in these words:— 
 ‘ Hie liber nostrae Universitatis insignia continet septem sigillis communitus 
 
PLATE XXIII. 
 BIBLIA. TIGURI, I 544 . 
 Actual size. 
 
. . . Sentential quae describuntur symbola sunt Academiae; una, In principio 
 erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum; altera, Dominus illuminatio mea et 
 salus mea, quem timebo ?; tertia, Bonitas regnabit, Veritas liberabit ’; and these, 
 with some slight differences, are, as already stated, the three mottoes stamped 
 on the edges of this volume. Laurence Humfrey was an advocate of advanced 
 Protestant opinions, and while residing at Zurich in the years 1554 and 1555 
 lodged in the house of Christopher Froschover the printer, and this renders it 
 likely that a Bible from his press should have been selected by Humfrey for 
 presentation to Elizabeth. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXIV. 
 
 IVSTINVS. 
 
 TROGI POMPEII HISTORIARVM PHILIPPICARVM EPITOMA: 
 
 EX MANVSCRIPTIS CODICIBVS EMENDATIOR; & PROLOGIS AVCTIOR. IN 
 EANDEM NOIVE EXCERPTIONES CHRONOLOGIC^: ET VARIARVM 
 LECTIONVM LIBELLVS. 
 
 PARISHS, 
 
 APVD IACOBVM DV PVYS, SVB SIGNO SAMARITANS, 
 
 I58l. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGIO REGIS. 
 
 HE bindings executed for Queen Elizabeth generally bear 
 her arms and initials, but occasionally they are decorated 
 with a falcon, crowned, and holding a sceptre. This was 
 the device of her mother, Anne Boleyn, but its use was 
 continued by Elizabeth. Holinshed states in his Chron¬ 
 icles that when the Queen visited Norwich in August 1598, 
 during her progress through the counties of Suffolk and 
 Norfolk, St. Stephen’s Gate, through which she passed into the city, was 
 decorated in the following manner:—‘ The outward side of the gate was thus 
 beautified. The queenes armes were most richlie and beautifullie set forth in the 
 chiefe front of the gate. On the one side thereof, but somewhat lower, was placed 
 the scutchion of Saint George his crosse; on the other side, the armes of the 
 citie: and directlie under the queenes maiesties armes, was placed the falcon, 
 hir highnesse badge, in due forme, and under the same were written these 
 words, God and the queene we serve.’ And we are further told that in one 
 of the triumphal arches erected at the entrance of the market-place, ‘in the 
 forefront towards hir maiestie was the armes of England on the one side the 
 
PLATE XXIV. 
 
 JUSTINUS. TROGI POMPEII HISTORIARUM PHILIPPICARUM EPITOMA. 
 
 PARISHS, 1581. 
 
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gate, and on the other side the falcon with crowne and scepter ’; which 
 Holinshed in a note informs us is the Queen’s ‘owne badge.’ 
 
 The binding in brown calf represented in the accompanying Plate has 
 this device impressed in the centre of each cover, with a sprig of oak at the 
 corners. 
 
 Purchased in 1886. 
 
PLATE XXV. 
 
 ORATIONIS DOMINIC^E EXPLICATIO. PER LAMBERTVM DAN/EVM. 
 
 EIVSDEM L. DANJEl THESES, QVIBVS TOTA DE ORATIONE 
 
 DOCTRINA COMPREHENDITVR. 
 
 EDITIO SECVNDA. 
 
 EXCVDEBAT EVSTATHIVS VIGNON, [GENEVA,] M.D.LXXXIII. 
 
 MBROIDERED binding of the second half of the six¬ 
 teenth century, believed to have been executed for Queen 
 Elizabeth; dark olive-brown velvet, beautifully worked 
 with an arabesque pattern in gold and silver thread, in 
 which are introduced double and single roses of the same 
 materials, in which coloured silks were also used, but these 
 have nearly disappeared. The edges of the leaves are gilt 
 and gauffred, and the volume once possessed ribbons of red and yellow silk. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXV. 
 
 ORATIONIS DOMINICAN EXPLICATIO. PER L. DAN ALUM. GENEV/E, I 583. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
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 nAAT&NOS STMnOSlON, ’H FIEPI ’EPQT02, 
 
 AIAAOrOS ’H0IKO2. 
 
 PLATONIS CONVIVIVM, AVT DE AMORE, COLLOQVIVM MORALE. 
 
 PARISHS. 
 
 EX OFFICINA CHRISTIANI WECHELI, SVB SCVTO BASILIENSI, IN VICO 
 IACOB/EO ; & SVB PEGASO, IN VICO BELLOVACENSI. ANNO M.D.XLIII. 
 
 INDING of the second half of the sixteenth century; brown 
 calf, the sides richly decorated with elegant scroll-work, 
 painted black, and combined with arabesques; the whole being 
 enclosed by a border with ornamental corners. Executed 
 for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whose crest in silver 
 and gold is impressed on an oval panel in the centre of 
 each cover. 
 
 Little is known respecting the Earl of Leicester’s library, but, judging 
 from the number of handsomely bound volumes which are extant bearing his 
 well-known crest, the bear and ragged staff, it must have been both fine and 
 extensive. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXVI. 
 
 PLATO. CONVIVIUM. GREECE. PARISIIS, 1543- 
 Actual size. 
 
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PLATE XXEli. 
 
 KAHMENT02 AAEHANAPEOS TA ETPI2K0MENA ATI ANT A. 
 
 EX BIBLIOTHECA MEDICA. 
 
 COLOPHON: CVDEBAT FLORENTINE LAVRENTIVS TORRENTINVS CVM IVLII. 
 
 PONT. MAX. CAROLI V. IMPERATORIS, HENRICI GALLORVM REGIS II. 
 
 PRIVILEGES M.D.L. 
 
 HE book upon which this handsome binding is found 
 also formed one of the volumes of the collection of the 
 Earl of Leicester. The decoration of the covers has some¬ 
 what a foreign appearance, but the details of the work tend 
 to the conclusion that it was executed in this country. 
 The material used for the binding is brown calf, the sides 
 being tooled with a handsome arabesque design. A lozenge¬ 
 shaped centre-piece encloses an oval panel bearing the Earl’s crest, which is 
 accompanied by the initials R D. The portion of the wreath represented as 
 silver in the original should be gold. 
 
 Bequeathed by the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. 
 
PLATE XXVII. 
 
 CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS. OPERA. GREECE. FLORENTINE, 155 O. 
 
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 LES QVESTIONS TVSCVLANES DE MARC TVLLE CICERON: 
 
 NOVVELLEMENT TRADVICTES DE LATIN EN FRANCOYS, 
 
 PAR ESTIENNE DOLET. 
 
 A LYON CHES SVLPICE SABON! POVR ANTOINE CONSTANTIN. [1543.] 
 
 VERY beautiful binding of the second half of the sixteenth 
 century, executed for Thomas Wotton, who possessed a fine 
 and extensive library. He generally had the covers of his 
 books ornamented in a style similar to that used on the 
 volumes bound for Grolier, whose liberal motto he adopted, 
 and he is in consequence usually known as the English 
 Grolier. 
 
 Brown calf is the material used for this binding, the sides being decorated 
 with a very graceful geometrical design, painted black, and combined with 
 arabesques. In the centre of the upper cover are the words thomae wottoni, 
 and in the same position on the lower, the words et amicorvm. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
 Thomas Wotton, the father of the celebrated Sir Henry Wotton and three 
 other distinguished sons, was born in 1521 at Bocton or Boughton Place, in the 
 parish of Boughton Malherbe, in the county of Kent, and succeeded his father, 
 Sir Edward Wotton, in that estate in 1550. In 1558 he was made Sheriff of the 
 county of Kent, and in July 1573 entertained Queen Elizabeth at his residence, 
 Bocton Place, when she offered him knighthood, which he declined. He was 
 twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Rudstone, by 
 whom he had three sons,—Edward, knighted by Elizabeth, and afterwards raised 
 to the peerage as Baron Wotton by James 1., and James and John, who were also 
 made knights by Elizabeth. His second wife was Eleanora, daughter of Sir 
 William Finch, of Eastwell, in Kent, and widow of Robert Morton, Esq., of the 
 
PLATE XXVIII. 
 
 QUESTIONS TUSCULANES. LYON, I 543 * 
 Actual size. 
 
same county, by whom he had a son, Henry, the poet and statesman, who was 
 knighted by James i. 
 
 Wotton died in London on January n, 1587, and was buried in the 
 parish church of Boughton Malherbe, where a monument was erected to his 
 memory, with the following inscription: ‘ Thomas Wottonus, Equestris Ordinis 
 Splendor, et Patriae Lumen, vir antiqua virtute ac fide (morte cum vita com- 
 mutata 111. Id. Januar. Anno a Christo nato mdlxxxvii. : ^Etatis vero suae lxv) 
 hie situs est.’ 
 
 The term ‘ Equestris Ordinis Splendor ’ might seem to imply that he even¬ 
 tually consented to accept knighthood, but more probably the phrase is only a 
 complimentary one, as his name does not occur in the list of Queen Elizabeth’s 
 knights. 
 
 Izaak Walton, in his Life of Sir Henry IVotton, states that Thomas Wotton 
 ‘ was a gentleman excellently educated, and studious in all the liberal arts, in the 
 knowledge whereof he attained unto great perfection; who though he had— 
 besides those abilities, a very noble and plentiful estate, and the ancient interest 
 of his predecessors—many invitations from Queen Elizabeth to change his 
 country recreations and retirement for a court life:—offering him a knight¬ 
 hood, and that to be but as an earnest of some more honourable and more 
 profitable employment under her; yet he humbly refused both, being a man 
 of great modesty, of a most plain and single heart, of an ancient freedom, and 
 integrity of mind.’ 
 
PLATE XXIX. 
 
 CONTENTA. 
 
 RICOLDI ORDINIS RiEDICATORVM CONTRA SECTAM MAHV- 
 METICAM, NON INDIGNVS SCITV LIBELLVS. 
 
 CVIVSDAM DIV CAPTIVI TVRCORV PROVINCLE SEPTEM CASTRENSIS, DE VITA 
 & MORIBVS EORVNDEM ALIVS NON MINVS NECESSARIVS LIBELLVS. 
 ADIVCT 9 EST LIBELL 9 DE VITA & MORIB 9 IVD/EORV. 
 
 COLOPHON: PARISHS EX OFFICINA HERICI STEPHANI ANNO DOMINI 1511. 
 
 DE REBVS TVRCARV AD FRANCISCVM GALLO RVM REGEM 
 CHRISTIANISS. LIBRI QVINQVE: CHRISTOPHORO RICHERIO 
 THORIGNEO SENONE, CVBICVLARIO REGIO, & CANCELLARIO 
 FRANCIS A SECRETIS, AVTHORE. 
 
 PARISHS. 
 
 EX OFFICINA ROB. STEPHANI, HEBRAICARVM & LATINARVM LITERARVM 
 REGII TYPOGRAPHI. 
 
 M.D.XL. 
 
 NOTHER very remarkable and beautiful binding from the 
 library of Thomas Wotton. The leather employed is brown 
 calf, and the sides are ornamented with an elegant geometri¬ 
 cal pattern, painted black, and interlaced with arabesques. 
 In the centre of each cover are impressed the arms of 
 Wotton, but the binding does not bear his motto. His 
 signature, however, occurs on one of the fly-leaves at 
 the beginning of the volume. 
 
 This admirable example of English work of the latter half of the sixteenth 
 century compares favourably with the best of the bindings executed for Grolier. 
 
PLATE XXIX. 
 
 RICOLDI ORDINIS PR^DICATORUM CONTRA SECTAM MAHUMETICAM 
 LIBELLUS, ETC. PARISHS, I 5 I I, ETC. 
 
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PLATE XXX. 
 
 BIBLIA SACRA. 
 
 ANTVERPLE, 
 
 EX OFFICINA CHRISTOPHORI PLANTINI, APVD VIDVAM. 
 
 M. D. XC. 
 
 MBROIDERED binding of the end of the sixteenth century; 
 green velvet, the sides and back beautifully worked with 
 pearls and gold and silver thread. In the centre of each 
 cover are the initials T G, formed with pearls ; those on the 
 upper cover having a garnet placed between them, but 
 the stone on the lower cover is wanting. The edges of the 
 leaves are gilt and gauffred, and have on the fore-edges a 
 circular panel containing two clasped hands surmounted with a flaming heart 
 bearing the initial G, while beneath the hands occur two Ts linked together 
 with a lover’s knot. 
 
 Purchased at the sale of the Library of the Duke of Sussex in 1846. 
 
PLATE XXX. 
 
 BIBLIA SACRA. ANTVERPLE, I59O. 
 Actual size. 
 
PLATE XXXI. 
 
 DE ANTIQVITATE CANTEBRIGIENSIS ACADEMIC LIBRI DVO. 
 
 IOHANNE CAIO ANGLO AVTHORE. 
 
 COLOPHON: LONDINI IN ^EDIBVS IOHANNIS DAII AN. DOMINI 1574- 
 CVM GRATIA & PRIVILEGIO REGIME MAIESTATIS. 
 
 HISTORIC CANTEBRIGIENSIS ACADEMIC LIBRI DVO. 
 IOHANNE CAIO ANGLO AVTHORE. 
 
 COLOPHON: LONDINI IN ^DIBVS IOHANNIS DAII. AN. DOMINI 1 574 . 
 
 CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO REGIE: MAIESTATIS. 
 
 THE TWO WORKS ARE BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME, AND THE TITLE- 
 PAGES OF BOTH ARE PRINTED IN GOLD, AND HAVE ILLUMINATED 
 BORDERS. THE SECOND WORK CONTAINS A COLOURED MAP OF 
 CAMBRIDGE, ENGRAVED BY RICHARD LYNE, OF WHICH ONE OTHER 
 COPY ONLY IS KNOWN J ALSO THE ARMS OF THE SEVERAL COLLEGES, 
 AND ELEVATIONS OF THE SCHOOL SOUARE ; ALL FINELY COLOURED. 
 
 A PRESENTATION COPY TO KING JAMES I. FROM JOHN PARKER, SON OF 
 ARCHBISHOP PARKER, AS APPEARS FROM THE MS. DEDICATION AT 
 THE BEGINNING OF THE VOLUME. 
 
 HIS very beautiful example of English work of the com¬ 
 mencement of the seventeenth century is bound in brown 
 calf; the sides being decorated with an elegant border, 
 having at each angle an ornamental design consisting of 
 military trophies stamped in relief upon a gold ground. 
 In the centre of each cover is a very handsome panel 
 bearing a Tudor rose, ensigned with the royal crown; 
 the space between the border and the panel being filled with graceful gold 
 tooling. The edges of the leaves are gilt, and very elaborately gauffred. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 

 PLATE XXXI. 
 
 CAIUS. DE ANTIQUITATE CANTEBRIGIENSIS ACADEMI/E. LONDINI, 1 5 74. 
 
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PLATE XXXII. 
 
 PONTIFICALE ROMANVM CLEMENTIS VIII. PONT. MAX. IVSSV 
 
 RESTITVTVM ATQVE EDITVM. 
 
 ROMAE M.D.XCV. 
 
 COLOPHON: ROMAE, APVD IACOBVM LVNAM. 
 IMPENSIS LEONARDI PARASOLI & SOCIORVM. 
 
 M.D.XCV. 
 
 EX AVTHORITATE SVPERIORVM. 
 
 NOBLE example of the sumptuous bindings executed for 
 King James i.; brown morocco, the sides ornamented with 
 an elegant border, enclosing alternate rows of thistles and 
 fleurs-de-lis, interspersed with a small floral device. In the 
 centre of each cover are impressed the arms of the King. 
 The back is treated in the same manner as the sides. The 
 British Museum possesses many books which belonged to 
 James, bound in a similar style, and adorned with various stamps. Besides 
 
 the thistle and fleur-de-lis used in the decoration of this volume, tridents, 
 flaming hearts, etc., were frequently employed by the binders, who were most 
 probably John and Abraham Bateman, who were appointed to the office of 
 bookbinders to the King by a warrant dated May 3rd, 1604, at a yearly 
 fee of £ 6. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 

 
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PLATE XXXIII ; 
 
 THE PLEA BETWEENE THE ADVOCATE AND THE ANT’ADVOCATE 
 CONCERNING THE BATHE AND BACHELER KNIGHTES 
 WHEREIN ARE SHEWED MANYE ANTIQVITYES TOVCHINGE 
 KNIGHTHOOD BY FRANCIS THYNNE ESQVIER, LANCASTER 
 HEROLDE. [1605.] 
 
 Additional MS. 12,530. A. iv C. 
 
 DEDICATED TO KING JAMES I. 
 
 HIS handsome binding is a very fine and characteristic 
 example of English work of the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century. It was executed for presentation to James 1., 
 and is also probably the handicraft of John and Abraham 
 Bateman, who had been recently appointed to the office of 
 bookbinders to the King. The material is brown calf, 
 having in the centre of each cover of the volume an orna¬ 
 mental panel containing the royal arms, surrounded by the Garter, and enclosed 
 by a beautiful border, in which the Prince of Wales’ feathers, the portcullis, the 
 rose, the thistle, the fleur-de-lis, and the crowned falcon holding the sceptre— 
 the family badge of Queen Elizabeth—are very artistically introduced. The 
 sides have also ornamental corners, and are thickly studded with fleurs-de-lis. 
 
 On the back of the title-page of the manuscript are emblazoned the arms of 
 James, accompanied by the lines :— 
 
 Scotia quod iuncta e Anglis sub Rege Iacobo 
 Haec nos fcelices splendida signa docent. 
 
 The volume contains the book-plate of Horace Walpole, and a note in his 
 handwriting on the inside of the upper cover states that it was a present from 
 Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, 1786. 
 
 The book was purchased by the British Museum at the Strawberry Hill Sale 
 in 1842. 
 
PLATE XXXIII. 
 
 THYNNE. PLEA CONCERNING THE BATHE AND BACHELER KNIGHTES. 
 
 1605. 
 
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PLATE XXXIV. 
 
 LES VRAIS POVRTRAITS ET VIES DES HOMMES ILLVSTRES 
 GRECS, LATINS ET PAYENS. RECVEILLIS DE LEVR 
 TABLEAVX, LIVRES, MEDALLES ANTIQVES ET MODERNES. 
 PAR ANDRE THEVET ANGOVMOYSIN, PREMIER COSMO- 
 GRAPHE DV ROY. 
 
 A PARIS. PAR LA VEFVE I. KERVERT ET GVILLAVME CHAVDIERE, 
 
 RVE S T IACQVES, 1 584 . AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. 
 
 HE nationality of this exceedingly beautiful binding of the 
 beginning of the seventeenth century is somewhat doubtful. 
 The graceful tooling with which the sides are so richly 
 adorned possesses many of the characteristics of French 
 work, but as certain portions of it closely resemble 
 the ornamentation found on bindings of the time which 
 are undoubtedly English, we have ventured to give this 
 country the credit of having produced this fine work of art. The material 
 employed is dark olive morocco, and each cover bears the arms of King James i., 
 ensigned with the royal crown; the English and Scottish quarterings and the 
 crown being impressed on inlaid red leather. The edges of the leaves are 
 gilt, and gauffred with a very elegant pattern. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXXIV. 
 
 THEVET. LES VRAIS POURTRAITS ET VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES. 
 
 PARIS, 1584. 
 
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 TITI LIVII PATAVINI, ROMANAE HISTORIAE PRINCIPIS, LIBRI 
 OMNES, QVOTQVOT AD NOSTRAM AETATEM PERVENERVNT. 
 
 IVXTA VARIAS DOCTORVM VIRORVM EMENDATIONES, ET VETERVM ET 
 RECENTIVM EXEMPLARIVM COLLATIONE SVMMA FIDE AC DILIGENTIA 
 RECOGNITI, & AD PVBLICAM VTILITATEM DENVO EDITI. 
 
 AVRELIAE ALLOBROGVM, 
 
 EXCVDEBAT PETRVS DE LA ROVIERE, 
 
 MDCIX. 
 
 INDING of the beginning of the seventeenth century, executed 
 for Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James i.; 
 brown calf, having on each cover, within an ornamental centre¬ 
 piece, the badge and initials of the Prince, stamped in gold 
 and silver. The volume has been rebound, the original covers 
 
 being inlaid. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
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 TITI LIVII ROMANA HISTORIA. AURELIAS ALLOBROGUM, 1609. 
 
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PLATE XXXVI. 
 
 ADAM GODDAM SVPER QVATTVOR LIBROS SENTENTIARVM. 
 
 PARRHISIIS, 1512. 
 
 NOTHER binding from the collection of Henry, Prince of 
 Wales; brown calf, with the arms of the Prince impressed 
 in gold in the centre of each cover, and his badge in silver 
 at the corners. 
 
 The volume with this binding formed part of the fine 
 library of Lord Lumley, which, at the death of its owner, 
 was purchased by Prince Henry, who appears to have had 
 the books rebound in calf, with his arms in the centre of the covers, and 
 crowned roses, fleurs-de-lis, Prince of Wales’ feathers, or heraldic lions at the 
 corners. The Prince dying intestate, his library became the property of the 
 King, his father, and was given with the other royal books to the British 
 Museum by King George 11. 
 
PLATE XXXVI. 
 
 ADAM GODDAM SUPER QUATTUOR LIBROS SENTENTIARUM. 
 
 PARRHISIIS, 1512 . 
 
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PLATE XXXVII. 
 
 APHORISMES CIVILL AND MILITARIE: 
 
 AMPLIFIED WITH AVTHORITIES, AND EXEMPLIFIED WITH HISTORIE, OVT 
 OF THE FIRST QVARTERNE OF FR. GVICCIARDINE. [BY SIR ROBERT 
 DALLINGTON.] 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 IMPRINTED FOR EDWARD BLOVNT. 
 
 1613. 
 
 PRESENTATION COPY TO PRINCE CHARLES, AFTERWARDS KING CHARLES I., 
 TO WHOM THE BOOK IS DEDICATED. ON THE BACK OF THE TITLE- 
 PAGE IS A PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE IN THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF 
 HIS AGE. 
 
 INDING of the early part of the seventeenth century; olive brown 
 morocco; the covers, which bear the arms of Prince Charles, 
 together with his initials, are decorated with very graceful floriated 
 tooling of an arabesque character. 
 
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 DALLINGTON. APHORISMES CIVILL AND MILITARIE. LONDON, 1613. 
 
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PLATE XXXVIII . 
 
 THOM/E BRADWARDINI ARCHIEPISCOPI OLIM CANTVARIENSIS, 
 DE CAVSA DEI, CONTRA PELAGIVM, ET DE VIRTVTE CAVSA- 
 RVM, AD SVOS MERTONENSES, LIBRI TRES: 
 
 IVSSV REVERENDISS. GEORGII ABBOT CANTVARIENSIS 
 
 ARCHIEPISCOPI ; 
 
 OPERA ET STVDIO DOMINI HENRICI SAVILII, COLLEGII MERTONENSIS 
 IN ACADEMIA OXONIENSI CVSTODIS, EX SCRIPTIS CODICIBVS NVNC 
 PRIMVM EDITI. 
 
 LONDINI, 
 
 EX OFFICINA NORTONIANA, APVD IOANNEM BILLIVM. 
 
 M.DC.XVIII. 
 
 INDING of the early part of the seventeenth century; olive 
 morocco; each cover bearing the arms of King James i. 
 The sides have ornamental corners, and are profusely 
 decorated with a small floral device. The back also is 
 elaborately tooled. As this book was printed by John 
 Bill in the establishment of the Nortons, who were the 
 King’s printers, it is possible that it was also bound there, 
 for in the Calendar of State Papers for the year 1609 an entry occurs which 
 shows that John Norton bound as well as printed books for the service of the 
 King. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XXXVIII. 
 
 THOM/E BRADWARDINI ARCHIEPISCOPI CANTUARIENSIS DE CAUSA DEI 
 CONTRA PELAGIUM. LONDINI, l6l8. 
 
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PLATE XXXIX. 
 
 A MEDITATION VPON THE LORDS PRAYER, WRITTEN BY 
 THE KINGS MAIESTIE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL HIS 
 SVBIECTS, ESPECIALLY OF SVCH AS FOLLOW THE COVRT. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 PRINTED BY BONHAM NORTON AND IOHN BILL, PRINTERS TO THE KINGS 
 
 MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. 
 
 M.DC.XIX. 
 
 HIS charming little volume was James i.’s own copy of 
 his work. It is bound in purple velvet, with an oval 
 shield charged with his arms in the centre of each cover; 
 clasps, the sides of which are shaped like a portcullis, 
 bearing the initials I. R.; and ornamental corner-pieces: 
 all in silver. The corner-pieces on the upper cover have 
 respectively engraved upon them a fleur-de-lis, a harp, 
 a cross, and a thistle, all crowned; while those on the lower cover bear a 
 thistle, the lion as used for the Scottish crest, a Tudor rose, and the lion 
 which forms the English crest, standing upon a cap of maintenance. The 
 edges of the leaves are gilt and gauffred. 
 
 The preface, in which the King dedicates the book to his favourite, 
 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, is a good example of James’s style, 
 and is very amusing. ‘When I bethinke myself,’ writes the King, ‘to whom 
 I can most aptly dedicate this little labour of mine, most of it being stollen 
 from the hours ordained for my sleepe; and calling to minde how carefull I 
 have ever bin to observe a decorum in the dedication of my bookes, I cannot 
 
PLATE XXXIX. 
 
 MEDITATION UPON TPIE LORD’S PRAYER BY KING JAMES I. LONDON, 1 6 1 9 . 
 
 Actual size. 
 
surely finde out a person to whom I can more fitly dedicate this short Medita¬ 
 tion of mine than to you, Buckingham. For it is made upon a very short 
 and plaine Prayer, and therefore fitter for a courtier: for courtiers for the 
 most part are thought neither to have list nor leisure to say long prayers, 
 liking best court Messe and long disner.’ 
 
 Purchased in 1850. 
 
PLATE XL. 
 
 LOGONOMIA ANGLICA. 
 
 QVA GENTIS SERMO FACILIVS ADDISCITVR. 
 
 CONSCRIPTA AB ALEXANDRO GIL PAVLIN/E SCHOLL MAGISTRO PRIMARIO. 
 
 LONDINI, 
 
 EXCVDIT IOHANNES BEALE. 
 
 1619. 
 
 DEDICATED TO KING JAMES I. 
 
 N early example of the more delicate style of tooling which 
 superseded the heavy designs generally found on the bind¬ 
 ings executed for James 1. Olive-brown morocco, each 
 cover bearing the arms of Charles, Prince of Wales, after¬ 
 wards King Charles 1., enclosed by a very beautiful border; 
 the space within the border not occupied by the arms 
 being thickly studded with small fleurs-de-lis, with which 
 the back also is decorated, but which have been re-impressed at a later 
 period. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 
PLATE XL. 
 
 GIL. LOGONOMIA ANGLICA. LONDINI, 1619. 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 THE HOLY BIBLE. 
 
 IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY BONHAM NORTON AND IOHN BILL, DEPVTY PRINTERS 
 FOR THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. ANNO l6l8. 
 
 THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTVRES 
 ACCORDING TO EVERY FAMILY AND TRIBE. WITH THE 
 LINE OF OVR SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST OBSERVED FROM 
 ADAM TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. BY I. S. [JOHN 
 SPEED]. 
 
 THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES: COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH 
 MEETER BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, IOHN HOPKINS AND 
 OTHERS. 
 
 LONDON. PRINTED FOR THE COMPANIE OF STATIONERS. 1619. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGED REGIS REGALI. 
 
 Bound together in one volume. 
 
 EW embroidered bindings in existence surpass in excellence of 
 execution and freshness of condition this charming example 
 of English needlework of the early part of the seventeenth 
 century. The material is white satin, having on the upper 
 cover a figure of Peace, and on the lower cover one of 
 Plenty. These figures are most beautifully embroidered in 
 feather-stitch with coloured silks; the face, hands, and 
 feet being worked in outline only, and tinted. The edges and folds of the 
 dresses are bordered with a delicate gold twist. Each figure is enclosed in a 
 very handsome frame consisting of thick gold twisted thread, with an inner 
 
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gold border of couched work. The covers are also decorated with gold spangles, 
 but most of these have been lost; and six of the eight caterpillars which 
 ornamented the corners of the covers have also disappeared. The back is 
 divided into panels with gold thread, each partition bearing a conventional 
 flower in coloured silks; and the edges of the leaves are gilt, and gauftred 
 with an ornamental pattern, partly painted white. 
 
 On the fly-leaf is inscribed the name ‘ Catherine Bacon,’ probably that of 
 the original owner of the volume, as it is in a handwriting of the time. 
 
 Purchased in 1842. 
 
PLATE XLII. 
 
 THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, WITH THE PSALTER OR 
 
 PSALMES OF DAVID. 
 
 IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOST 
 
 EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. ANNO 1615. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGIO. 
 
 THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTVRES, 
 ACCORDING TO EVERY FAMILY AND TRIBE. WITH THE 
 LINE OF OVR SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST, OBSERVED FROM 
 ADAM TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. BY I. S. [JOHN 
 SPEED]. 
 
 CVM PRIVILEGIO. 
 
 THE HOLY BIBLE, 
 
 CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW. 
 
 IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS MOST 
 
 EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. ANNO l6l6. 
 
 THE BOOKE OF PSALMES, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER, 
 BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, IOHN HOPKINS, AND OTHERS: 
 CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW: WITH APT NOTES TO 
 SING THEM WITHALL. 
 
 LONDON. PRINTED FOR THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS. 1619. 
 
 Bound together in one volume. 
 
 HANDSOME and characteristic example of English binding 
 of the early part of the seventeenth century. The sides are 
 stamped with elegant, but somewhat heavy centre-pieces and 
 corners, and are profusely ornamented with a small floral 
 device; the back also is elaborately tooled, and the edges 
 
PLATE XLII. 
 
 BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, ETC. LONDON, I 6 I 5 — I 9. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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of the leaves are gilt and gauffred with a graceful pattern. In the centre 
 of each cover are impressed the initials I D, probably those of the first pro¬ 
 prietor of the volume. The leather is brown calf, which was generally used 
 for English bindings of the period. 
 
 Purchased in 1849. 
 
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PLATES XLIII. — XLV. 
 
 THE TRAVELLING LIBRARY OF SIR JULIUS CiESAR. 
 
 E travelling library of Sir Julius Caesar, Master of the 
 Rolls in the reign of James i., consists of forty-four little 
 volumes, very prettily bound in white vellum, the largest 
 measuring 4^ in. by in., and the smallest 2% in. by 
 2 in. They are contained in an oak case, 16 inches long, 
 
 11 inches wide, and rather more than 3 inches deep. It is 
 covered with light olive morocco—now much faded—grace¬ 
 fully tooled, and is shaped to resemble a folio volume, the portion representing 
 the edges of the leaves being painted green, with the word bibliotheca written 
 across it in gold letters. The case was formerly fastened with ribbons, but these 
 are now wanting. 
 
 The books are arranged in three divisions:—Theology and Philosophy, 
 History, and Poetry ; each set being distinguished by the decoration of the covers 
 of the volumes and the colour of the ribbons with which they are tied. The first 
 and second sets stand upon two shelves, the third set being placed upon the 
 bottom of the case. The theological and philosophical works occupy the first 
 shelf, and have an angel bearing a scroll with the legend gloria deo stamped on 
 the sides of the bindings, and a small floral ornament on the backs. The ribbons 
 of this set are blue. The historical works are placed on the second shelf, and have 
 a crowned lion rampant on the sides, with a flaming heart on the backs, and are 
 tied with red ribbons. The third row consists of the poetical works. The 
 volumes of this set have green ribbons, the covers being decorated with two olive 
 branches, and the backs, with some exceptions, with a star. The books are 
 
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principally from the presses of Raphelengius at Leyden and Porteau at Saumur, 
 and were all printed between the years 1591 and 1619. The inside of the lid of 
 the case is gracefully illuminated, and has a list of the works written in gold. It 
 also bears the arms of Sir Julius, and those of his second and third wives. 
 
 This beautiful library was purchased by the British Museum in 1842. 
 
 Plate xliii. represents the outside of the case, and Plates xliv. and xlv. 
 show respectively the inside of the lid, and the volumes which form the library. 
 
 Sir Julius Caesar was the son of Cesare Adelmare, a native of Treviso, a city 
 near Venice. Adelmare, who had taken the degree of doctor of medicine at the 
 University of Padua, came to England about 1550, and settled in London, where 
 he soon acquired a large practice as a physician, and was eventually appointed 
 medical adviser to Queen Mary, and on her decease to Queen Elizabeth, by whom 
 he was held in high estimation. He died in 1569, and was interred in the 
 Church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate Street. His eldest son, who was born in 1557, 
 received at his baptism the names of Julius Caesar, the latter of which he after¬ 
 wards adopted as a surname, abandoning that of Adelmare. He was educated 
 at the University of Oxford, and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1578, and 
 that of Doctor of Laws in 1584. In 1579 he went to Paris, where he was 
 admitted a Doctor of Civil and Canon Law in 1581. In October of that year 
 he received his first public appointment, which he informs us was that of ‘ Justice 
 of the Peace on all causes of piracy and suchlike throughout the land,’ and in 
 1583 he was made ‘ Councellor to the City of London.’ Shortly afterwards he 
 became a Master in Chancery, and also succeeded Dr. Lewes as Judge of the 
 Admiralty Court. In 1591 the Queen bestowed on him the office of Master of 
 Requests, and in 1596 he obtained the mastership of St. Katharine’s Hospital, the 
 reversion to which he had acquired by means of a payment of ^500 to the Scottish 
 Ambassador in England, Archibald Douglas, who used his interest with the Queen 
 to procure this appointment for Caesar. 
 
 In September 1598 Elizabeth honoured him with a visit at his residence at 
 Mitcham. He tells us that the entertainment of her Majesty, together with the 
 presents which he offered to her, cost him j£ 700. These presents consisted of ‘ a 
 gown of cloth of silver, richly embroidered; a black network mantle, with pure 
 gold; a taffeta hat, white, with several flowers and a jewel of gold set therein 
 with rubies and diamonds.’ 
 
 On the accession of James 1. to the crown Caesar was knighted, and in 1606 
 he received the appointment of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was sworn of the 
 Privy Council. On the death of Sir E. Philips in 1614 he became Master of the 
 Rolls. He died on the 18th of April 1636, aged seventy-nine, and was buried in 
 the same church as his father, where his monument, with a curious device (a deed- 
 
poll with the cord attaching the seal severed) and inscription designed and com¬ 
 posed by himself, is still to be seen. 
 
 Sir Julius Caesar was married three times; his first wife being Dorcas, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Martin, thrice Lord Mayor of London, and widow of 
 Richard Lusker, barrister-at-law; his second, Alice, daughter of Christopher 
 Grant of Manchester, and widow of John Dent, merchant of London; and his 
 third, Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Wodehouse of Waxham in Norfolk, and 
 widow of William Hungate of East Bradenham in the same county. She was 
 also a niece of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban’s, who was present at the 
 wedding and gave the bride away. Caesar was one of the supervisors of the will 
 of Bacon, who, it is stated, often visited him, and wrote several of his works in 
 his house. 
 
 Sir Julius Caesar appears to have been a most just and honourable man, and 
 Fuller, in his State Worthies , says ‘that he was a person of such prodigious 
 bounty to all of worth or want that he might seem to be almoner-general of the 
 nation.’ He was the author of several works, and possessed a considerable 
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PLATE XLV. 
 
 TRAVELLING LIBRARY OF SIR JULIUS C/ESAR, 
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PLATE XL PI. 
 
 CE LIVRE CONTENANT CINQVANTE EMBLEMES CHRESTIENS 
 PREMIEREMENT INVENTEZ PAR LA NOBLE DAMOISELLE 
 GEORGETTE DE MONTENAY EN FRANCE, FORTS PLAISANTS 
 & DELECTABLES A LIRE & VOIR, LESQVELS SONT, A 
 PRESENT ESCRITS, TIREZ, ET TRACEZ PAR LA MAIN 
 ET PLVME DE MOY ESTHER INGLIS L’AN DE MON AAGE 
 CINQVANTE ET TROIS. 
 
 A LISLEBOVRG EN ESCOSSE [EDINBURGH], LAN 1624. 
 
 Royal MS. 17. D. xvi. 
 
 EACH OF THE EMBLEMS IS INSCRIBED TO A PEER OR OTHER DISTIN¬ 
 GUISHED PERSON, AND THE VOLUME CONTAINS THE PORTRAITS OF 
 THE AUTHOR AND THE COPYIST, BOTH OF THEM EXECUTED BY THE 
 LATTER WITH PEN AND INK. 
 
 DEDICATED TO PRINCE CHARLES, AFTERWARDS KING CHARLES I. 
 
 VERY charming embroidered binding of the first half 
 of the seventeenth century; red satin, having in the centre 
 of each cover, enclosed by two olive branches, the badge of 
 Prince Charles, afterwards King Charles 1., worked in gold 
 and silver thread, and decorated with pearls. The covers 
 are also adorned with very elegant borders of gold and silver 
 work of an arabesque pattern, interspersed with spangles. 
 
 The design of the ornamentation employed on this binding differs greatly 
 from that usually found on embroidered books of the seventeenth century; and 
 it has evidently been suggested by the gold tooling on some volume bound in 
 leather. 
 
 Esther Inglis, by whom this copy of Georgette de Montenay’s Emblems was 
 
PLATE XLVI. 
 
 EMBLEMES CIIRESTIENS INVENTEZ PAR GEORGETTE DE MONTENAV, 
 ET ESCRITS PAR ESTHER INGLIS. LISLEBOURG, I 624. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
written, was an artist and calligraphist of considerable ability, who numbered 
 among her patrons Queen Elizabeth, King James i., and his sons Prince Henry 
 and Prince Charles. She was born in France in 1571. Her father, Nicolas 
 Langlois (Inglis being an Anglicised form of this name) was a Huguenot, and in 
 1572 fled to England with his wife and family to escape the religious persecution 
 to which he was subjected in his own country. He subsequently went to 
 Edinburgh, where he received the appointment of Master of the French School. 
 His daughter married the Rev. Bartholomew Kello, of Leith, who afterwards 
 became rector of Willingale-Spain in Essex. It is stated by Hearne that at one 
 time she was nurse to Prince Henry, the eldest son of King James 1. She died 
 on the 30th of August 1624. Several other manuscripts written by Mrs. Kello 
 are preserved in the British Museum, all of them beautifully executed. Two of 
 them have embroidered bindings in a somewhat similar style to that of the 
 present example, and it is probable that all three were worked by her skilful 
 fingers. 
 
PLATE XL PII. 
 
 CORPVS STATVTORVM VNIVERSITATIS OXON., SIVE PANDECTES 
 CONSTITVTIONVM ACADEMICARVM, E LIBRIS PVBLICIS ET 
 REGESTIS VNIVERSITATIS CONSARCINATVS. 
 
 OXONLE 
 
 EXCVDEBANT IOHANNES LICHFIELD & GVILIELMVS TVRNER, 
 
 ACADEMIC CELEBERRIM/E TYPOGRAPHI. 
 
 M.DC.XXXIV. 
 
 PRINTED ON VELLUM, AND PRESENTED TO KING CHARLES I. BY THE 
 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 
 
 N admirable example of English binding of the first half of 
 the seventeenth century; blue morocco, beautifully ornamented 
 with delicate tooling in imitation of French work of the time. 
 In the centre of each cover are impressed the arms of 
 Charles i., and at each corner of the panel bearing them is 
 placed a small crowned Tudor rose. 
 
 From the Old Royal Collection. 
 

 PLATE XLVII. 
 
 CORPUS STATUTORUM UNIVERSITATIS OXON. OXONLE, 1634. 
 
 14I in. by 10J in. 
 

 
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PLATE XLVIII. 
 
 THE ACTIONS & DOCTRINE & OTHER PASSAGES TOVCHING OVR 
 LORD & SAVIOR IESVS CHRIST, AS THEY ARE RELATED BY 
 THE FOVRE EVANGELISTS. 
 
 REDVCED INTO ONE COMPLETE BODY OF HISTORIE, WHEREIN THAT W CH 
 IS SEVERALLY RELATED BY THEM IS DIGESTED INTO ORDER I AND 
 THAT, W CH IS IOINTLY RELATED BY ALL OR ANY TWO OR MORE 
 OF THEM IS FIRST EXPRESSED IN THEIR OWN WORDS, BY WAY OF 
 COMPARISON, AND SECONDLY BROVGHT INTO ONE NARRATION BY 
 WAY OF COMPOSITION, AND THIRDLY EXTRACTED INTO ONE CLEARE 
 CONTEXT BY WAY OF COLLECTION, YET SO, AS WHATSOEVER IS 
 OMITTED IN THE CONTEXT, IS INSERTED BY WAY OF SVPPLEMENT 
 IN ANOTHER PRINT. IN SVCH MANNER AS ALL THE FOVRE EVAN¬ 
 GELISTS MAY BE READ SEVERALLY FROM FIRST TO LAST. TO W CH 
 ARE ADDED SVNDRY PICTVRES EXPRESSING EITHER THE FACTS 
 THEMSELVES OR THEIR TYPES & FIGVRES OR OTHER MATTERS 
 APPERTAINING THEREVNTO. AN° M.DC.XXXV. 
 
 COMPILED FOR KING CHARLES I. BY NICHOLAS FERRAR AND HIS 
 FAMILY, AT THEIR RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT AT LITTLE GIDDING, 
 
 IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, IN 1 635. 
 
 N exceedingly interesting binding of the first half of the 
 seventeenth century; black morocco, elaborately tooled in 
 gold on the sides and back, with the sacred monogram IH S 
 impressed in the centre of each cover. It is mentioned in 
 Dean Peckard’s Life of Nicholas Ferrar ‘that this book 
 was bound entirely by Mary Collet, one of Mr. Ferrars 
 nieces, all wrought in gold, in a new and most elegant 
 fashion ’; and John Ferrar, in his Life of his brother Nicholas, states that it was 
 
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 PLATE XLVIII. 
 
 HARMONY OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS. LITTLE GIDDINC, I 635. 
 
 1 9 in. by 14 in. 
 

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‘ bound in crimson velvet, and richly gilded upon the velvet, a thing not usual.’ 
 As, however, the leather and tooling are similar to those used for other books 
 bound at Little Gidding, it is most probable that the velvet binding was a cover 
 or wrapper for the volume. Peckard also tells us that ‘amongst other articles of 
 instruction and amusement, Mr. Ferrar entertained an ingenious bookbinder, who 
 taught the family, females as well as males, the whole art and skill of book¬ 
 binding, gilding, lettering, and what they called pasting-printing, by the use of 
 the rolling-press’; and we are further informed by John Ferrar that the person 
 who taught the community was a bookbinder’s daughter of Cambridge. ‘ By this 
 assistance,’ adds Peckard, ‘ he composed a full Harmony or Concordance of the 
 four Evangelists, adorned with many beautiful pictures, which required more than 
 a year for the composition, and was divided into 150 heads or chapters.’ The 
 fame of this Harmony reached the ears of Charles 1., who expressed a wish to 
 have one like it ‘ for his daily use,’ and in less than a year the volume represented 
 in the accompanying Plate was completed and presented to the King. The book 
 was greatly valued by Charles, who, when it was presented to him, said: ‘Truly, 
 I prize this as a rich and rare jewel; the substance of it is of the best alloy in the 
 world, and ought to be the only desirable book; and for the skill, care and cost 
 used in it, there is no defect, but a superlative diligence in all about it. I very 
 much thank them all; and it shall be my wade mecum .’ Then turning to Arch¬ 
 bishop Laud, who stood near, he added: ‘ How happy a king were I if I had 
 many more such workmen and women in my kingdom! God’s blessing on their 
 hearts and painful hands.’ Charles also requested them to make a Concordance 
 of the Books of Kings and Chronicles for him; and this volume, together with 
 the Harmony, and a third work on the Acts of the Apostles and the Revelation 
 of St. John, respecting which nothing is known, were placed in the Old Royal 
 Library, which was presented to the British Museum by King George 11. An¬ 
 other Harmony of the Four Evangelists, bound in red parchment, having the 
 corners and centres of the covers decorated with open-work designs in white 
 parchment, tooled with small gold ornaments, which formerly belonged to Mary 
 Collet, and is also thought to have been bound by her, has been recently acquired 
 by the Museum. Several copies of the Harmony, and other works of a similar 
 kind, were also prepared by the Little Gidding community for Prince Charles, 
 afterwards King Charles 11., Prince James, afterwards King James 11., Archbishop 
 Laud, George Herbert, the poet, Dr. Jackson, Dean of Peterborough, Mr. 
 Thomas Hervey, and other noble and distinguished persons. Eleven of these 
 compilations are known to be in existence. Six of them are bound in leather; 
 four in velvet, stamped with various gold ornaments ; and one in red parchment. 
 An interesting account of these books will be found in two papers by Captain 
 
J. E. Acland, which were read before the Society of Antiquaries and printed in 
 vol. li. of the Archczologia\ and an excellent article by Mr. Cyril Davenport, 
 of the British Museum, which relates more especially to the binding of the 
 volumes, occurs in vol. n. of Bibliographica. 
 
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PLATE XLIX. 
 
 THE WHOLE BOOKE OF DAVIDS PSALMES, 
 
 BOTH IN PROSE AND MEETER. 
 
 WITH APT NOTES TO SING THEM WITHALL. 
 
 LONDON, PRINTED BY T. C. FOR THE COMPANY OF STATIONERS. 1 635. 
 
 NOTHER very beautiful embroidered binding of a somewhat 
 later period than that represented in Plate xli., which it 
 rivals in good taste and skilful work. It consists of white 
 satin, having on the upper cover a figure of Plenty, with 
 a cornucopia, and on the lower, one of Peace, holding a 
 palm branch. Both these figures are exquisitely worked in 
 feather-stitch with coloured silks, and are enclosed by a 
 raised ornamental framework, composed of various kinds of silver braid. The 
 corners of the covers are decorated with flowers, which occur also on the panels 
 of the back. A considerable portion of the design has originally been outlined 
 with a fine silver thread, and the edges of the leaves are gauffred with a very 
 graceful pattern. 
 
 Purchased in 1855. 
 
PLATE XLIX. 
 
 BOOKE OF PSALMES. LONDON, I 635. 
 Actual size. 
 

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PLATE L. 
 
 THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR 
 
 JESUS CHRIST: 
 
 NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINALL GREEK : AND WITH THE 
 FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY 
 HIS MAJESTIES SPECIAL COMMANDMENT. 
 
 IMPRINTED AT LONDON BY ROBERT BARKER, PRINTER TO THE KINGS 
 MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE I AND BY THE ASSIGNES OF JOHN BILL. 
 
 1643. 
 
 CUM PRIVILEGE). 
 
 IN DING of the middle of the seventeenth century; red 
 velvet, having on the upper cover a silver plaque con¬ 
 taining a portrait of King Charles 1., and, on the lower 
 cover, one with that of his Queen. The covers are also 
 decorated at the corners with silver plates, having sym¬ 
 bolical representations of the Cardinal Virtues engraved 
 upon them; while the clasps, which are likewise of silver, 
 bear figures emblematical of the Four Elements. The back is worked with 
 crossed bands of silver embroidery. 
 
 Purchased in 1850. 
 
PLATE L. 
 
 NEW TESTAMENT. LONDON, I 643. 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
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PLATE LI. 
 
 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE 
 SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF 
 THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: WITH THE PSALTER, OR 
 PSALMES OF DAVID. 
 
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 ANNO DOMINI, l66o. 
 
 THE HOLY BIBLE. 
 
 CONTAINING THE BOOKES OF THE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN FIELD, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITIE. AND ILLUS¬ 
 TRATED WITH CHOROGRAPHICAL SCULPS BY J. OGILBY. 
 
 l66o. 
 
 The Book of Common Prayer and the Bible , which are both printed 
 on large paper and handsomely ruled , are bound together in 
 two volumes. 
 
 c 4 ^ROBABLY one of the earliest bindings executed for 
 Charles 11. by Samuel Mearn, bookbinder to the King; 
 red morocco, each cover having an exceedingly handsome 
 border of delicate tooling, enclosing a panel, which is 
 divided into three compartments; the central one con¬ 
 taining the arms of Charles, and the upper and lower his 
 cypher, together with four doves, each ensigned with a 
 crown, and holding a palm branch in its mouth. 
 
 From the Library of King George 111. 
 
 Samuel Mearn was appointed bookbinder to King Charles 11. in June 1660, 
 with an annual fee of £ 6. He held this office until 1683, when he was succeeded 
 by Charles Mearn, who was probably his son. 
 
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 BIBLE AND PRAYER BOOK. CAMBRIDGE, l66o. 
 20 in. by 13? in. 
 

PLATE LII. 
 
 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE 
 SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF 
 THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH 
 OF ENGLAND. 
 
 TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, PRINTED AS THEY 
 ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES I AND THE FORM AND 
 MANNER OF MAKING, ORDAINING, AND CONSECRATING OF BISHOPS, 
 PRIESTS, AND DEACONS. 
 
 LONDON : PRINTED BY HIS MA TIES PRINTERS. 
 
 CUM PRIVILEGIO. MDCLXIX. 
 
 HIS admirable binding, which also was most probably 
 executed for Charles n. by Samuel Mearn, the King’s 
 
 bookbinder, is one of the very finest examples of English 
 
 work of the latter half of the seventeenth century. The 
 leather used is red morocco, which, like that on all the 
 books bound for Charles 11., is of excellent quality. 
 
 The covers are adorned with an ornamental panel, 
 known, on account of its shape, as the cottage pattern. This design, when 
 introduced into this country, for it is said to have had its origin in France, 
 
 quickly became very distinctively English in its character, and is frequently 
 
 found on the Bibles and Prayer-Books of the time, especially on those 
 which issued from the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge. In the 
 centre of this panel is impressed the crowned cypher of the King, which 
 is repeated at the top, bottom, and sides. The design and execution of the 
 exceedingly delicate tooling with which this binding is so richly decorated 
 leave but little to be desired. The edges of the leaves are gilt, and are painted 
 under the gold with the King’s cypher and crown. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
PLATE LII. 
 
 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. LONDON, 1 669. 
 144 in. by 9^ in. 
 
PLATE LIII. 
 
 POEMS, &c. 
 
 WRITTEN UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, AND TO SEVERAL 
 PERSONS: BY EDMOND WALLER, ESQ. 
 
 THE THIRD EDITION, WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONS, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR HENRY HERRINGMAN, AT THE ANCHOR IN THE LOWER- 
 
 WALK OF THE NEW EXCHANGE, 1 668 . 
 
 PRESENTATION COPY TO MARY OF MODENA, SECOND WIFE OF THE DUKE 
 OF YORK, AFTERWARDS KING JAMES II. 
 
 VERY pretty binding of the latter half of the seventeenth 
 century; black morocco, handsomely tooled in gold and 
 silver; each cover bearing the arms of the Duchess. 
 
 This is the volume mentioned by Miss Strickland in 
 her Lives of the Queens of England , who informs us 
 that the Duchess of York ‘took great pleasure in the con¬ 
 versation of the poet Waller, and playfully commanded him 
 to write. That he had not lost the talent for making poetry the vehicle for 
 graceful compliments, which distinguished his early productions, may be seen 
 by the elegant lines addressed to her royal highness, which he presented to her, 
 with a copy of his poems.’ On the fly-leaves at the beginning of the book is 
 a dedication by Waller to the Duchess, followed by the lines alluded to by 
 Miss Strickland, which are believed to be in the handwriting of a member of 
 the poet’s family. 
 
 They are as follows :— 
 
 ‘ This Booke, never Dedicated to any before, humbly desires the Patronage of hir R. Highness.’ 
 
 I here present you with the Rage, 
 
 And with the beauties of a former Age, 
 Wishing you may with as great pleasure view 
 This, as we take, in gazing upon you ; 
 
 ‘ Madam, 
 
PLATE LIII. 
 
 WALLER. POEMS. LONDON, 1 668 . 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
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Thus we writt then ; your brighter Eyes inspire 
 A nobler flame, and raise our genious higher ; 
 
 While we your witt, and early knowledge feare, 
 
 To our productions we become severe, 
 
 Your Matchless Beauty gives our fancie wing, 
 
 Your judgment makes us carefull how we Sing ; 
 
 Lines, not compos’d, as heretofore, in hast, 
 
 Pollish’t like marble shall like marble last, 
 
 And make you through as many Ages shine, 
 
 As Tasso has the Heros of your Lyne ; 
 
 Tho other names our wary wrighters use, 
 
 You are the subject, of the Brittish Muse, 
 
 Dilateing mischief, to your self unknowne, 
 
 Men wright, and dye of wounds they dare not owne, 
 
 So the bright sunn burns all our grass away, 
 
 While it means nothing, but to give us day.’ 
 
 On the blank leaves at the end of the volume, written by the same hand, 
 is a poem by Waller on the death of Charles, Duke of Cambridge, son of the 
 Duchess, who was born on November 7th, 1677. A few days after his birth 
 small-pox broke out in St. James’s Palace, and the infant prince, taking the 
 disease, died on December 12th :— 
 
 ‘ UPON OUR PUBLICK LOSS OF THE LATE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 ‘ The faileing blossoms which a young plant bears 
 Ingage our hope, for the succeeding years, 
 
 And hope is all which Art or Nature brings 
 Att the first Tryall, to accomplish things ; 
 
 Mankind was first, created an essay, 
 
 That under draft, the Deluge wash’t away ; 
 
 How many Ages past, what blood and toyle, 
 
 Before we made one Kingdome of this Isle ? 
 
 How long in vaine had nature striv’d to frame 
 A perfect Princess, e’re hir Highness came? 
 
 For joyes so great we must with patience waite, 
 
 ’Tis the sett price of happiness compleate ; 
 
 As a first fruit, Heav’n claim’d that Lovely Boy, 
 
 The next shall live, and be the Nation’s joy.’ 
 
 Both these pieces were printed in the fourth edition of the Poems , issued 
 in 1682. 
 
 Purchased in 1848. 
 
PLATE LIP. 
 
 THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE BOOKES OF THE 
 
 OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 PRINTED BY JOHN HAYES, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITIE. 
 
 1674. 
 
 2 volumes. 
 
 NOBLE example of embroidered binding of the second 
 half of the seventeenth century; red velvet, very hand¬ 
 somely and elegantly adorned with gold and silver cord 
 and coloured silks. Within a graceful scroll design inter¬ 
 laced with floral ornaments, in which Tudor roses are in¬ 
 troduced, are embroidered the arms of King James 11., 
 ensigned with the royal crown and environed by palm 
 branches. At the top of each cover are clouds formed of blue silk entwined 
 with gold and silver thread, from which tongues of fire descend upon the 
 crown and initials of the King. The sides are also decorated with the heads 
 of angels, one being placed at each corner; the heads, to which golden wings 
 are attached, have faces of silver, black beads being used to represent the eyes. 
 The back is very richly embroidered, and the volume has broad red silk ribbons 
 with deep gold fringe at the ends. 
 
 The embroidery used on this binding is of two kinds, one is appliqud, 
 being first worked on canvas, the other is worked on the velvet itself. 
 
 Purchased in 1847. 
 
PLATE LIV. 
 
 BIBLE. CAMBRIDGE, 1674. 
 l8| in. by I2i in. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PLATES LV. LVI. 
 
 THE PARFAIT MARESCHAL, OR COMPLEAT FARRIER. 
 
 WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN FRENCH BY THE SIEUR DE SOLLEYSEL ESCUYER, 
 SOMETIME ONE OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE FRENCH KINGS ROYAL 
 ACADEMY OF RIDING, NEAR TO THE HOSTEL DE CONDE IN PARIS. 
 AND TRANSLATED FROM THE LAST PARIS IMPRESSION, BY SIR WILLIAM 
 HOPE OF KIRKLESTON, KT., LIEUTENANT GOVERNOUR OF THE CASTLE 
 OF EDINBURGH. BY WHOM IS ALSO ADDED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO 
 THE FIRST PART, A MOST COMPENDIOUS AND EXCELLENT COLLEC¬ 
 TION OF HORSEMANSHIP, TAKEN FROM THE BEST AND MOST MODERN 
 WRITERS UPON THAT SUBJECT, SUCH AS MR. DE LA BROW, PLUVINEL, 
 AND THE GREAT DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 EDINBURGH, PRINTED BY GEORGE MOSMAN, M.DC.XCVI. 
 
 VERY fine and characteristic example of Scotch binding 
 of the end of the seventeenth or the early part of the 
 eighteenth century. Dark blue morocco, with a red 
 doublure of the same leather. The outsides and insides 
 of the covers are decorated in the same style, although 
 the patterns are different. The delicate tooling is some¬ 
 what wanting in finish, but the general effect is good, 
 and pleasing to the eye. 
 
 Plate lv. represents the outside of the covers, and Plate lvi. the doublure. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
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PLATE LV. 
 
 SOLLEYSEL. 
 
 THE PARFAIT MARESCHAL. EDINBURGH, I 
 Outside of cover. 
 
 1 2\ in. by 7 ^ in. 
 
PLATE LVI. 
 
 SOLLEYSEL. THE PARFAIT MARESCHAL. EDINBURGH, I 696. 
 
 Inside of cover. 
 
 I2j in. by in. 
 
PLATE LVII. 
 
 THE FABLES OF PILPAY, 
 
 A FAMOUS INDIAN PHYLOSOPHER : 
 
 CONTAINING MANY USEFUL RULES FOR THE CONDUCT OF HUMANE LIFE. 
 MADE ENGLISH, AND ADDRESS’D TO HIS HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF 
 GLOUCESTER. 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 PRINTED FOR DAN. BROWN AT THE BLACK SWAN WITHOUT TEMPLE BAR, 
 
 CHR. CONNIGSBY AT THE TURK’S-HEAD AGAINST ST. DUNSTAN’S 
 CHURCH IN FLEET STREET, D. MIDWINTER, AND T. LEIGH, AT THE 
 ROSE AND CROWN IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD, 1699. 
 
 [this edition is translated from the french version of gilbert 
 
 GAULMIN AND DAWUD SAID BY JOSEPH HARRIS.] 
 
 INDING of the end of the seventeenth or beginning of the eighteenth 
 century; black morocco; the sides decorated with the cottage pattern, 
 and the delicate English tooling of the period. As some of the 
 stamps resemble those used by Samuel Mearn, this binding is probably the 
 work of his successor. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
PLATE LVII. 
 
 FABLES OF PILPAY. LONDON, 1699. 
 Actual size. 
 
 

 
 
 
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PLATE LVIII. 
 
 A PARAPHRASE AND ANNOTATIONS UPON ALL 
 
 ST. PAUL’S EPISTLES. 
 
 DONE BY SEVERAL EMINENT MEN AT OXFORD, CORRECTED AND IMPROV’D 
 BY THE LATE RIGHT REVEREND AND LEARNED BISHOP FELL. 
 
 THE THIRD EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. 
 
 LONDON. PRINTED FOR R. SMITH AT THE ANGEL AND BIBLE 
 
 WITHOUT TEMPLE-BAR, 1702. 
 
 REMARKABLY fine and characteristic specimen of English 
 binding of the early part of the eighteenth century. The 
 material is red morocco, inlaid with a black panel of the 
 same leather in the centre of each cover. The design of 
 the tooling with which the sides are adorned is very original 
 and pleasing, and the execution is excellent. 
 
 The panels of the back are alternately of black and 
 red morocco, handsomely tooled. 
 
 The book-plate of Sir Philip Sydenham, Bart., of Brympton in Somerset¬ 
 shire, and of Hackness in Yorkshire, Fellow of the Royal Society, is pasted 
 on the inside of the upper cover. 
 
 It is much to be regretted that the binder of this admirable work of art 
 is unknown. 
 
 Purchased in i860. 
 
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 PLATE LVIII. 
 
 A PARAPHRASE AND ANNOTATIONS UPON ALL ST. PAUL’S EPISTLES. 
 
 LONDON, 1702. 
 
 85 in. by 5 4 in. 
 

 
 
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PLATE LIX. 
 
 HET BOEK DER GEMEENE GEBEDEN EN BEDIENINGE DER SA- 
 CRAMENTEN, NEVENS ANDERE KERKELYKE GEWOONTEN 
 EN PLEGTIGHEDEN, GEBRUYKELYK IN DE KERKE VAN 
 ENGELAND; ALS MEDE DE PSALMEN VAN DAVID, SO ALS 
 DESELVE IN DE KERKE MOETEN GELEESEN WORDEN. 
 
 VOOR DESEN ONDER DE REGEERINGE VAN DE KONINGINNE ELISABETH 
 UIT HET ENGELS VERTAALT, NU WEDEROM HERDRUKT, OVERAL NA 
 DE NIEUWE ENGELSE KERK-DIENST VERBETERT, VEEL VERMEERDERT 
 EN MET ORDRE VAN HAAR TEGENWOORDIGE MAJESTEYT, KONINGINNE 
 ANNA, IN’T LIGHT GEGEVEN TOT DIENST VAN HAARE MAJESTEYTS 
 NEDERDUYTSE HOF-CAPELLE TE S. JAMES. 
 
 LONDEN, BY JAN HENDRIK SCHULLER. 
 
 MDCCIV. 
 
 VERY pretty cottage binding of the beginning of the eighteenth 
 century; red morocco, decorated with floral designs, enclosed by an 
 elegant border. The outline of the cottage pattern is coloured dark 
 green, and some of the flowers are treated in the same manner. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
PLATE LIX. 
 
 HET BOEK DER GEMEENE GEI 3 EDEN. LONDEN, 1704. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PLATE LX. 
 
 THE ENGLISH EUCLIDE, 
 
 BEING THE FIRST SIX ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, TRANSLATED OUT OF 
 THE GREEK, WITH ANNOTATIONS AND USEFUL SUPPLEMENTS, BY 
 EDMUND SCARBURGH, M.A., CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF 
 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, LORD PRIVY SEAL ; PREBENDARY OF SARUM ; 
 
 AND RECTOR OF UPWEY IN THE COUNTY OF DORSETT. 
 
 OXFORD, 
 
 PRINTED AT THE THEATER, 1705. 
 
 HE binding of this noble volume is another exceedingly 
 fine example of the beautiful minute tooling found on the 
 best English work of the second half of the seventeenth 
 and the beginning of the eighteenth century. The book, 
 which is dedicated to Prince George of Denmark, was 
 evidently bound for presentation to Queen Anne, as her 
 name anna • d.g., ensigned with the royal crown, and 
 accompanied by a scroll bearing the words vivat regina, occurs at both 
 ends of the cottage design, with which the covers are ornamented. The leather 
 employed is red morocco of excellent colour and quality, and the interior of 
 
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 the cottage pattern is filled with tooling of great delicacy, very similar to that 
 used by Mearn; while the space outside is decorated with graceful floral 
 designs. The back also is richly tooled. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 
PLATE LX. 
 
 THE ENGLISH EUCLIDE. TRANSLATED BY E. SCARBURGH. OXFORD, I 705. 
 
 1 7i in. by 11 2 in. 
 
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PLATE LXI. 
 
 ACCOUNT OF CONFERENCE CONCERNING THE SUCCESSION 
 
 TO THE CROWN. 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED IN A CONFERENCE CONCERNING A 
 SCHEME FOR ESTABLISHING BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, THAT IN THE 
 SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN, THE MALE DESCENDANTS OF HIS 
 MAJESTY SHALL IN ALL CASES BE PREFERABLE TO THE FEMALES, 
 AND THAT THE PRINCES HIS DESCENDANTS NOT YET BORN SHOULD 
 NOT HOLD THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND HIS MAJESTY’S 
 DOMINIONS IN GERMANY TOGETHER, IN CASE OF A YOUNGER BROTHER, 
 OR OTHER MALE OF A COLLATERAL LINE, THAT MIGHT HOLD THOSE 
 DOMINIONS IN GERMANY, BUT THAT THOSE DOMINIONS, IN SUCH 
 CASE, SHOULD GO TO SUCH YOUNGER BROTHER, OR OTHER MALE AS 
 AFORESAID, AND HIS MALE DESCENDANTS. 
 
 1719. 
 
 COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT IN THE HANDWRITING OF LORD 
 CHANCELLOR MACCLESFIELD BY MRS. ASTLE, WIFE OF MR. T. ASTLE, 
 KEEPER OF THE RECORDS IN THE TOWER. 
 
 Stowe MS. 249. 
 
 INDING of the early part of the eighteenth century; red 
 morocco, with the arms of King George 1. impressed in 
 the centre of each cover upon a panel formed by very 
 delicate and graceful tooling, his crowned cypher being 
 placed at each corner; the whole enclosed by a rolled 
 border. 
 
 William Churchill and Edward Castle were the royal 
 booksellers, bookbinders, and stationers from about 1700 to 1755, and it is 
 therefore probable that this binding and the one depicted in the next Plate 
 were executed by them. 
 
PLATE LXI. 
 
 ACCOUNT OF CONFERENCE CONCERNING THE SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN. 
 
 I719. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
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PLATE LXII. 
 
 ANTIQUITATES BRITANNO - BELGIQUE, PRECIPUE ROMANCE, 
 FIGURIS ILLUSTRATE, TRIBUS VOLL. COMPREHENSE; 
 QUORUM 
 
 I. DE BELGICO BRITANNICO. 
 
 II. DE GETA BRITANNICO. 
 
 III. DE JULII VITALIS EPITAPHIO I 
 QUIBUS ACCEDIT APPENDIX. 
 
 AUCTORE GUILH. MUSGRAVE, BELGA, REG. SOCIET. 
 
 UTRIUSQUE SOCIO. 
 
 ISC/E DUNMONIORUM I MDCCXIX. 
 
 NOTHER good example of English work of the same period 
 as that of the binding represented in the preceding Plate. 
 Red morocco, the covers richly adorned with fine tooling, 
 and bearing on a panel formed by the cottage pattern the 
 badge, motto, and initials of George, Prince of Wales, after¬ 
 wards King George n. 
 
 From the Library of King George hi. 
 

 PLATE LXII. 
 
 ANTIQUITATES HRITANNO-BELGICA 5 PR^CIPUE ROMANCE. 
 AUCTORE G. MUSGRAVE. ISC/E DUNMONIORUM, I/I9. 
 
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PLATE LX III. 
 
 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE 
 SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE 
 CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF 
 ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF 
 DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 EDINBURGH. 
 
 PRINTED BY ROBERT FREEBAIRN AND COMPANY, 
 HIS majesty’s PRINTERS. MDCCXXVII. 
 
 CUM PRIVILEGED. 
 
 VERY pretty example of the binding of the first half of the eighteenth 
 century; red morocco, ornamented with a very graceful and delicate 
 design, principally executed in pointilld tooling. 
 
 Purchased in 1862. 
 
PLATE LXIII. 
 
 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. EDINBURGH, I 727. 
 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
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PLATE LX IK 
 
 CICERO. DE ORATORE. 
 
 COLOPHON: FINITI ET COTINVATI SVNT SVPRA DICTI LIBRI M. T. C. ROME 
 PER ME VLRICVM HAN. DE WIENA. ANNO DOMINI, MILLESIMO QVAD- 
 RINGENTESIMO SEXAGESIMO OCTAVO DIE. QVINTA. MENSIS. DECEM- 
 BRIS. 
 
 HIS fine binding of the end of the eighteenth century was 
 executed for the Rev. C. M. Cracherode by Roger Payne, 
 the most famous of English binders. Straight-grained red 
 morocco, each cover being decorated with a border of elegant 
 gold tooling, enclosing an ornamental panel, in the centre 
 of which are stamped the arms of Mr. Cracherode, by whom 
 the book was bequeathed to the British Museum. 
 
 The binding has leather guards, and the end-papers and the linings of the 
 covers are of purple paper. 
 
 Roger Payne, whose genius raised the art of bookbinding in England from 
 the low condition into which it had fallen in the second half of the eighteenth 
 century, was born at Windsor in the year 1739. He appears to have been first 
 employed by Pote, the Eton bookseller, under whom he probably learnt the 
 rudiments of his craft, and afterwards by Thomas Osborne, a bookseller in 
 Holborn. Between the years 1766 and 1770, with the aid of Thomas Payne, the 
 principal London bookseller of this period, he set up in business near Leicester 
 Square in conjunction with his brother Thomas, but the intemperate habits to 
 which he had become addicted proved fatal to the prosperity of the concern. In 
 his later years he worked with Richard Wier, whose wife acquired a considerable 
 reputation on account of her skill in repairing books. Wier, however, was subject 
 to the same failing as Payne, and in consequence quarrels ensued, which caused 
 their partnership to be one of brief duration. They both appear to have been 
 employed by Mackinlay the bookbinder. 
 
 Payne died on the 20th of November 1797, in Duke’s Court, St. Martin’s 
 
PLATE LXIV. 
 
 CICERO. DE ORATORE. ROME, 1 468. 
 Actual size. 
 

 
 
 
 
Lane, and was buried at the expense of ‘ honest Tom Payne/ who, although 
 no relative of this erratic genius, appears for some years to have given him 
 regular pecuniary assistance. 
 
 The faults of Payne’s life appear never to have prejudicially influenced his 
 professional work, which was always of the most conscientious and excellent 
 description, carefully and intelligently carried out; the forwarding and finishing 
 of his bindings being equally good. As we learn from those quaint documents, 
 his bills, he frequently sewed with silk the sheets of the books he bound, and 
 lined the backs with leather to give them additional strength. As a rule, the 
 backs alone of his bindings are elaborately tooled, the sides being left com¬ 
 paratively plain, but these also are occasionally richly decorated. He appears 
 generally to have done the whole of the work himself, even frequently cutting his 
 own tools. He often used russia for his bindings, but straight-grained morocco 
 was his favourite leather. 
 
 The reputation of Payne was very great during his lifetime, greater perhaps 
 than it is at present. In the obituary notice of him which appeared in the 
 Gentlemans Magazine, written by the editor, John Nichols, it is stated that ‘this 
 ingenious man introduced a style of binding, uniting elegance with durability, 
 such as no person has been able to imitate,’ and that ‘ those who are not accus¬ 
 tomed to see bookbinding executed in any other than the common manner can 
 have no idea of the merits of the deceased, who lived without a rival, and we 
 fear has died without a successor.’ Good and tasteful as Payne’s bindings 
 undoubtedly are, they are not entitled to this excessive commendation, for they 
 are certainly not equal to the productions of the great French binders, nor are 
 they superior to the beautiful English bindings of the end of the seventeenth 
 and beginning of the eighteenth century, from which some of his designs and 
 tools were copied, or very closely imitated. 
 
PLATE LXV. 
 
 IN HOC LIBRO HJEC CONTINENTVR. 
 
 CONSTANTINI LASCARIS EROTEMATA CV INTERPRETATIONE LATINA. 
 
 DE LRIS GR^ECIS AC DIPTHOGIS ET QVEADMODV AD NOS VENIAT. 
 ABBREVIATIONES QVIBVS FREQVENTISSIME GR^CI VTVNTVR, ETC. 
 
 VENETIIS : LITTERIS AC IMPENSIS ALDI MANVCII ROMANI, 
 
 1494 - 95 - 
 
 THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED AT THE ALDINE PRESS. 
 
 HIS Plate represents another very beautiful example of Roger 
 Payne’s work. Smooth olive-brown morocco, the sides and 
 back ornamented with his characteristic fine tooling. In the 
 centre of each cover are impressed the arms of the Rev. C. M. 
 Cracherode, for whom the book was bound. The end-papers 
 and the linings of the covers are of purple paper. 
 
 Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
 
PLATE LXV. 
 
 CONSTANTINI LASCARIS EROTEMATA, ETC. VENETIIS, I 494-95. 
 
 Actual size. 
 
PLATE LXVI. 
 
 VIRGILIUS. VENETIIS, I 505. 
 Actual size. 
 
PLATE LX PL 
 
 V I R G I LI V S. 
 
 ALDVS. 
 
 COLOPHON: VENETIIS. M.D.V. MENSE DECEMBRI. 
 
 would be difficult to find a more charming specimen of 
 Payne’s taste and skill than the binding of this pretty 
 little volume. The leather used is a dark blue morocco, 
 the sides having borders of blind tooling between gold 
 lines, with delicate ornamental work at the corners. In 
 the centre of each cover is a cameo, representing a girl 
 reading; and although the subject is the same in both 
 instances the cameos differ in design. The panels of the back are richly tooled, 
 and the insides of the covers and the end-papers are lined with white satin. 
 
 Bequeathed by the Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 
 
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 Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty 
 at the Edinburgh University Press 
 
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