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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http : //books . google . com/| \ No. 166.] ice Is; or^ vnih Index^ Ss 6d. 5 Paper^ impL Svo. vxiih Index 22 fojosimues^ hf. hd, 21^.] BERNARD QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE : EXAMPLES OF THE ARToF BOOK-BINDING • • AND . a VOLUMES BEARING MARKS OF DISTINGUISHED OWNERSHIP OFFERED AT THE NET PRICES AFFIXED LIST OF CONTENTS PAOB THE XAZABXNS BIBLE 1 1. SXrOUSH AlTD SCOTTISH BINSIKOS, A J>. 1160-1880 2-4A a. FLEKISH AND STTCCH BINSHTOS, lSOO-1800 . • . 44-48 8. GEIUffAN BINDINGS, 14801700 40^7 4. SPANISH BINDINGS, 1250il776 * . 58r62 5. ITALIAN BINDINGS, 1460-1786 - 62-82 6. FRENCH BINDINGS, 15101880 82-166 7. OBIENTAL BINDINGS, 1500-1600 156 8. BOOKS UPON BINDING 156-158 BERNARD QUARITCH 15 PICCADILLY, LONDON January J 1897 LIST OF SOME OF THE SUB-HEADINGS PAOB Menry vll ... Henry VIII . ... James V of Scotland Thomas Wotton ... Queen Elisabeth ... James I of Great Britain... Henry Prince of .Wales • • • • •V* • • Charles I Lt.* ••* ... Embroidered English Bindings ... Charles II and his Qneen • James II Scottish Bindings, 1700-1765 ... Roger Payne Marcus Laurinus of Watervliet ... Tortoise-shell Bindings ... Emperor Ferdinand I Spanish Sovereigns Mallermi Bible, 1492 Canevari Bindings Thomas MaioU John III of Sweden Emperor Rudolph 11 Grolier Francis I ... ... ... ... 3.4 7.8 10-12 13 13-U 14-16 19-21 21 34-36 39-40 47 49 51 60,61 64 73-74 76-77 80 80 83-86 87 Henri II and Diane de Coant Peter Ton Mansfelt . Catherina de Medici 88-90 92 95 Eve Bindings ... ... 97-103 Henri III .•• 98 DeThou • •• ... 99-101 Marguerite de Yalois ... 101 Marie de Medicis ... ... ... 103, 104 Louis XIII • . • 104 PointilU Bindings... ... ... 106-107 Anne d*Autriche ... ... 108 Louis XIV ... 112 Boyet Doublures ... ... ... 115-116 Longepierre . ' ... 116 Prince Eugene ... ... 117-119 Count Hoy m. ... ... 121-123 Louis Xy, his Queen, and Daughters ... ... 125-126 Madame de Pompadour ... ... 127-128 Girardot de Prefond ... ... 128-130 Louis A Vi . • • 133 Padeloup ... ... 135-142 The Deromes ... ... 142-147 Lanres Dentelles . . . •• ... 147-148 ENVOI The interest which is now taken in fine and historio bindings has led to the production of many elaborate and costly works on the subject. Among them, one of the most important is the illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition which took place a few years ago at the Burlington Fine Arts Club. There are other works which deal with special departments, or which give selections of coloured facsimiles, but the Burlington F. A. Club's Catalogue is the only one which deals with the whole field of artistic and historical Bookbinding. It may be claimed, without much presumption, that the present Catalogue (although illustrated only in its Large Paper issue) is the only bookseller's list that can be regarded as a parallel to the Club book. It comprises over eight hundred purchasedble examples of bookbinding, chosen either for the beauty (or some other peculiar characteristic) of their coverings, or as furnishing tokens of having belonged to celebrated men and women in the past. The arrangement of the catalogue is chronological, under chorographical headings ; and exhibits the gradual advancement of the art of Modem Bookbinding, from its rise in the twelfth century down to the establishment of a kind of general uniform type in the eighteenth. Modem Bookbinding came into existence at the period when the functions of the "forwarder " and the '* finisher'* were first united in one person, for it was then that the reign of leather coverings began. Of course it was long before the leather triumphed over the ornamental metal-work (frequently decorated with gems) which was used (in Ancient Bookbinding) to embellish the necessary wooden boards ; but its usefulness and suitability were gradually made manifest. That it was capable of being made decorative was also shown even at an early time (especially in England) when it was impressed with stamps from engraved plates, so as to exhibit patterns somewhat distantly resembling the designs of the costly metal-work. It was only by a gradual progress in the same direction that the beautiful Italian patterns were arrived at, in the early part of the sixteenth century, which showed what decorative book-binding ought to be. In them, and in the still better French work which was evolved from w '^em, we find the true idea and principle which ought to guide the art in all its developments. A book, once arranged and stitched and boarded, may be regarded as a picture ready for its frame, or as a mansion to be entered through a handsome gateway. Fig^urative as the notion may be, it is one that arises naturally in the mind, and suggests at once the adoption or imitation of ornamental metal-work. Thus, all the productions of the great binders have that character. In the earlier ones (sixteenth century) it is virtually the style of the large and glorious gates which artists in bronze and steel and iron had produced in Italy before the fif teentli oentniy. In the later examples (seyenteenth centurj) elaborate subtlety and delicacy were sabstitated for tbe grand simplicity of tbe previous kind, but the idea of ornamental metal- work was still preserved, although the metal was refined into the forms of laoe work or filigree or conventionalised floral shapes, even as ihe goldsmiths them- selves had begun to deal with actual gold and silver. Consequently the fundamental notion was then» and ought to be now, that of a square or rectangular frame, suggested or expressed, with its rigid lines and angles softened and beautified by the iutrodoction of curves. Some of the men of our own time, strive to achieve an unnataral and preposterons triumph by making the book-cover a picture instead of a picture's frame; and show designs in which flowers or leaves or other figures, admirably natural and clever enough indeed, are seen sprawling in elegant negligence on the side of a book, to the surprise of the book itself. Among the volumes of peculiar interest in the present collection are examples of English binding in the twelfth century, and of Flemish and Spanish in the thirteenth ; those of German and of Italian origin beginning with the fifteenth century, and the French ones with a signed book of Andre Boule, about 1500. There are eight books from Grolier's library, one of them (the Largest Paper Ovid of 1533-34) being perhaps the finest thing of its kind now extant. There are three Afaiolis, four Canevaris, one Laurinus ; books which belonged to Francis I, Henri II (and his mistress), Francois II- Catherine de Medicis, Henri III, Marguerite de Yalois, Louise of Luxembourg, Maria de Medici, Louis XIII (and Anne of Austria), Louis XIY, Louis XY, Louis XVI> ^^^ various Bourbon princes and princesses. In the English and Scottish department, there are Henry VII, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, James I, Henry his son, Charles I, Charles II, Catherine of Braganza, James II, William III, George of Denmark, George I, George II's jQueen Caroline ; besides Thomas Wotton, Fitzalan Earl of Arundel, Land, Evelyn, Sunderland, and others. Among foreign names of distinction, there are the Emperors Ferdinand I, Rudolph II, and Joseph; John III of Sweden, Charles Emanuel III of Sardinia; Mesdames de Pompadour and Dubarry. Of famous binders, we have beautiful examples of the work of Badier, Boyet, Duseuil, Padelonp and the Deromes in France ; of Samuel and Charles Meame, and of Roger Payne, in England. The catalogue is recommended to the particular attention of all persons of taste. BERNARD QUARITCH. LoNDOV, January^ 1897. ! O. VOBMJLM AND iON, PRlRTUtS, FLOBAL STKKST, COVKKT OARDKM, LOITDON. '^' 1C6] [London, January, 189? EXAMPLES OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING AND VOLUMES BEARING MARKS OF DISTINGUISHED OWNERSHIP (Preceded by the First of all Printed Books) 1 MAZARINE BIBLE. Pa. 1, col 1 : Incipit epistola sancti iheronimi ad | paulinum presbiterum de omnibus | diuine historic libris . capitulu pmu . | [F] Rater ambrosius | tua michi niunus= | cula pferens . . . Fortieth line: cele- branduq3 miraclm . ut vrbe tanta. Col. 2 : ingressi : aliud extra vrbem quererent . . Fortieth line: eschineus . . legeretur. Pa. 10, coL 1 : Et factu c vespe . . Forty-Jirst line: et mali . . CoL 2 : die camederis . . Pa. 11, col. 1 : deditq3 viro suo . . Forty-second line: Fecit quoq3 dns deus . . Pa. 648 : . . laudet dnm . Alia . Pa. 649 : [J]ungat epistola quos iugit sacerdoti | um . . Pa. 1282, col. 2, line 42 : bz vobis ame. A complete and very fine copy of the first issue of the booJc^ divided into 2 vols, folio, 641 leaves in double columns {with forty lines to each coluian of the first nine pages^ forty-one on the tenthj arid forty-two throughout the rest of the book) ; blue morocco^ apparently by Thouvenin [3fentz, 1450-55] 4000 The first book print£D in Europe, as has been sufficiently demonstrated a year or two ago by the learned Dziatzko, who, until he made his exhaustive comparison of the accessible copies of the Mentz and the Bamberg Bibles, had been inclined, like some others, to regard the latter as the earlier. These precious volumes belonged, in and before 1471, to Johann Vlyegher, a perpetual beneficed priest in Utrecht Cathedral. At the end of each is a testamentary declaration signed by ''Johannes Roveri," public notary of Utrecht, that Vliegher had, in his presence, and before two witnesses (whose names are given), I}equeathed these two volumes of the whole Bible, printed ajid toriiten down, to bo perpetually chained up in the Convent of St. Mary, at Zuzac, near Amersford. As all this is dated from Vliegher's dwelling, it is evident that he was either dying or believed to be in that state. At the end of each volume a leaf is added (probably by Debure when sending the book for binding), which gives a facsimile of the two famous inscriptions by the rubricator in the copy in the Bibl. Nationale, from which it was first made known in the last century I that this was the Bible of 1450-55. 1 288437 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. I. English and Scottish Bindings. Reading Abbey, a.d. 1150-60: 2 HIERONYMITS in Pbophetas. Fol. 1 : ncipit liber explanationnm £ «. d. beati leronimi presbyteri super Nanm . . Folio, MS. on vellum ioritten in a beautiful round English handt leaning a little hackwardSf two columns to each page, 44 lines to each column ; a few leaves torn atoay; in the original hoards covered with white leather About 1150-60 30 The leather outside looks, at first sight, like yellDin, but where it turns oyer inside the board one sees that it is tough but not very hard whitish hide. It is curions how little change took place in tiie methods of English monastic binding between 1150 and 1450. The only noticeable difference is that at the more ancient period the thonga which fastened the bands to the boards ran much farther in through the wood before they emerged again, than they did at the later time. Also at the earlier date the bofljrds were thicker, and a tongue of leather from the back was allowed to lap loosely a little way oter the top and bottom edges. The provenance of this volume is easily ascertained. It is one of a number of books which in 1745 belonged to James Bowen (and upon all of which he wrote his name). They were all of the same age and style (both as to calligraphy and binding), and some of them bore the original letterings and records of ownership,— all having been written in Beading Abbey between 1140 and 1170. Haughmond Abbey, a.d. 1200 : 3 ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS de Summo Bono— ALQUINUS de Sapientia — 2 parts in 1 vol. small folio, MS. on yellum by a single English hand^ 84 Imves in quires of eight, written in bold round characters, 31 long lines to each page ; in the original binding About 1200 sold This is a very plain and simple covering of white deerskin over very thick oak boards. The linings which are UBed to cover the overlapping ends of the deerskin are portion of a Latin MS. written by an Irish hand, and in Irish characters, in the earlier part of the twelfth century, which must have been brought from Ireland to Haughmond Abbey, in Shropshire, before the end of that century. They were then cut up and used in the binding, which we may consider as having been performed in that Abbey about the year 1200. — The only alternative would be to consider that the book had been written in England, carried to Ireland by one of the ecclesiastics who accompanied Strongbow, bound there, and bronght back a century later to be presented to the Abbey in Shrops^hire. Whichever be the true theory, tliere is an inscription on the top of the first page, written about 1270-50 : '* Liber est ecdesio S. Johis apli ct ewan»3li8te de Hagemon." There is no ornamentation on the cover. The sides were pumiced and thinned, and polished till they looked like parchment, but the back was lett rough and thick, as we still see it, and a tongue of stronger leather added at the top and bottom of the back as a protection for the edges. These still remain. The bands are only noticeable by their projection under the loose leather of the back, which is not tightly glued at the points of contact The book is an example of early binding in the British Isles, whether it was done in Dublin in 1 170-80, or in Shropshire about 1200. Battle Abbey, 1450 : , 4 THE BRUT CHRONICLE. Fol. 1 : Here may a man heren how Eng- londe was fcst callyd Albyon . . La^ page : . . How the Kyngo held hys Parlement at Westmestyr (1445) . . Small folio, MS. ON vellum written by or for John Nuton (Abbat of Battle in 1463), wanting a leaf at the end; in the original binding, somewhat damaged About 1450 50 Oak boards covered with a leather or skin which is whitish outside, bat of which the overlapping parts that are fastened down inside the board show that it was coloured red or reddish. The methods of the binder are visible at both ends and on the back ; and notwithstanding the damsge it has undergone, this volume is interesting as a specimen of binding executed in Battle Abbey between 1460 and 1468. The Abbat*s name as owner is written on the flyleaves and margins in several places after his elevation to the dignity. One of these notes was written by John Witsam. — Another monk of the same period was Miohabll Rot, who has written some bars of Music on the end leaf. London^ 1450-60: 5 SARUM PSALTER AND PRIMER, 2 vols, in 1, small folio, MSS. ON VELLUM Written in red and blacky with ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, SEC. XV, XVI, £ t. d. ILLUMINATED BORDEBS and a great number of gUt and coloured mitials ; in the original binding About 1430-40 100 Boand in or near London in oak boards covered with rough white doeskin, nnomamented ; this covering being in perfect condition with the stitching at head and foot still unbroken. The strong bands on the back make bold ridges in the doeskin, although the latter is apparently unfastened to them. The MS. is one of great interest, containing as it does an excep- tionally large quantity of prayers in English, — ^marking the advance towards a vernacular prayerbook. The use is Sarum, the locality may be regarded as London ; a conjecture which is strengthened by a note in the calendar showing that the writer was in or close to London in 1510. It is an entry on the 17th August : — Mr. eston and Mr. Dudlei ware beheded this day Ao. 1510 at z of clok it was uppon the Saturday. With the engraved bookplate of Thomas Phillips of Ickfordj Bucks (about 1770). Henry VII (1505) : 6 INDENTURE made between the moost Xpien and moost excellent Peince King Henry the viith . . and Thomas Silkestede Priour of the Cathedral Church of Sainct Swithunis of Wynchestre . . . Small folio, the original counterpart MS. partly in Latin^ hut for the most part in English , written on 18 pages of vellum, with gilt initials, and having on the first page a broad illuminated border with the Tudor rose, the portcullis, and foliage-ornament ; in the Tudor binding executed for the King About 1505 40 Oak boards covered with stainped leather which is still in fine condition. The ornamentation is in blind tooling. Tbe sides are ruled down and across with rows of triple lines, which form nine rectangular compartments. Tbe centre is occupied by the Tador rose surrounded by an arabesque decoration of vine branches. (The beart of the rose is granulated.) In four compartments, there is a cinqnefoil enclosed by a «ircle within a square ; and in tbe otber four, a fleur-de-lis within a square. This is considered to be the design which Finson used. The back has no decoration beyond the ruling which outlines four bands. Tbe flyleaves are of plain vellum. The illumination of the first page is thuH effected. On a ftround of blue dotted with gold, the initial T is painted bronze gold in a flowery Gothic form (like C) and encloses within its arms the portcullis painted gold with a greenish tint. Above it. on a'briffht yellow gold ground, is tbe Tudor rose, crimson with gold lights and gold heart, and havmg a slight stem with green thorns and leaves. On the left of the T begins the border which is continued upward, then turns to the right, meeting and embracing the gold ground of the rose. The border exhibits two large stems of wreatby conventional foliage of bronzed gold upon a crimson or lake ground. In 1503 the same Prior and Convent had agreed to say a special set of prayers for the King at every mass, and this new document was to confirm and extend the practice. In consideration of releasing the convent from all royal claims or fines on the acquisition of benefices and lands by tbe Priors of St. Swithins, they now bound themselves to a perpetual observance of the custom, and to keep on praying for King Henry VII for ever ; each successive Prior to swear to it at his accession, and to read the Indenture aloud to his Convent. — ^This was the copy to be kept in perpetuum for the purpose, and to serve as the model. Consequently it is not signed, and has no otber date than that of the recited Latin document of 1508, but it is of course clear that it must be the counterpart of the one signed between 1603 and 1508. It was bound by the royal binder and kept in Winchester, until the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. The text of the offices is given in the recital of the 1503 agreement. With Henry VII I's Insignia : 7 ADLDS GELLIUS. A, Gellij . . Noctium atticarum libri . xx . . Colophon : . . [Parisiis] in edib* qde Ascensianis . . M . D . XI. Small 4U). in the original calf bindi7ig (rehashed) 1511 61 »5 This seems to be an English bindmg ; blind tooled in compartments M-ith a border of foliage, fruits, beasts, and birds, and having for its centrepiece on the upper cover the Tudor rose with a dragon on the (spectator's) left, and an animal which may be intended for an antelope or a greyhound on the right. It looks like thn badge auii jBUpporters o| Henry Yll (the heart of the rose granulated) who hnd die I a conplo «.i' 1 * 4 QUARITCH\S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. With Henry VIII's Insignisi— continued. £ «• d. yean before the book was printed. On the lower cover, the centrepiece contains the imperial double-eagle and crown. — ^I do not pretend to explain this combination. The first owner's name is carefully blotted oat from the title-page. A later owner has written *' 1586 18 die Jnnij accepi de Edwardo Ewde." The bookplate of Fonntaine Walker inside the cover. 8 THOME DE AQUINO . . super epistolas Pauli Commentaria . . Colophon : . . Parrhisijs impressa cura . . Andree boucard . Impensis vero lohannis petit . . 1518 . . Small folio, wormed ; in the original hinding hearing the arms of Henry VIII 1518 2 5 Altnongh without the royal arms, this binding might have been done for the royal library. It is stamped in compartments with the rose, the portcnllis, and the fleur-de-lis for Tudor ; the castle, the lion, and the pomegranate for Spain ; — thus representing the nnion of Henry VlII and Catherine of Aragon. The back is mended in the top and bottom panels. The end leaves are portion of a MS. commentary on the Apocalypse written on vellnm in England abont 1400-1420. 9 BOSSEI (Gnlielmi) . . opus elegans . . qno . . refellit insanas Lntheri calumnias . . Londini . Anno dom. M.D. XXIII. Small 4to. in the original calf (rehacked and mended), bound by John Reynes 1528 10 10 On both covers, in blind tooling, the royal escutcheon (with griffin and greyhound) and the rose (with angels) in one compartment, the Arma Redemptoris (with unicorns) in the other. With the monogram of Reynes. 10 PTOLEMY'S Geography. Clavdii Ptolemaei Geographicae bkab- BATiONis libri octo {_Laiine'] Biiibaldo Pirckeymhero interprete . . Colophon: Argentoragi (sic) lohannes Grieningeras . . M.D.XXV . . Folio, with 60 large maps ; Henry Villus copy hound for him by John Beynes 1525 63 Calf, stamped with blind tooling. The onter border is a compsrtment filled with representations of beasts, birds, fruits, flowers, and insects, in the midst of which occurs, here and there, the monogram of John Reynes. The central compartments are two on each side, and contain the Arma RedempUyris in the upper compartment, the rose {with the heart solid) and the royal escutcheon in two sections in the lower compartment. On eoch side of (and above) the rose we find a monogram of John Reynes ; one being I and R united by a knot or tie between them, the other consisting of R with its straight perpendicular arm continued upwards and there traversed to form a double cross. This is a very fine example of the King's stamped binding, with a book of great intrinsic valae inside. It came into the possession of Sir Walter Mildmay in 1556, and from him passed into the libraries of successive Karls of Westmoreland. Mr. Gordon Duff and other writers hold that the arms and symbols of Henry VlII on a bookbinding indicate nothing more than the binder's caprice ; and it could fairly be maintained that a man who was titularly the King's binder might obtain permission to clothe the books he published in this quasi-royal way. But no such theory could apply to a book imported from the continent, like this Ttolemy. No other copy bearing the royal arms is known. 11 [HAYMON in Apocalypsim] Colophon: ColoniaB apnd Eucliarinm . . M.D.XXIX. (Small 8vo. imperfect at the beginning ; Henry VIlFs copy hound for him by John B^jnes 1529 2 2 Calf (mended) blind -tooled on the upper cover with the royal escutcheon (gritlin and p:reyhonnd supporters) and the Tudor rose (angel supporters) ; on the lower with the Arma Redemptoris (unicorns for supporters) bearing Reyne's monogram. 12 ERASMUS. Catalogvs omnivm Erasmi Roterodami lucubrationum ipso autore . . Small 8vo. imperfect at end ; Henry Vlirscopy, hound for him {rehacked and having the comers mended) (Basel, about 1530) 8 8 The value of the binding is that it presents a beautifully clear impression of the King's arms on the upper cover, and of the Tudor rose on the lower, the former being particularly fine. It is more like the design on the Haymon than that on the Ptolemy, but it differs from both in having the initials H I right and left at the bottom of the shield. This refers to Henry Jaques or Jacob or Jacobi, a London stationer, book- seller, and bookbinder. {See facsimile among the illustrations of the L.P. issue.) 13 HAYMONIS Episcopi Halberstattensis commentariorum in Apocalipsim . . libri . vij . . Parisijs Apndloannem paruum 1631. 12mo. Henry Villus copy, in the original binding executed for him 1531 12 12 Calf stamped with blind tooling. On the upper side is the Tudor rose, with the heart yro»ulat«d, surrounded by an inscription—*' hec . rosa . virtutis.de . celo. missa . sereno . | £tem^ . fiorens . regia . sceptra . feret." Angels are supporters. In the left upper comer is the sun ; in the right, the moon and stars. On the lower side are ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, SIXTEENTH CENTURY. £ «. d. the royal anns, France and England quarterly. The supporters are a griffin and a grey- hound (such as Henry VII nsed). The sun, and a shield bearing; a cross, appear on the left above, on the right the same shield and the moon. There is no mark of a bookbinder. On the title there is the inscription of " Harwich Library. The Gift of Mr. Bobt. Riche." He gare the book about 1670, and afterwards became Sir Robert. James V of Scotland : 14 [HECTOR BOYCE] Heir beginnis the hystory and CRONiKLis OF SCOTLAND {this intitulation printed in red above a large woodcut of the royal arms and emblems), ColopJion: Heir endis the hystory . . Compilit be the noble clerk maister Hector Boece . . Translatit . . be maister lohne Bellenden Archedene of Murray, and Imprentit in Edinburgh, be me Thomas Dauidson . . Small folio, printed on vellum and bound for King James V ; with his name stamped on the sides and his autograph on the title [1536] 1000 The sides are gilt, iirst with a broad outer border of tbe ch&racter of ornamental metal work (in Italian manner) ; then with quadrant comerpieces of similar style ; next with detached roses and stars, etc. ; and finally with a lozange centrepiece of double framework. Of this, tbe inner frame consists of a row of gold Italian ornaments outlined in blind-tooling ; the outer line is flanked with gold curves. A circular ornament in the middle of the lozange ; above it I | AGO | BYS, and under it QVIN | TVS. On the lower cover the words are BEX (and then an ornament) SCOTO | BVM (and then a medallion of Dido). There are metal comerpieces and clasps. The book was rebacked about 1720. It has, inside the cover, the bookplate (engraved in the last century) of the Duke of Hamilton. The King's autograph on the title of the book is J. R. with flourishes. A little below is the word " Pax.*' The binding is purely Scottish, although the tools for doing it, must have been procured in France, or from It-aly through France. London, 1555-66: 15 MISSALE AD VSUM INSIGNIS ECCLESIE SARISBURIENSIS . . Parisiis Apud Guillelmum Merlin , . 1555. Small folio, printed in black and redy with numerous woodcuts and a great deal of Music^ TWO FULL-PAQB WOODCUTS PRINTED ON VELLUM 171 the Canon ; the sides of the original stamped calf binding inlaid in the modem cover ; with brass cla^s and bosses, a fine copy 1555 55 The old calf sides are stamped in small square compartments with various figures, including a frequent repetition of the letters HR, a portcullis, a rose, a fleur-de-lis, etc. Grolleresque Style, 1552-3: 16 CALVIN. ExEUPLVM memorabile Desperationis in Francisco Spera . . cum prsefatione D. loannis Caluini . Genevae . . 1550. — Gallasii (Nicolai) Pro loanne Calvino ad ineptias . . Gochlaei . . res pons io . . 1549 — loANNis Calyini Admonitio . . quam e re . . foret Sanct- orum . . reliquias velut in inuentarium redigi . . Genevae . . 1548 — 3 vols, in 1, 12mo. ruled copies, bound for T. T. in brown calf 154?8-50 18 These Calvinist pieces were gathered by T. T. in 1562, and in that year bound for him in London in the Grolieresqne style, which had been introduced in 1548-9. The ornamentation consists of an interlaced pattern of geometrical and arabesque character painted black and outlined with gold upon the warm brown surface of the leather. The date 1552 appears in the centre on the sides ; the initials T. T. are found in the topmost panel on the back. A rose, black and gold, in each panel, is the only ornament on the back. Mr. Weale (Burlington Exhibition of Bindings Catalogue) was of opinion that this binding was French, rather than English, but I consider that the leather and the QUARlTCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Grolieresque Period, 1549-^1560— continued, £ «. d. execution of the design, are thoroaghly indicative of English workmanship. As for the tools and the design, thej of coarse were borrowed from the continent, jnst as might be said of all the books bonnd for Edward YI, Barleigh, Wotton, and others. 17 CALVIN. Brieyb Instbvction povr armer tovs bona fideles centre lea . . Anabaptistes . Par M. lehan Caluin . . Geneve . . 1545 — Calvin. Centre la secte phantastiqye des Libertins . . Geneve . . 1545 — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. ruled copieSy hound by the man who did the preceding volume 1645 25 O The ornamentation is similar to that on the yolorae marked T. T., but in the present instance, the brown leather is blackened, the compartments of the geometrical design are painted a reddish brown, outlined in gold ; and there is a little aznrd ornament. The rose in the panels on the back is simply gold. The date 1562 appears in the centre on the sides. The binder transposed parts of the two works in the volnme. 18 WHITE (John) Diacosiomartyrion . . de veritate corporis, et sangvinis Christi, in Evcharistia . . Excvsvm Londini . . mense Decembris . Anno 1553 . . Small 4to. a fine ruled copy in the original gilt binding 1553 10 10 Warm brown calf, ruled with a double blind fillet Within the interior row, the gilding begins; and there is a fresh set of sold fillets with Aldine flenrons at the comers, and a large Grolieresque interlaced pattern inside. In the centre F. I. on the npper cover, and 1553 on the lower cover. This date is impressed with the same form and style of the numerals as the two Calvin books above. In the panels on the back a small gold cinqnefoil. Whoever this F. I. maj have been, he was one of the small and select set ot English bibliophiles who, between 1548 and 1560, liked to have their books bound in imitation of the French and Italian styles. This is a ruder but more characteristically English example of the school, than the two Calvins. Thomas Wotton : 19 [BOUCHET (Jehan)] les Genealogies, effigies & EPITAPHES des Roys de France . . On les vend a Poic- tiers . . M.D.XLV. Colophon: Imprime a Poictiers par lacques Bouchet. 1545. Small folio, tvith woodcuts; a fine ruled copy in the English Grolieresqite binding done for Wotton. (See a facsimile in the Burlington Club Catalogue of Bindings.) 1545 100 Warm brown calf. On the sides, a geometrical and interlaced design is worked out in bold black bands, with Aldine flenrons and medallions stamped in silver in the open spaces. Within the lozange formed in the centre by the intersection of the black bands is an ornamental outline figure enclosing the inscription THOM-^ . WOTTONI . I ET . AMICORVM. Between the outmost and the second black band, there is a border of continuous Aldine flenrons •worked in silver. Both sides are alike. On the back there is a rose in each panel, which seems to have been impressed in silver, but the metal has faded. The volume is enclosed in a modem red morocco case. With Bindley's engraved bookplate within the cover. Examples of the library of Thomas Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, father of the celebrated Sir Henry, are very rare. This one, and five others, were exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1891. From a comparison of the books, it -would seem that "the English Grolier '* ha!d his books bound in the favorite style between 1548 and 1660, and after that time adopted a simpler fashion in "which his arms were the only ornament. The volume above described, which is in fine condition, and has suffered very little beyond the usual fading of silver in the ornamentation, appears to me to belong to the period between 1656 and 1560. Its character is more Italian than French. The medallion stamps are, however, French, and represent teifGiilSH AND SCOTTISH, SI^STEENTH CElNTtTRt. i £ ». d. JnditH and Holofemes, with inscriptions in this form — oiavi, and DOLLOF£RNES. The bands on the back, and the ornamentation on the edges of the cover, are just like those of the Galyin books. Henry Fitzalan Earl of Arundel : 20 BIBLIA SACROSANCTA . . ivxta Vnlgatara editionem . . Vendtiigl apvd Ivntas M.D.LYII. Small folio, hound in Orolieresque style for the Earl of Arundel, in fine condition, and enclosed in a red morocco case 1557 80 The leather is smooth red morocco. It bean on the aides a bold geometrical pattern of highly ornamental style, the design being rendered by broad black bands oatlined in gold. In an oval space in the centre, the White Horse of the Fitzalans is painted in silver and black npon a green sward and against a hlae sky. All the open spaces between the lines of the main design are filled with gold dots in triplets. The curves and sides of the figures (like ornamental wood-carving) formed by the black bands, are lightened with silver. On the back there is a mnitiplicity of ornament ; two panels l^ing gilt with dots in triplets, one with diagonal black bands forming lozanges granulated with gold ; three containing rolls of Italian ornament of metal- work style. — Bound for the Earl of Arundel, about 1560, probably in the same atelier which produced Wotton's book. In 1563 he presented the volume (bearing his auto- graph on the title) to Sir William Petre, who records the gift on the flyleaf. From the latter personage, the book came down to his descendant, Robert James Lord Petre, whose bookplate, engraved about 1735-40, is pasted inside the cover. — ^Fitzalan had a fine library, the greaier part of which fell, at nis death, into the possession of his son- in-law, Lord Lumley, and afterwards passed into the hands of Prince Henry. — At the Prince's death, his father, James I, amalgamated the collection with the Royal library, which descended to the later sovereigns, and (by the arrangements of Oeorge III and George IV) is now part of the British Museum library. Queen Elizabeth: 21 BERNARD (John). Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera Animi tranqvillitate. Authore loanne Bernardo . . Londini . . 1568. Small 4to. Queen Elizabeth: s copy 1568 18 Bound for the Queen at the time of publication, the book having no doubt been offered to her by Peter Osburne (an Exchequer oflScer) to whom it was dedicated. It is in brown calf, the sides gilt with a semis of triple dots, except in the comers (which have the same azured ornamentation as the Flores Historiarum mentioned below), and the centre in which we find the royal escutcheon, crown, and garter. The back (which is mended at the top) is flat and is gUt in an eclectic and multifarious style similar to that of the Flores. Two lines of verse upon the author, by Richardus it Sero Bello, are written on the title, and seem to show that the Queen must have allowed the volume to pass out of her hands before her death. Richard Latewar was killed in Ireland in 1601 ; another owner had the book in 1618. 22 lOANNIS CHRTSOSTOMI . . Homilies ad popnlnni Antiochennm \^QrcBce'] . . Londini . . M.D.XO. 12nio. limp vellum, bound for Queen Elizabeth, with her arms on the sides 1590 31 10 In beautif ally fresh and fine condition, the gold as bright as though the book had remained locked up since it was bound. An inner and an outer fillet on the sides with a fleuron outside each inner angle, and a decorative ornament inside. In the centre, the large escutcheon (France and England quarterly) surmounted hy the crown, and encircl^ by the garter. The back has four low bands, and is gilt with five ornaments resembling clasps. 23 JEWEL. Apologia Ecclesije ANOLiCANiE. Authore lohanne Inello . . Londini, Excudebat Arn. Hatfield. 1599. 16mo. hound for Queen Elizabeth 1599 20 Brown calf, the back flat and ruled with six pairs of parallel gold lines. On the sides two fillets blind tooled, and a gold line between them. In the centre on each side, the royal arms, garter, and crown stamped in gold. The last ten leaves are slightly wormed. The MS. notes on the first twelve pages are perhaps in the Qneen*s own hand- writing. 24 CAMDEN (William) Britannia sive florentisaimorvm reffnorvm, Angliae, ScotisB, Hibemiae, et Insularum adiacentium . . chorographica descriptio. Authore 8 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Queen Elizabeth — continued. £ «. d. Gvilielmo Camdeno . . Londini impensis Georg. Bishop. 1600. Small 4to, maps and plates; Queen Elizabeth's [ DEDICATION COPY, vukd and bound for her in dark oUve morocco^ gilt edges 1600 100 Oilt on the sides with the crown, shield, and garter enclosed in a wreath, snrroanded hy a circalar branch of foliage. Between this circular branch and the wreath there are four crowned falcons, one on each side. (This was a badge of Anne Bnllen, which, as Wi I lenient says, Elizabeth continued.) In each comer on the side there is a decolation of a leafy branch ending in a pomegranate, with "fanfares.** On the back there are parallel gold lities across the top and bottom and on the bands ; and in each panel a golden leopard accompanied by three tiny crosslets on each side. The edges of the cover are g^lt with a running chain, except just over and under the back where we find parallel diagonal lines. This is one of the finest examples of the great Queen's library. (^8ee among the illustrations in the L.P. issue.) The engraved bookplate of the first Earl of Lisbume is pasted within the cover. 25 THIS PRYMER of SARYSBURY vse . . emprynted at Rouen . . M.D.Lv. — Hebe begynneth the Pystels and Gospels . . M.U.Lv. Colophon: Imprynted at Rouen . . — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. calf 1555 48 Bound for Whyte Kennet in a plain calf cover in imitation of tho original binding (gilt with simple fillets), with the royal arms (France and England quarterly) cut out from the old cover and fastened on the new one as a label. These arms are in an oval shield, and surrounded by a frieze, and have neither the crown nor the garter. They are consequently neither Queen Mary's nor Queen Elizabeth's, but they probably represented the Lady Elizabeth in 1555. On the title there are two quotations from Proverbs in a handwriting of the time. Under the lower one, which is from Prov. X 3, a different hand has written ** 2 & 3 Eli : " On the last page of the Primer are these MS. lines : " The deathe of Chrysi, and thyne perdye | The worldlye gyle and hevenlye glorye | The paynes of Hell that paynefuU be | In mynd alUayes be had to the." On the opposite page, which is the title of the Epistles and Gospels, we find written in the same hand, *'Thynke on thy end and tudyng {perhaps something cut aiMiy here). And tbow to syne shailt fynd (something cut away). Thynke on thy end. Beleve me th " {the rest cut aioay). On the last page of the volume, a third band has written, " Frons ronlieris meretricis facta est tibi." It is difficult to resist the belief that the book was presented by Mary to Elizabeth in 1655, and that we have here the handwriting of both the royal bisters. Whyte Rennet's signature " Wh. K." appears on the title. Margaret Guthrie, 1560-65 : 26 HORB BEATISSIME VIRGINIS MARIE ad legitimu Sarisburiensis Ecclesie ritum . . 1535. Venudant' Parisius a IVacisco Regnault . . Royal 8vo. a fine hook printed in hUick and red, with a considerable number of excellent woodcuts; hound for a Scottish lady, Margaret Outhrie 1535 84 Bound in France, as must be assumed, but it might have l)een in Scotland. Brown calf, decorated on the sides with a mosaic pattern of geometrical and arabesque ornament in compartments. The style is not cuactly Grolieresque, but it is similar. Th e design on the sides is of geometrical basis, but there are not many rectangular figures, nearly all the lines being curves with leafy endings. The central ornament is like two half'Ovals divided by an oblong globe ; each of the half-ovals filled with petals or fan-leaves, black and brown, blue and brown. The frame of the ovals is red ; the dividing oblong is gold, and at the heart of the latter, on a black and brown centrepiece shaped like a vase, is the name, on one side, Mabqabite, and on the other, Gvthbb. The back is gilt with a very elegant arabesque design, gold, and black and gold, with azur^ ileurons. The edges are gilt and goffered. The back and the corners are somewhat clumsily mended, but the book is practically very little affected. Margaret Guthrie, for whom the book was bound, must have had it done in France, between 1560 and 1505, but the workmanship is hardly good enough to warrant a suggestion of Paris or of Lyons. The lady was probably tho wife of SSir Robert Carnegie. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, glXf fiENTB CENTURY. Robert Eglesfield: £ «. d, 27 FLORES HISTORIARVM per Matthj:um Westmonasteriknsem collecti . . Londini, Ex officina Thomas Marshii . . 1570 . . SmsAl foMOf waterstained ; in a rich mosaic binding executed by the artist who worked for Archbishop Parker 1570 40 Brown calf, flat backed, but divided into artificial panel?, which are decorated thas : three contain a roll of interlaced knotwork in bandn outlined with.gold ; three the same Italian roll of metal work style as appears on the Arundel book (No. 24); and two an arabebqne roll. They are contined and divided by ten broad black horizontal bandd. The sides are decorated in the Veneto-Lyonnese style. There is a centre- piece of geometrical character, red, white, and black upon aznr6 gold ; flonri^hctl cornerpieces also on azur^ gold, and nearly all the space between the cornerpieces and the centrepieoen covered with a semis of little gold crosses. Outf^ide all this, there is a broad border between black and red bands ; the border divided into thirty-two square sections decorated alternately with mosaic knotwork (white, red, black, and gold) and with a semis of crosslets smaller than those in the middle. The edges are goffered and gilt. This is a strikingly bold and effective piece of English work. It was done no doubt .in 1570, and came afterwards into the possession of Robert Eglesfield, whose bookplate (an early English example) is basted on the back of the title. It is engraved and contains the Eglesfield arms (three eagles, 2 and 1), with the name Robertus Eglesfield Clericus, and in larger letters " Cull. lieg. Oxon " ; and above it the punning motto ** Hegines erunt nutrices tuss," which may be rendered ** Queen's [College] will nnrtnre thee." It is curious that Antony Wood does not mention Kobert, but does mention James (b.a. in 1621) as the son of a clericus in Somersetshire. (See wnong the xLUui/rations in tha L,P. issue.) ( — Throgmorton) : 28 HVLOETS Dictionaeie . . also the Frenche therevnto annexed; by "which you may finde the Latin or Frenche . . by John Higgins . . Londini . . 1572 • . Small folio, in an early English calf binding 1572 9 It is a curious circnmstanoe that this book is in a binding older than itself. The cover is impressed with stamps which must have been in use about 1520. The ornamentation is in blind toolmg ; and includes three sets of fillets of which the outer two cut each other. In the inmost compartment there are transverse diagonal lines forming lozanges in lattice-work. The space between the inmost and the second fillets is occupied with a stamped border, in which the main figurea are two wild men fighting with clubs, a sort of rose bush between them, and a dragon and a griffin similarly employed, with a pineapple tree between them. The paper used for end-leaves is part of Katherine Parr's little Godly Prayers of 1545, and of a Treatise on the Sacraments, printed in small 8vo. about 1550-55. — On these leaves various scribblings by early schoolboys reveal the names of Thomas Platters and . . Throgmorton. One of the two (probably Throgmorton about 1660) gives some curious particulars of Lis school-life : — '* From viijth to nvne to get ix verb phrasea. from ix to x to get ix greek vcrbefi. from X to xi to get [a blank), frome one vntill two to makelattyns by Tullyes englLshe verbatim, from two till 3. from a till 4. from 4 till 5. from vij at uyght till viij to translate t lynes into lattyn and to writt one sentence of 4 lynes of a theame by the observation book begynnynges and leave out lick cic. and to vsse the lattyn that being constrved maye be licke Cic. his construction in Englishe." M.C. (Mildred Cecil ?) : 29 (BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN PRATERS). Small 4to. wanting four preliminary leaves, and the last leaf; but nevertheless a fine and large copy in the original gilt binding (rebacked and a little damaged) (1578) 20 Brown calf, gilt on the sides with a semis of crosslets, and stamped centre and cornerpieces, in the favorite style of Matthew Parker's bookbinder. The initials M C in the centre are supposed to indicate the ownership of Mildhbd Cecil, the great Lord Burleigh's wife. The book is a rare one, being the first published edition of Richard Day's compilation, usually known as Queem Elizabeth's Book of Pkatebs. (Sir George Digby ?) : 30 DERlNGr (Edward) A Sparing R€8traint, of many lanishe Vntruthes, which M. Doctor Harding dothe chalenge . . Imprinted at London, bj Henry Denham . . Small 4to. calj\ with an escutcheon on the sides (1568) 10 Brown calf, ruled on the sides with one gilt and two blind fillets ; in the centre a round ornament enclosing the arms. Within the outer round, there is a circular 10 QUARITCH'S CA¥At6GUE Oi^ BtNtilNGg- £ ». d. wreath, within the wreath a motto "Floreat Unitas/' and within the motto a gold shield bearing a flenr-de-lis. A gold fleur-de-lia is added as an ornament at top and bottom of the onter round. The name of '* Samael Andreson *' is written on the title. This is the Jewel-Harding controversy treated by Dering. The binding was executed abont 1.590-1600, but is only yalnable for the escutcheon. . Late Elizabethan : 31 THE BOOKE OP COMMON-PRAYER . . London . . 1699— THE BIBLE : [Genevan version] . . Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker . . 1598 . . THE NEW TESTAMENT—. . 1597 . . — THE WHOLE BOOKE OP PSALMES . Collected into English meetre . . Printed by John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Daye . 1598^-4 vols, in 1, stout small 4to. in a very fine binding of the time 1597-99 15 Warm brown calf, haying the sides folly gilt, with centre and oomerpieces of the Veneto-Lyonnese style and a semis of crosslets. The edg^ are gilt and ganffered ; and the initials I K on each side represent the original owner (in 1599). The back is mended at the top, bottom, and hinges, bnt eyery panel is presenred with its gilding which is, in the centre a double canre ornament Uke an S upset, a large flory cross at each side of it, and a small rose in each comer. Such a fine copy of the renowned Breeches Bible is seldom met with. 32 LIVIUS. The Eomak Htstorie written by T. Livivs of Padva . . Translated . . by Philemon Holland . . London . . 1600. Thick small folio, ^ne copy in the original binding (a little mended), gilt on the sides with a royal crown surmounting the Tudor rose which is charged at the centre with the portcullis of London 1600 6 16 6 The combination of the crown, rose, and portcnllis, gives this Tolnme a place among noteworthy old Eoglish bindings. On the title are written the words " Bibl. Weston." and aboye tbem ** Dni. Boberti Throckmorton Baronetti " in a hand of abont 1680-90. Inside the cover is an engraved bookplate of Sir Robert Throckmorton — probably done abont 1726-30, and representing the son of the man whose name is on the title. J^m^S "VI of Scotland ; I of Great Britain : 33 PSALM I DAVIDIS a G. Bvchanano versibvs expressi . . Bassns . Lvgdvni . . M.D.LXXIX. Oblong 4to. with all the Music of the part, three leaves torn and mxide defective; the dbdication-copt of King James VI, and bound for him 1579 25 BrowD calf, the sides covered with a semis of gold flory lozanges (or perhaps cross- lets or stars) except at the comers and centre. In each comer we find an emblematic figure of a fay or winged mermaid, bine in face and body, with comb and things of gold. In the centre is the royal shield of the Stuarts. The omission of the crown is probably to be accounted for by a consideration that the King's mother, although only an ex-Queen and a captive, had not yet lost her head. The back is flat and full-gilt, and the edges of the cover are likewise ornamented. Although this is only an odd volume of Servin's setting of 6achanan*8 Psalms, it IS of the highest value as a royal binding. — It belonged to Rnddiman in the early part of the last century (and has his engraved bookplate) ; and fell afterwards into the possession of Sir Alexander Boswell. {See among the iliusWations of ike L,P- issue.) J3ii BELLARMINE. Dispvtationvm Roberti Bellarmini Politiani . . de Controversiis . . adversvs bvivs temporis Haereticos . . Ingolstadii . . M.D.CI. Tom. I, folio, the title torn and slightly defective; dark red m/yr^ occoy sumptuouslygiU, and hearing the arms of the King of Scotland 1601 52 10 Bound for the King by a French binder, or family of binders, in the style to which everyone is accustomed to attach the name of Nicolas and Clovis Eve ; a magnificent style indeed — less masterly than the French work of 1550-1570, but more delicate and splendid. It made its appearance for the first time towards the close of the fifteen- sixties in a simple form, with nothing more than geometrical interlacements resembling a redaction and multiplication of the earlier Grolieresque designs, losing in boldness and unity of plan what it gained in refinement and luxury of execution. Within a dozen or fifteen years the style became still more florid and sumptuous by the filling of the spaces with graceful wreaths of foliage, unattached flowers and flnerons, and small ornaments ending in dotted lines which have been stupidly in modem times called " fanfares." This volume, one of four which have strayed apart for centuries, is decorated in the more luxurious manner just alluded to, and was bound for King James about the year 1600. Back and sides are treated in the same way, and the whole out- side of the' volume is magnificent, notwithstanding the ravage of time. On the back in two of the central qnaterfoils there are figures of bees, — a device which had been nsed by James's grandfather, and the same device reappears in several places on the sides ElfGLiSfl AND SCOTTISH, 1000-1020. 11 James VI of Scotland ; I of Great Britain— con^wwed. £ «. d. At the four corners on the sides the royal crown is stamped, and in a sqaafe on each side of the centrepiece we see the letters I and R crowned. So far the work of the binder, who left a large oval in the centre for the impression of the royal arms, this being no doubt done in Edinbnrgb. Here we find the Scottish escutcheon, with crown, helmet, thistles, flags bearing the Scottish cross, the collar of St. Andrew, and two unicorns for supporters. Vol. Ill of this same work, identically bonnd, was sold at Sir Thomas Dick Lander's sale in June, 1896, for £63. 35 ESTIENNE ET LIEBAULT. Maison Rvstiqve, or the Covntrey Farme : Compiled . . by Charles Steuens and John Liebault . . translated into English by Richard SvT-flet . . Also a short collection of the hunting . . and Faulconrie . . London . . 1606. Small 4to. wanting a leaf of Table at the end^ large copy, hound for James T (rehached) 16061 3 5 The crown is equally broad from top to bottom ; and has only four pearls on each of the transverse bands. The Irish harp has five strings, and its outline is almost quite triangular. The garter forms a circle round the royal arms. The letters A F stamped in blind-tooling by the side of the escutcheon, represent probably the person to whom the King presenteid the book. He seems to hare frequently made gifts of this kind, especially to his new Baronets. 36 CUSACKE (John) de lunatico inquirendo. ABriefe Discourse instanc- inge the manner, and discoaeringe the necessitie of finedinge Lnnatiqnes for the Kinge. Small 4to. autograph MS* of 95 pp, ; in a limp vellum wrapper gilt (1616) 6 The sides are gilt with two sets of single fillets, a cherub*s head at each inner comer, and the crown, arms, and garter in the centre. The crown is closely similar in shape to that on the £8tienne, but there are seven pearls on each side «f the topmost cross; the harp on the escutcheon is nearly quadrangular ; and the garter is circular in arrangement. The hack (flat) is gilt with a leaf and a rose alternately. This is a fresh and pretty example of the King's own library. Sir Robert Nannton, to whom the book is dedicated as Master of the Court of Wards, gained that appointment in 1616, and became Secretary of State in 1617. The date of the Discourne is thus ascertained, as the higher title would have been used by the writer in his Dedication, if Sir Robert bad already a right to it. The subject in question was the lunacy of James Halfhide, and Cusacke objected to the administration of the lunatic's estate by his sister. It is to be supposed that Sir Robert Nnunton handed the book at once to the British Solomon ; and the King caused it to be bound in 1616. 37 GODWIN. De Pr^svlibys Anf^lisB Commentarins . . per Franciscvm Godwinvm . . Londini . . M.DC.XVI . . ^msX\ Akjo, hound for King James I 1616 4 4 In dark brown calf (rebacked). The binding may be referred to 1618-23. The sides are gilt with large azur^ comerpieces of the Anglo-Lyonnese kind. In the centre arc the escutcheon and crown. The garter is arranged in oval form, with a frieze- border. The crown has fire visible arched bands, which of course implies eight instead of four altogether. All the bands bear pearls; there are seven on each side of the topmost cross. The engraved bookplate of Philip Lord Hardwicke is pasted inside the cover. The writing on the title is probably in the first Hardwicke's hand. 38 LA BIBLE . . par les Pasteurs <fc Professeurs de I'Eglise de Geneue. A Geneve . . 1605. 3 parts (t.e. Vienx Testament, Apocryphes, Nouveaa Testament). — lbs cl pseavmes . . en rime francoise par Clement Marot <!b Theodore de Besze. Avec la Forme des Prieres . . A Geneve . . 1606, with the Music — the whole book op psalmes . . by Thomas Stemhold, lohn Hopkins, and others . . London . . 1622, with the Jftt^ic— 4 vols, in 1, stout 12mo. hound for King James I 1605-2^ r e* tf' Brown leather: the back gilt with rulings and with clssp-like ornaments in the*- panels. The royal arms on the sides within four bUnd fillets and a single gilt one. The garter is circularly arranged; the outer line of the Irish harp is a regular cnrve ; there are six pearls on each side of the topmost cross on the crown ; no pearls on the two minor bands seen in front The initials T. D. are stamped in gold beside the escutcheon. These might represent Thomas Darnell, or Thomas Delves, who got baronetcies in 1621. The book was of course not bound before 1 622. On the fiyleaf, written in Oriental style, i.e, from right to left, we find the name of " Thomas Egerdon, 1643," who may have been of the family that produced theKarla of Bridgwater. £ <. d. 7 12 QUARlTCffS CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. James VI of Scotland ; I of Great Briiaiin— continued, 39 WILLIAMS (Griffith) Seven Govlden Candlestickes honlding the Seven Greatest lights of Christian Religion . . 1624. Small 4to. engraved title; fine copy in the original binding, hound for James I 1624 Gilt OD the sides with large aznr^ oornerpieces of Lyonnese style, and in the centre the royal ancs ; all the space between being gilt with a semis of little roses. The fillets are three blind and three gilt, the gilt ones having a lace edging. The panels on the back (which is a little mended) are gilt with the ornament like a clasp ; the edges gilt and goffered. This is a fine example of the latest portion of Jame Ts library. On the crown there are eight pearls on each side of the topmost cross; the minor arches (which arc here) have no pearls. The Irish harp is the same as on the Godwin. 40 NOUUM lESV CHRISTI D.N. TESTAMENTUM (Gnece) . . Lvtetiae. Ex officina Roberti Stephani . . M.D.L. Small folio, title and last leaf mounted ; bound for King James 1650 4 14 6 The binding in warm brown calf is in excellent condition. On the sides, at each comer of the inner set of filUts, there is an ornament closely resembling the one which began to come into use in Paris abont 1620 (and which in the French books of 1670-80 grew into the appearance of a bunchy lozange made np of curls and fanfares). Here it springs as though it were about to grow into a fkur-de-lit, but the conventional triple petal is turned mto curving leaves, and at the top a flower like an open daisy from the heart of which rises the favourite pointille fanfare resembling a tiny vase in outline. The escutcheon, garter, and frieze in the centre are of the kind that had been in use since 1616. The crown is of a new sort, for although it agrees with the Godwin in having eight arched bands (five visible) the three minor ones are drawn in better perspective so as to give a truer sense of proportion for all. There are seven pearls on the topmost arches, four on the other three. In the panels on the back there is an ornament like a penman^s flourish. This binding was done probably about 1624-25, or at earliest aboat 1620. Jacobean Period (1603-25) : 41 HUNNIS (William) Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne . . Whereunto are also annexed his Handfull of Honisnckles ; the Poor Widowes Mite . . 1602. 3 parts in 1 vol. 16mo. bound at the time for EB 1602 4 Stamped on the sides with nn Anglo-Lyonnese pattern in azurS gold, centre and comerpieces of interlaced design. The letters £ and B on the sides. The edges goffered. 42 A BOOKE OF CHRISTIAN PRAIERS, collected . . [by Richard Day]. London . . 1608. Small 4to. printed within woodcut borders which contain the Dance of Death and other illustrations, and having on the ba^k of the title a full-page portrait of Queen Elizabeth at her devotions (whence the book is known as Queen Elizabeth's Prater- book) ; in the origitial limp vellum gilt 1608 12 12 In the midst of a number of fillets and ornamental borders, there is a large rectangular compartment on the sides haying for its centrepiece a combination of four vases out of which grow thistles in flower ; and all the remaining space (except the comers) covered with a semis of thistles. This volume belonged about 1670 to Penelope Baxter, who at a later date records her sister Lidia's death in 1G89. 43 HEMINGE (Nicholas) A Postill or Exposition of the Gospels that are vsually read in the chnrches . . translated into English by Arthur Golding . . London, for George Bishop and Thomas Wodcocke . . Small 4to. in an early calf binding, arms on the sides (1570) A simple binding with plain and gilt fillets, done abont 1610-20; but the armorial bearing is a remarkable one : an eagle displayed, on its breast a figure like a horse- shoe or a lyre (having its ends drawn together by a small transverse bar) enclosing a bodkin in pale which is clasped by a crescent. A viscount's coronet surmounts the eagle's head. There is no shield, so that this might be an elaborate crest. 44 THE BOOKE OF COxMMON PRATER . . MDCXIX— THE HOLY BIBLE . . 1619— THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES : Collected into English Meeter . . 1620, vnth the Music — 4 vols, in 1, small 8vo. (12mo.),/iie copies in a bright and handsome binding 1619-20 6 Light brown calf (rebacked). The sides are brilliant with gold ; aznr6 ornamen- tation in the corners ; in the centre a large fienron made up to nearly lozangy shape of ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1610-1622. 13 Jacobean Period (1603-25)— conhnwei. £ t. a. carvea, branches, f raits, and nondescripts ; and a a^mis of tears over all ' the 0))en spaces. The edges are goffered and gilt The binding was no doubt done in or soon after 1620. On the flyleaf is written "J. P. Danberi snm " (about 1630), and below it in another hand **£z dono suprascripti J. P. Danberi, snm Herm. Haas. Land. 1637 . ." 45 DRAYTON (Michael) Poljolbion or a Ohorographicall Description of . . Great Britaine . . Digested in a Poem . . London . .1613 — The Second Part, or a Continuance of Polj-olbion . . 1622 — 2 vols, in 1, small folio, First Edition; frontispiece, portrait of Prince Henry, and numerous maps ; in the original gilt calf binding 1613-22 21 On the sides a single outer fillet, and a single inner Hllet Outside the cornero of the last is a flearon like a plume of feathers, in the angles an azured corner-piece. In the middle a lozangy ornament in which an arabesque design emerges in natural dark relief from a gronnd of granulated gold. — In the centre are the initials U G, which are repeated on the leather outside. In the panels on the back, the ornament represents a sort of clasp with a fringe. The edges are gilt and goffered. On the reverse of the frontispiece we find the lx>okplate of James Bengough of the Inner Temple, 1702. Henry Prince of Wales (died 1612) : 46 HEROLD (Basilii loannis) Originvm ac Germanicarvm Antiqvitatvm libri, Leges videlicet Salicso AUomannoram Saxon am Angliorum . . Basileae per Henrichvm Petri. Small folio, hound for Prince Henry (1557) 30 Brown calf ; on the sides one gold and four blind fillets. In each corner a very larfre gold fieur-de-lis pointed inwards. In the centre, a large crownless escutcheon (with a label), quarterly of France-England, Scotland, Ireland, with thistles springing outwards from the frame. On the back, in each panel the rose of England, the one at the bottom being flanked by the letters JR. As we do not find the triple feathers on this volume we must consider that it was bound before this short-lived prince became, in 1610, Prince of Wales. It is to be observed that the top line of the Irish harp is nearly horizontal and straight. Within the cover the engraved bookplate of the Honorable Charles Bathnrat. 47 [LAUD (Archbishop)] A Treatise, in six books, vpon Ecclesi- astical Authoritie {i.e. upon Prelacy in Church government), with the signature W : L : upon the last page. Small 4to. neatly loritten MS. 86 pp. written vnthin gold rulings and having every initial throughout the text done in gold; bound f(xr Prince Henry (1610) 150 An nnpublished treatise, from the pen of Land, as there is little reason to donbt. The binding is richly gilt. On the sides the royal arms (with a label) are surmounted by a princely crown, and surrounded by the garter in circular form. Gold acorns, roses, lilies, thistles, crowns, and stars are scattered in profusion all over the sides, and the English rose on a stem occupies every panel of the back. The feathers do not appear. The top line of the harp is nearly straight and horizontal. As an example of English ornamental binding at the time, in a fine state of preservation, this is a volume of great value, apart from the importance of its associations and authorship. Charles Duke of York (Charles I) : APOLLONII ALKXANDRINI de Syntaxi . . libri mi (Gr(Bce et Latine) , . Francofvrti , . MDLXXXX . . Roy. 8vo. bound for Prince Charles 1590 Brown calf (rebacked), with an outer and an inner set of fillets on the sides, one gilt and two blind in each. At each corner of the inner fillets there is a gold fleur-de- lis snrmounted by a princely crown ; and in the centre there are the royal arms (with a label) snrrouaded by the garter and surmounted by a princely crown. The garter is ovally arranged ; the upper line of the harp is a complete curve. This binding was probably done in 1616, but before young Charles, in that year, received the title of Prince of Wales. By the shape of the escutcheon, we are precluded from assigning the book to Prince Keary. U QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Charles Prince of Wales (Charles I) : jb ». d, 49 DIUI JOANNIS CHRYSOSTOMI in omnes Pauli apostoH epistolas . . interpretatio . . (Grsece) Colophon : Yeronffi typis ereis excnsnm . . MDXXIX . . 2 vols, small folio, very fine large copy^ bound for Charles Prince of Wales 1529 21 The sides are g^Ot with two sets of fillets (inclndmg blind as well as gilt lines). At the cornen of the inner set, there is (1) a thistle, sormoonted bj a princdy crown, (2) the Prince of Wales's feathers clasped bjr a nmilar crown, (3) a rose, and (4) a flear-de-lis, both snrmonnted bj a similar crown. In the centre the escutcheon, label, crown, garter, and frieze are identical with those on the Apollonins. The side of one of the coyere has been restored. On the bock there are six panels gilt with portcnllis, crowned lion, rose, nnioom, rose, portcnllis. This binding was done between 161 6 and 1620, probably in 1617. It is so like in style and in matenal to King James* No?. Test. 15&0, mentioned above, that they mnst both bare issued from one atelier at nearly the same time, (^n the title-page, the name "Lnmley " is written, which is the antograpb of John Lord Lnmley, whose library was one of the most celebrated book -collections of Queen Elizabeth's time. It was bought by King James in 1609 (on Lumley's death) and presented to Prince Henry, but &ese two rolumes must have missed their desiiua- tion, and been given a few years later to the younger son, as the oval arrangement of the garter docs not seem to have come into use on 3ie King's books till after 1615. Charles I : 50 SMITH (Captaine lolin) the oenerill histobie of Virginia, New- England, and the Summer Isles . . to this present 1626 . . London. Printed by I. D. and I. H. for Michael Sparkes. 1627. Small folio, with the engraved title, hut without the maps — ^the true travels, adventyres, and observations of Captaine lohn Smith . . from Anno Domini 1593 to 1629 . . London, Printed by J. H. . . 1630, without the frontispiece — 2 vols, in 1, sm. folio, in calf binding {repaired) hear- ing the arms of Charles I 1627-30 15 15 From the library of Sir George Dasent, with a note in his handwriting, dated 1832, *' This copy was formerly King Charles Ist's.*' Here we observe a new modifies- tion in the form of the crown. The outer arches bend downwards and form a hollow at the spot from which the cross arises. These two arches (or bands) bear nine pearls each. As for the three minor bands, they are scarcely yisible and bear no pearls. 51 FOLIOT (Gilberti) Episcopi Londinensis Expositio in Canticum Canti- corum . . stndio Patricii lunii . . Londini . . MDCXXXVIII. Small 4to. LARGE PAPER; bound in black morocco for Charles I 1638 SO This book is in perfect preservation and remarkably fresh condition. The crown, arms, garter, and frieze are identical with those on the ** Seven Goulden Candlesticks," bound for James I. The fillets are fringed with lace-edging. The back is flat and bandless ; there is a rose surrounded by /an/ores in each panel. The rim of tho cover is gilt, with dots. Embroidered Bindings (Jacobean and Caroline) : 52 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . Imprinted at London by Robert Barker . . 1607— THE BIBLE . . London by Robert Barker . . ColopJwn: . . 1607 — 3 vols, in 1, small folio, ruled^ and bound in embroidered silk, with a grand design on the covers representing the Garden of Eden^ and lettered a dbeame ; enclosed in a morocco case 1607 125 Bound before 1620 in England. The border on the sides is a snccession of lozanges enclosing little cushions, all worked in gold threadiupona gold ground. Inside isthe large pictorial [design (11 inches X 6J) which has been given in an uncoloured facsimile in the Catalogue of Bindings issued by the Burlington F. A. Club. At the top the Tree of Knowledge with apples and leaves in coloured silks , outlined in gold and silver wires ; the Serpent (blue, yellow, andt silver) is curled around the trunk, and from his month Eve (a fai^r nudity in white silk with brown tresses) takes the apple ; Adam with cropped brown hair and short beard stands in red and white nake^. ness on the other side of the tree, with a brown and silver lion at Iihis ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BINDINGS, 1620-1635. 15 embroidered Bindings (Jacobean and Caroline) — continued, ^ s. d, feet. Green and red flowers on the right and left. The four rivers in bluish-green and silver meet jast below the tree, having descended from the corners, and fish like dolphins, with gold fins and tails, swim in them. A red-and-blaok bird flies towards Adam from above ; a brown and silver stag couches at the feet of Eve. On the banks of the upper rivers there are gates of silver and coloured silks. In the herbage and amid the trees (light green, brown, gold, and silver) which fill the lower part of the design, we find a Unicom, an Elephant, two long-legged birds with ample tails, and a rabbit, in light tints heightened with silver. A brilliant gold sun is partly seen in the upper right-hand comer of the picture. — On the lower cover the same design is copied with slight variations, such as changes in th& colouring and other details. — On the back, divided into panels by- bands of gold thread, each panel contains trees and flowers, and grass^ as though it were a portion of the Garden. The edges of the book are gilt, goffered, and painted with small flowers. This is a superb example of English embroidered binding in James I's time. (See among the illtutrations of the L.P» issue.) 53 THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES. Collected into English meeter . . London . . 1618. 32do. toith the Music ; in the original brown calf binding richly giU, with gilt and goffered edges, preserved in wonderful freshness by a chemise of white satin embroidered with designs in coloured silks 1618 35 We may put the work down to 1618-25. The sides of the leather are stamped with one of those fine Anglo-Lyonnese engraved plaqnes, by means of which we get an interlaced geometrical and arabesqae design emerging in brown relief npon a snrfiace of granulated gold. The back (flat aad without panels) is also fully gilt, with successiye TOWS of quadrangular figures bearing fleurs-de-lis, and conventional foliated branches. Along the rims of the cover is a gold chain of tiny lozange links. — The chemise (which is 7f X 3 inches) has two separate designs. In one, a brown tree bearing green branches and foliage, with fruits that are pink, red, and blue, is flanked by lower bushes, on the left a rose-tree, on the right a stem of tulips. A black-and-white dog is couching on the grass at the foot of the large tree. — On the other side there is an oak-tree with leaves and acorns ; flowers on right and loft, inclnding a pansey, and a brown-and- white stag couching on the grass below the tree. 54 THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . 1625— THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES Collected into English Meeter . . 1625—3 vols, in 1, small 8vo. hou7id in white satin embroidered in ornamental patterns with coloured silks and silver and gold wire 1625 25 The central figure on the sides is King David, with red and yellow robes, and silver crown, kneeling before the silver radiance from Heaven, a silver harp strung with gold lying in front of him. On the oval band or garter around it, we read " Away from me ye wicked. I will searve the Lord." There are oval comerpieces of silver wire, looking like fine vrickerwork; at each of the four sides of the centrepiece, a silver and gold stem supports clusters of silver grapes, and flowers in coloured silk are scattered about. On the back, five panels are formed by bands of tine gold thread. In the first, the third and the fifth, there is a four-leaved flower in pink, in blue, and again in pink silk, enclosed within wreaths of silver cord. In the other two, there is a large rose composed of silver wire outlined with gold. The edges are gilt and goffered. The original owner for whom this elatx>rate work of embroidery was executed (about 1630) excised the Apocrypha from the text. 55 THE NEW TESTAMENT . . London . . 1627— the whole books op PsALMBS . . 1628 . . — 2 vols, in 1, 18mo. bound in white satin, embroidered with coloured silks and silver and gold thread 1627-28 12 12 About 1635. On the back four panels are formed by horizontal lines of silver thread. In the first and third there is a round yellow flower with green veins ; in the second and fourth a flower of five petals, three blue and two red, with a yellow heart. On the sides a border is formed by a zigzag of silver cord with spangles here and there. Inside there are two wreaths of green twining as a garland, with a stem of silver running through. They enclose something like an escutcheon of three fesses. Above them is a coronet or crown intended opparently for that of a Baron. 16 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Embroidered Bindings (Jacobean and Caroline) — continued. £ t, d, 56 BIBLIA. FoL 1: Incipit epistola sancti HieroDymi . . Colophon: Explicit biblia impressa Venetijs per Franciscu renner de hailbmn . M.CCCC.LXXXIII. Small ^to. all the tnitiaU illuminated^ and a pretty slight border attached to the first ; hound in white silk or sattn^ embroidered in coloured silk^ and silver and gold thread with tulips^ etc. 1483 36 On the sides a sort of arch or bower is formed by a triple combination of silver knot- work, with green and white bands of silver wire. Within this large arch the chief decoration is a gorgeous red and yellow tulip of considerable size with green leaves beneath it, and below theci in an egg-cup recess a smaller tulip red and white. Outside and above the arcade there are other tulips of various tints. The back is damaged, but the patterns are there still, and see again the tulip besides other flowers. — On the flyleaf we find the name of ** Alexr Boswel." He possessed the volume about 1740, and to him no doubt is due the insertion of the end leaves of gold paper figured with red flowers. —This is a fine specimen of the Tulip binding, done about 1635-40. 57 THE NEW TESTAMENT . . Edinburgh . . 1633.— THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES Collected into English Meeter . . London . . 1635 — 2 vols. 18mo. bound in white satin embroidered with silver thready gilt spangles, and flowers of coloured silks ; united in counter^ arrangement^ edges to back, by a single end-cover between them 1635 25 Bonnd in England between 1635 and 1640. There is the same pattern on each side. Two cords of silver run in double intersection from corner to corner, forming a circular centre in which we see a red rose with a silver heart, golden leaves on the stem which springs from a green and silver mound. A red rose of lesser size fills the spaces on either band. Above and below the extremities of the silver cord turn and servo as stems from which a blue and silver rose hangs near each comer. On the two backs, four panels are formed by horiztmtal bands of brown silk, and in each there is a rose, alternately red and blue. The edges are gilt and goffered. Henry, the Wizard-Earl of Northumberland : 58 CLEMENTE (Africo) Trattato dell' Agricoltvra . . Venetia . . MDLXXIL 12mo. calf 1572 2 12 6 The crest, garter, and coronet stamped in gold on the sides. The book was bound probably during his imprisonment in the Tower, 1605-17. Francis Manners Earl of Rutland : 59 LVLLII (Rajmvudi) Opera ea qvae ad inventam ab ipso Artem vniver- salem . . pertinent . . Argentorati MDCXVII. Stout small 8vo. in the oHginalcalf 1617 2 2 The coronet, garter, and crest stamped in blind-tooling on the sides. The book was bound before 1620. The Earl received the garter in 1616 and died in 1632. — The engraved bookplate of William lianbury of Kelmarsh (about 1760) is pasted inside the cover. Robert Kempe : 60 LA BIBLIA . . trasladada en Espanol [por Casiodoro de la Reyna] MDLXIX. 4to. in an English binding of James Fs time 1569 5 Black calf, bound about 1625 in London, with comer fleurons to the inner set of fillets, a lozangy ornament in the centre, and each panel on the back gilt with a star. The arms of the Kempes of Essex are impressed above the centrepiece on the sides. The owner, Robert Kemp, has written a Spanish proverb on the flyleaf and added his name with a date equivalent to 1626. Caroline Bindings (1625-48): 61 THE HOLT BIBLE . . London by Bonham Norton and lohn Bill . . 1629. Small io\io,aruled copy in the original black morocco {rebacked) decorated on the sides with broad corncrpieces and a large garland or double wreaJth in the centre, all of chased silver 1629 40 The <;arland, consisting; of two branches of foliage which cross each other at top and bottom, forms a perfect oval upon each cover, inside of which no doubt some lozangy ornament was originally placed (the arms of the owner probably). The corner- pieces (2 J inches i^quare, and four on each cover) arc elaborately carved with twining branches of fruits and flowers and leaves conventionnlly treated ; with differences in all the eight designs. The metal was originally gilt, bat the silver has gradually regained its purity. A fine example of an English goldsmith's work. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1625-1645. ly Caroline Bindings (1625^45)— cotUinued. £ s, d. 62 MtTNSTER (Sebast.) Cosmographia Vniversalis . . thick folio, numerous mapSj and views of cities ; bound about 1625-30 /or Thomas Leigh (first Lord Leigh in 1643), tvith his arms on the sides (Lee-Egertoti per pale) Basilece, 1572 5 5 62*[WOTTON (Sir Henry)] Of Robert Uevereux Earle of Essex and George Villiers Dnke of Backingham. Some Obserrations by way of Parallel . . SmoM Ato, MS ^ on paper ; limp vellum -4 6oti^ 1630 2 The valne of this MS. in a catalogue of bindings consists in the cnrious gilt ornamentation. In the centre on the sides there is a figure of Death with a dart in one hand, the other resting on an hourglass. The fillets are simple gold rulings ; outside each comer of the inner frame there is a skull within a lozange. The book may have been copied and bound for ^5ir Henry Wotton himself. The text remained nnprinted till 1641. 63 SAINT AVGVSTINE, op the Citie ok God : with the learned com- ments of lo. Lodovicvs Vives . Englished first by I. H. . London . . 1620. Small folio, olive green morocco extra, gilt edges 1620 2 16 Gilt on the sides with branches of foliage in the inner comers, and in the centre an oval wreath of foliage, fianked by the letters F C. — The outer double fillet has a lace edging, and between the lines, a chaia of oblong and lozangy links. The comer- ornament outside the inner angles is an azttr6 flenron with an acorn. The back is fiat ; in the panels an oblong flenron of the French style. Bound about 1635. 04 THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . 1629— the whole booke of P.SALMES . . 1629 — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. ruled with red ink ; in the original binding of black mcrocco extra, gilt edges, with silver clasps and ornaments on the sides 1629 4 14 6 Bound about 1636-40 ; gilt on the sides with comer and centrepieces of curves and ** fanfares," and witli a lace edging on the inside of the cover. The back is flat and is similarly gilt from top to bottom without any interruption of the design by bands or otherwise. The metal additions are coraerpieces, centrepiece, and clasps, in chased and perforated silver. On the fiyleaves there are MS. notes of births and deaths in the Hurst family (London and Newport Pagnell) between 1705 and 18HS. 65 MASON (Henry) Hearing and Doing the ready way to blessednesse . . . . London . , M.DC.XXXV. 12mo. in a pretty gilt binding 1635 2 2 Olive morocco; bound about 1635-40. Between the two sets of fillets on the sides is a border of ermine. Inside the inner fillets, beside the cornerpicces, there is a set of fleurons, curves, and caterpillar, so arranged as to form two losangy figures. The rim of the cover is gilt with dots, the inside lap with lace edging. The back is flat and framed from top to bottom with lace edging. In the middle a set of fleurons perpendicular and horizontal, producing cmciform ornament 66 SANDYS (George) A Paraphrase vpon the Divine Poems . . London . . M.DC.XXXVIII. Small folio, in a fine contemporary binding, with gilt edges ' 1638 12 12 Black morocco, richly gilt, in fine preserraiion. The sides are covered with a temis of flory crosslets, except where a Lyonnese interlaced pattern on a granulated gold ground occupies the centre, and similar ornamental work broadly fills the comers, the fillets have a dentelU edging. The gilding on the rim of the covers is a chain of oblong and lozangy links. The back is flat and gilt with repetitions of a branchy roll between lines of lace-edging. The bookplate of Thomas Gaisford is pasted within the cover. 67 BRIGHT (Timothy) A Treatise of Melancholy . .By T. Bright . . London . . 1613. 12mo. black or dark olive mxyrocco extra, gilt edges 1613 1 16 Bound in London about 1645. The back is flat and divided into eleven panels by the rulings of quadruple gilt lines. The side has two sets of double fillets ; with a ftomUVU flenron outside, and an acorn with leaflets inside, the angles of the inner set. The rim of the cover is gilt with dots. Sip Kenelm Digby : 68 SPENSER (Edmnnd) The Fabrie Qveen : the Shepheards Calendar : Together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poet . . Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes . Anno Dom. 1617. Small folio, calf ; with the autograph and arms of Sir Kenelm Digby 1617 20 The volume was probably bought by Sir Kenelm Digby about 1625, and he then wrote upon the flyleaf the four Latin verses from Spenser's tomb, and his own name and motto on the title : Vindica te tibi Kenelme Digby. The book remiined in its old o 18 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Sir Kenelm JiighY— continued, £ «. d* calf biodinfCt onadoraed, antil 1645 (or some time between then and 1661), when he had the back gilt in the French manner, as we now fsee it, and caused his arms to be stamped npon the Bides *^ Inmgnia. Kenelmi. Digby. Eqritis. Avrati." These are in the form of a seal, and without the crest. The panel on the back which bore on a red label the intitnlation : The | Faerie | Qreen • | *.* | was howerer left unaltered. Digby printed in 1643 some observations on a passage in the Faerie Queen which hail engsged his attention as far back as 1627. On the flyleaf we find the .signature of Sir Samuel Tuke to whom the book belonged about 1670. C9 HOMER. EY2TA0IOY . . Hapc/c^oXal ii^ rrjv 'Ofijpov .'IXiaSa [icai QSvacrtiav] , . 4 vols, small folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges Bomw, 1542-60 14 14 Sir Kenelm Digby *8 arms, helmet, and crest, with ornamental frame of foliage impressed in the centre on the sides ; his monogram in all the panels on the back, except the lowest panel in which the shelfmark of the Lamoignon library has been Bubstitnted. At each corner of the inner frame of fillets on the sides, there is a rase of flowers for ornament. Bound for Digby in Paris about 1645-50. It is a fine example of the style of Le Gascon's time, but is arranged here on account of the arms. The name of an earlier possessor is erased from the title of Vol. I. A monogram, apparently composed of the 6reek 6 and SC, is found in each volume and was prol^bly his. The Lamoignon book-label appears within the coYen ; as also that of the first Earl of Lisbume. 70 BIBLIA SACRA [Latina] . . Antverpi® . . M.D.LXXXIII . Folio, Sir Kenelm Dighy*s copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1583 25 With his arms, helmet, crest, and mantling of foliage, on the sides ; and his monogram in seven panels on the back. The ornament at the comers of the inner frame of fillets on the sides is a vase of flowers. Bound in Paris for Sir Kenelm Digby about 1645-50. This and the Enstathins were bound by some artist of Le Gascon's school. After his death it passed into the library of Colbert, and in the first half of the eighteenth century formed part of the Audiinleck library of Sir Alexander Boswell. The Auchinleck stamp is on the title. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury : Whom some one has recently described a« " a great man falkn upon evil times y 71 LACD. A RELATION of the Confkrenck botweeiic William Lawd . . and Mr. Fisher the Jesnite . . London . . MDCXXXIX. Small folio, larob paper ; in the original calf binding, gilt on the sides, xcith the arms of Archbishop Laud, edges gilt 1639 4 One of the several large paper copies which Laud caused to be bonnd for presentation. 72 — another copy, in proci^ehj the same condition^ but having the portrait of Laud engraved by White inserted 1639 4 10 James Stanley, Earl of Derby : 73 LAUD. A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd . . and Mr. Fisher . . Small folio, large paper, a copy presented to the Earl by the Archbishop, with the Autographs of both, and the i^isignia of the fanner as Sovereign of Man upon the title 1639 24 Bine morocco, with two eets of fiUeta, one gold and two blind to each. There is a flenron at each of the inner comers, and in the centre the three armed legs of the Isle of Man snrmonnted by an Barl's coronet. The back is flat bnt has a branchy rpll between two gilt lines to represent the band, and in the panels a flenron shaped like an oblong loEange. On the title we have the Archbishop's inscription <' ex dono Authoris W. Cant'* and aboTe it the signature of the recipient, "J. Strange, 1639." The Earl was at that time Lord Strange. — There are some inscriptions on the flyleaves by Mr. Maskell who formerly owned the book. Sir William Button : 74 HEXHAM (Henry) The First Part of the Principles of the Art Military, Practised in the Warres of the United Netherlands . . Delf in Holland . . 1642 — An Appendix of the Lawes, Articles, & Ordinances, established for Marshal Discipline . . the Hagh . . ENGLISHT AND SCOTTISH, 1645-1660. 19 Sir WillJam Button — cotUinued. £ s. d. MDCXLIII— The Second Part of the Principles . . Delf . . 1642— The Third Part of the Principles . . the Hagh . . 1640 — A Tbvb and HiSTORiALL Relation of the Bloody Battell of l^ievport . . Delff, Anno 1641 — 5 vols, in 1, small folio, nu/merous engravings of military operations, weapons^ etc., all in contemporary colouring ; in the original citron morocco extra, gilt edges 1641-43 14 Bound in England, abont 1644-45, apparently for (Sir) William Button of Token- ham Court, Gloucefitenihlre, a disting^uished Royalist. There are two frames of gold fillets (inner and outer) fringed with lace-edging. There are comerpieces of the old Lyonnese style, and similarly a central ornament in the middle of which is an oval escutcheon bearing ermine, a fess (gules ?). The back is flat and ruled with gold lines which have a lace edging. With the engraved bookplate of William Hanbnry of Kelmarsh, Northampton (abont 1740). It is cnrions that a man like *' Captain Henry Hexham, Quartermaster to the Honourable Colonell Goring," who fought in the Low Countries, and wrote such a remarkable book as this, — should have no mention in tiie Dictionary of National Biography. Commonwealth Period : 75 BENLOWES (Edward) Theophila or Loves Sacrifice . . written by E. B. Esq. ; . . London, Printed by R. N. . 1652. Small folio, pZa/e«; in the original calf, hound for the author himself, with his arms stamped in gold on the sides 1652 24 The back is flat, gilt with a flower in each panel, oblique gold lines representing the l)and8. Collation : blank leaf; title; sign. A, two leaves; II, ^f , \S^i two leaves each ; B, six leaves, the sixth cut out ; c, d, two leaves each ; C---V in sixes; X, Y, Z, Aa — An, in two leaves each. — ^Tbe separate plates are as follows : portrait of Benlowes (a large etchinpr)* a masked Lady, Theophila crowned, Theophila praying, Eden (a woodcut), Theophila in rapture, Angels bringing wreaths, Theophila lighting, Treading on the l)ragon (a large etching). The Hierarchy of Heaven, An angei flies with a circlet to her, Upward and Downward, Astronomising. Besides these thirteen, there are other engravings printed on the letterpress. (Three separate plates are wanting, besides two small engravings at the end.) With the large bookplate of Sir Thomas Hanmer dated 1707 ; also that of the late Sir Henry Edward Bnnbury. 76 THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . John Field . . 1653— thk wholf BOOK OP Psalms : collected into English Meeter . . John Field . . 1654 — 2 vols, in 1, 16mo. hoitnd in modern hlach m>orocco on which are fastened the silver clasps, cmmerpieres, and central ornament of the original binding 1653-54 5 ' The central ornament is .a crowned portrait-bnst of Charles I, in silver ; the clasps and comerpieces are decorated. The head of King Charles must have been added after 1659. 77 STRAUA (Famianus) dp: hello reloico. The History of the Low- Conntrey Warres . . in English by Sr Bobert Stapylton Kt. . . MDCL. Small folio, portrait of Stapylton ; hound in blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1650 10 10 A richly gilt example of English work about the time of the Restoration. There are three sets of fillets on the sides, and they are heavily lined with ornamentation it petits fers, looking like masses of fine lace. The back is also full-gilt in its paneln, with comerpieces and central fleurons on a lozangy space, in the style of the French books of the time. Charles II : 78 BOOK OF COMMON PRATER . . London . . 1642— •Et/cSv Bao-iXt/ay. The Ponrtraicture of His Sacred Majestie . . M.DCXLIX. — 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. hound in black morocco, gilt edges 1642-49 5 The back flat, gilt with horizontal lines for bands. The sides gilt with two sets of double fillets ; in the centre the royal crown and CR. Tlie ornament at the comers of the inner fillet is a thistle or acora. .It is quite certain that this binding in black morocco with the peculiar flory CR was done secretly in London for young Charles, and that he (or his advisers) caused a good nmny copies of the book to be arrayed in the same way. They seem to have* usually been given as presents to the supporters of the royal cause. o * 20 QUARITCH'R CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Charles II — continued, £ «. d. 79 SCDDERY, Cnria Politic or the Apologies of several Princes . . now faithfally Rendered into English [by Edward Wolley] London . . M.DC.LlV. Small folio, with 12 plates (portraits) including the frontispiece, by JDelaram, Vaughan, Peter Lomhartj and Th, Cedll; hlne morocco extra (somewhat damaged and rehacked)^ gilt edges 1654 4 10 Tho royal arms and crown on the sides are from one of the stamps ascd for Charles I. There are two sets of fillets on the sides with flower and leaf omamenti at the inner angles. The hook was eyidenUy honnd in London and sent to him. The dedication to King Charles hy WoUey, which now follows the title and is fiistened on a guard, cannot haye heen in the book when the licence to print was given in December, 1653, by the Council of State and Secretary Thnrloe. This licence is now the last leaf in the volume. 80 VIOLET (Thomas) an appeal to CiESAR : wherein Gold and Silver is proved to he the Kings Maiestie's Royal Commodity . . London . . 1660. ^Tad^4tU}, with a fine portrait of the King ; in the original calf "binding (rebacked), edges gilt, the royal arm^ on the sides 1660 6 6 Dedicated to the King, and bonnd for presentation, as the escntcheon is from a new block not used before, in which the letters C R were added at the top, and *' Dien et mon Droit " at the bottom. The King probably declined to accept it as Violet was a troublesome man, and the greater part of this book consists oi statements of his claims. However that may be, there is an inscription " Ex dono Authoris *' on the title, which is stated to be in the autograph of Edmund Waller. The engraved bookplate of William Bateman is inside the cover. 81 WALKER (Clement) Relations and Ohservations . . upon the Parlia- ment hegnn . . 1640 . . 1. The Mystery of the two Junto's . . 2. The History of Independency . . London . . 1661. Small 4to. plate; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of Charles II on the sides 1660-61 5 r, Presented to the King in 1661 by Thomas Walker, son of the author who had died in the Tower after a long imprisonment. Thomas Walker has made the flyleaf servo as vehicle for a MS. petition to the monarch claiming the amount due to his father from the State. 82 PRTNNE (William) A Short Sober Pacific Examination of some Exuberances in, and Ceremonial Appurtenances to the Common Prayer . . London . . 1661. Small 4to. Large Paper ; Charles IPs dedication-copy, bound tn olive morocco extra, gilt edges 1661 8 8 The royal arms in the centre are from a stamp which had been used for Charles I, and show two evelets in the portion of the garter that hangs out at the bottom. At the corners on the sides there is an aznr6 fleur-de-lis, and the flllets are formed by a double chain line of repeated curves, the outer run of which is pointill6. The back is flat with Fomething like a rose in the artificial panels. This would look like a Charles I binding were it not for the flllets, back, and cover-edges. 83 PRTNNE (William) An Additional Appendix to Aurum-Regin© . . London . . 1668. 4to. Charles IPs dedication-cctpy, bound in red m/yrocco extra, gilt edges 1668 4 !•") The royal anus on the sides from a stamp which had been used in the later days of bis grandfather; with comerpieces of the old Anglo-Lyonnese kind. All the space between is covered with a semis of ermihe. Outside all is a double border formed by a purely English roulette of flowers springing from stiff arched branches. The book was probably bound before presentation, and therefore was made to resemble rather Charles I's books than those of Charles II. 84 MERCVRIALIS (Hieronymi) de arte gymnastica libri sex . . Venetiis . . MDLXXIII. 4to. many full-page woodcuts of athletic exercises ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 157.*^ 15 15 Bound for Charles 11. The crowned monogram of OC within a palm wreath, is stamped in each panel on the back; the same crown wreath and monogram (but of larger sise) at each comer of the inner frame of fillets on the sides. A flowery roulette ii^the Boyet style on the rims of the cover. This is the particular binding affected by Charles II for his private library, and was executed about 1 670. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1G70-1688. 21 Charles II — continued. £ f. d. 85 THOM^I (Nicolai Leonici) de Varia Historia libri ires . . BasileaB . . MDXXXI. Small 4to. hound for Charles II in red morocco, in exactly the same style as the Mercurialis 1521 6 6 It is difficult to understand how this volume (bejrond its dedicAtion to Tunstal) could hare attracted the frirolous king. It was water-stained before he caused it to be bound, and bore the names of several owners. Amongst these are Hugh Burnham and William Moore, men of Elizabeth^s time. From the King's library, this book passed into the possession of J. M. as we may coniectnrefrom the circumstance that these letters are added in the lowest panel on the back. This J. M. (as will appear from the Idatins next to be described) was John Maurice or Morris. The book was turned out from the British Museum in 1787. 86 Idatii Episcopi Chronicon, et Fasti Consvlares . . LvtetisB Parisiorvm . . M.DC.XIX. — Marcellini . . Chronicon . . M.DC.XIX. — 2 vols. in 1, 12mo. red morocco, gilt edges, hound for Charles II 1619 2 2 Gilt, with the crown, monogram, and wreath, on the back and sides. The letters I. M. are added in the lowest panel, and the name loh. Mavritivs is stamped on the first title. — The book was sold as a British Museum duplicate in 1769, and came into the possession of Pinkerton whose bookplate is inside the cover. Queen Catherine of Braganza: 87 ARGYL (Anna, Condessa de) El Alma del incompar- able San Avgvstin sacada del cverpo de svs Confessiones . . En Amberes . . M.DC.XXII. Smallest 4to. red morocco extra^ gilt edges^ with the arms of England and Portugal impaled on the sides^ enclosed within a wreath and surmounted by the English crown 1622 110 Bound aboat 1680 for Queen Catherine, to whom it had probably been presented bj the ninth Earl of Argyle. The ornamentation on the sides is a geometrical pattern in outlines flanked and filled in with a great quantity of very fine pointille curves and involutions. On the back, each panel has its central ornament and its side and corner- pieces. The main central figure is a daisy in the form of a wheel, accompanied in the lowest panel by pointille fleurons. Samuel Meame, the royal binder, musfc be credited with this work. The book is so rare that no other copy seems to be extant. The compiler, Anna Countess of Argyle, was the second wife of the seventh Earl, Archibald, — not his first wife as Horace Walpole supposed. Inside the cover is the Strawberry Hill engraved bookplate, and on the flyleaf a note signed by Horace Walpole concerning the authoress. He had bought the book at the sale of Phillip Carteret Webb, whose bookplate is on one of the flyleaves. After Walpole's death, Mr. Beckf ord bought the book ; and at Beckford's sale in 1884 it fetched £102. King James II : 88 VERITAS EVANGELIC A, or the Gospel-Truth asserted . . written by T. K. and now published by R. C. London . . MDCLXXXYII. Small 4to. The dedication copt of Queen Mary, wife of James II, hound in red morocco extra^ gilt edges^ hy Charles Meame the Boyal hinder 1687 7 10 The royal arms of King James II form the centrepiece. They are enclosed within a frame-work of laoe pattern, and this again cut by the lines of a lozange which run to meet a flenron on each of the four sides. At the comers there is a flearon of Boyet style. The outer frame consists of only two thin fillets. The panels on the back are gilt with a cruciform fleuron surrounded by carves; at the top of the first panel and the bottom of the last there is a lace roulette. Bindings done for the second James and his family are rery rare. 89 HUDLESTON (Richard) A Short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church . . London . . 1688. Small 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges, hound hy Charles Mearne for James II 1688 6 6 Bound in the same Le Qascon style (geometrical forms and pointing ornament) as the book done for Catherine of Braganza, to whom this very treatise is dedicated. They were both evidently done, as well as the Duke of Ormond's volume below, in the binding house of the Meames, father and son. There is a lace border to the fillets on the sides ; a double flenron in the panels on the back. 22 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Restoration and Revolution Period (1670-1700) : £ «. d. 90 FABINDON (Anthony) LXXX Sermons preached at . . St. Mary Magdalene, Milk-street . . London . . MDCLXXII. 2 vols, in 1, small folio, in the original black fnorocco extra, gilt edges 1672 3 10 Richly gilt on the tides, <»i which there are three hordere, the first and third floral, the middle one of fine lace pattern. In the central space, three combined wreaths of foliage at top and bottom, a qnaterfoil with stars, and a gronp of cnrTes and flenrona in fine pointing in the middle. The back has its panels decorated, after the French contemporary manner, with lozangy flearons and dentelle oomerpieces. — It is a pitj we do not find something more wicked than Sermons inside a beaatifol binding like this. 91 THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. Written by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man . . London . . 1673. Small 8vo. with frontispiece ; olive morocco extra, gilt edges 1673 3 3 i) On the sides there is a small laoe border, within which the whole space is covered with " drawer handle *' ornaments so arranged as to form a dooble line of goblet or vase fignres which enclose a great mass of minute pointing work representing roses, leaves, flearons, stars, etc. The flowers and leaves were silvered, bat the silver has become oxjdised into li%1d blae. The back is similarly decorated, bat is slightly damaged. This binding was done no doabt aboat 1675, and probably at Oxford. Lady Dorothy Pakington in credited with the authorship, and more doubtfully with that of the Whole Duty of Mao. 92 THE LADIES CALLING . . by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man . . Oxford . . MDCLXXIII. Small Svo. frotUispiece ; Hue tnorocco, richly gilt, gilt edgetf 1673 3 3 Bound like the Gentleman's Galling and Lancelot Andrew)^, that is to say in the same style especially as the former, but not identically. There is no silver in the ornamentation. Lady Dorothy Fakington was the authoress. 93 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man . . Oxford . MDCLXXIV. Small Svo. frontis- piece; blue morocco, richly giU, gilt edges 167'1? 3 3 This also seems to be an Oxford binding and is in the same style as the Gentleman's Calling and the Ladies Calling. There are several traces of silver in the ornamentation. Lady Dorothy Pakington was the authoress. The names of M. de Loraine and Tho. Vivian appear upon the flyleaves. 94 ANDREWS (Lancelot) Holy Devotions : with Directions to Pray . . London . . 1675. 12mo. portrait ; blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1675 4 Gilt on the sides with geometrical flgurcs formed by combinations of the drawer- handle ornament. Gold starw and dots and pointillc fleurons occupy the spaces, with ixwes and leaf pattern.** and besants, which were originally silver but now look a whitish blue. Silver ^ses and gold stars in the panels on the back. This seems to be an Oxford binding of the time. With the engraved bookplate of Philip Soulhcotc (about 1750). 90 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM (Gtocc) . . Lvgd. Batavorvm, Ex Officina Elzeviriomm. M.D.C.XXXIII. 16mo. (116 mm.), a pretty book in black Tnorocco extra, gilt edges 1633 3 3 Bound about 1675. On the sides there is a geometrical design in comimrtmcntA somewhat in the late "Eve'* or Badier style. Sprays of foliage, curves, and dots occupy the intervening spaces ; roses and conventional fleurons fill the insides of the geometrical figures. The back is gilt with a set of parallel ovals clasped each to each by a sort of vesica, and traversed each at its middle by the bands of the book. The compartments of the ovals are gilt with gold dots like the nails in a horseshoe. With the signature, on the flyleaf, of Wadham Knatchbull (Chancellor of Durham, who died 1760). 97 THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . 1678— The whole book op Psalms collected into English Metre . . 1678—2 vols, in 1, 12mo. ruled with red ink; in a fine English mosaic binding 1678 20 Bkck morocco richly gilt in compartments with roses, tulips, and other flowers, branches of foliage, and conventional ornaments, including a good deal of line pointill6 work. Within the inner fillets there are (by division into two sections) eight comer- pieces, which are all worked upon inlaid heart-shaped pieces of crimson morocco ; and in the outer compartment there are fonr semi-circular sidepieees of inlaid citron morocco. In the panels on the back four semi-circolar Inlays of citron morocco, and ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1678-1695. 23 Restoration and Revolution Period (1670-1700)— con^wwo?. £ ». d. two of crimflon morocco. The pointing decoration is worked all over them in unbroken continnity of plan. This is a very beantiful example of English work, In which inlays are so shaped and arranged that the black leather between them stands out in geometrical forms in apparent relief. 98 CAMDEN (William) Remaines concerning Britaine . . fift Impression . . by the industry and care of lohn Philpot , . London . . 1636. Small 4to. iiABGE PAPER; in black morocco, gilt edges 1636 12 Bound about 1680, and gilt on the sides with two sets of double fillets (edged with lace-points) ; the interior one having flenrons outside and inside each oomer. The combination of tools in the centre produces a general lozangy impression, associated however with the idea of the cross and saltire. Amongst the pieces of ornament there are four caterpillars. The back is re-gilt. 99 THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . 1684.— The Whole Book of Psalms : Collected into English Metre . . 1683-— 2 vols, in 1, ISmo. red morocco extra, gilt edges, with painted mosaic on the sides 1683-84 3 10 The decoration is by combinations of the drawer-handle tool, which produce two rounded figures on each side ; within each figure a central cruciform ornament of leaves and pointing fieurons. Across the centre, between the two main figures, runs a similar cruciform ornament. At the extreme comers on the sides are flower-calices ; fianking the centre are two tulips on each side. Semi-circular and triangular arrange- ments of floral work in the panels on the back produce saltire-spaces on the red morocco. All the figures on the sides are outlined in gold ; their bodies were formerly painted various colours. Now we can see only the black, and slaty blue, and traces of silver and green. 100 TAYLOR (Jeremy) A Dissuasive from Popery to the people of England and Ireland . . By Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down. London . . MDCLXXXVI. Small 8vo. frontispiece; fine ruled copy in a charming red moi'occo binding, with gilt edges 1686 4 10 Bound about the time of issue, and still in wonderfully fine condition. The sides are gilt with geometrical figures formed in parallel lines and having interlacements, in the Badier or Le Gascon manner. Within and between these figures, there are flowers, flenrons, quaterfoils, and besants, with pointing adjuncts, and a large wreath at each comer, ending in a pointille flower-calyx. Fieurons and cornerpieccs in every panel on the back, with lacework at top and bottom. With the engraved bookplate of Montagu L. Short. 101 WOOD (William) the bow-mans gloev, or Archery Revived . . London . . 1691. Small 8vo. in the original bliie morocco extra 1691 2 The inner fillets on the sides are lined with a branchy border, which at its mid* course on each line is enlarged by a semi-circle of similar work. A pine-apple is the head of the large fleuron at the corners, and within each angle is a rose. 102 THE CHILD'S RECREATION . . Colophon: London, Printed by Will. Bonny . . 1692. 24to. a little school-booh of 56 leaves, with some rude woodcuts ; in the original curious stamped calf binding 1692 2 16 The upper cover is wholly occupied by a representation of St George and the Dragon (or it may be Moore and the Dragon of Wantley) ; the lower cover has two gentlemen or princes meeting and shaking hands, above their heads spirid roundels which may be big bullets or clouds of smoke. 103 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . London . . MDCXCII. 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1692 4 14 6 Kichly gilt and decorated with much elegance. On the sides we have first, fillets supported by runniog curves. The main design represents the roof and walls of a house or porch, but without the overhanging caves of the cottage bindings. It does not come down quite half way, and so fails to meet the correspon£ng figure from below. The comcrpieces look like lace curtains with floral patterns ; a rich centre- piece, tending to lozange-shape, throws foliage and flowers upwards (and downwards) into the broad opening beneath the angular roof, and has in its own midst a double square, at the neart of which is a quaterfoil enclosing pine-apples. In the space between the cottage-walls and the outer fillets, is a border containing four ornaments (two on each side) like the entablatures of carved columns, and between them stretdi wreaths of foliage all the way round. The back has floral ornament in the panels, arranged semi-circularly above and below, angularly at the sides ; so as to produce the ^pearance of circles of red leather traversed by &e bands. Susanna Primrose was the owner of the book in 1707, 24 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Restoration and Revolution Period (1670^1700)— -continued. £ t. d, 104 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Oxford . . 1689— the Book op Common Prayer . . London . . 1693 — 2 vols, small 8vo. in the orighial blue morocco gilt, with silver clasps 1689-93 2 16 Gilt on the sides with fillets, and a re^tangnlar centrepiece which has flearons ontside and flowers inside the angles ; at top, bottom, and sides a sort of pointed lace ornament Little branches of pine-apples stray from the angles outwards. The backs are not identically decorated, bnt they are similar, and intended to express nniformity. There is a good deal of pointilld work on the back of the Bible. — The clasps, two to each Tolnme, are chased with aoom and talip ornament, in the same style as the decoration of the leather. 105 PLAUTUS'S Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicvs, and Bvdens, made English . . London . . 1694. Small 8vo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1694 3 16 Bound about the same time as the issue of the book. The back is fall gilt in the way that leaves two crescents of red leather back to back on each panel ; the covers have a triple border of fillets with ornaments at the corners (a tulip) and the sides. John Evelyn: 106 OR-<EI (Henrici) NomenclatorpreBcipuomm . . Doctornm, Scriptornm . . Hanoviaa . . "M'.DC.XIX. 12mo. black morocco extra, gilt edges 1619 15 15 With a monogram consisting of JJ and £E in their written forms. It appears in the middle and at the comers; and also in the panels on the back. 107 PRIMIGENI^ VOCES sev Radices Ungv® Gmbcsb . . Parisiis . . MDCXIX. 16mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges, a very pretty book 1619 24 On the sides at the inner comers, we find the monogram composed of I E in their printed forms, at the comers of the inner fillets ; and in the middle an oval bearing Evelyn's arms. On the back, the panels contain alternately, the wreath and monogram, and the grifiin crest. These two little volumes had probably been school-books of John Evelyn, and the exquisite binding which he gave them about 1665, marks his affection for them. They were perhaps the first books of his library. On the Orsus, he has written a note, ** Catalogo J Evelyni inscriptus. Meliora retinete." On the flyleaf of the other he wrote, bnt struck out afterwards, ** In arch i v. vitr.", which presumably mean.s in the gUus case. Although the two books were bound probably in Paris, they stand here as representing an Englishman's library. James Duke of Queensberry (1662-1711) : 108 FOWLER (J.) The History of the Troubles of Suethland and Poland . . with a breife commemoration of the Life and Death of Sr. George Dyglas . . London . . 1656. Small folio, with several fine portraits ; in the original calf binding 1656 2 10 The ducal arms of Queensberry on the sides, impressed in gold, not eai'Ucr than 1695, when he succeeded to that utle. He was called Earl of Dramlanrig in 1682, and to that date we may assign the autograph inscription on the flyleaf, '*From the Earle of Dmmlangrig." 109 SCOTLAND. A Proper Project for Scotland to Startle Fools, and Frighten Knaves . . Printed in a Land where Self's cry'd np . . 1699. Small 4to. old calf, with the arms of the Duke of Queensberry in gold on the sides [Edinburgh /] 1699 2 A rare piece, by a fiery Covenanter, for whom the murdered Archbishop was ** The Arch-Traitor Shaq)." Catherine Countess of Rutland: 110 BANKES (John) the destmction of Troy, a tragedy . . London . . 1679. Small 4to. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, richly decorated 1679 5 The aides are in two compartments;: a small inner rectangular figure, and a large outer border. The chief ornament in the border is a quaterfoil filled with flowers, which is repeated three times at each side, and once at top and bottom. Each quater- foil is surrounded by four of those curved figures like drawer-handles, which were so favorite an ornament on English books at the time. Pointed ornament-like lace ends fall in from each side between the quaterfoils ; flower comerpieces from the outer angles inwards, and from the inner angles outwards, approach one another. The ornament in the middle of the cover is a lozange chiefly pointill^, flattened at the sides, and traversed there by a sort of engrailed fess bearing besants. Flowers and twining stems All the panels on the back. The book was probably bound and gilt in 1 679 in this splendid style for presentation to the lady whose autograph of "K Kutland" appears on the title. This represents Eatherine Countess of Rutland, wife of John Manners, tenth Earl of Rutland. She had married him in 1673, and he succeeded U) the title in 1679. He was made a Duke in 1703, and it was between this ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1679-1702. 25 £ f. d. date and 1711 that his bookplate was eagrared, which we now see inside the cover of the Tolnme, bearing his arms, crest, coronet, sapporters, and the words " The Most Noble John Doke of Rutland." Charles Duke of Richmond (1672-1723) : 111 XENOPHON, La Retraite des Dix Mille . . de la traduction do Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d* Ablanconrt. A Paris . . M.DC.LVIII. Small 8vo. red morocco extra, gUt edges 1658 3 3 The back richly gilt in all its panels with cnrling stems of fruit and flowers ; on the sides, within a single frame of two fillets and very small comerpieces, we see a monogram of D and L, enclosed within a stiff double wreath of Charles II 's kind, and surmounted by a princely coronet. The royal character of the coronet (bearing crosses and fleurs-de-lis) forbids us to agree with Mr. Weale, in regarding the monogram as that of the first Duke of Danby and I^eeds. It seems more likely timt it wan used for the little son of Louise de Querouailles, known in England as Duke of Kichmond, but whose Scottish titles were Lenox and Damley. He was also Daubigny by a French title, and the monogram may have been intended by the lower curl of the L from the bottom of the D, to suggest an K in combination. If so we should read R L D for Kichmond- Lenox-Daubigny. The binding was done about 1680-85. Danby became Duke of Leeds in 1694. James Earl of Abingdon : « 112 CORNELIUS NEPOS. The Lives of Illustrious Men . . Done into English by several hands. Oxon . . 1684. Small 8vo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1684 6 6 A nchly gilt example of the '' cottage " pattern, bound for James Earl of Abingdon, whoso signature is written on the frontispiece, lie gave the book to his sister Mary, Countess of Carnarvon, whose signature with the date 1684 appears on the title. This is probably an Oxford binding, but it is a good imitation of Meame's style, with a prolusion of wreaths of foliage, tulips, roses, pine-apples, flower-chalices, etc. Floral work in the panels on the back, only two of which enclose a lozange. The gold edges are painted with flowers which are only noticeable at certain angles of vision. King William III : 113 A FORM OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING . . For the Pre- servation of His Maiesty . . during His late Expedition . . London . . MDCXClil. Small 4to. the King's own copy, richly gilt in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1693 9 9 At the comers on the sides are the royal crown nearly enclosed within a double wreath ; in the centre is the crowned monogram composed of W M R R. The gilding which is very profuse includes wreaths, roses, thistles, daisies, qnaterfoils, and a rampant lion. — On the flyleaf is a MS. note " This Book his Majesty read the Service out of at . Chaple '' ; on another leaf " Judith English her Book May ye 20, 1714." 114 TATE (Nahum) Elegies on I. Her late Majesty . . London . . 1702. Small 8vo. smooth blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1702 2 16 The King's dedication copy, with the crowned monogram W R within a double wreath at each comer on the sides. With the bookplate of Charles Chitty. John Disney: 116 P. VIRGILII MARONIS Opera . . Lvgd. Batavor. Ex officina Elzeviriana A^ 1636. 16mo. with the dedication on p, 92 printed in red ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1636 2 2 A pretty little book bound about 1 690. On the title a MS. note ^ E libris Johannis Disneij Lincolniensis 1698 " ; below J. D. ; on the flyleaf *' J Disney " stamped. Lady Delamere : 116 BLAKE (William) Silver Dix)ps or Serious Things . . 12mo. A^ plates; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with an inscription on the cover " To the Ladj Delamere " AhoutlQlO 4 An elaborate example of binding and gilding about 1690. — William Blake, a woollen draper, was made " housekeeper " of a Charity School at Highgate, and wrote these pious treatises for the ladies who supported the institution. One of these ladies was Elizabeth Booth, who married Viscount Conway, and died 1679. Her name is written on one of the pages. Another was her mother Elizabeth, Lady Delamere. The Lady Delamere for whom the book was bound, was probably Mary Countess of Delamere, who died in 1690, sister-in-law of the one Elizabeth and daughter-in-law of the other. Wriotliesley second Duke of Bedford : 116*SANS0N, The present State of Persia . . done into English . London . . 1695. 12mo. plates ; in the original calf, with the arm^ of tlie Luke 26 QtlARlTCH^S CATALOGtFB OF BINDINGS. £ M. d. of Bedford on the sides, the label of *' Wohum Abbey " inside the cover, and his bookplate engraved in 1703 on the back of the title 1695 12 6 117 BRIGGS (Gulielm.) Ophthalmographia sive Oculi ejusque partium descriptio anatomica . . Londini . . MDCLXXXVII. 12mo. 3 plates ; in the original gilt calf 1687 110 In the middle on the sides, a doable set of fillets with a rounded bunch of flenrons at the corners. In each panel on the back four spikes forming a cross combined with five annaleta forming a square, snrroanded by dots. Inside the cover, on a circular label " Woburn Abbey " ; on the back of the title, the engraTed bookplate of the Duke of Bedford, dated 1703. Samuel Mearne and Charles Mearne, binders (1675-1720) : 118 NOVI TESTAMENTI Libri omnes . . (Greece) Londini . . MDCXXXIIL— The wholb book op Psalm es : Collected into English Meeter . . London . . 1641 — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. (small 8vo.)i /"^ ruled copies, in blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1633-41 4 Bound by Samuel Mearne about 1675. On the sides an outer border of two fillets, an inner one of three fillets. From the comers of the inner border springs a flenron which bears pine-apples, from each of the four sides a pyramid of pointillc icales; and in th« centre is a fleuron also in pointille, the side portions of which are a tulip-cup. Within the outer border, there are two semi-drcutar ornaments on each side, enclosing flenrons. On the back the same seroi-circular ornaments are used above and below each band, and between each two of them a pyramid of scales from each side interposes its apex. This is a pretty example of Meame^s work. The book belonged to Charles Townshend (and has his bookplate) before 1734, in which year he presented it to W. Talbot, by whom it was given, in 1 785, to George Richards. 119 VETUS TEST AMENTUM Grrocnm . . Cantabrigi® . . MDCLXV. ]2mo. fine copy in the original black or dark purple morocco extra, gilt edges 1665 4 14 6 Bound about 1675. The side is gilt successively with an outer and then an inner rectangular frame, next an upright lozange, within it a rectangular figure, inside of w^hich is a qnaterfoil. The spaces in the borders, comers, and centres, are decorated with flowers, fruits, wreaths, fleurons, in graceful profasion. Curved bands of floral ornament lie across the panels on the back, leaving oval spaces between them on the dark surface of the leather. Bound evidently by Sam. Mearne at nearly the same time and in nearly the same style as the French Bible of 1678. 120 NEW TESTAMENT, Greek, Title: TH2 KAINHS AIA0HKHS ADANTA . Amsterdami Apnd Gnilielmnm Blaeu MDCXXXIIL Interleaved and divided into 2 vols. 12 mo. in a beautiful English mosaic binding 1633 10 10 The leather is of dark blue morocco ; the comcrpieccs are of rose-colour ; the lozangy centrepiece consists of an outer loEange of rose and an inner one of yellow. The scheme of gold adornment gives twining leaves and fruits in the comers ; flowers in the outer losange, a small flory losange on the yellow ; flower-sprays to the right and left of the lozange, on the blue morocco ground, a tulip being the topmost and the lowest figure. The back is gilt with floral and arabesque ornament, on rose leather in the first, third, and fifth panels, on the blue leather in the second and fourth panels ; all in sDch a way that the portion of the leather which remains blank takes the shape of a saltire. This is no doubt the work of Samuel Mearne and was done about 1680. 121 EVRIPIDIS TBAGCEDiJE 8EPTENDECIM (Grwce) . . Golophon : Venetiis apvd Aldvm . . M.D.III. . 12mo. Editio Princeps ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1503 10 A so-called cottage binding, richly gilt, done about 1680, probably by Samuel Mearne. On the sides is a pattern of straight lines, curving outwards at midw^ay, with slanting cottage roofs at top and bottom ; bordered on the outside with rows of acorns, fiowers, and tendrils ; in the centre a long and narrow lozangy figure com- posed of curves and fleurons, flanked by a set of gold dots all round it. Evenr panel on the back is filled with fiowers and dots. The edges are goffered and gilt, on a silvery blue ground, with a remarkable decorative pattern of flowers, flenrons, and curves. R. G. is written on the title in a seventeenth-century hand ; at the end we find the name of William Thompson, of Qneen's College, Oxford, 1 742. With the bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbume (about 1770). 122 LA BIBLE qui est Toute la Ste Ecriture . . Amsterdam . . 1678. 12mo. in a beautiful binding of blue morocco extra, loith a masterly goffered pattern in gold on the silvery-blue edges 1678 12 12 Bound by Samuel Mearne about 1680. The sides are gilt with a *' cottage" SAMOfiL AND CHARLES MEARNE, 1675-1702. 2? Samuel Mearne and Charles Mearne, binders — continued, £ a, d, pattern, the roofs at each end sarmonnted by a row of cnrrcs of the Boyet-Padeloup kind. A rose within a conventional lamplikc flearon at each p^able ; a pretty ornament of lines and little tendrils, ending in flowers with larger curves hanging from the eave. A trefoil enclosing a little triangular pattern of scales in the middle above the summit of the roof, and at each side, where the walls curve inwardly. There is a pretty floral lozange in the centre. The open spaces of blue morocco are blind -tooled, with wreaths of tendrils ending in a flower, and with roses and annulets. On the back four panels are gilt, and two blind-tooled, with roses and flowers arranged in the form of an oblong lozange. The edges, which are of a sort of slaty colour, are goffered in gold, with a charming pattern of concentric circles enclosing roses, thorns and dots, pointille curves from the sides, and a continuous lace border all round. This is a beautiful example of Meame*8 work. 123 THE NEW TESTAMENT . . faithfvlly translated . . in the English College of Rhemes. Printed at Antwerp . . 1621. 12mo. blue maroeco extra^ giU edges 1621 5 5 Although a little damaged at the corners, this is nevertheless a beantifnl Mearne binding. There is a profusion of flowers and fruits, with wreaths and delicate pointill6 curves, on the sides ; including pine-apple, rose, tulip, chaliced marguerite, etc. The back has on its panels pointing flenrons and leaves. The chief object of remark is, however, the pointill^ head, in imitation of Florimont Badier, which occurs four times on each side. Badier's head has natural hair, Mearne's seems to wear a wig. Can this be his signature ? The date of the binding is about 1680. 124 SNAPE (Andrew) The Anatomy of an Horse . . London . . 1683. Small folio, labqe paper, numerous fine plates; red morocco extra^ (jilt edges 1683 30 A splendid example of English pointiUo decoration; bound, about 1683-84, by Samuel Mearne, in a style similar to that of the Augustine which he bad done for Queen Catherine. The centrepiece is the escutcheon of the Great Duke of Ormond. This is enclosed within a pattern of open parallel lines, which is extended by interlace- ment at the top, bottom, and sides, so as to produce a large geometrical and interlaced jigure of the Le Gascon type. Between the main lines, the spaces are filled with beautiful pointille work in detached groups of multiplying curves with foliate forms, and delicate tlenrons uf Le Gascon's style. A similar set of curves is arranged outside in the style of an arabesque border, and touches here and there in its serpentine course the straight line of the outmost border, which is a fine dentelle of French character. The panels on the back are gilt with edges of minute triple points, then with an upper- right and lower-left, or alternately upper-left and lower-right, comerpieoe, so that the red morocco spaces (if we look on the back as a whole without regard to the bands) run down in a zigzag line. A double fienron occupies each of these spaces, and falls in the same slanting fashion. This is perhaps the work of Charles Mearne, Samuel's son. They were succes- sively the King*H binders. This book is dedicated to Charles II. The engraved bookplate of John I'utland (about 1730) is pasted inside the cover. Ue was of a Wicklow lamily, and probably came into possession of the book after the onUawry of the second iJuke by George 1. It had already undergone some perils, as on the last flyleaf I find a note written about 1720— *'It. F. this Book 1 had from : John Kerlip A manksman : the Cos.^ three crowns." 125 READY RECKONER: a series of Tables, oblong Vlmo, US, neatly written on 377 pp.; blue morocco super extra, giU edges {About 1700) 6 6 Bound evidently by Samuel Mearne's successor. The central ornament on the sides is a large circular fan, the inner lines of which are all in pointing. Each of the comerpieces seems to spring from a straight stem, bearing a rose and throwing out branches of foliage till it ends in the angle with an acorn. On each side of the fan is a pyramid of scales based on a flat hill filled with annulets and rounded at its lower comers with the figure of a bird's neck and head looking upwards. Above and below the fan is a row of eight semi-circles dropping little fleurons from the points where they tonch the fillet. The linings are of gold paper bearing a white floral pattern. This is a charming example of English decorative binding. 126 A LIST OF ALL HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS and Vessells, with the Numbers of Men and . . Gnns . . in pursuance of an Order . . 1699 . . 1702. Small 4to. neat official MS. on paper, containing 48 pages of Statistical Tables; blue morocco super extra, gilt edges, with silver clasps (1704) 12 A splendid example of English decorative binding at the time. It appears to be the work of Charles Mearne, or one of his house, and must have been done for some person of high distinction — perhaps the Lord High Admiral himself, Prince George of Denmark. The sides are gilt thus : first, a narrow laee-work border, then a double fillet and a line of dots ; next, a broad border, bearing wreathy sprays of tulips and roses and some minor ornaments (not too densely crowded) ; another set of fillets, broken 28 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Samuel Mearne and Charles Mearne, binders — continued. £ $, d. midwaj in two circles on earh side, no as to allow the passage of the lines of decoration from the centre. The two little circles are attached to the lozange figure which overlies the middle of the cover, in which sprays of foliage, tnlips, roses and curves spring from a centre throngh which mn lines that proceed in all four directions and jom in the ornamentation of the second bonier, llie triangular spaces between the lozange and its rectangular frame are covered with a mass of gold curves of the kind that French binders in the seventeenth century and Padeloup in the eighteenth, so much affected. — The book is in beautiful condition. 127 VENERONI, the new Italian Gbammak . . done into English . . by Mr. [Thomas] Uvedale. 8vo. in the original beautiful binding of blue morocco extra, gilt edges London, 1711 2 16 There isnopointillc^ in the rich decoration of this volume, but it seems nevertheless to have been bound in the honse of Charles Mearne or his successor. It is a very fine example of the ornamental work of Queen Anne's period. The sides are so profusely, and withal so gracefully, overlaid with gold tooling that there is little space left vacant on the leather beyond the dark losangy interval between the deep comerpieces and the central lorange with which the inner compartment is gilt. The outer compartment is filled with the fillets and the double roulettes that form a highly effective border. In the panels on the back we see a cross composed of roses and acorns, the leaves beneath the acorns so arranged as to give the appearance of an interposed saltire ; with little comerpieces which are tulip-cidices. 128 C. JULIl G^SARIS qnsB extant . . accessemnt annotationes Samuelis Clarke . . Londini . . MDCCXII. 2 vols, folio, large papeb, with numerous plates and maps; in the original crimson morocco extra^ gilt edges (Engraved title : 1710) 1712 20 A grand work, suitably bound in Meame*s house. The roulette border on the sides (which is an imitation of ornamental metal work) stops short as it approaches the comer, to allow the insertion of a pattem of pointille scales in shape like a broad lozange, surmounted by a flower. The panels on the back are framed within wreaths, and have central fleurons enclosed within fourteen stars. With the Jersey bookplate. This book probably came into the family with Osterley Park, and had probably been purchased by Alderman Sir Francis Child (who died in 1713). 129 STURT. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . London . . 1717 . . Small 8vo. entirely engraved, both text and illustrations, including scenes of Biblical history, a medallion portrait of George I, and a medallion portrait of the Prince and Princess of Wales (afterwards George II and Queen Caroline), by John Sturt ; in a beautiful contemporary binding of blue mxyrocco extrOf gilt edges, with silver cUisps 1717 10 Bound by Charles Mearne or in hb house. The design on the sides is the cottage-roof, accompanied by delicate gold omamentation in the Mearne style, including pointing work and hgures of acoms and pine-apples. Saltires and fleurons in pointill6 form the decoration in the panels on the back. This is a charming example of the best kind of English binding at the time (1717-20), and may hare fomished Roger Payne with a model for imitation. Charles Earl of Sunderland (1675-1723) : 130 VERGIL. Pvblii Vergilii Bvcolica, Georgica, Aeneis cvm Servii Com- mentariis . . Colophon : . . Venetiis . . M.D.xx. . divided into 2 vols. 8vo. with pretty woodcuts ; English black morocco gilt, top edges blackened and goffered 1620 3 15 Bound about 1690, with pine-apples and tulips among the gilt ornament, both on the back and sides ; but not done in Mcame's honse. The fillets are lines of triple dots, which are bordered with arches in blind-tooling. The same arches and dots form the goffered pattem on the blackened edges. There is roulette gilding on the rims and insides of the covers.— It was done perhaps for the boy Charles Spencer, who afterwards became Earl of Sunderland. 131 HORATIUS. Fol. 1 : loannes Aloisius tuscanus . . Francisco Helio Parthenopeio salutem . . Fol, 5 : Vita. Horatii . . Fol. 6: Qvinti Horatii Flacci . . Odarvm . ad . Moecenatem . liber . primvs . . i^oL 223 : Explanatio Porpliirionis In arte poetica'feliciter Explicit . . Small folio, blue morocco extra Sine nota [Rome, Guldinbeck, about 1475] 21 Bound about 1715-20 by the Earl of Sunderland's binder in the best style that he u£ed. Between the fillets there is a border consisting of alternate acorns and fleurs-de- lis, each enclosed within a geometrical figure (squares curring out into semi-circles on each side). Inside the interior fillets, a border of roses and slender fleurons alternately. THE EARL OF SUNDERLAND, 1720-1729. 29 Charles Earl of Sunderland (1675-1723)— cowhnwet?. £ ». a. In tbe centre a combination of flearons making a lozangy figure. In the panels on the back, a combination of iienrons making a cross. The roulette inside the cover, and on the rim, is a row of roses within three-quarter circles, united by fleurons. 182 CICERO. Fol 1: M. Tull. CiC. C. Trebatio. S.P. D. . . Fol 2: Incipit Prefatio Cicironis {sic) In Librum Topicorum . . Fol. 48 : . . Anno Dominico Mcccclxxii . . Eccc finis partitionam oratoriarum : qaas Gabriel fontana . . recognonit. 4to. or small folio, hlue morocco extra {Milan, Zarotus] 1472 10 Bound for Lord Sunderland similarly to the Horace, but the outer border on the sides is a line of alternate tulips and fleurons. 133 MANILIUS. Fol. 1 : P. Stephanvs Dvlcinivs . . M. Rolando. Palavicino . . Foh h\ Marci Manilii . . Astronomicon . . liber primvs . . Fol. 60 : . . Mediolani . Per Antoniu Zarotu . . M.cccc.Lxxxyiiii . . Small folio, fine copy iyi red morocco extra, gilt edges 1489 10 Bound for Lord Sunderland. A broad dentclle border on the sides ; the same roulette inside as in the Horatius and the Cicero. 134 CLARENDON (Edward Earl of) the History op the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England . . Oxford . . M.DCCVII. 3 vols, folio, illustrated with 360 addi- tional portraits, views, and maps, including many nohle mezzotints; 180 of the portraits being superb sepia-draw- ings AFTER PICTURES IN THE POSSESSION OF PRIVATE owners ; bound in blue morocco extra^ gilt edges 1707 350 Between 1707 and 1720 (the probable date of tbe binding) Lord Sunderland must have spent about £500 in getting the material for illustrating bis Clarendon. Every portrait after a non-engraved picture has its habitat declared ; and there is an alphabetical Index of all the portraits, added in MS. This is almost undeniably the finest illustrated Clarendon in existence. The binding is very rich. The centrepiece on the sides is a combination of pointille curves, taking a sort of lozangy-shape and ending at top and bottom in a tulip. Outside this, two sets of cottage- roof frames with pointille borders, then quadruple fillets, another border of stems with leaves ending in tulips, a chain border, a zigzag border and a lace border. The zigzag work is the only unpleasing element in the composition. 135 HORACE. Fol 1 blank. Fol. 2 : Qvinti Horatii Flacci Venvsini Carminvm liber . . Gohphon : . . impressum estopa & impensis Philippi de Lauagnia Ciuis Mediolanensis . . Mcccclxxvi . . Small folio, large and fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 14 7G 30 Gilt on the sides with a brond and handsome border composed of a large dentclle roulette (after Boyet) surmounted by a row of alternate flenrs-de-Iis and strawberry leaves. This side, with its triple fillet (1 and 2), looks just like the larger work of Padeloup or Boyet ; but the back is truly English. In each panel four fleurons, combined to form across, occupy the middle witSi some rambling pointing curves in the corners. The rims and inside of the covers gilt with a lace pattern. Bound for Lord Sunderland about 1725. On tbe first blank leaf is written " Horatius phi : triuisani," which means that Filippo Trevisano was the owner of the book about 1480. On the first page of text, a green leafless tree is painted, with the motto '* Sine fronde tamen vivam," and below there is an escutcheon : party per pale, in the first a rampant lion aaure and or, with a bend ffules, on a field or and azure ; in the second a rampant lion, fessy of or and cvrgent on a field azwre. To this there is the motto ** Numqnam." 136 POMPONIUS MELA. Page 1 : [OJrbis situm dicere . . Colophon : Mediolani . . Millessimo quadringentessimo septuagessimo primo. Small 4to. Editio Princeps, fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1471 12 A pretty binding done about 1725-8. The cruciform centrepiece in the panels is 30 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. composed of fleurons k petite fers, and has tiny curls at the cornera ; bat in the top- most and lowest compartments there are a conple of roses in the centre of a mass of fine cnrves. On the sides, two doable fillets ; a centrepiece of six foliate corves with fleurons worked to the semblance of a lozange, all done by minute pointille stamps ; the inner comers decorated in the same manner. The rims and inside lap of the cover gilt with lace-work. Prince George of Denmark (1707) : 137 SAND FORD (Francis) Genealogical History of the Kings and Qneens of England . . from the Conqnesi . . continued to this Time . . By Samuel Stebbing . . London . . M.DCC.VII. Folio, large paper, with a great number of fine plates; blue morocco super-extra, gilt edges, with the united arms of Queen Anne and Prince Oeorge on the sides 1707 48 Boand in ] 707, hy the royal hinder, and richly decorated with tooling of the same character as Saninel Meame had employed in hinding '' La Bible . . Amsterdam, 1678 " above described. It also resemhles closely the *' List of Her Majesty's Ships . . 1704," and mnst have been done by the man who boand that book. Besides the arm^, garter, and crown oa the sides (which bear the motto Regna firmat Pietds) we also find the crowned monogram of GPD as comer and side ornaments. They are repeated on the back within wreaths. The book is dedicated to Qneen Anne. King George I (1718) : 138 YOUNG (Edward) The Tragedy of Busiris (1718), the author's autograph MS. with his final corrections ; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of George I on the sides 1718 10 More remarkable as having belonged to a King who knew nothing of English literature than as a royal binding. We may snspect that it was presented by the Dake of Wharton, in the hope of serving his prot6g6 Yonng ; bnt it is difficnlt to com- . prehend why the King shoald accept it. —Some unintelligible writing in Qerman on the flyleaf, upside down, seems to begin " vcrdienst.*^ Various Binders (1700-1740) : 139 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . Oxford . . 1706— tho whole book of Psalms : Collected into English Metre . . London . . 1704 — 2 vols, in 1, small 8vo. with numerous plates coloured and illuminated by a contemporary hand; smooth dark blue m^orocco extra, gilt edges, with silver ornaments and clasps, the centre-plate engraved with a monogram of BB or PP 1704-G 3 ^ U The back is fnll gilt, four eqnal flenrons (of which the foremost part is a pine-apple) in each panel. There are three successive borders on the sides, the innermost con- sisting of a row of thistles and leaves, framed in with blind-tooled semi-circles. Between the two outer borders, there are blind-tooled sprays of foliage. This is probably an Oxford binding done before 1710. A memorandnm concerning money-matters, written in 1 739, shows that the owner had some connexion with Ix)rd Cholniondeley, Jane Marshall, and Rowland Holers. 140 THE NEW TESTAMENT . . London . . Charles Bill . . 1707. 16mo. in the original smooth black morocco, gilt with a treble set of lines and dotted fillets, with centre and comerpieces and clasps all in silver 1707 2 2 Each panel on tho back gilt with flenrons and comer bits. This is a pretty book. 141 ELSTOB (Elizabetli) The Rudiments of Grammar for the English- Saxon Tongue . . London . . 1715. Small 4to. large paper; bound in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1715 2 2 More striking than beantifnl. The linings are of green paper bearing figured gold patterns of ornament. 142 CL. CLAVDIANI qvse exstant . . Lvgdvni Batavorvm Ex officina Elzeviriana . Ao . M.DC.L. 12mo. (134 mm.), red morocco extra, gilt edges 1650 1 16 Bound in London about 1720. The border on the sides is of pretty dentelle pattern, and consists of a row of crowned roses alternately with a fleoron of lily kind, all connected with a running stem, with branchlets. In the panels on the back a rose accompanied by four stars, with corner- fleurons. With the bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbume (1756-57). ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1720-1730. 31 Various Binders (noO^nAO)— continued. £ «. a. 143 NAUD^I (Gabrielis) . . Bibliograpbia Poliiica . . Lngd. Batav. . MDGXLII. 18mo. a pretty little volume in black morocco extra, gilt edges 1642 1 12 Bound iQ London about 1720. On the sides there is 'Ant a double fillet edged inwardly with a row of pointlU6 curres ; then a double fillet edged outwardly with fieuronfl at the comers, sides, top, and bottom ; inside this a continuous row of pointing curves. On the back, each panel has a pointille saltire with ornaments in each quarter. With the engtAYed bookplate (modem) of G. T. Nicholson. 144 BRADDON (Laurena) A Proposal for Relieving, Reforming and Employing all the Poor of Great Britain . . London • . 1721 — Plan ponr assister, oorriger, & emploier tons les Paavres . . 1721 — 2 vols, in 1, small 8vo. red mxyropco super extra, gilt edges 1721 3 3 Gilt on the sides with a geometrical pattern of the so-called Eve kind ; which has the effect of producing three vertical columns and five transverse bars. Within the qnaterfoil figures of the central vertical row we have fleurons and small roses, within those of the other two rows, we have double roses, and fleurons composed of acoraa or Sine-apples. Other fleurons occupy the spaces between the geometrical rows. Small entelie ornaments are massed around the central column and m borders at the extreme right and left. There is a lace roulette on the rim and inside the edge of the cover. In the panels on the back, the fiearon of aooms with a central rose. 145 [GORDON (Thomas)] the independent whig . . London . . M.DCC.XXI. roy. 8vo. Large paper; in the original red m>orocco extra, gilt edges 1721 4 10 With the autograph of ** Tho : Chudleigh " on the title. He was presumably Sir Thomas Chudleigh, who died in 1741. An unusually good example of the style which became ** Harleian." It has some of the crowned ornaments used by Uarley*s binders, and follows the same style of decoration, but is lighter and more elegant. From the ooraerpieces between the two sets of fillets, sprays bearing leaflets and tulips are thrown out on both sides. The central and side ornaments are of the Meame kind. 146 THE ORTHODOX COMMUNICANT . . London, Engraven and sold by J. Stnrt . . MDCCXXI. Small 8vo, entirely copper-engraved icith a pretty illustration and border on each page, a portrait of Queen Anne a^ frontispiece ; red m^yrocco extra, gilt edges 1721 2 2 Bound about 1721. The inner set of fillets on the sides surrounded by sprays bearing acorns and ending in roses. The rectangular centrepiece has a lace-edging inside ibn fillets, and outside, six of those triangular hills of scales which had been used by tho Meames. In the middle is stamped the name of** Mrs. Mary Trotter.*' On the back, in each panel a palm-branch with curves in the corners. The linings are crimson paper * covered with flond designs in gold. 147 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Oxford . . John Baskett . . MDCCXXV. 2 vols. 12mo. in the original blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1725 14 The lozangy ornament in the centre on the sides is composed of fleurons and curves, with the heads of winged cherubs, and small figures of seraphs blowing trumpets ; and encloses a small circle in which the letters JHS stand over three nails representing the Passion. The oomerpieces include the same figures. On the back the usual dotted Bidtire over a cross composed of fleurons. 148 VALERIUS MAXIMUS. Colophon : Valerii Maximi lib. 9 explicit et per conseqnens totins ejnsdem series Finita et completa est die xxiii mensis Augusti Anno domini millesimo trecentesimo sexagesimo tercio. Small folio, neat MS. on paper written in double columTis by an Italian hand, with illuminated initials, and a pretty floral border on the first page of text, in the midst of which we see a grotesque figure bearing sword and shield ; in a remarkable mosaic binding of the last century 1463 12 12 Bound about 1 730. On the sides we see a design produced by the combination of inlaid bands of black leather outlined with gold. It is somewhat like the framework of a window in which round panes are mingled with the rectangular ones. The outmost black band is 'incurved at the comers, top. bottom , and sides. Another one runs straight from the top to the bottom curve, and is crossed by three black bands (the middle one being also from curve to curve). Two shorter straight bands run perpen- dlcnlarly from l£e first of the three to the last, equidistant from and parallel with the centra] down line. At the intersections large round bands enclose gold roses of fan 32 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Various Binders (nsO-^n^O)— continued, £ s. d. shape, and thns premnt the show of a window with fire rose-panes (the largest in the centre) ; besides four half-panes of the same kind (at top, sides, and bottom) as well as fonr quarter-panes at the comers. All the open spaces are gilt with qnarterfoils (full of roses), lozanses (composed of arabesque), pomegranates, roundels, and other figures. There is a floral roulette on the rim of tne cover. The back is gilt in its panels, in the usual way with comerpieces, leaving a lozange-space into which is put a lozangj fleuron. I am inclined to think that it is a Scottish rather than an English binding. 149 VBTUS TESTAMENTUM GR^CUM . . Cantabrigifle . . MDCLXV. 12mo. green morocco extra, gilt edges 1665 18 Bound about 1730 in the style of the Harleian books. On the back in the panels a dotted saltire with a rose or roundel at the centre, flenrons and annulets scattered about. 150 LUCANUS. FoL 1 : M. Axnei Lvcani vita . . Fol. 5 : M. Annei Lvcani Cordvbensis Pharsaliae liber primvs . . Small folio, fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges S, n. (Venet. t circ. 1471) 14 This is splendidly ornamented on the sides with a broad double border, the outer part being floral, and the inner a rich laoe pattern. The centrepiece is a brilliant set of flowers and fleurons worked to assume a lozangy shape. The centrepiece in the panels on the back consists of roses and acorns worked as a cross, and over them the saltire or St. Andrew's cross, composed of annulets diminishing in size from the centre to the point. The lace ornament is repeated on the rim and inside edge of the cover. This is a very fine binding done about 1730-35. 151 TASSO (Torqvato) Aminta . . Parigi . . MDCLVI— Bonarelli (Gvidvbaldo) Filli di Scire . . Parigi . . MDCLVI— Guarini (Battista) il Pastor Fido . . Parigi . . M.DC.L.— 3 vols, in 1, small 4to. a name cut out of the second title ; citron morocco extra 1650-56 3 10 As an ornament on the sides we find two crowned dolphins in the midst of flenrons, in each comer ; in the panels on the back a cruciform fleuron within a lozange composed of stars, roundels, and dots. The morocco and the tools are closely imitated from French models. The binding was done in London about 1735. 152 QVINTI HORATII FLACCI Opera . . Londini ©ncis tabvlis incidifc lobannes Pine . MDCCXXXIII. 2 vols. 8vo. entirely engraved with a great profusion of vignettes and tailpieces ; red morocco extra, gilt edges^ with a broad border of gold on the sides 1733-37 15 15 First, or " Post-est ** edition ; in beautiful state and a fine English binding done about 1740. On the back, a cruciform combination of flenrons in each panel. — Inside the cover there is a bookplate, engraved about 1 780, of a Baronet whoflo arms were sahle, an eagle displayed, or or argent^ within an engrailed bordure, argent. Crest, an eagle rising displayed from a demi-globe ; the motto Deo dnccnte. 153 another copy of the same edition and issue, 2 vols- 8vo. red morocco extra, gilt edges, with a broad lace border, composed of slender flenrons, on the sides 1733 15 This copy is from the library of the late Marquis of Hastings, to whom it descended probably from Lord Moira, the first Marquis. — A geometrical figure of triangular shape with circles at the angles is the ornament in the panels. 154 THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . London . . John Baskett . . MDCCXXXIX — THE WHOLE BOOK OP PsALMS : Collected into English Metre . . Jobn Baskett . , 1736 — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. in the original pretty binding of dark blue morocco, gilt with the cottage-roof pattern on the sides, comerpieces, dotted fillets, etc., gilt edges 1736-39 4 4 With silver comerpieces, clasps, and centrepieces ; the monogram of AR being engrayed on the silver centre. Queen Caroline (Wife of George II) : 155 PSALMODIA GERMANIC A, or a Specimen of Divine Hymns trans- lated from the High Dutch , . London . . 1722. Small 8vo. with all the Music engraved ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1722 5 The binding seems Scottish rather than English, the thistle being the most frequently repeated ornament on the sides, which are profusely gilt. The panels in the back haye the pointille saltire with acorns and flenrons in the quarters. This binding seems to haye been done abont 1 730, probably for Qaeen Caroline, as her engrared bookplate is pasted on the hack of the title. The book is dedicated to the three princesses Anne, Amalia, and Caroline, who were very young in 1722. The book was afterwards in Queen Charlotte's library. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH, 1725.1?33. 33 Queen Caroline (Wife of George II) : £ ». rf. 156 GAMBARINI (C.) A Description of the Earl of Pembroke's Pictures . . Westminster . . 1731. 8vo, large paper, Queen Caroline's copy, hound for her in Hue morocco super extra, gilt edges 1731 4 4 The binding is of rich Harleian stjie, and the crown is the chief figure in the ornamentation of the sides and back. In the centrepiece we have the crowned monogram of C B for Carolina Begina. This is a fine example of the &tter work of the time. Lord CarLereti " 157 M. FABll' QVINTILIANI Institutionum Oratoriarnm libri XII . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XXL 8vo. the initials of the books done in gold, the anchor at beginning and end in blue and silver ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1521 2 2 Bonnd about 1725-30, for the great statesman, John Lord Carteret (Earl Granyille in 1744). The chief ornament is the Carteret escutcheon with coronet, crest, and supporters, surrounded by a circular garland, from which sprout crowned leaflets. There is a double fillet on the sides, with a small rose in each corner \ and the panels on the back are similarly treated. Aldines with gold initials are nsnally considered to hare been so decorated for Grolier. It does not seem likely however that Carteret would have substitated a new binding for that of the great collector. Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley (1730) : 158 THE BOOK OP COMMON PRAYER . . 1687— THE BOOK OP COMMON PRAYER . . 1706—2 vols, folio, large paper; blue morocco^ gilt edges, with the arms of Lady Margaret Harley 07i the tides 1687-1706 4 This is a regular *' Harleian'* binding, showing that the heiress of Harley- Cayendish-HoUes, was, like her father and grandfather, a collector of books. The CaTcndish crest is used as an ornament in the comers and on the back. — Fakener : 159 VOLTAIRE, la zatre de m. de voltaire, representee a Paris anx mois d'Aoust, ^Novembre & Decembre 1732, Angment^e de TEpitre Dedicatoire . . A Rouen, A Paris . . M.DCC. XXXIII . . Small 8vo. dedication COPT op the author's first EDITION; WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ; sumptuously bound in crimson morocco super extra, gilt edges 1733 30 The Epitre Dedicatoire is addressed to Mr. Fakener, a London merchant, who had been very kind to Voltaire during his residence in England. It consists of twelve pages of considerable interest, as it touches on the dramatic literature of England as well as of France. This is the very copy of the book which was sent over by Voltaire to his friend, and which bears on the title the inscription *'Mr. fakene(r) Cavendish Sq(uare)" in the handwriting of the great man. Mr. Fakener entrusted it to the royal binder, and the result is an elaborate and costly covering in red morocco, having the sides and back overlaid with pointing and dentelle ornament. We guess at the royal binder becaase the crown and the thistle are his most prominent ornaments, and he is evidently the man who bound for Queen Caroline. Alexander Earl of Antrim (1713-1775) : 160 PINE (John) the Tapestry Hangings of the House op Lords . . elephant folio, with 6 charts, 10 plates of the Tapestry pictures of the fate of the Spanish Armada, 2 maps of the TJiames and Cornwall, and 1 leaf of letterpress ; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the name Antrim on a blue leather label in the middle of the centrepiece on the upper cover London, 1739-40 6 6 Bound for the Earl of Antrim in or soon after 1740. Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck (1706-82) : 161 PSALMS, the psalmes of king dayid translated by king james . . Colophon: Oxford, Printed by William Turner . . M.DC.XXXI. 'IGmo. engraved title and frontispiece by Marshall ; old calf 1631 3 3 Bonnd probably at Auchinleck, about 1725-30. The sides and back are blind- tooled : in the panels on the back the lamb of God ; on the side a double set of fillets, between them a roll of figures like 8 enclosing each a rose, down the middle a line of alternate lambs and griffins with the stamped name Auchinleck. On the edges of the coyer a chain of lozanges and roandels in gold — the only gilding on the booK. With the name of Alexander Boswell, and the date 1758, on the flyleaf. 3 34 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUB OF BINDINGS. Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck : £ t, d. 162 PVB VIRGILII MABONIS Opera . . Sedani . . ilDCXX V. 48vo. the last leaf mended ; red morocco ejrtra^ gilt edges 1625 7 10 Boaod &boat 1740 for AlexAodcr Bagwell, of Aacfainleck. It is a chaTming little book with broad gflU borders oo the rides aod a fall-gilt back. Tbe toofing is mostljr pointilJ^, and one remarkable featore in it is the hm of afignre which is al ooce a heart and a bow, and is OTeilaid with two arrows in saltire. — ^Tbe work was apparently^ execoted in London, bat it may have been done at Edinbargfa ; m which case, this and the two Tolnmes following woold be cbefs-d'ceuTre of Scottish binding. 163 M. TVLLI CICERONIS de Officiis Libri HI. Amsterodami . . MDCXXV. 4370. red morooeo extrOj gilt edges^ a prBtttf little hook 1625 2 2 Bound in ezaetlj the same way as the Sedan VirgiL Two little plates are prefixed. 164 ANAKPE0XT02 McXi; . . Script, mann Bob. Hnnter linga» Gnece Pr. 48 vo. a tiny MS. written in minute hut elegant characters hy Professor Hunter; red morocco extra^ gilt edges, hound in precisely the same manner as the Virgil of Sedan About 1730 2 16 This is probablj the book for which the heart-bow-and-arrows tool was first derited. It was bound aboat 1 740.— On the last leaf is a little Greek pieee ( Anaereon on hit Odes) added in minnte characters bj Alex. Boawell ** Posoit Alexander Boswel L.B. 1729, et acripait Anchinled, 1736." A drawing of Anacreoo, and two engrsTings, are prefixed. William, Viscount Bateman (died 1744) : 165 PURCELL (Henry) Oephecs Bbitahxicus. A Collection of all the Clioicest Songs for one, two, and three Voices . . The Second Edition . . MDCC VI. 2 vols, in 1, small folio, fine portrait ; red morocco^ gilt edges 1706-02 5 Thia Tolame waa bought by William Weatem (of RiTcnhall, Essex) in 1712, from John Hare for thirtj-one shillings. It passed afterwards into the possession of Western's brother-in-law, William Viscount Bateman, and was bonnd for him abont 1730. His coronet and the letter B are stamped on the sides. Scottish Binding (1700-1765) : 166, THE HOLY BIBLE . . London . . 1698— the Psalms of David IN Meeter . . Edinburgh . . 1698 — 2 vols. 16mo. hh^e morocco extra, gilt edges 1698 6 6 A beantifal Scotch binding of the time, i.e. soon after 1700. There is on the sides a central ronndel like a rose, bat composed altogether of dentelle work. From it spring foor stems, the one at the top and the one at the bottom ending in a large fleoron. Ont of the foar stems, sncoessive branches are thrown ont on right and left, bearing leares, flowers, and fmits. This is done so profusely as to corer almost the whole of the sides, bnt in all the arailable interrals gold dots, roses, and tiny roundels are added. In the panels on the back, tbe corner ornaments are so arranged as to leave a sharp oblong lozange of bine leather. This space is gilt with a roundel with projecting spikes and petiUs. The coven are lined with gold paper bearing floral designs in red. 167 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Edinburgh . . MDCCV . . thb Psalms op David in Metre . . Edinburgh . . 1709 — 2 vols, in 1, 4to. hlack morocco extra, gilt edges 1705-09 9 9 A fine Scottish binding, done probably in Edinburgh about 1710-15. Between the outer and inner fillets on the sides diere is a loose border of stars, dots, and minute flenrons. Inmde this is a close rich border of lace work (in imitation of the Boyet roulette). From the centrepiece, which consists of pointille curres, flowers, and roundels, four stems run oat ending in a tulip. The upper and lower stems carry sprays of foliage and flowers thrown out right and left. The two other stems are more stiff and conventional. All the available spaces are filled with dots, stars, and roundels in great profusion. The panels on tbe back are similarly treated. The edges of the book are painted with flowers, and bear the words <* A prudent wife is from the Lord." This decoration is only visible by manipulation of the leaves. A name is cut away from the top of the title ; probably that of the prudent husband. 168 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Edinburgh : Printed by James Watson . . 1717. 12mo. crimson morocco super extra, gilt edges 1717 30 An exquisite specimen of Scottish decorative binding about 1725. On the sides we see first a lace edging, then a chain of oblong and cruciform links, next a double fillet. The centrepiece is a narrow rectangular figure having a border of thistles, SCOTTISH BINDINGS, I?25-1764. 35 Scottish Binding (1700-1765) : £. s. d. roses, pine-apples, etc. on a continaoos twining stem. The space between the outer fillets and the centrepiece is crowded with gold dots, and has comerpieces representing tulips on leafy stems ; pine-apples, roses, and other flowers standing from the sides and top and bottom, between litUe hilly masses of pointing and scales. Inside the centrepiece there is a star in the middle, from the heart of which springs a stem, one upwards and one downwards, which bears six leaves on each Hide, and a flower at the end. This floral ornament is enclosed within a semis of the minutest gold dots. The back has in its panels the curling oomerpieces which produce a lozangy space on the leather ; this lozangy space filled with an oblong cruciform fleuron. The inside edges of the cover are gilt with an imitation of Fadeloup's floral roulette. The linings consist of purplish paper bearing floral patterns in gold and colours. This volume belonged to Lord Sunderland, and fetched £31 at the sale of his library. 169 MARTI ALIS. Golophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi . . M.DI . . 12mo. hound in crimson morocco super extra, gilt edges 1501 16 16 Bound in Edinburgh about the same time as the Bible of 1717 ; and in a similar style, but with less floral work and less of the scattered profusion of gold dots ; the inner set of fillets falling over a row of elliptical figures (8 on each side, 2 at top, 2 at bottom) charged with dots. The comerpiece is a conventional fleuron. The back is gilt in the same fashion as that of the Bible. The linings are gold paper bearing a pattern of green flowers and leafy branches. This is a fine piece of Scottish decorative binding, but is not artistically equal to that of the Bible of 1717. It was bound probably for the first Earl of Hopetoun ; the bookplate inside the cover is apparently that of the fourth Earl. 170 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Edinburgh, Printed by James Watson . . MDCCXXII - . Large folio; red morocco extra, gilt and painted edges, binding a little ruhhed and slightly damaged 1722 6 16 Bound about 1730 in Edinburgh in grand style. On the sides a lace border consisting of a row of varied fleurons, in the centre an inlaid oval piece (also of red morocco) which is gilt with a semis of eherubs flying in a variety of curved lines around the IHS. Gold rays project on all sides from the oval centrepiece. On the back, the panels bear a slender saltire, the lines of which end in tiny roundels ; fleurons and little stars in the quarters, curling branchwork in the comers. — On the edges, the words Fear God and Honour the King are painted in black in the middle ; on each side of them is a painting in red and green representing leafy branches, roses, and tulips. This volume was given in 1750 to Sir Alexander Boswell, whose name with that date is written on the flyleaf. Under it we have James Boswell's note, dated 1782, that the present had been made by Christopher Carruthers. 171 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Edinburgh . . 1716— the Psalms of David in Metre . . Edinburgh . . MDCCXXX — 2 vols. 16mo. black morocco extra, gilt edgesy the comers slightly injured 1716-30 4 4 A pretty Scottish binding done in 1730. It resembles very much in style and character the binding of the Bible of 1698 described above, but is not so artistically fine. The gilding in the panels on the back is a saltire or St. Andrew's Cross ending in besants, with a fleuron in each quarter. The linmgs are of gold paper with patterns in red. 172 THE HOLY BIBLE . . Edinburgh . . MDCCLXIV— the Psalms of David in metre . . MDCCLXIV — 2 vols. 16mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1764 4 A pretty binding, though not equal to the work of forty years earlier ; the same style however being continued. Straight [stems .with curling leaves on each side occupy the middle of the rectangular centrepiece.* This is flanked on all sides by a row of gold arches, from the junctures of which fleurons spring towards the lace- edged fillets. In the panels on the back, a dotted saltire, with fleurons in the quarters. 173 BUCHANAN, Rerum Scoticarnm Hisfcoria, auctore Georgio Buchanano . . Abredonite . . MDCGLXII. 8vo. red morocco super extra, gilt edges 1762 25 On the sides there is a small rose in the centre, but this small rose is itself only the heart of a very large rose like a circular fan which fills the middle of the covers. It is composed of dots and dotted lines and fleurons which grow increasingly outward till they end in the rounded tips of the petals. Flowery stems run to meet those petals from the top, bottom, and comers ; and all the vacant spaces on the sides are filled with a shower of golden jdots, so as almost to hide the r&Aneta of the leather. — In the panels on the back, is the dotted saltire, with a crowned thistle at each side of it, a crowned rose above and below. With the bookplate of Sir George Throckmorton (about 1790). 3 * 36 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Scottish Binding (1764-1765) : £ s, d. 174 OGILVIE (John) Providence. An allegorical Poem . . London . . MDCCLXIV. ito.S plates; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1764 5 5 The Bides richly gilt ; the oeDtral ornament a rose with dotted lines running straight from its heart to t^e top and bottom and sides. Branches of foliage spring right and left from these lines as stems, and end themselves in little thistles. There is a broad lace border all roond. In each panel on the back there are flenrons combined to form a cross and a saltire together. It is the dedication copy from the author (and has his inscription) to Lord Hopetonn. 175 OGILVIE (John) Solitnde: or the Eljsium of the Poets, a Vision . . London . . MDCCLXV. 4to. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, the DBDICATION COPY TO THE EaRL OF HOPETOUN 1765 6 Bound in Edinburgh probably, and a very pretty piece of ornamental binding. There is a treble border on the sides. The first is a roulette of small thistles, roses, and flenrons. The second is a Uurger and denser one of thistles, roses, and pine-apples. The ^ird is a sort of lace pattern formed by reversed arche8,'with roses and flenrons alter- nately rising from the points of juncture, and thistles nestling in the hollows. In the panels on the back, flenrons disposed so as to form a combined cross and saltire. With the bookplate of Lord Hopetonn. English, Eighteenth Century (1745-80) : 176 SACRED MUSIC. Mnsio of the Morning and Evening Services, Litany and Responses, as composed by Tallis, Fabrant, Orlando Gibbons, Dr. Child, Pnrcell, William Bird, Blow, and Mr. Patrick, all in four parts or keys ; with an inscription at the end ** Finis 1744." Atlas 4to. MS. on vellum, neatly written, with all the words as well as the Music ; hound in blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1744 8 8 On the sides a lozangy centrepiece aod a broad lace border. On the back a com- bination of flenrons forming a cross and saltire together. Bound about 1745. Perhaps in the handwriting of William Boyce who was organist of the Chapel Royal in 1744, and who was specially interested in Sacred Music. 177 WATTS (Dr.) Hor© LyricBB . Poems . . by I. Watts, d.d. The eighth edition . . London . . M.DCC.XLIIl. 12mo. with portrait ; hound in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1743 3 IG On the sides, the cottage-roof pattern as a framework for a lozangy centrepiece composed of flenrons, thistles, etc. Between the framework and the fillets, arabesques and flenrons. On the back, in each panel, a double saltire of gold dots with flenrons in the qnarters. — This is a pretty English binding. With the bookplate of William Bateman of Derbyshire (1814). 178 PUBLII VIRGILII MARONIS Bucolica, Georgica, et ^neis. Birminghamiae : Typis Johannis Baskerville. MDCCLVII. 4to. crimsor^ morocco extra, gilt edges 1757 5 5 Bound in London about 1760. There is a broad and handsome gold border on the sides, the most prominent feature of which is the row of arches each enclosing a flower and supporting the flgnre of a hawk perched on something like a human head. In the panels on the back, the central ornament is the combination of flenrons forming a cross and a saltire together, but instead of meeting in a point, all the parts spring from a roundel that unites them. This is a pretty piece of binding. 179 TERENTII CoMOEDiiE . . Fatus {sic) in excelsis tectis Carthaginis alte . . Small folio, MS* on vellum hy an Italian hand, with a border of painted interlacements and gold on the first page ; russia extra About 1460 16 16 Bound in that strong dark russia leather which could be had in London about 1760. There are broad gold borders on the sides in the Harleian style, the two outer compartments of the border containing 1. the chainwork roll of oblongs and little roses, and 2. the row[of crosses, etc. in square divisions, — both of which were adopted by Derome le jeune in his Uter decoration. On the back the cruciform combination of flenrons, with comer bits. 180 MILTON. L' Allegro et le Pensieroso . . traduits en vers Francois [par Ribonville]. English and French. A Londres . . MDCCLXVI. Small 4to. in a beautiful red morocco binding, edges gilt 1766 4 4 Roger Payne came to London a yonng man in 1766, and was therefore not the binder of this charming ?olume. It is nevertheless in the style that he adopted, and, 80 far as the outside is concerned, equal to most of his work. On the sides there is a ENGLISH WORK, 1762-1775. 37 English, Eighteenth Century (1762-80)— conhnwcti. £ ». d. tiny lace-edging outRide the fillets. Inside there is a broad gold border composed of con?entional acanthus and rose flenrons alternately with a rose between each. Level with the top of of the run is a row of annulets, one between each ornament and gold dots are scattered beneath them. At the comers, where the ronlettes are interrupted, a festooned wreath, half enclosing a sort of decorative shell, is deftly worked in, and gives a finish to the design, obviating the usual difliculties of broken or overlapping lines. The panels on the Wk are gilt with a lattice work of diagonal lines. A famous phrase on the Pensieroso is thus rendered : — " Sonyent m616s an bruit des eanx | J'^ute dn hant des coUines | Le son des cloches argentines, | Les longs mugissements des superbes Taureaux." Thus the far- off Curfew is turned into a l^ughty Bull. 181 [DODSLEY'S] Collection of Poems in six volumes. By several bands . . MDCCLXV. 6 vols. 8vo. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1765 4 A pretty book in smooth rosy morocco with a lace border on the sides. The back is still more elaborately tooled.— These six Yolumes contain the best short things that had been written in verse between 1726 and 1760. 182 P. YIRGILII MAKONIS Opera ex antiqais monimentisillusiratacara, studio & sumtibus Henrici Justice . . 5 vols, in 2, large 8vo. entirely engraved, with beautiful irignettes and tailpieces, and numerous separate plates ; hound in red morocco super extra, gilt edges [1765] 7 15 The last Yolnme is an antiquarian Index to the engravings, and was supplied by the editor's son. The preface to that volume is dated Utrecht, 1 766, and this is the only place in the whole book where a date can be found. The work was engraved at Venice for Justice, who was a Dutch nobleman. This copy was bound in England with great splendour, and a profusion of gold ornament. There is a broad fioral border on the sides, an English crown with flenrons for the comerpieces, a figure like a comb interposing between each comer and the centrepiece. In the panels on the back four acorns combined to form a cross ; and at the top and bottom slanting parallel lines. There is more splendour than refinement in the decoration. 183 anotber copy of tbe same, 5 vols, in 4, 8vo. crimson morocco extra, gilt edaes [1765] 10 10 A broad and elegant border on the sides, consistine of a row of lacework m semi- circular pattern, from which falls a line of fieurons ruled with heavy gold dots. The centrepiece in the panels on the back is a pomegranate in Derome's style. The orna- ment inside is a roulette of fleurs-de-lis. This is a very pretty binding. Both these Yirgils were bound in London about 1770. 184 DRYDEN. The Miscellaneous Works of Jobn Dryden, Esq. ; con- taining all bis original Poems, Tales, and Translations, 4 vols. 12mo. red mxyrocco extra, with the bookplates of John Hunter and Thomas Oaisford 1767 5 5 On the sides a broad border composed of flenrons and flenrs de lis springing from arches enclosing stan. In the panels on the back, the usual combination of cross and saltire. 185 APATOV <^ivo/x€va xal Scoo^/xeia . . {Greece et Latine)^ Parisiis MDLIX . . 2 vols, in 1, small 4to. with two folding woodcuts ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1559 17 Bound in Lo&don about 1770. The border on the sides is composed of a row of " drawer handles " back to back and intertwining. A row of roses, two between each two knobs, runs through the middle of the border ; a trident-head and a fleur-de-lis alternately rise from the upper line. On the back, there is a double head of an eagle enclosed within a coronet ornament, in each panel. With the bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbnme. 186 COMMON PRATER . . without title and calendar (about 1570)— THE PSALTER . . 1571. Colophon: Imprinted . . by Ricbard lugge and lobn Cawood . . wanting leaf B8— THE WHOLE BOKE OF PSALMES, collected into Englisb Metre . . Imprinted at London by lobn Daye [1570], wanting the last three leaves of prayers at the end — 3 vols, in 1, sm. 4to. red m>orocco extra, gilt edges 1570-71 14 Richly gilt on the sides, but with more splendour than taste . . The back is flat and was intended to be an imitation of Derome le jeune's work. The binding was done about 1775. 38 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. English, Eighteenth Century (1778-85) : £ $. d. 187 SECUNDUS. Kisses ; a poetical translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundas Nicolaius, with the original Latin . . MDCCLXXVIII. 8vo.^ne copy in a beautiful blue morocco binding, richly gilt 1778 4 14 6 A charming EDglisb binding executed abont 1778-79. The broad border on the BideA is a row of vases of flowers with a branch and flower-stem between each. 188 DERING (Sir Edward) A Collection of Speeches . . in matter of Religion . . London . . 1642. Smallest 4to. red moToca> extra, gilt edges 1642 2 2 The broad gold border on the sides is a row of shells divided each from each by foliated curves and a flower. It is in the style of Dubuisson's work. In each panel on the back a flower-basket. With Sir Robert D'Aroy Hildyard's bookplate. 189 EXCISE REVENUE: An Official Account of the Revenue derived from the Excise between 1662 and 1785, with statistical tables of the yearly results of duties upon all exciseable commodities, small folio, neai MS, drawn out and fair-written for the Commissioners, 182 pp, ; bound in red moroccx) extra, gilt edges 1785 3 3 With broad gold border on the sides composed of three row^of roulette work (the large laoe pattern ; the run of " drawer-handle " figures alternately face to face and biack interlaced with back ; and the row of flenrons like trident-heads from the top). On the back in each panels the central annulet with fleurons forming a cross and a saltire combined. — The end leaves are gold bearing coloured flower-patterns. The name of Grey Cooper written on the flyleaf seems to be that of the ofiicer by whose order the volume was bound in this sumptuous style. Irish work : 190 SALLUST. The Catiline and Jugui-thine Wars. Translated . . by Hugh Maffett . . Dublin . . MDCCLXXII. Small 8vo. in a mosaic binding, gilt edges 1772 5 15 A curious and characteristic binding ; very elaborate if not highly artistic. The leather is red morocco, gilt with wandering branches that bear leaves, pomegranates, and thistles, and are accompanied by birds in all directions. A large lozange of blue morocco lies over the face of the red cover, and a red morocco lozange in the middle of the blue. Both these lozanges are profusely gilt with fleurons, vases, stars, and flying birds. Formerly in the library of C. Dunn Gardiner ; afterwards in that of W. Crawford of Cork. The Hon. Charles Yorke (Lord Chancellor in 1770) : 191 THEOCRITUS. The Idylliums . . translated from the Greek . . by Francis Fawkes . . MDCCLXVII. 8vo. large paper, bound in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1767 4 Presentation copy inscribed by the translator to *' the Honourable Mrs. Yorke." The work itself is dedicated to the Hon. Charles Yorke, her husband. The binding is brilliant with gold, broad dentelle borders on the sides, and the back full gilt. It is an excellent piece of English work. Viscountess Hereford : 192 LITURGIA sen Liber Precum Communium . . Londini . . MDCCXX. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges, bound for Henrietta Charlotte Viscountess Hereford 1720 14 Bound in 1783. The 'border on the sides consists of long slender fleurons and spikes rising from a row of curves ; with a basket of fruit at each corner. There is a green inlaid piece in the centre bearing the initials C. H. and surmounted by the lady's coronet. On the flyleaf she has written " Ex libris Henricffi Carolie Hereford die Tigesima prima Mail 1783." It is a pretty little book with flourishes in the panels on the back. J. Lovejoy, binder : 193 ANDERSON (James) Constitutions of the antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons . . London . . MDCCLXXXIV. 4to. frontis- piece ; bound by J* Lovejoy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1784 With the binder's ticket — Among the ornaments on the sides are the compasSi the key) the stonC) the bee-hive, and other insignia of the brotherhood. -J ENGLISH BINDING : ROGER PAYNE. 39 Roger Payne, binder (1778-97) : £ «. d. 194! BUTLER (Samnel) Hudibras : in three parts . Written in the time of the late Wars. Corrected and Amended : with Additions . . London . . MDCCX. 3 vols. 18mo. 2 portraits and numerous plates; red morocco extra, with joints, gilt edges, in splendid condition 1710 28 A striking example uf the work of this oTer-rated artist in binding. The fillet on the sides is produced hj gold dots and placed at a sufficient distance from the edges to allow of an onter border of slender straight fleorons. The inside is divided bj dotted horizontal lines into three sections, of which the middle one is the largest. In sections 1 and 3, there is a star within a lozangy figure, which is flanked on either side hj a lyre within a circle of annulets. In the middle section a compound fleuron with comer and side-pieces ; the side ornament being a caducens on a gpround of dotted gold. A line of annulets forms an inner boundary to divide the centrepiece from the outer ornaments. In the panels on the back a combined cross and saltire formed of slender straight flenrons, with little round masses of gold dots in the spaces. Inside, the marbled paper of the guard, or end-leaf, is framed within a crimson morocco border, this border bemg gilt, with the same slender fleurons as are seen outside. Bound probably about 1780. 195 JORDAN VS BRVNVS de Progressv et lampade venatoria logicomm . . Anno 1587. 12mo. a ruled copy in red morocco, gilt edges (WUtenherg r) 1587 3 This is advertised here not as a beautiful or remarkable binding, but because it will serve as a criterion for distinguishing the plainer work of Roger Payne. We have on tiie flyleaf Mr. WodhnlKs record that he bought the book in 1778 for 2s fid, and that he paid Roger Payne for binding it 4s fid. 196 STEPHANVS DE VRBIBVS . (Greece). Colophon : Venetiis apud Aldnm . . M.D.II . . Small folio, fine copy in red morocco extra, joints, gilt edges 1502 7 10 On the sides, a simple outer fillet, then an inner fillet which is gilt at the comers, with two branches curling right and left, a crescent, and three little flenrons above them, a crescent on each side, and a long fleuron below. The inmost fillet is incurved at the comers. The edges and leather joints inside are also gilt in the same way as that book, and the end-paper is purple. Three panels on the back bear a lettering ; the other four are gilt with the cross and saltire combination of flenrons having an annulet in the centre. There are curve lines above and below the bands. This is a rare book in a characteristic binding by Roger Payne, done about 1788-90. 197 BOIARDO. Orlando Innamorato . 1 tre libri . . di Mattheomaria Boiardo . . Con molte stanze agginnte del proprio auttore . . Insieme con gli altri tre Libri compidi. M.D.XXXIX. Colophon: In Vinegia . . M.D.XXXIX . . 2 vols, in 1, small 4to. russia extra, gilt edges, by Roger Payne 1539 10 10 Bound probably about 1 790. On the sides an inner and an onter gilt fillet, a small rose at the comers of each, but a crescent added at the interior comers. On the back a minute dotted gold line on each band ; in the panels a delicate ornament of grapes, leaves, flowers, and branches, with a crescent in the middle. There is a joint inside, 80 that a leather band rans all round the end-leaf of yellow paper, the band being gilt wiUi gold fillets, and a fleuron at the corners. The rim of the cover is gilt at its comers with slanting lines in dotted gold. With the bookplate of Dr. Hawtrey. 198 PYTHAGORAS. Opus aureum . . in qvo continentvr PythagorsB Carmina anrea, Phocylidis, Theognidis & aliomm poemata . . (Greece et Latine) cnra Michaelis Neandri . . Colophon : Lipsies . . MDLXXVII. Royal 8vo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Roger Payne 1577 5 Bound about 1790. On the sides, a single gilt fillet near the edges, and a double blind on£ inside, this last having a blind rose at the comers. The panels on the back are framed within two horizontal lines and three annulets united by dotted curves. The centre is an annulet from which spring flowers and flenrons to form a combined cross and saltire. Other flcurons are directed from the comers to the centre, and annulets of two sizes are dropped in the spaces. The extreme top and bottom are gilt with dotted curves having annulets in their hollows. Inside we have Payne's usual leather joint, and the morocco band all round the brown end-paper. The gilt ornament here is the Grecian fret. This volume fetched £12. 16s at I)ent*s sale. 199 EPICTETI qnsD snpersunt Dissertationes . . Enchiridion et Fragmenta Graece et Latine . . Londini . . MDCCXLI. 2 vols, small 4to. LARGE PAPER ; blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Roger Payne 1741 8 A very simple binding, probably done after 1790. On the sides a single outer 40 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Roger Payne, binder (1778-97) : £ i. d. fillet, and an inner fillet which is not rectaogolar, the cornen being incarred. On the back, each band has a line of cnrres above and below, and there is a similar line at the extreme top and bottom. Three panels bear a lettering ; the first and last are gilt with a star in each corner, and in the middle with an annulet from which sprout on each side (like a cross) the slender fleorons Roger Fajme had made his own. The cover has a joint inside, so that a band of leather (gilt in tiie same waj as Boiardo) runs all round the purple end-paper. The rim of the cover gilt with slant lines at the comers. 200 TITI LUCRETII CARI de Rerum Natura libri sex [ed. Maittaire]. Londini . . MDCCXIII . . Small 8vo. large paper ; hound in crimson morocco extra^ gilt edges, by Roger Fayne 1713 6 6 A triple fillet on the sides. The inmost has a daisy and a tulip at its angles, the middle one a daisy only, and the outmost nothing. Between the two outer fillets, there is a ronning line of leaves and flowers caught by a marguerite at each comer. The line hesitates in midconrse at top and bottom ; at the sides it is broken for a third of the way ; so that it might be described as an ornamental pattern forming a kind of letter L at each comer. The back is decorated in precisely the same way as Lord Herbert*s Life. The leather border round the brown paper end-leaf is gilt witb the usual fillets and fleurons, but has also a lyre at top, bottom, and sides. This is a fine and charac- teristic example of Roger Payne. With the bookplate of Baron Bolland. 201 EURIPIDIS TRAGOEDI^ Medea et PhoenisscB Graeco-Latinaa . . Cantabrigian . . MDCCIII. 870. large pilvrk, frontispiece ; crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1703 5 Four of the panels on the back bear lettering. The other two have five blind anuolets in the midst of fleurons forming a cross which lie upon a mass of gold dots. Two simple fillets on the sides. The brown paper of the- end-leaf surrounded by a leather border gilt with two fillets and small fieuron comerpiecei^. With the book-label of Sir Mark Sykes. 202 HERBERT, the Life of Edward lord Herbert of gherburt, written by himself. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCIjXIV. Small 4to. portrait ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, by Roger Fayne 1764 16 16 On the sides three successive single fillets. At the comers of the second a rose and fieuron; at the comers of the third a rose. In the space between the corners of the second and third, an omament like the letter L formed of seven acoms, %.$, three and four with a quaterfoil at their junction, the quaterfoil flanked by four little stars, a little flower thrown off at each side of the stem uniting aoom to acom. On the back four panels lettered ; the other two decorated with four leaves springing in saltire form from a central annulet, the leaves themselves bearing a flenron, and accompanied by two fleurons and two acoms which are arranged as a cross, and lie upon a field of gold dots. — Inside the cover, there is brown end-paper, and a broad crimson band all round it, this band gilt with the handsomest of Roger Payne's borders, composed of leaves and tendrils, flowers and stars, thickened at the corners with a mass of gold dots and fresh flowers, which prevent an awkward angular condition of the two lines of omament. — This is the best example of Soger Payne in the present collection. With the bookplate of Thomas Gaisford. Charles Kalthoeber, binder (1790-1825) : 203 S ARPI (Fra Paolo) Histoire du Concile de Trente . . traduite . . par Pierre Fraii9oiB Le Conrayer . . Londres . . MDCCXXXVI. 2 vols, folio, LARGE PAPER, portrait; crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, with Kalthoeber' s label 1736 4 A t}'pical Kalthoeber : a vase in the centre of the panels, the title and the date on li^ht green labels, the Tolume-nnmber on blue ; broad wreathy borders on the sides with a pine-apple at each comer: 204 GOLDSMITH AND PARNELL, Poems, royal 4to. with woodcuts by Bewick ; red morocco extra, giU edges, by Kalthoeber, toith hie ticket Bulmer,l796 3 3 A handsome book in a handsome binding. 205 BELL (Charles) Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting, roy. 4to, large paper, with fine engravings ; bound (by Kalthoeber) in moroceo extra, gilt edges, with joints inlaid black and red, and watered sUk linings 1806 6 6 ENGLISH BINDING, 1800-1810. 41 John Philip Kemble: £ ». d, 206 CERVANTES. El ingbnioso Hidalgo Don Qdixote de la Mancha . . por D. Juan Antonio Pellicer . . Madrid . . MDCGLXXXXVII. 6 vols. 8vo. LARGE AND THICK PAPER, With many plates; crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, by Kalthoeber, with the arms and name of Johannes Philippns Kemble on the sides 1797-98 6 G H. Walther, binder (1790-1820 ?) : __ 207 DORER. Alberti Dureri . . de Symetria partium in rectis formis huanoram corpomm, Libri in latinum conuersi . . Colophon: Norimberg89 . . M.D.xxxij . . — Clariss . . Alberti Dureri de varietate figpirarum et fiexuris partium . . libri duo . . M.D.XXXiiij — 2 vols. in 1, small folio, unth a great number of large outline woodcuts of m>en and women ; purple morocco extra, gilt edges, by H. Walther, with his ticket 1532-34 8 8 Bound about 1800-1806. The ornaraeotation on the sides within the fillets is a row of arched wreaths like bridges, a straight fleuron above each point of juncture, and a large flower oyer the highest part of each arch. On the back there are figures of the drawer-handle kind, and with tnem slender flearons of lioger Payne's kind. There is a crest in the topmost panel : an eagle erased. 208 PRIMALEON. Los tres libros del muy ESFongADO cauallero Primaleon . . Colophon ; . . en la inclita ciudad del Senado Yeneciano . . mil j quinientos & trenta qnatro . . Small folio, printed in Eoman Letter with woodcuts ; blue morocco extra, joints, gilt edges 1534 24 Said to have been bound by Walther for Colonel Stanley about 1790-95. It fetched at Stanley's sale £41. The volume has belonged in succession to Col. Stanley, the Marquis of Blandford, Hibbert, Payne,' Libri, and R. S. Turner. Etruscan Bindings: 209 HAMILTON (Sir William) Campi Phlegrj:!. Observations on the Volcanos of the two Sicilies . . {in English and French) Naples, MDCCLXXVI. Royal folio, the plates coloured as Drawings and mounted; in a fine Etruscan binding of gilt vellum, with a beautiful paint- ing ofPompeian kind {rose-tinted on a black ground), on each cover 1776 12 12 One painting represents a dancing nymph ; the other apparently the Genius of History. Edwards of Halifax was perhaps the binder of this volume. It has the appearance of a vellum binding done in Italy. With the bookplate of Charles Henry Turner. 210 DE LOLME (J. L.) The Constitution of England . . London . . MDCOLXXXIV. Syo, with portrait; in an ^^ Etmscan" binding of gilt veUum, mth paintings on the sides and on the edges ; enclosed in a green morocco case 1784 30 On the upper cover, under the transparent surface of the vellum, we see the united escutcheons of Percy and Burrell (representing Algernon Baron Lovaine, after he had become in 1790, the first £arl of Beverley), illuminated in gold, silver, and colours ; on the lower cover, a pretty drawing in Indian ink after Angelica Kaufman's design, repre- senting the Mother of the Gracchi and her jewels. On the edges under the gilding there is a beautiful painted landscape of the Earl's mansion, with the park and lands around it. Edwards of Hali&x usually gets the credit of this kind of work, but I believe that this volume was bound in London about 1800, for Miss Emily Elizabeth Burrell to present to her cousin Isabella Susanna Countess of Beverley. On the fiyleaf a card with the following lines in neat calligraphy, is fastened within a border, black, silver, and gold, painted on the leaf : — Tis yours this Token to improve Its Worth depends on you : A Trifle, if you do not love, A Treasure if you do. E. E. B. This is (for its painted sides) one of the finest bindings of the kind in existence. It is said that there is none of equal beauty in the British Museum. Charles Hering, binder (1790-1810) : 211 TASSO, i Goffredo overo Giervsalemme liberata . . Roma . . 1657 . . 18mo. with an engraving to each canto ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1657 1 10 Bound about 1810 ; with Hering's ticket. The back is gilt in four panels (the other two bear lettering) quite in the style, and apparently with some of the tools, of Roger Payne. With the bookplate of Lancelot Holland. 42 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Charles Hering, binder (1790-1810) : £ «. d. 212 [TANSILLO] Stanze amorose, sopra gli Horti delle donne . . Venetia, 1574. 12mo. woodcuts; citron morocco extra, joints, gilt edges, with Bering's ticket 1574 4 Belonged to Mitford in 1819. This has green watered silk for its lining, which is snrronnded on all fonr sides by aPsTne border of a stem throwing forth leaflets right and left. Thomas Gosden, binder: 213 [VINCENT (Rev. John)] Fowling, a poem . . London . . 1808. 12mo. with frontispiece; green morocco extra, gilt edges, hy Gosden, with his engraved ticket 1808 12 12 The side is divided by a nnmber'of continooas in-and-ont cunres into a centrepiece, sidepieces, comerpieces, and top and bottom pieces, aU of them, except the centre, covered with a mass of blind dots. In the middle, a lady ronnd whose arms a snake is twining, seeme to be addressing an eagle who walks by her side. At the sides, a pportsman bearing a gnn is accompanied by his pointer. At the comers, two hawks are flying aloft. At the top and bottom a sportsman is standing with his dog under a tree ; and this figure is repeated in one of the panels on the back. At the top of the back is a Roger Payne fleuron ; at the bottom, the large pointer-dog from the side is repeated. J. Clarke for Theodore Williams: 214 CICERO. Title: In hoc volvmine habc continenttb . M. T. Cic. OfFICIOBVM. lib. III. CaTO MaIOR . . LaELIVS . . SOMNIVM SCIPIONIS . . Colophon: Venetiia in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani soceri . M.D.XVII . . 12mo. printed on vellum, the initials coloured AND illuminated ; hound hy Clarke in olive morocco extra, lined with crimson, gilt and goffered edges, decorated with line interla,cements and azure Jleurons, in imitation of a Orolieresqvs pattern 1517 84 A SUPERB BOOK. The initials and crest of the Rev. Theodore Williams occupy the centre on the upper cover ; on the lower his arms are substituted. The outside is imitated from a French Grolier, the lining is gilt like an Italian one. This was probably Grolier's copy, to judge from the illuminated letters and the flne vellum. It is in splendid condition : we have only to regret Mr. Williams's preference for a modem binding. Wright, binder: 215 LOCKHART (J. O.) Ancient Spanisli Ballads ; liifitorical and romantic. Translated, with notes . . London . . MDCCCXLII. Small 4to. red morocco super extra, gilt edges 1842 5 5 The delicate gilding which covers the sides is all in pointing imiteted from the work of Samuel Mearne, and decorated with numerous thistles, besides small pome- granates and pine-apples. The back which is flat is of the same character. White, binder : 216 HORACE. The Works of Quintns Horatius Flaccus (in Latin), illustrated . . with a Life by the Aev. Henry Hart Milman . . Lon- don . . MDCCCXLIX. 2 vols. 8vo. numerous beautiful woodcuts, with illuminated decorative titles to each of the hooks ; green morocco super extra, gilt edges 1849 12 12 A richly gilt and beautif al imitation of a magnificent " Eve '* binding. Francis Bedford, binder: 217 VIRGILIVS. Aldvs. Colophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri anno M.D.XIIII . . 12mo. thick papee; olive morocco extra, gilt edges, exquisitely giU all over the sides and hack after an interlaced Maioli pattern, with solid and azure fleurons 1514 30 ^ One of the finest pieces of work ever produced by Bedford. — The book is the genuine edition of 15 14/ but the two leaves of errata have been cut away. 218 IL PETRARCHA. Colophon : Impresso in Vinegia nelle case d'Aldo Romano nell' anno MDXIIII . . 12 mo. large and fine copy in brovm morocco, hound in imitation of a Venetian hinding of the early part of the sixteenth century 1514 7 7 On the sides two gold flilete which curve reciprocally and interlace once at the top, once at the bottom, and twice on each side. They are each accompanied by two blind fillets that run parallel with them. At the comers there are solid Aldine fleurons. The back is treated in a sniteble fashion. MODERN ENGLISH WORK. 43 Francis Bedford, hinder— continued, £ «. d. 219 GONZAGA. Lettere della molto illvstre Sig. la Sra Donna Lvcretia Gonzaga da Gazuolo . . Vinegia, MDLII. 12mo. hrowri morocco, gilt edges, gilt in imitation of a Venetian binding of the period 1552 2 2 Two parallel double fillets on the sides which turn to form a lozange at each comerf and then proceed at top and bottom to their middle, where they bend and cross one another in Baltire fashion, so that each outer row becomes the inner row of the opposite side. The inner rows turn in their midst and 6nt one another lozange-wise, forming also hj their own movement a smaller lozange at top and bottom of the large central one. 220 BOIARDO^ Sonetti e Canzcmi . . [edizione curata da A. Panizzi] MDCCCXXXV. Smallest 4to. red morocco super extra, gilt edges Only 60 copies privately printed (London), 1SS5 12 12 With Panizzi's autograph note of presentation to Thomas Babington Macaulay. The sides are divided into about a hundred figures ruled with parallel gold lines, of a sort of modified cruciform shape, with pointed tops and bottoms and rounded sides ( — a figure which Padeloup often used in his mosaic work). In each of these figures is an Aldine fleuron of solid ^old accompanied by four dots, the general effect of which ia very handsome and bnlliant. The same kind of ornament is repeated on the back. Bedford (and Hollo way) : 221 SHAW (Henry) Dkesses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, with Historical Descriptions, 2 vols, in 1, impl. 4to. 94 colored engravings^ portraits, ornaments, etc. the Artist's own copy, Unique in the perfection of its Illumination, to which Mr. Shaw gave years of minute labour, repainting and gilding everything after the originals, not excluding the initial letters and small ornaments ; hound hy Bedford in red morocco super extra, inlaid with green and blue morocco and richly gilt all over^ the sides embossed with coloured stones in gilt metal settings; silk linings, enamelled clasps, the edges beautifully decorated with painted scroll-ornaments; enclosed in blue morocco case 1843 250 The eneravings, large and small, amount to 224. The artist and the binder have combined to make this volume one of incomparable splendour. 222 The Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of the Middle Ages, impl. 4to. large paper, the Artist's own unique copy, the engravings coloured and illuminated to the highest degree of finish, in a style which is peculiar to this copy only ; in a magnificent ornamental binding by HoUoway, olive morocco super extra, gilt edges, unth mosaic ornaments of different coloured leathers inlaid on the sides, so as to form Grolieresque patterns at the corners and on the hack. ; tcith watered silk linings, and gilt edges ; enclosed in a morocco case 1851 120 223 Handbook of the Art of Illumination as prac- tised during the Middle Ages, folio, large paper, 16 large separate plates of Miniatures, with numerous Initial Letters and Ornaments, all executed in facsimile after the designs^ of illuminated MSS. in the very finest style of wood'engraving , the Artist's own copy, unique^ containing a Dupti- cate set of leaves, in which all the engravings are coloured 4A QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. £ s. d. as Miniatures and illuminated in the style of the originals^ with such care, finish, and beauty as to merit the name of Drawings ; superbly bound by Bedford in red velvety with enamelled clasps and bosses^ the gilt edges painted with an exquisite floral arabesque; enclosed in a blue morocco case ^ 1866 G3 these three works, picked and TTNIQTTE copies reserved by Mr. Shaw to the last day of his life, valued by the Artist at One Thousand Guineas, are sold together for 360 The most magnificent efforts of modem binding tliat I have ever had. Joseph Zaehnsdorf, binder: 224 MOUNTAINS OF SCRIPTURE . . MDCCCLVI. 12mo. printed in gold, unthin gold borders, and illustrated with coloured views of scenes in Palestine ; olive morocco inlaid with crimson and hlue, exquisitely gilt with poiniille fleurons and curves, edges gilt 1856 5 5 There is a touch of Roger Payne about tbe back ; the sides are of an original desiftn Tvhich would serVe as an education to most modem book-decorHtors. The binding was done bj Hagu6 and bears the name of Zaehnsdorf, for whom that fine but nnscrupulons artist was then working (1858-9). 225 OMAR KHAYYAM. RdbXitIt . . and the Salamdn and Absal of JXMf ; rendered into English yevse [by the late Edward Fitzgerald. Bernard Qnaritch; 15 Piccadilly, London. 1879. Smallest 4to. frontispiece; bound by Zaehnsdorf junior in citron morocco with an inlaid border of crimson, top edges gilt 1879 The coYers are gilt with winding branches of leaves and flowers, that wander gracefullj in apparent freedom over the sides, their nearly parallel curves being, how- ever, duly subjected to the order of manifold unity. Festoons of golden marguerites cover the crimson band with which the sides are framed. In the pai.els on the back is a curved spray bearing a vine-leaf. Presented to me by Mr. Zaehnsdorf. Robert Riviere, binder: 226 PETRARCH, le cose yolqari di messer Francesco petrarcha. Colophon : Impresso in Yinegia nelle case d'Aldo Romano, neir anno . MDI . . 12to[io, olive morocco extra, gilt edges 1501 13 The sides covered with a Grolieresque pattern in gold, probably an imitation ; the back treated similarly. This is the rare first Aldine edition of Petrarch. II. Flemish and Dutch Bindings. Tournay, 1300: 227 [MANUALE PREDICATORDM] in qninque partibus, 160 leaves— Proverbia Senece, 5 leaves — Auctoritates Sanctorum et Cathoricorum Doctomm de Virtutibns et Viciis, 58 leaves — in 1 vol. smallest 4to. MS. on vellum ; in the origifial binding About 1300 12 A nearly illegible inscription on one of the flyleaves runs thus : *' Ister liber debet p . . ad conventum S . . martini apnd T . . . ". The volume was bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps fift^or sixty years ago, aa having come from the Abbey of St. Martin at Tournay. The original binding, somewhat damaged, is still upon IL Over thick oaken boards secured bv leathern thongs from the bands on the back, a fine-grained cover of leather (originally white, but coloured by the binder a pinkish red) is imposed. It was then stamped with designs in little squares, the stamping being done so heavily as to erase the pinkish colour from t^e leather, and thus to produce figure and framework in whitish relief upon a reddish ground. On the upper cover we find in successive rows, seven dragons, seven rampant lions, eight lozanges enclosing a fleur-de-lis and having fleurs-de-lis behind them, eight repetitions of another flower which seems to be a natural lily, again the lozanges and fleurs-de-lis, FLEMISH AND DUTCH BINDINGS. 45 and again the line of dragons. On the lower coTer, there is first the line of dragons, then seTen representations of a bird which seems from its tail and crest to be a peacock, next eight squares, each of which contains two pigeons sitting on opposite branches of a single stem ; a griffin seven times : seven squares containing a representation of two long-legged birds joining their beaks over a shrub or a little tree that rises between them ; and finally a repetition of the line of dragons. A rose is stamped at each of the comers on both sides. The book I have called Manuale is a collection of biblical sentences or phrases arranged alphabetically nnder headings which are subdivisions of the parts into which it is divided. This was done as an aide-memoire for preachers. The same process is repeated as regards texts from the fathers in the Auctoritates. Utrecht, 1460-70: 228 GHETIJDEN ONSBR LIEVER PROUWBN, 12mo. illuminated MS. ON VELLUM, with 6 fulUpage Miniatures hrilUantly painted and gilt, and framed toithin floral borders ; in the original binding About lisQO 20 Thick boards covered with brown calf, bearing on the sides a stamped pattern (in two sections) of branches, flowers, and birds, with an inscription running round ** O mater dei memento mei.'* There is no other ornamentation. The MS. is prettily written and decorated. The upper background in each miniature is of burnished gold; the figures are finely painted, and Christ is black- haired. Bruges, Lodewyk Bloc, 1500: 229 PRAYERS TO THE VIRGIN AND THE SAVIOUR, in Flemish, small 4to. MS. on vellum, with 60 Miniatubes ; in the original binding, enclosed in a red morocco case About 1500 60 The illumination is in regular late Flemish style, with flowers and birds and insects painted upon the pale gold borders of the Miniatures. There is no more of text than just a page or two opposite each of the pictures ; these representing the life of Christ in a succession of designs chronologically arranged. The binding is very pretty, and is one of the best preserved examples of Blocks work. There are four impressions of the one block on each side. This block gives the words in Roman capitals : LyDOYiCTs Bloc ob laydem xpisti librvx uvho RXOTB LiOAVi. The internal design is in two compartments each containing six figures ovally enclosed in the intertwinements of a stem. There are thus twelve repre- sentations (of animals) four times repeated on each side. Grnel says '* Louis Bloc exer^ait an Moyen Age. Son nom, le caiactdre de sa signature et la composition de ses reliures, me font croire qu'il etait Fran^ais.'* He was a good Fleming and bound this volume at Bruges about 1500-16 10 for P. P. These initials appear in enamel upon silver in escutcheon-form in the middle of the clasp, and they are also painted on one of Uie miniatures (SS. Peter and Paul). They show probably that the owner was Peter Paul by name, or that a Petrns was marrying a Paula. Ghent, Judocus de Lede, 1515: 230 PSALTERIUM ^THIOPICUM. Page 1 : a woodcut of David, printed in red. Page 2 : loannes Potken . . Psalteriii Dauid in ipa vera lingaa Chaldea . . Colophon: Finitum Romas . . M.D.XIII. 4to. bound in calf in tJie Low Countries 1513 4 4 The book is rebacked and the comers are mended, but we have here the original stitching, and tiie sides with a splendid impression of the stamps used by Joost of Lede (a small town between Ghent and Brussels). On each side tnere are four impressions of one plate, two of another, and two of a third. No. I consists of two perpendicular rows of small fi^nires (two couchant stags, two standing eagles, two dragons, and two naked kneeling men) enclosed within the curves of a twining branch ; with an inscrip- tion in Gothic minuscules outside the mlinffs : Iudocus db lbdb ob laudem xpisti LiBBUM HURO RBCTB uoAUi. — No. 2 is in Jour square divisions containing a wild boar, a dragon, a couchant lion, and a couchant stag, of larger size than the figures in No. 1. — No. 3 has a twining vine*branch on its border, and a similar branch, but more curled, in its two inner compartments ; the curls in these serving to enclose the figures (a dove, a monkey, a duck, oollaterid with a difierent dove, a monkey, and a stork). Ghent, 1518-40 : 231 TERENTIVS. Aldvs. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri • . M.D.XVII . . 12mo. stamped calf, bound in the Low Countries 1517 24 Bound about 1618-20, apparently in Ghent, by Lndovicns Bloc or Joost of Leede or one of their fellow-workmen. The style here is the same as on the Ethiopic Psalter, and similar figures and vine-branches are introduced, but the plates are different and the impressions much sharper. There are three compartments on each side, the first and 46 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Ghent, ISlS'^AO—cantintied. £ s, I third identical, the second narrower down the middle (just like the two sides and back of an octodecimo binding). In 1 and 3, there is an outer border of twining Tino- branches, with figures of animals here and there ; two inner compartments side by side, in each of which two intertwining branches form four oTaloid spaces enclosing a conchant stag facing a monkey, a squirrel facing a wild boar, a oonchant dog facing a ooncbant bull, and two figures, different but both like hares, facing each other.— In No. 2, we have four squares enclosing figures of larger size : conchant stag, conchant lion, dragon, and wild boar. These are engraTed in reverse of those upon Joost da Lede's design and are done with more spirit and skill. In very fine condition. The back is slightly mended at the bottom, but the binding is virtually perfect with all its bands, panels, rulings, and ornamentation in their integrity. The edges are gilt and goffered. 232 NYPHI (Avgvstini) . . de diebns Gritiois seu decretorijs aureus liber . . Colophon : Argentorati per Henricum Sybold. 12mo. in the original stamped calf binding, rehacJced {Strasshurg^ 1529-30) 3 10 Bound probably in Ghent. There are three divisions on each side. No. I, a vine-branch border with animals, a double compartment inside with eight animals within the interlacements of two branches. (This is identical with No. 1 of the Terence above.) No. 2 is a row of four squares containing a rampant lion, a dragon, a griffin, and a pelican in figures of a larger size. No. 3 has a border of bunches of grapes, and, inside, three compartments : the middle one containing the inscription Ora pbo nobis Maria Dbi matbb, the other two containing each five figures of animals within ovals formed by twining branches. 233 GAMEBABinS. Praecepta Yitae pverilis . . Autore loachimo Camerario. Colophon : Basileae . . M.D. XXXVI. 12mo. reha^ked hut having the sides of the original stamped calf binding in perfect con- dition 1536 3 10 Bound probably in Ghent about 1536-40. On the upper cover we find No. 3 of the Nypbus at top and bottom, and, between the two impressions, a row of three squares which contain a rampant dragon ; Christ seated between the wings of a crouching dragon ; and a griffin. These are of large size. On the lower cover, No. 1 of the Nyphns is impressed at top and bottom ; and, between them, a row of five rustics dancing (one woman in the middle, two men on each hand). Antwerp, 1540-50: 234 THEOCRITI EDYLLIA {Greece) Louanii apud Theodoricu Martinu . . M.D.XXVIIL Small 4to. rebacked, but having the original stamped calf sides in beautiful condition 1528 4 4 There are two identical compartments of stamped ornament on each side. Each compartment has a rectangular section inside, containing two bufits within roundels. These hosts are arranged one above and one below, and differ little except thst in the lower one the nose and the beard project more than in the upper one. An arabesque border surrounds them : in the upper and lower line it represents fruits and leaves; on each side a central fruit like a melon, above and below it a twining garland or wreath, like two eights blended into one figure. Transverse diagonal rulings fill the space between each compartment. This seems to be Flemish work of about 1540 (at Antwerp ?). 235 VALL AB (Lavrentii) de Lingvae Latinae elegantia libri sex . . Parisiifl . apvd Simonem ColineBvm. 1544. Small 4to. in the origiiial stamped binding, a very fine example 1544 9 9 ^ Caff, ruled m blind-tooling with treble fillets in such a way that the centre looks like a double window*pane. On each of the four spaces (or panes) is an allegorical design of a female figure accompanied with the words fifpes. Fides, Charitas, and a quotation from the Psalms. The quotation is in nine lines of purely Italic letters. — The signature of the designer is also given : I P with a supported cross between the two letters. This is perhaps an Antwerp binding. The signature of Balduin Counard, 1658, is written on the title and within the cover with these rhymes : Vive laege, Vive jennesse, Vive Counard, Vive sa maitresse. 236 NANNII (Petri) . . Sv/iftt/cruii', sine Miscellaneoram deeas vna. Lovanii . . 1548 . . 12mo. in a stamped calf binding 1548 4 U '^ In perfect preservation. The sides are ruled, and in the rectangular middle space there is a splendid impression of a plate (106 x 65 mm.) representing a female fif^nre standing with arms folded, and gazing at a cross above the clouds. At the back of her head is the word <' Spes ", behind her ancles " Charitas *\ on the square stone under her feet "Fides". This is a close copy of the design on the Valla described above, but the words Meritum Christi which there appeared in Roman letters, are here in Gothic ; and the designer's iniUaU) are chsnged from I P to 1 B.— On the title-page there is the signature of Martinus Lydius, written probably in Holland about 1575. FLEMISH AND DUTCH BINDINGS. 47 Antwerp (1550) : £ «. d. 237 APIANO (Pedro) Libbo de la Gosmogbaphia . . en Eomance Castel- lano • . M.D.XLVIII . . Enveres . . numerous woodcuts and diagrams, besides the folding cordiform Map of the World; in the original binding 1648 9 9 Bonnd at Antwerp about 1548-50. Inside the rulings on the sides there is, first, a running branchy border ; then a border with medallions of laurelled Roman heads at the comers. At the top of this second border, there is a shield bearing the imperial eagle with two angels for supporters ; at the bottom, the binder's escutcheon with two angels for supporters ; at each side a double row of the twined wreath like two eiehts united, having between them an ornament like a melon or a bell. — Inside these borders there are two large medallions (one above and one below) of bearded and laurelled Roman warriors. — The binder's esentcheon bears a cross like a 4 with the npright limb continued downwards to end in a lozange, and nniting at its mid -course an I and a C, or an HC, or IC, or HG, or 10. It probably means the last, and may represent Jan van Ghelen, an Antwerp bookseller and binder who was flourishing 1540-60. L. Ploed, 1555 : 238 SENECA. Flores de L. Anneo Senrca, Tradvzidas de Latin en Bomance Gastellano, por Inan Martin Cordero . . En Anyers . . 1555 . . 12mo. a fine ruled copy in Orolieresque mosaic binding (enclosed in a red morocco case) 1555 40 Bound in Antwerp in 1555 for L. Floed, whose name, arms, and initials appear upon the sides. His autograph, *' 1555. In te speravi • L. Plded ", is written on the flyleaf. The pattern on the upper cover is one of geometrical interlacements formed by double gold fillets, the compartments between which are painted black. Subsidiary decoration of the leaf and flower kind is painted, at the comers and within the curves, in red, green, and gold ; the centrepiece is pink, upon which is painted a blue shield with yellow ornamentation. The arms are a rampant lion or, with an argent collar bearing the letters IHM6. — The same pattern i« repeated on the lower cover, but the central ornament is a large flory cross in blue, green, and gold upon inlays of white leather. — The back is bandless, and gilt with stars in little lozanges which are formed by the intersection of diagonal lines. From the Beckford Library. Marc Laurinus van Watervliet, 1559 : 239 SYLVIUS. Livke db la generation de lhomme . . par lacques Syluius . . depuis mis en Francois par Gnillaume Chrestian . . A Paris, M.D.LIX . . 12jno.intheoriginalblackcalf binding (repaired), executed for the famous book^collector 1559 36 Bound at Bruges at the time of issue. The sides are ruled with two sets of triple blind fillets, and between the two three gold lines are added. On the front cover, we have in gold, first the title la generation | de lhomme with three dots (2 and 1) under it. Then a wreath enclosing the motto Virtys | in. | ardto. Iliirdly, at foot, the inscription m . layrini . et . | amiorym . | (sic) md.lix. and three dots below. — On the lower cover the centrepiece is a wreath enclosing his escutcheon : une Jasce ondSe, une Stoile et un eroisscmt en chef, une fleur-de'lis en pointe. The shield is oval with ornamental shoulders. No other example seems to be known of his combined name, inscriptioni and escutcheon. Marc Lauwereins van Watervliet Latinised his name as Laurinus, and was a friend of most of the antiquaries and literary men of his time, besides being himself a learned numismatist and a collector of books. Mr. Fletcher states that he was bom in 1630 and died in 1581, but Foppens (who gives no date for his birth) says that he died in 1610. This Laurinus had an uncle of the same name, who died about 1550. A modem book-label bearing the monogram of IT, and the motto inter folia <ruetu8f is pasted inside the cover. The dedication of the third part, *^ Des moys des Femmes '* to Diane de Poitiers, contains some singular matter. Antwerp, 1563: 240 DIE GHEBEDEN DER BIBBLEN alsoo die Heylighe Vaders ende Vrouwen Godt plegben aen to roepen . . Thantwerpen by ameet Tauemier . . M.D.Lxiij . . printed in Lettres de Civilite, with many pretty little woodcuts ; in the original binding (rebacked) 1563 3 16 Brown calf, tooled with gold centre and comerpieces in the Lyonnese style, a semis of flory crosses in all the open spaces. The edges are gilt and goffered. 48 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Louvain, 1566: £ «. d, 241 HORTVLVS PRECATIONVM Dat is, hefc Hofken der bedinghen . . Loaen . . 1566. Small 4to. vdth woodcut illustrations, and printed throughout within woodcut borders ; in the original gilt binding 1566 8 8 Warm brown calf, gilt on the sides with centre and comerpieces of the Lyonnese style, a semis of roses occapyinfc all the open spaces. The back is fall-gilt in all the panels in the style of ornamental metal-work. The edges are gilt and goffered. A sixteenth-centnry memorandum on the flyleaf is " Desen boek is tot g^bmyck Tan Maria Theresia van Uondenhoysen '*. For or by her, no donbt, the eleyen MS. leayes were written, which are inserted at the end and contain " die xv Bloetstortinghen ons liefs Heeren.'* Embroidered Binding: Infanta Isabel, 1615: 242 LANARIO (Francesco) Lb Gyerbe di Fiandra . . Colophon : Ant- verpiae, apvd Hieronymvm Yerdvssivm . M.DC.XV. Small 4jfco. bound in blue velvet richly embroidered with silver and gold cord in a multiplicity of ornamental designs, edges gili 1615 48 Dedicated to the Archduke Albert, bnt bound for his wife the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia sovereign of the Low Ck>iJNTRiE8. In the centre, on the sides, enclosed within a garland of two wreaths is a princely crown surmounting a monogram composed of the letters ISABEL. Around the garland there are floral comers stretching their branches forward and outward to meet each other and combine at the centres ; and these are all framed within a triple fillet. In the broad margin between these fillets and the outer fillets at the edge, there are figures of fiowers and insects and twining branches, ending at the comers in a large fieur-de-lis, and enclosing in their middle course a figure of an eagle (differently designed in each place) sur- mounted by a princelpr crown. The design on the lower coyer is raried in omitting the crowned eagles, and in having four eagles (one at each side, and all different). — On the back there are four panels, each containing a different floral ornament. This is a triumph of ornamental embroidery, and seems to have been executed by a Spanish hand in Antwerp in 1615-16. P.A.I.S. 1599: 243 MISSALE ad ysum sacbi Osdinis Cisterciensis . . Parisiis . . 1584. Small folio, bound in thick wooden boards covered with stamped and gilt calf 1584 8 8 Bound in 1599 probably somewhere in the direction of Cologne. The outside gilding on the sides is a row of figures like embellished fleurs-de-lis springing from a line of conca?e curves, these curves being countered by convex curves, thus producing a chain of oblong links. Inside this is a silver chain of straight and square links. Then the middle space is divided into an upper and a lower section, both bordered with silver roulettes in the style of ornamental metal-work. The first inner square on the upper cover has a Crucifixion within a lozange and comerpieces in gold ; the second has the comers and centre of similar Yeneto-Lyonnese pattern in gold. — On the lower side, in the top square, there is a small Crucifixion and I H S, in an oval, with the initials P A above and I S below. In the lower square the oval is occupied by a mitre and an escutcheon, flanked by the letters F and A, I and S. Above and below is the divided date 15. 99. The bearing is : a bend charged with three fleurs-de-lis, a wheel in chief and point. A fleur-de-lis and a thistle are formed at each angle of the two squares. Grimberg, 1650: 244 MATTHABI PARIS . . Historia Major . . Editore Willielmo Wats . . Parisiis . . M.DC.XLIV. Folio, oak boards covered with stamped calf with brass clasps 1644 15 Bound for Vincentius de Vischer, Canon of Grimberg (near Brussels), who pre- sented it to some library. The arms in gold on the sides represent his possession before 1650 ; the lettering '* £x dono . . 1650 '* was added in that year. The tooling on the sides, except for the arms, is blind and strongly impressed. There is for the border a double cham roulette of the style already described on the Missale Cisterciense, but only the base of the fleur-de-lis figure is seen. Inside this a broad roulette of fraits and flowers. Amsterdam, 1685: 246 BIDLOO (Godefridi) . . Anatomia Hvmani Corporis . . Amstelodami . , MDCLXXXV. Roj. folio, 105 plates by Q, de Lairesse ; bound in stamped pigskin {over oak hoards) with the arms and name of the owner 1685 On the upper cover, within an oval centrepiece, the escutcheon is stamped ; on the lower, in a similar oval, we read the name Ioacuimvs . Comes . de . Wikduag' . sxcELSi . Rboxminib . CoNBiLiABivs. The binding is very Germanic. DUTCH AND GERMAN WORK. 49 Tortoise-shell bindings, 1680-1820 : £ #. . d. 246 Jewish Daily Praykrs, in Hebrew, thick 12mo. bound in tortoise-shell, with two silver-gilt clasps and three double hinges About 1680 5 15 There is a great deal of fine filigree work in the metal ornaments. 247 Obdek de las Obaciones Cotidunas . . Amsterdam . . Ano 5441. 18mo. bound in tortoise-shell, with two clasps on the front, and two double hinges on the booh and sides, all in chased silver; the edges gilt and goffered 1681 4 4 A Jewish Prayerbook, in a binding contemporary with its date. The goffeiiog represents a leafy bush with a large ronnd fruit at top, on which a bird is perching. 248 Orden de las OfiACiONEs Cotidunas . . Amsterdam, Ano 5452. 12mo. bound in tortoise-shell, with a silver frame chased to represent a hind of lace-edging on the sides ani back, and having silver clasps; the sides gilt and goffered 1692 5 5 The linings are of green paper with gold figures. 249 Het Bobk deb Psalmen neyens de Oezangen bij de Hervormde Kerk van Nederland . . Haarlem . . MDCCLXXXI. — Eyangelische Qezanoen . . Qravenhage . . MDCCCXV — 2 vols, in 1, l2mo. bound in tortoise-shell, with two clasps, two double hinges, and eight corner^ pieces, all in silver, the edges gilt 1781-1805 4 15 With the bookplate of the Re?. Robert Green about 1840-46. 250 Het Nieuwb Testament . . Amsterdam . . 1817 — Qezangboek der Hervormde Kerk . . Amsterdam . . MDCCCVII — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. bound in tortoise-shell, with gilt hinges, and chased silver clasps 1807-17 15 There are graven figures upon the clasp itself and upon the holdfasts to which it is attached. The one on the clasp is Hope holding an anchor in front of her i the other two are the Adoration of the Shepherds, and the Adoration of the Three Kings. — ^The linings are of pink silk with a rim of gilt metaL III. German Bindings. Westphalia, 1430: 251 CASSIANUS de Institutis Sanctorum Patrnm ; Tractatus de Viciis ; Obitas Iheronimi; 3 parts in 1 vol. small folio, MS, on paper; in the original boards covered with brown leather 1418-21 5 Ruled on the sides with blind fillets and transverse parallel diagonals forming lattice- work ; each point on the top, bottom, and sides, closed with a roundel. This is a handsome and well-preserved binding which might from its appearance be taken to be a hundred years later than it is. However, the very thick boards, the metal remnants of the clasps, and the thick band at the top and bottom of the round back, all show that it is a work of the fifteenth century; done probably about 1430 in St. Meynnlf s Monastery. On the leaf of lining, we read " Liber sci Meynulfi in Boedeken" written about 1440-50. The flyleaves and guardleaves are portions of vellum MSS. of the XI, XII, and XIII centuries. Boedeken is near Paderbom in Westphalia. On the last page of the text, six lines on the storming of Mentz in 1462 ¥rere added in that year. South Germany, 1440 : 252 BELIAL. Page 1 : Allen Cristen getrewen vnd recht gelobigen diedi bnwen den gelauben der hailligen CristenHaitt die sehent oder Horent lesen dises knrtz gediebte Embnt Priester lacob vo laranis baill . . Small folio, MS. on paper, with 65 curious paintings in blue, red, green, and white {one leaf, the twenty-third, supplied in a modern hand) ; in the original boards covered with leather, with brass cornerpieces, centre- pieces, and parts of clasps About 1430-40 27 Written somewhere in Southern Germany. The binding is very rude and decorated only with lines in blind-tooling. Within a double fillet, there is a saltire, each arm of which is formed of three fillets. Across the centre are three transverse horizontal Hnes, the spaces between them being ruled in lattice sections. On the brass comer and centrepieces appear the letters ** CCS," and on the fragmentary clasps ** mari." This is a South-German binding done about 1440-50. 50 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Johann Fogler, binder, 1450-60: £ «. d. 253 PETRI LOMBARDI Liber Sententiarnm, small folio, MS. on paper hy a SotUh-Qerman hand; in the original binding^ with the binder's NAME About 1450-60 7 10 On the rides there are lengthwise and transverse mlings which form compartments for the ornamental work. At the top, bottom, and sides, we see a line of little squares each containing a dog sitting on his hind-quarters with his tail tamed np. This is repeated abont sixty times and serves as Border No. 1 within the fillets. Next there is a broad border No. 2, divided into three compartments at top, three at the bottom, and one at each side. In the first and third at top and bottom there is a square device of inter- lacing knotwork ; in the second, a Virgin and Child in a church porch with a lion and a bird in two roundels right and left. In each side compartment, the knotwork device, tiie name on a scroll ** Johannes Fogler,'' then a pretty design of a hand playing a lute in the midst of foliage, then again the name and the knotwork. The centrepiece enclosed by border No. 2, is divided into 36 little squares, three by three from top to bottom, consisting of one perpendicular row of eagles, a second in which a fleur-de-lis and a heart pierced by an arrow occur alternately, and a third containing a rampant lion. Mr. Weale (Exhibition of Bindings at the Burlington Fine Arts Clnb) seems to think that Fogler worked at Bamberg. Suabia, 1480-1520: 254 BONAVENTURE (St.) Title : Seraphici doctoris sancti bonaaenture Sermones de tempore et Banctis cu comani sanctoram Colophon : . . in Reatlinge . . complenimus . . Anno domini . M.cccc.lxxxv. Small ioliOf fine copy in the original binding 1485 2 16 The binding is in perfect condition. It is a cover of stamped black leather over thick oaken bouds. There are on the sides four horizontal rows of triple blind lines, and four perpendicular rows. They cut one another and form a middle space with eight bordering compartments. In the middle space there are five (2, l,and 2) fleurons like natural lilies upon lozange figures. Four of them are enclosed within branchy figures, rounded ; the fifth, in the centre, is sufficiently enclosed within the combined frames of the others. In compartments 1, 3, 6, 8, there is a rose, in 2 and 7 three flenrs-de-lis upon locanges^ in 4 three lozangy fleurons, in 5 four lozanges charged alter- nately with an eagle and a fleur-de-lis. 255 NAUCLBRUS de Simonu. Fol 1 : Tetrastichon H. Rebel Ad lectores . . Colophon: Tractatns de symonia putilis editns a spectabili viro Johani {sic) nanclero . . Anno. 1500. Small 4to. wooden boards half covered with stamped leather (Tubinge^i), 1500 2 10 An early example of half binding (about 1520-30). The back is plain, but the overlapping bands of leather which are attached to the oaken boards are divided on each ride into two longitudinal compartments. The compartments on the upper cover are stamped with hunting scenes (huntsman, dogs, and stag) ; on the lower cover with architectonic renaissance ornament. Some of the attachments inside the wooden cover are portions of a ninth-century MS. on vellnm. Basel, 1495-1519: 256 QUADRAGESIMALE NOUUM editu ac predicatu a quodam fratre minore . . de filio prodigo . . Colophon: . . Basilee per Michaelem fnrter . . M.CCCC.XCV. 12mo. with several woodcuts of excellent design ; in the original binding 1495 5 5 Boards covered with stamped pigskin. The rides are decorated in four perpendi- cular compartments, the upper cover luring 1 . six roses in circles, 2. seven spread eagles in lozanges, 3. the same as 2., 4. the same as 1. On the lower cover, 1. five Florentine lilies in lozanges, 2. eight lozanges containing a cross formed of four united flenrs-de- lis, 3. seven spread eagles in lozanges, 4. five fleurons in lozanges. With inscriptions of the fifteenth and eighteenth century both containing the place-name Scheyre or Scbayr. — The end-leaf is part of a twelfth-century MS. with musical notes (neums). 257 POSTILLE Maiores snp Enangelia z Epistolas . . Monotessaron passionis . . Colophon: . . impensa pronidi uiri Adae Petri de Lan- gendorff . . Basilesd, Anno . . Millesimo qningentesimo decimonono . . small 4to. with numerous woodcuts by TJrs Qraf ; fine copy in the original boards covered with stamped calf 1519 4 10 On the sides there are two rectangular borders and a rectangular centrepiece. This last is divided into two lozanges and eight triangles by transverse diagonal bands. Within one lozange is 1(0, within the other ma ; within each triangle a lion (or wingless griffin). The outer border contains intersecting arches ending alternately GERMAN WORK, 1520-1529. 51 in pediments and flenrons. In the inner border there are branches of foliage, the Virgin and Child, and Kings bearing offerings. On the lower cover these figures are repeated with the addition of the Evangelists' emblems at the comers ; and the letters H$ and ma are replaced by roses. The linings and flyleaves are foar leaves of a MS. Herbal in Latin verse, written on vellmn abont 1320-30. The section on the virtues of the rose begins thns — Did flos flornm nobis rosa jnre videtnr . . (Maintz?) about 1520: 258 AHOAAONIOY POAIOY Afyyovavrucdt . Colophon : 'Ev f^copcKTtfli ct« \tXwaT<^ rtrpaxocioaria cvcnyKotrrw cktw . Small 4to. the text printed in capitals, with a commentary in cursive characters; in a white kid binding 1498 12 12 The sides stamped with losanges in triangular compartments, each lozange bearing an eagle ; roundels with roees in the space outside the centrepiece. This is a plain German binding, done abont 1520 for Dr. Hieronymns ab Endorf. The book was bought in 1539 by the theologian Wolfgang Sedel, who has recorded the fact on the tbnt page. His bookplate (printed or stencilled) is pasted inside the cover — a veiy early example of its kind. It bears the words, ** Wolfoanoub Sbdblius Pauper sum ego. So in Laboribus a inuentute mea,'* — The volume passed afterwards into the libraiy of the Benedictine Monastery at Tegemaee. Baxheim Monastery, 1525 : 259 ANTIPHONARIUM CARTHUSIANUM, small folio, pine MS. on TELL CM tn hold Oothic character, with all the Music in square notes on a staff of fowr lines; in wooden hoards covered with stamped hogskin (a little mended) About 1440 7 7 Bound abont 1525, probably in the Carthusian monasteiy called the Aula B. Marias at BUxheim near Memmingen, in which the book was preserved till a few years ago. The centre ornament on the sides is like a winc|pw with lozange panes and has in each pane a sort of large fleuron. This is surrounded by a border with figures representing a deer hunt with dogs. Outside the border is another compartment, which has roses at the comers; and, at the top, bottom, and sides, lozanges enclosing a Florentin'e fleur-de-lis, besides other detached ornaments. The border of hunting scenes is omitted on the lower cover. Ferdinand King of Bohemia (afterwards Emperor), 1529 : 260 GEORGII LOGI Silesii ad inclytvm Fprdinandvm . . Hendecasyllabi, Elegiab, et Epigrammata . . Colo- phon: Viennae Pannoniae Hieronymus Vietor Silesius . . M.D.XXIX. 4to. THE King's dedication copy printed on VELLUM, the title and the last page illuminated^ and two other pages printed in gold ; in the original gilt binding vxith the edges mended^ enclosed in a blue morocco case 1529 145 The leather seems to be smooth reddish morocco bat it now looks like brown calf. The gilt decoration of the sides is done with Italian tools from Venice. An architectonical border of arabesques, an inner row at top and bottom in the style of ornamental metal- work, Aldine flenrons at the corners, and a combination of them to produce a lozangj centrepiece. Within this, on the upper cover, we read Ferdinando Reqi, and on the lower G. Logvs dedicavit. A dolphin and the bead of a trident at foot of the inscription on each side. The edges are gilt and goffered. The title is in gold letters. The escutcheon beneath has the crown, and the collar of the Golden Fleece, also in gold, and the escutcheon properly tinctured. (It is arranged thus : Bohemia and Hungary, quarterly. Over them a shield of pretence parti of Austria- Old Burgundy-Aragon-Sicily, and Castille- Leon-Modem Burgundy- Brabant. Over these a further shield of pretence party of Tyrol and Flanders.) The verses on the back are printed in gold. The verses 4 * 52 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. £ f. d. on leaf El are also printed in gold, as also is the firsfc page of II. The escutcheon of Logns himself on the last page is richly illuminated. This snperb book ought to be in the Austrian imperial librarj, from which no doubt it was stolen in the seventeenth century. Basel, 1535-44: 261 FLATONIS omnu opera cum Commentariis Procli . . (Grssce) Basileae . . M.D.XXXIIII. Stout small folio, fine copy in the original Btamnedcalf 15d4i 5 In excellent preserration. The sides are rnled with thick fillets in double rows. The inner lines are bordered in blind tooling with a sort of lace-pattern consisting of flenrons like flenrs-de-lis springing from a row of concare intersecting cnires, and the interior rectangle is divided by fillets into lozaoge or lattice shapes enclosing large lozangy flenrons. On the title-page is written the name of ^'Hermannns Mars Senhdter yioarios Deipare . . " 262 SPHAEBAE ATQYE Astbortm coelestium ratio, natura, &, motus . . M.D.XXX VI. Valderas. Small 4to. diagrams; in the original stamped pigshin [BasilefB] 1536 1 12 Blind- tooled with knotwork in the panels on the back ; on the sides, a Renaissance border, with a cornerpiece of branchy ovals enclosing flenrons of a conyentional lily kind. On the npper cover, there is stamped in black *' Aratus i. c. 1537." Bound at Basel for L C. — ^The bookplate of Michel Chasles is inside. 263 SAMMONICI (Qvinti Sereni) . . de re medica . . liber . . item Gabrielis Hnmelbergij . . Commentarij. Tigvri. M.D.XL. Small 4bUi, fine copy in the original hoards covered with stamped calf 1540 4 A fine Swiss binding, one of the plaques of which contains the date of 1636. Inside the fillets, the side of the cover is ruled with perpendicular lines which divide the surface into four sections. Each of these sections is impressed with four designs which are repeated in the others. They are lettered with abstract names. *< Feccatnm " represents Eve presenting the apple to Adam, the tree of Knowledge rising high between theni, and flanked with the date 15 | 36. ''Signnm Fidei " is an old man kneeling before a cross on which hangs a serpent " Satisf actio *' is the Crucifixion, and " Jnstificatio " Christ rising from the Sepulchre. These designs were probably engraved at Basel. (Cologne ?) 1548-50 : 264 EVANGELIA. quedam samcta euuanoelia . . secunduj ordinem diemm sollemninm . . scripta . . 1548 . . Small folio, MS. on YXLLUM, with illuminated initials and numerous Miniatures, including two splendid opening pages painted in Flemish style ; in the original binding of wooden hoards covered with crimson velvet, and decorated with chased silver clasps and comerpieces 1548 63 Bound probably on the frontiers of Holland and Germany about 1548-50. The silver clasps and comerpieces are elaborately carven. (Niirnberg ?) 1548-50 : 265 PSALTERIUM Hbbbeum, GrecG, Arabicu, <fc Chaldbu . . Colophon : Impressit . . Petms Paulns Porrus, genusB . . anno . . millesimo qningentesimo sextodecimo . . Small folio, in an early Germain stamped calf hinding (Genoa) 1516 6 Bound in 1546, or soon after it ; that date being impressed upon one of the designs with which the cover is adorned. The outmost border is a row of ruDuing and intersecting arches with little flowers between. Inside there is a second border of figures ; and in the middle a triple perpendicular row of the same figures. These are really only four designs frequently repealed, and they seem to represent the Evangelists, although the symbols are not always readily to be identified. One is a saint with a sword in his right hand, a book in his left, a winged bull above him, and a monogram which seems to be PTK or PIR, below him. The second holds the globe of sovereignty in his left hand, and raises his right in a gesture of admonition ; a winged lion above him. The third grasps two keys (like St. Peter), and has an eagle above him ; with the letters XL, which seem to be a signature. The fourth is a man preaching in a pulpit, his left hand clutching a book, his right pointing downwards ; above him the figure of an angel. In this last is the date 1546, and it is to be remarked that the preacher's bead is the only one without a nimbus. With the printed bookplate of J. P. Kerren (about 1760), possessor of the library of " P. Anth pisB memorial." GERMAN WORK, 1555-1559. 53 Ottheinrich of Bavaria, 1555 : £ s. d. 266 VORAQINB (Jacobud de). FoL 1 : Vmane labilis vite decursus . . Colophon on reverse of fol. 335 : Explicit magistri lacobi de yoragine liber sermonnm cc Small folio, fine copy in wooden hoards covered with stamped calf [Nuremherg, about 1471] 18 The sides are stamped in compartments : in the first border three designs repeated sereral times of Eve giying the Apple, the Cmcifixion, the Resarrection. These are copied from older plates {see SammoDicas). In the second border, there are smaller designs better executed, three in number but frequently repeated : a lady and a gentle- man ; a gentleman and a lady ; two soldiers marching, one playing the fife, the other carrying a drum . . In the middle space on the upper cover, there is stamped in gold, (1) a cherub's head between two leaves, (2) a portrait of the Ffaltzgraf between colunms arranged in a square, (3) the inscription ott hainrich von o. .g. pfaltzgbatb bet BHBiM HBRTZOG iif NXDBBN YND OBERN BAIRN, aud (4} the date 1556. — Ou the lower cover, in the middle, the Prince's arms are stamped in gold, above them the letters MD Zand below OHP. (Strassburg ?) 1556: 267 MACROBII . . In Somnium Scipionis, Lib. ii. Satnmalioruin, Lib. VII . . Lvgdvni . . 1556. Small 8vo. in the original stamped calf binding 1556 2 This seems to be a German or Germanic binding, whether it was executed at Lyons or across the Rhine. The central ornamentation on the sides is intended to represent interlaced knotwork with the knotted ends falling out like fleurons on each side. The basis of the design is a continuous row of arches having their junctures gathered up in fleurons which run parallel with the sides of the book. The two rows back to back are clasped by circular forms of the same kind (like thick, many- stranded ropes). — The borders which surround the sides contain four classical designs in square frames, frequently repeated: Venus, Pallas, Juno, PariB, each of them lettered, and that of Pallas furnished with a date, 1555. This binding was probably done in Strassburg in 1556. Saxony, 1556: 268 NOUUM lESV CHRISTI D. N. TESTAMENTUM (Greece edente Roberto Stephano) Lvtetiae . . M.D.L. Small folio, fine copy^ in the original oak hoards covered with black morocco (rebacked) 1550 20 Bound in 1556 for Juhns, the last Bishop of Naumburg, whose Initials J. £. N. with the date 1556 are stamped on the cover. There are sets of inner and outer fillets blind-tooled on the sides, having a rose within and a leaf without the comers of the interior set, and a fleur-de-lis in the centre. These decorations, rose, leaf, and fleur-de-lis, were in silver, but there remains little trace of the metal.— Inside the upper cover is pasted a leaf of vellum painted for the Bishop with a large Omcifixion on a background, consisting of a diapered-arabesque pattern, bordered wiUi ornamentation in the style of goldsmith's work. There is an inscription, yellow on red, below. The corresponding end-leaf is splendidly emblazoned with the Bishop's arms on a green and yellow ground, and bears the date 1557. It is a bookplate of early date and fine ornamental character. Forty-five leaves of contemporary Austrian paper fhaving the imperial crown for watermark) were inserted by the binder at the end or the book, evidently for notes which the Bishop intended to add. (Jramberg) 1557: 269EPISTOL^ CLARORVM VIRORVM . . Aldys. Parisiis . .1556 — Qeoroibuiz (Barth.) db Tybcarvm mobibvs . . Lvgdvni . . M.D.LV. — 2 vols, in 1, 16mo. stamped pigskin 1555-56 110 Bound in Ckrmany for F.^. F., whose initials with the date 1557 are impressed upon the cover. In the middle on the sides there are nine fleurons (in threes) and a border with compartments. Two of these compartments contain heads ; the others are stamped witn the same little figures as appear on the binding done for the Pfaltzgraf Ottheinrich. Christoph Duke of Wiirtemberg, 1559 : 270 HESIODI OPBBA & dies . . (Oroec. et Lat,) Colophon: Basileae, M.D.LIX . . 12mo. thb dedication copt of Chbistopheb Julius op NUBNBKRO, PRESENTED TO THE DuKE OP WURTTEMBERG 1559 6 Smooth reddish-brown morocco, gilt on both sides with a double-chain border, and having on the upper cover a rectangular centrepiece, which is covered with fleurons in Venetian style, and has Florentine lilies at its corners. The back, which is mended, has a fleur-de lis in each panel. The centrepiece on the lower cover contains the escutcheon of Wiirtemberg with the inscription C. H. Z. W. [i.e. Christoph Uerzog zn 54 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. s. d. Wtirtemberg], and on a scroll abore VDMIiB. This has the Florentine lily at the corners, and a flenr-de-Us aboYe and below. On the upper cover again there is a lettering Uesiodys Chbist. Itlio 1559. The editor's antop«ph inscription is written at the bottom of the title-page : " D. Christophoro lulio M. Garbicius d. m." The edges of the leaves are gilt and goffered. Julias must have induced his namesake, the Duke of Wiirtemberg, to accept the present he had just received from Garbitius. There is no other waj of acoouuting for the escutcheon and inscription. Frankfurt, 1561-2: 271 BIBLIA Das ist Die gantze Heylige Schrifft Teatsch D. Makt. Luth. . M.D.LXI. Colophon: , . Franckfnrt am Majn . . tansent fiinff hundert ein ynd sechtzig. Folio, with numerous fine woodcuis by V S; in the original bindit^^ mended 1561 18 This was originally a grand binding, richly gilt brown calf over thick oaken boards. The upper cover which is Sie more maltreated, exhibits in its middle space an elaborate geometrical design of interlacements four times impressed, with a cherub's head in each centre. The corresponding place on the lower cover has a large lozange of renaissance design with a twisted chain forming an inner lozange, and an oval centrepiece with busts and fleurons. There are two rectangular borders on the sides, the outer one consisting of a broad floral roulette broken at short intervals by medallion heads of men and women. — The back has three circular ornaments horizontally arranged, in each panel. The edges are gilt and goffered with a coloured arabesque pattern. A. B.G. D. Basel, 1562: 272 lOSEPHI (Flavii) Antiqvitatvm lydaicarvm libri xx . . Basileae MDLIX . . Small folio, in the original stamped calf {over oaken hoards) in fine preservation^ with clasps 1559 6 16 6 The sharpness and clearness with which the ornamental designs are impressed upon the leather show that the plates or blocks must have been little used before this book was bound. The centrepiece on the sides consists of three perpendicular and col- lateral compartments in each of which there are four heads under canopies with letterings : David Ron., P. Doctor, Ecce Aug . ., Graci. FOR. There is a border between the thick fillets, in which the same heads and letterings are repeated. The designer's monogram, composed of the letters N and P (just like the mark o( Nicolas Frevost, but certainly not his), is found on the picture of David Kon (i.e. Konig). The letters A B G D and the date 1562 are impressed in gold on the upper cover. Andreas Balduinus, Wittenberg, 1564: 273 CL. CLAYDIANI Opera . . Aldva. Colophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae Asylani soceri . . M.D.XXIII. — Sannazarii (Actii Synceri) de Partv Vii^nis libri III . . Aldvs M.D.XXXIII.— 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. large and fine copies in stamped pigskin 1523-33 2 2 In fine preservation. Andreas Balduinus M. Witebersensis (whose signature is written on the end-leaf) caused the book to be bound for him. His initials and the date *' A B. W. 1564 ' are impressed on the upper cover. There is a border on the sides in which we find well-drawn figures, erraticaliy lettered Fides, Spes, Patientia, and Charitas, frequently repeated. The one which represents a woman with streaming hair, a shovel in front of her, hands joined and uplifted in prayer, is marked with the initials C K. With the bookplate of James Elwin Millard. Saxony, 1561-70: 274 CL. CLAVDIANI . . Opera . . Lvgdvni . . 1561. 16mo. in the original stamped calf rehacked 1561 3 Bound in Germany, probably at Wittenberg, and having on the upper cover within an oval the figure of Ivstitia ; on the lower that of Lvcretia. — In 1580 it came into the possession of a Scot, T. Finlason, whose name with that date ii written on the title-page. In the same year it passed into the hands of another Soot, James Mudie, who caused the inscription to be added on the covers : " lacobvs Mvdie est mevs Hervs Anno Domini 1580.*' 275 MELANCHTHON. Liber continens . . Epistolas . . scriptas . . ad loach. Camerar. Pabep. . LipsiaB . . At end : MDLXIX . . 8vo. in the original boards covered with stamped pigskin 1569 10 In the centre on the upper cover a figure of Justice ; on the lower Lucretia stabbing herself. This centrepiece is surrounded by a border containing medidlion heads of Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, and Julius Csesar. Bound probably at Wittenberg. GBRMAlf WORK, 1570-80. 65 Saxony, 1561-70-~con<»nw«<i. £ «. d. 276 FAUNUS. De Antiqvitatibvs Vrbis Romae ab antiquis nonisq; auctoribus . . dispositis per Luciam Fannum . . Oolophan : Yenetiis . . M.D.XLIX — Castilionii (Qvlielmi Philandri) . . in decern Libros M. Vitruaii . . Annotationes . . Colophon : . . RomsB . . M.D.XLIIII. — DoNi. Disegno del Doni . . Vinetia . . MDXLIX — 3 vols, in 1, in a splendidly preserved Oerman binding of stamped vellum over thick wooden hoards, toith clasps, in a morocco case 1544-49 2 10 The books were carried to Germany and bound in one Tolnme in or soon after the year 1570, probably at Wittenberg. The centrepiece on the npper cover is a qnarter- length figure of Ivsticia ; that on the lower is Lncretia and has the date 1670. The figure of Jnstitia is from Hans Brosamer's design and is signed with his monoi^ram. The border ail round is of renaissance style with arabesques and medsdlions of Virgil, Qyid, Cicero, and Terence. The inscription "E T L 1582" which appears on the npper corer, are the initials of some one into whose possession the book came in that year. With a German bookplate bearing the date of 1776. (Strassburg?) 1570-71: 277 OALTHERI (Philippi) poete Alexandreidos libri decern . . Lngdani . . Mil. Vc. Lviij . . Small 4to. printed entirely in lettebs-db- CiyrLiTi ; in an early stamped binding 1558 5 The outer border on the sides is stamped with figures of masical angels : one plays the drum, another the flute, the occupation of the third is probably similar but IS not dear. Each is in a separate compartment, and is repeated several times. Leaf • ornaments and the date 1570 are found m the inner border, and the central compart- ment is impressed with eighteen conventionally decorative figures of pine-apples (in threes). This is a binding of German character, although it may have been executed at Lyons. Wittenberg, 1574-75: 278 BIBLIA Germanico-Latina. VS. CbarfiirBtliclien Sechsiscben Befebl gedrnckt zn Witteberg . . M.D.LXX1111. 10 vols, small 4to. toith numerous woodcuts; in the original calf binding, unth A coloured PORTRAIT OP Luther in a sunken central panel on the upper cover of each volume, and A coloured portrait op Melanchthon in the correspond- ing panel on the lower cover 1574 20 The gold borders in arabesque decoration, with comerpleces to each, are impressed upon both covers outside the sunken panels. In 1581 the book betonged to G. M. N. whose initials with that date are impressed in gold upon the upper cover of each volume. In 1600 it passed into the possession of Friderich Giinther of Niimberg, whose name and long inscription appear inside the cover of the first volume. In 1686 it belonged to Christoph Ma^miliau Fronners V. Thalhaueren of Niimberg, whose name is written on the first title-page. There is an inscription in capital letters, in relief on a gold ground under each portrait That on the obverse begins " Nosse cupis faciem Lutheri . . ", and that on the reverse : Forma Philippe tui est . . Frankfurt, 1575: 279 DEDEKIND. Grobianvs efc Grobiana. De Morvm Simplicitate . . Per M. Fridericvm Dedekindvm . . Franc . . M.D.LXXV. 12mo. in the original stamped calf binding 1575 4 The borders on the sides contain little figures of angels in compartments. One of them holds a shield which bears a star and the letters I S or K S. The square centre has, on the upper side, a large half-length figure of Charles V with swoid on shoulder, globe, helmet, the shields of the Empire, of Aragon-^icilj, and Castile-Leon ; with three lines of verse below. On the lower cover, there is a portrait of the Elector of Saxony with the verses below '^ Yictus eras acie, fidel oonstantia tandem Yictorem ante hommes fecit et ante Deum." The plates used bj the binder were consequently at least twenty years old at the time of the binding. Emperor Rudolf II. See under Italian Bindings, 1585-88. (Prague) 1579: 280 CAMERABII (loacbimi) Notatio Figvrarvm Sermonis in libris qvatvor Evangeliorvm . . Lips . . M.D. LXXII. Small 4to. in the original stamped pigskin 1572 6 6 Formerly in the ownership of a Bohemian magnate of Italian extraction: " Princeps illustrisslmus Dominns Petrus Vok Ursinus Dominus Domus h Rosenberg," whose fine armorial bookplate, dated 1609 (engraved or designed by EG S, t.e. ^gidius 66 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. £ «. d, Sadeler), is pasted iiunde the cover. The same Orslni arms are stamped on the oataide of tiie cover, and are accompanied by written initials and date, P. O. Z. 1579. This was perhaps the father of Peter Vok Orsini. The stamping of the pigskin includes little figures of Faith, Hope, and Charitjr, one of which bears the date of 1546. Saxony, 1579-87: 281 LESLEY. Db orioinb moeibvs, et rebvs gestis . Scotorvm libri decern . . avthore loanne LeslsDO . . Romad . . MDLXXYIII. Small 4to. with folding map ; oak hoards, covered with stamped pigskin 1578 3 3 It belonged in 1580 to lohann Georg von Werdenstein, who had probably bought the book in Rome. For him it was bound in pigskin, stamped in compartments with a nnmber of ornamental designs and little portrait- beads. The signature H K is found on a shield, and the arms of Sazonj (Henneberg aod Saxony) ^w to what part of Germany the designer belonged. He was perhaps Hans Kellertaler. Inside the cover is pasted the engraved bookplate (about 1 650) of the Electoral Library of the Dukes of Bavaria. 282 BEZE (Theodore de) Icones id est Veres Imagines Virorvm . . illvstriym . . Theodoro Beza Anctore. QenevaB . . M.D.LXXX. 4to. with nwnerous fine woodcuts, valuable as being geriuine portraits of the most distuiguished m^embers of the Reformation movement; in the original stamped calf 1580 4 14 6 The binding is undoubtedly German, or more exactly, Saxon . . On the sides there is a circular ornament of silver, with a gold lozangy centre. The row of Florentine lilies which forms a border between the first and second set of fillets is also impressed in silver, as well as the pine-apple ornaments at the corners of the third set of fillets. The edges are gilt and goffered. On the npper cover we find the initials I W R and the date 158Z, which is probably meant for 1682 rather than for 1567. The pine-apple ornament is stamped in the panels on the back (which is damaged at top). 283 MELANCHTHON. Loci pracipvi theologici avtore Philip. Melanth . . Witebergae . . M.D.LXXVII. 12mo. in the original stamped and gilt binding 1577 12 The sides are gilt with five oval medallions ; two at top, two at bottom, and a larger one ( David luieeling and praying) in the middle. The two smaller ones are busts of Luther and Melanchthon. The initials FR £V are stamped in gold at the top of the npper cover, below there is a date 1 585. The edges are gilt and goffered. 284 LOBEL (MatthisB de) Plantarvm sev Stirpivm Historia . . Antverpiao . . M.D.LXXVI. 2 Yols. in 1, small folio, with hundreds of fine woodcuts ; in the original calf damaged on the lower cover 1576 4 The arms of the Emperor Itudolph II are impressed in gold on the upper cover ; those of Henneberg-Sazony on the lower. The owner of the book in 1 587 was C. K. O. These initials appear above the imperial arms, the date below them. — The binding was done in Saxony, and is decorated in blind -tooling. The edges are brightly gilt and elaborately goffered. 285 VISCHER (Christoph.) Ein kurtzer einfeltiger Bericht vom heiligen Hocbwirdigen Abendmal . . Niimberg. M.D.LXXXI. 12mo. in the original stamped leather binding over wooden boards, well preserved, with clasp 1581 2 12 6 TTbe upper cover is impressed with two designs from the story of Joseph : (1) the return of his brothers to Jacob ; (2) the rescue of the boy from the well. On the lower cover there is a border contaming arabesques, heads, and the shield of Saxony (swords in saltire). (Munich) 1580: 286 BREUIARIUM FRISINGEfl. Oolophon : . . Venetiis . Anno . . 1516 . . 2 vols, small 870. beautifully printed in bUick and red, with numerous woodcuts; bound in stamped German calf over oak boards 1516 20 The binding was done in 1580 for M. H. I. B., whose initials with that date are stamped upon the covers. The ornamentation on the sides consists of a ffilt twisted chain as an outer border, then inner fillets of gold with a Florentine lily at me comers ; finally a gold centrepiece, which is different on all the four sides. They are : (I) a Crucifixion, (2) Christ in Majesty, (3) Coronation of the Virgin, the Baptism of Christ. — The fine engraved bookplate of the Bavarian Electoral Library (about 1660) is pasted inside the covers. The initials outside are perhaps those of Maximilian Herzog in Bayem, although he was only a boy of seven years of age at the time. His uncle Ernst was Bishop of Frisingen. GERMAN WORK, 1580-1798. 67 Julius, Bishop of Wurtzburg, 1580 : £ a.- d, 287 BRIGID (S.) Mbmorialb BFriaiATVM librorvm Propliefciarvin sev Visionym B. Brigidae alias Birgittae . . RomsB . . Anno 1556 . . impreBSum. Small folio, numerous woodcuts ; hound in hoards covered with stamped pigskin^ for Julius Bishop of Wurzhurg, in 1580, and hearing his arms in hlack and red on the upper cover 1556 5 The escutcheon is stamped in black with red ornamentation in a sqnare compart- ment in the centre, having various symbolic and heraldic figures. On the edges of the leaves we find impressed in gold bbtelationks s. smoiDiE. Ivli' dei gba bps. WIBGBB. FbAHCOMIA OBIBNT. DTX. 1580. (Heidelberg ?) 1588 : 288 HIERONYMUS. Opera diui Hierontmi . . explanationtim [in Bib- liomm libros]. Gohphon at end of Minor Prophets : . . Impresse Venetiia per Joanne} z Gregoriu de Gregoriis fratres . Anno domini . 1497. Colophon at end of Psalter : . . Venetiis p prssfatos fratres Joanne <& Gregoriu de Gregoriis. Anno dni. 1498 . . 2 vols, in 3, small folio, with one very fine woodcut page^ and some small woodcuts in initials; Qerman stamped half binding 1497-98 10 The black leather, which stretcnes half way across the sides, is stamped in longi- tudinal compartments with figures of Faith, Hope, Charity. Prudence, Fortitude, Justice, Patience, etc. This binding was executed in 1568 (at Heidelberg ?) for Petrns Calaminus, whose name is written on the flyleaf. The first page of the Expositio in Psalterium, has a broad woodcut border, white upon black, which is a beautiful example of Renaissance ornament. This border encloses two woodcut designs in outline *, one representing a Satyr about to sacrifice a ram ; the other has three figures seated, and one kneeling over a statue, in the front of a landscape. — This border is described by Dr. Lippmann and the Due de Rivoli in nearly the same terms — the latter caUs it <* Is chef d'oeuvre du genre, et le type le plus parf ait de Tart d^coratif applique a Tornementation des livres.'* The letters which are found in the lower woodcut '* S C P I " have been dubiously read as ** Stephanus Cesanus Peregrinus invenit." Regehsburg, 1635: 289 AELRED. Opera diti Aelredi . . ope Richardi Gibbon! . . Dvaci . . M.DC.XXXl. Small 4to. in hoards covered with stamped pigskin, with ' clasps 1631 1 10 i3caring on the upper cover, stamped in black, the insignia of the *' Conventus Batisbonensis Carmelitarum Discalceatorum." The brass clasps bear the letters I W S. Hanover, 1733-35: 290 BIBLIA Das ist; die gantze Heilige Scbrifft . . Lemgo . . 1731.— Hannoverisch Gesang-Buch . . ;Hannover . . 1733 — 2 vols, in 1, stout 12mo. hound in a silver cover chased with figures^ heads, and flowers, and a hroad clasp similarly treated 17«31-33 12 12 Elaborate German work. Each side is framed with a row of figures representing pearls, inside which there is a cherub's head in each corner, and a centrepiece, which on the upper cover represents Moses bearing the tables of the Law, the city of Jerusalem in the background ; on the lower cover a High Priest with a vessel of incense, the houses of a town bdiind him. The back is similarly treated and in three compart- ments : in the first a kneeling figure with a nimbus, a tripod bearing a censer behind him ; in the second, Christ upright and alone, bearing a cross ; in the third an Angel kneeling with the chalice. The figure on the clasp seems to be that of a preacher. Vienna, 1793 : 291 10. WICLBPI . . dialogoru libri qttuor . . M.D.XXV. Small 4to. in an elaborate and wonderful binding [Basel] 1525 7 7 A rare suppressed book, edited by Otto Brunfels, and printed (it is snpposed) at Basel. It has often brought high prices ; for which reason J. R. K. caused this copy to be bound by Friedrich Schmidt at Vienna in 1793. It is in smooth red morocco, with a broad mosaic border of blue morocco outside, and a four-sided red morocco border inside the cover. The back flat with a lyre and a star in its panels. On the upper cover is stamped in gold ** Ducentorum Florenornm pretio vcnditus vid. Vm^. pag. 724." Neither Padeloup nor Boz^rian would have acknowledged this triumph of the Viennese binder, bnt it lunts of both. Schmidt's green morocco label is on the flyleaf. 58 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. IV. Spanish Bindings. Catalonia, about 1220-1240 : 292 HUGO DE S. VICTORE. Incipit liber maestri Vgonis de Area Noe . . 52 leaves ; Incipit de .vij. pncipalib' uiciis . . 38 leaves ; Bemardi Tractatus de xii gradib' Supbie . . 33 leaves — 3 parts in 1 vol. small folio, MS. on vellum, with painted and decorative initials ; all written hy the one hand ; in the original binding Perscripto libro sit laus et gloria Xpo. Liber S- MariePPL'. About A.D. 1210-20 105 Wliite leather oyer thick wooden boards. Damaged though it be, it is an interesting example of early Spanish binding, done in the early part of the thirteenth century in the Monastery of Santa Maria at Poplete or Popelete in Catalonia — the place of burial of many of the Kings of Aragon. Seville, 1550 : 293 GREGORY (St.) Los morales de sant Greookio papa . . Colophon : Esta tradncion delos Morales fue hecha por . . Alonso aluarez . . Mill z quinietos z catorze. Fneron impresses en . . seuilla . . Mill z quinientos y quareuta z nueue anos . . 2 vols, small folio, in the original binding done at Seville 1549 3 3 Black calf. Inside the blind fillets, there is a roulette, also blind, of a mnning branch with a cnrl which encloses a fonr-leared flower. This is the framework, flattened at the angles. The space inside is divided into an npper and lower square bj quite rectangular impressions of the same roulette. Enclosed within each square is a quadrangle formed by gold tears (lachrymie) with four combined gold fleurons in the centre, and an Italian fleur-de-lis in gold inside and outside each comer. A gold fleuron in each panel on the back. On the side of Vol. II, the outer blind roulette is quite rectangular, the inner one (which is not used to form two squares) is flattened at the angles. The gilt ornament in the middle is a loaange of lilies ; in the centre a heart or wheel formed of Italian fleurons with a round of lilies like projecting spokes. Inside the top and bottom angles of the lozange, an Italian fleur-de-lis.— The edges are gilt and goffered. Madrid, 1580-1616: 294 LA REGLA Y STABLESCIMIENTOS de la Cavalleria de Sanctiago del Espada . . Colophon: . . Madrid en casa de Fracisco Sanchez. Aiio M.D.LXXVII. Small folio, in the original hhich calf, richly gilt 1577 5 5 A Madrid binding about 1580. The sword is in gold and is stamped in the centre of a lozange on both sides. The lozange is within a square which has conierpieoes. This square has a triangular figure above and below which are united by compart- ments bordering the sides of the square. These compartments are full of figures of armour. Two sets of parallel fillets ontside them, then an arabesque border and two more fillets. In each panel on the back there are two roses, with parallel horizontal lines between, above, and below them. A noticeable feature in the ornament on the sides is the use of figures like fish- scales or armour-scales, such as Samuel Meame used in London a hundred years later. 295 LA BEQLA T STABLESCIHIEKTOS DE LA CAVALLERIA DE SanCTIAGO . . Small folio, hound for a Knight of the Order who was also a Conde of Spain 1577 6 6 Olive morocco bound in Madrid (probably bj an Italian hand) about 1615-16. On the sides there are first one gold and six blind fillets ; next two gold and five blind fillets with half-figures of angels for the outer comer-ornament, an architectural fleuron in the inner comers. In the centre or the upper cover is the escutcheon of the owner: troU handea ondies, au chef cKurgi d'un taureau de guevkUa^ — surmounted by a coronet of eight points and eight pearls. — On the lower cover the central ornament is the gold scallopshell charged with a red sword. lu the panels on ^e back, the ball of the escutcheon is used as an ornament. At the end of the book, there are added two Papal rescripts concerning the order, dated 1 584, and printed at Alcala in the same year ; each certified in MS. as authentic by the notary Cosmas de Vega, at Madrid in the same year. This may be a Spanish binding : in any case it is not unsuitably placed here. SPANISH BINDINGS, 1616-1636. 59 Madrid, 1616 : £ ». d, 296 LA REGLA T ESTABLECIMIENTOS DE LA CAVALLERIA DE SANTIAGO DEL BSPADA . . Small folio, hound in red morocco extra for Johann Eenst Fugger, Knight of the Order [Madrid^ 1575] 8 8 ProfuBelj gilt with centrepiece, sidepiecea, and cornerpieces. The ornamentation of the comers springs from a vase in the style of French work twenty years later, and we find here several examples of the nse of the dotted cnlot which had been introduced in the '*Eve " bindings in France, as well as palm branches. We also see a cherub's head and two branches of foliage sarmounting the centrepiece just as in some of De Thon's books, but of coarse not so well done. On the upper side the central ornament is the scallopshell (in silver) and red sword of Santiago, on the lower we find the arms of the Fnggers. The book was bonnd in Madrid for Johann Ernst Fngger when he entered the order in 1616. There is no date or place of impression in the book. The King's last order is dated Madrid 1576. Barcelona, 1630: 297 Capitols del General del Principat de Cathalykya . . Barcelona . . MDCXXX. Small 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1630 8 8 Bound in Barcelona at the time of issue. The centrepiece on the sides is an oval bearing the cross of Catalonia with flenrons and annulets in the angles. Outside the oral there is a frame of parallel fillets which curve outwards into three-quarter circles at the comers, and into a semi-circle at each side. In each of the rounded spaces there is a rose with additional leaves springing from its periphery. In all the other space there are sprays of foliage elegantly arranged in the " Eve " manner. — The back is gilt with flenrons. Marques de Moya, 1620: 298 DOSIUS. Title : Cosmo . . Vrbis Bomas Aedificiorvm . illvstrivm qv89 svpersvnt . reliqviee . . a. Joanne Antonio . Dosio . Btilo ferreo . . descriptea . et . a . lo. Baptista de Cavaleriis . aeneis . tabvlis . incisis . TeprsesentataB M.D.LXTX . . large 4to. consisting of 60 engraved leaves of the ruins of Ancient Bonie ; hound for the Marques de Moya 1569 10 10 Bound no doubt in Madrid about 1620. On the sides, an outer and an inner set of fillets consisting each of five blind and two gold lines, with gold flenrons inside the comers of the one and outside the corners of the other. The centrepiece is an oval, with flenrons, enclosing the arms of " Don Francisco Perez de Cabrera i Bobadilla M. de Moia." There are roses in the panels on the back ; the rims of the cover are gilt with a floral roulette ; the book has dasps, and the edges of the leaves are gilt and goffered. Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares, 1630-35 : 299 WOTTONl (Edoardi) de Differentiis Animalivm libri decem . . Lvtetiae Parisiorvm . . M.D.LIl . . Small folio, hound in red morocco gilt for the Count-Duke of Olivares 1652 2 16 Bound for the famous Count Duke about 1630. It afl;erwaTds came into the hands of Sir William Godolphin (about 1680) and has his name *' Guil. Godolphin " written in a bold hand on the title. 300 BYTE ONI S (loan.) Logistica, qvas & Arithmetica vulgo dicitnr . . Lvgdvni . . M.D.LX . . — Pa8CHAsii Hamellii . . Commentarius in Arcbimedis . . libru de nnmero arenaa . . Lvtetias . . 1557 — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. red morocco giltj hound for the Count-Duhe of Olivares 1657-60 2 2 Bound in Madrid about 1630-S5. This volume bean on its title, the MS. signature of " GuU. Godolphin." §ir William Godolphin, British ambassador to Spain in 1G71, remained there after his recall, became a Roman Catholic, and died in Madrid in 1696. The arms of the Count Duke include a number of letters which have to be read as the initials of the following words : " Fortuna etiam invidente, adunat comitatum, graudatnm, ducatum, ducatum, marchionatum, marchionatum, areis Hispalensis per* petuam prafecturam, magnam Indiarum cancellariam, primam Guzmanorum lineam." The C of Cancellariam, and the G of Guzmanorum, were accidentallj transposed by the man who engraved the block or plate. Don Juan de Austria, 1636-37: 301 GERMANIA INFERIOR wlgo Nederlant Gallice Pays-Bas . . AntverpioD . . MDCIII. Folio, consisting of 22 coloured maps on 42 leaves ; hound in red morocco^ mended and rehacked 1603 10 The ornamentation on tbe sides is, except for a border of metal- work kind, entirely heraldic. The royal arms of Spain occupy the greater part of the surface, with three 60 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS - - ^ prinoelr crowns, the two onter ones haring a griffin for crest, the one in the middle a tower rrom which a rampant lion rises, with a sword in its right paw. The collar of the Golden Fleece sarronnds the shield. Below, there are two collateral impressions of another shield snrmoanted by a princely crown. It is five pots with a rampant lion among them, a bordure charged with eight flears-de-lis. The pots are a reference to the family of the Prince's mother, Mana Calderon. This volame must hare been bound for him in his childhood, abont 1636-7, in Madrid. Madrid, 1640: 302 TACITO ESPASOL ilvstrado con Aforismos, porDon Baltasar Alamos de Barrientos . . Colophon: Ea Madrid, por Luis Sanchez. Ano M.DCXIY. Small folio, bound over thick wooden boards in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1614 3 3 This is an interesting imitation of the Paris work of 1625-30. It is a most elaborate piece of gilding, very well done although not qnite eqnal to the models. There are three parallel borders on the side, lines being drawn from the inmost to the outmost angle so as to help the effect of a diminishing perspectiyo. The two chief borders are composed of flowers, dentelle work, and triple dots ; the inmost border consists only of triple dots and fillets. The centrepiece is a lozange of twining curres and cnlots, with similar work in the comers as well as a solid flenr-de-lis. The bands on the back are fringed above and below with dentelle work. Antonio de Calatayud, 1645-50: 303 SALAMANCA. Engraved title : Estatvtos hechos por la Vkivbrsidad DE Salamanca . . Impresses en Salamanca por Diego Casio Ano de. 1625. Letterpress title : Const! tvciones Apostolicas y Estatvtos . . Small folio, in the original binding , with arms 1625 2 16 The binding, altboagh it looks like calf, is smooth -grained red morocco, gilt on the sides with fillets, a Florentine lilj at each comer, and a large ornamental circle enclosing the Calatayiid escutcheon, which is f ring^ wit^ a border of flenrs-de-lis and sarmoQDted by a coronet that looks Dncal (but the Spaniards were not particular as to the forms of their crowns). The Florentine lily is the ornament in the panels. On the title-page we read " £x libris Dni Antonij de Calatayud Salmantinn Universitatis Bectoris." For this man the book was bound in Salamanca abont 1645-60. — In 1699 it was bought in Madrid by Gerard £. Frankenan, Secretary of the Danish legation. Don Philip IV: 304 MACARll (loannis) Abraxas sev Apistopistvs, qyao est antiqyaria de Gemmis Basilidianis disqyisitio . . AntverpieB . . MDCLVIl. Small 4to. plates ; purple morocco, splendidly gilt, gilt edges 1657 21 The work is dedicated to Don John of Austria, and he must consequently have had a copy similar to this ; the royal crown above the arms leaves, however, no doubt that here we have the one intended for the King. The binding seems to be Spanish, not Flemish ; and is profusely covered with gold borders. Cordova, 1660: 305 GONGORA. Contiene este Yolvmen las Obras, qve se han podido adqairir, de el gran Don Lvis de Gongora i Argote . . corregidas . . por las noticias que dez6 su mesmo Anctor. En Cordoba. Small folio, beautifully written M8. on paper, with 611 pp. of Poetry, 22 pre-^ liminary pp. and 18 pp. of Index; in the original srnooth black morocco, lined, richly gilt About 1660 42 Bound in Cordova in what was no donbt supposed to be a beautiful " Eve *' style. Here are the geometrical forms and the interlacements, tiie sprays of handsome foliage, etc., with azur6 flenrons and pine-apples at top, bottom, and sides, and gold stars dropped in all the spaces. In the panels on the back there are little stars in round and oblong enclosures. The rim of the cover has a double row of triple dots ; the black morocco lining is gilt somewhat like the outside, except that all the spaces of the geometrical design are filled with running curves. F. Estrada, who had the book in 1839, has marked in the Index the pieces which do not appear in the printed editions. The original collector thus addresses the future reader: " Si reparares . . (O thou, to whose hands future ages shall bring this volume, if thou reflectent, thou wilt see how much thou owest to my solicitude, if thou be wise, ponder and judge ; if thou be ignorant, thou owest nought to me nor to the author. Give the book to the press (to save it from the devourer of laurels and of immortalising palms). Reward my care and thy name shall live." An account of the MS. and its contents will be found in Archdeacon Churton*s Gongora. SPANISH BINDINGS, 1688-1780. 61 Don Carlos II : £ «. d. 306 ZATRILLA Y VICO (loaeph) EngaSos y DesengaSos del Peofano Ahor . . Napoles . . MDCLXXXVIII. 4to. in a red velvet binding richly embroidered with gold and silver cord in raised designs^ having silver clasps decorated with fine filigree work,, gold toire, little stones, and stiver nails ; enclosed in a box covered with olive morocco and lined tvith velvet 1688 60 The dedication copy of King Cablos II, sobbrano monarca de bntrambos MUND08. His aims and crown, with a frieze and the collar of the Golden Fleece, are worked on the sides, in the centre, in silver and gold wire and in silk threads of varioas colours. At the corners there are large flearons in gold and silver cord. On the back a fine decorative design occupies the whole length, being worked in silver wire npon yellow silk and then imposed npon the velvet. The edges are gilt and goffered. In the centre of the clasp, there is an oval of gold wire and gilt ground bearing the King's monogram composed of C Ir in gold wire. — This is undoubtedly Spani^ work, whether done in Naples or in Madrid. The book was formerly in Uie library of Vincente Pedro Salva (hia autograph in Sncil appears on the flyleaf), and was, in February, 1870, presented by Pedro Salva to r. Gibison-Craig " como recnerdo." Don Fernando VI : 307 . . INTERMEZZI per Musica da rappresentarsi nel Begio Teatro del Bnon Ritiro. MDCCLVII-MDCCLVIII. 2 vols, small 4to.red morocco, gilt edges, with the royal escutcheon and crown and broad ornamental borders on the sides (Madrid) 1757-58 6 6 These two volumes (of which one contains the piece Don Trastdllo, the other l'Ortolanblla Astuta) were printed and bound for the use of the King and the friends whom he took with him to the Italian playhouse within his palace. Don Carlos III : 308 FEYJOO (Miguel) Relacion descriptiva de la ciudad y provincia de Tmrillo en Pern . . Madrid . . 1763. Small folio, portrait of the King, and three maps ; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the royal arms on the sides 1763 5 309 IRIARTE (Joannes) Regies BibliotliecaB Matritensis Codices QrsBci MSS. . . Yolumen prins . . Matriti . . MDCCLXIX. Folio, large PAPER, red morocco extra, gilt edges, toith blue watered sUk linings, the King^s arms and crown on the sides 1769 3 310 CAULIN (Antonio) Historia Coro-graphica . . de la Nueva Andalncia provincias de Cumana Guayanay verfcientes del Rio Orinoco . . 1779. Small folio, large paper, with map and plates ; red morocco super extra, gilt edges, with the royal arms on the sides, the King's dedication copy (Madrid) 1779 4 4 The map will be of value to anyone who is interested in the Venezuelan question. Maria Amalia, Queen of Carlos III: 311 Regla de la Hermandad, y Cofradia de las benditas Animas de el Purgatorio . . 1758 . . En Seyilla . . Small 4k). red morocco extra, gilt edges 1758 2 2 The sides are richly gilt with a lace border, a floral border, a laoe border, comer and central fienrons, fonr figures of a trumpeting angel, and in the middle the crowu and monogram of the Queen (composed of M and A). — The end-paper is figured with flowers and leaves in red and green npon a yellowish ground. There is a flenron in each pane] on the back. The binding was probably done in Seville in 1759. Infante Antonio : 3Il*GASriZARES (Joseph de) Don Joan de Espina en Madrid, comedia . . 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges, toith the royal arms on the sides Madrid {about 1775) 1 16 Beneath the royal arms is a wreath surmounted by a princely crown and enclosing the initials S. D. S. I. D. A. . A similar inscription is stamped on the back of the title : S. Di S. T. D. A. That is soy del Sefior Infante (Tnfante) Don Antonio. I 62 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Mosaic Binding, 1750-55: £ $. d. 312 SILVESTRE. la. Pbosebpika poema heroico jocoserio, dedicalo al Exmo. Sor. Marqyes de Cvellar Dn Pedro Silvestre sv avthor. Colophon : En Madrid . . M. DGG. XXI. Small 4to. engraved title and one plate; in a sumptuous mosaic binding 1721 16 16 Probably the most ambitioqs and splendid binding eTer executed in Spain. At the sale of the Salva-Heredia library, this Tolume was described as haying been bonnd in Paris by Le Monnier abont 1750, bat it is eyidently a Spanish imitation of the French mosaic bindings prodnced at the time by Le Monnier, Padelonp, and Derome. The leather is white kid or morocco ; the ornamental design is carried oat by inlaid bands of black and red leather gilt, which are disposed in geometrical and arabesqne forms. On the sides, there is first a red band outlined with gold, as an outer frame. Next a broad border, which consists of geometrical interlacements at the top, bottom, and sides, with a large fleuron fitted in at the comers. This is done in black leather, out- lined in gold, and also gilt upon the black surfaces with points, curves, and dots which follow and light the pattern. The spaces of the white leather are also gilt with sub- sidiary fleurons and carves harmonising with the black main design. In the middle, an oblong geometric figure of red leather (gold-ontlined) encloses an arabesque of black leather decorated with internal gilding and surrounded on the white surface with a mass of gold dots. In each panel on the back, there is a frame of black leather bearing gold dots, which encloses a gold fleuron impressed upon the white leather ; and at the bottom a square band of black gilt wiUi a floral roulette of the Derome kind. Inside the edges of the cover is the " Boyet '* roulette, and a lining of blue silk. Madrid, 1756: 313 RODRIGUEZ CAMPOMANES (Pedro) Antigaedad maritima de la Repnblica de Cartage . . Madrid . . MDCCLVI. 8vo. large paper, map and plate; red morocco super extra^ gilt edges 1756 4 4 A grand binding, with watered blue silk linings. Most persons would describe it as a fine example of Dubuisson's dentelle work done in Pans, but I am inclined to think it a superbly executed Madrid imitation. Metal-work, 1776: 314 MISSALE ROMANTJM . . noyis MisBis . . anctnm . Matriti . . MDCCLXXVI . . Folio, hound for one of the Spanish Princes in red velvet,with richly embossed broad silver borders, centrepieces, and clasps 1 776 12 10 The centrepiece represents two folded arms clasping a crucifix, and is surmounted by a prince's crown. The broad silver border is of bold floral character, and the volume presents a fine example of reponss^ work done apparently for one of the sons of Don Carlos m. Mexican Spanish, 1770: 315 MISSA GOTHICA seu Mozarabica efc Officium itidem Gothieum . . Angelopoli . . MDCCLXX. Small folio, with 3 plates by a Mexican artist; calf extra (P.uebla) 1770 4 4 With a floral gold border, and a centrepiece with figures of the Virgin and St Isidore; a rose surmounted by a crown in the panels on the back. V. Italian Bindings. Yeneto-Lombard, 1460-80 : 316 TIBULLI Cabminjl ; Epistola Saphos ; Ovidii versus de morte Tibulli. Small 8vo. beautiful MS. on yellum, with an illuminated border to the first page ; in the original binding (rebacked) About 1460 sold Wooden boards, covered with stamped black leather, on the sides of which there are four sets of triple fillets. The inmost rectangular space is blind-tooled with clubbed saltirea, forming lotanges in a sort of lattice-work, with a besant stamped in each lozange. The space between the second and third sets of fillets is impressed with an architectural or pilaster border composed of treble-clusters of leafage bound with transverse bands. In the comers between the third and the outmost set of fiUets there are rows of annulets. This is probably a Venetian binding of about 1460-65. 317 IVSTINI Breviatoris Historiarum Throghi Pompeii libri XLIV. Small folio, MS. ok fine yellum, with an illuminated initial and half- border on the first page ; in the original binding {rebacked) About 1460 12 12 Wooden boards, covered with stamped brown leather. Bound apparently at the same time and by the same binder as the Tibnllus, but in better condition and with sharper impressions of the tools. There is on the sides a square central space, ruled vFith five fillets and enclosing a circular group of interlaced knotwork. This square ITALIAN WORK, 1460-1489. 63 Yeneto-Lombard,J1460-80— cow^inw(i. £ #. d. rests upon the face of a rectangle stamped with clubbed saltires forming a lattice- work, like the side of the Tibullns, but without the besants. Outside the rectangle there are two sets of fillets united at their corners by diagonal lines ; then the same foliated column or pilaster which appears on the Tibullus $ and outside of that, two more sots of fillets. Venetian binding, about 1460-66. It is of the same kind and character as that of the Bmnetto Jjatino below. 318 BI6LIA LATINA. 12mo. MS. on very fine thin vellum, toritten at the end of the thirteenth century by an Italian hand in beautiful but extremely minute Gothic characters, in dottble columns ; 50 lines to the column ; in a fifteenth'Centu/ry binding, done about 1470 About JL.D. 1300 Bound over wooden boards, in smooth-grained reddish goatskin. The decoration was done with blind tools. There are two outer rows of fillets, triple and quadruple, and two inner, also triple and quadruple. Four diagonal lines at Uie corners connect the outer and inner rows of each pair ; and between each pair, there is a twisted chain of knotwork. In the centre there is an ornament composed of a series of Florentine lilies, alternately upright and rerersed. The back of the binding is repaired, but this was done in the early part of the last century. 319 -ffiSOPl Vita et FABULii . . (Latine), 8vo. beautiful MS. on pine VELLUM, wanting a leaf at the beginning, and having the margins of some leaves cut away; toith some illuminated capitals; in the original binding About 1465-70 12 12 Wooden boards, covered with stamped black letter, in excellent condition. There are on the sides three parallel sets of quadruple fillets. Between the second and the inmost, there is a border of S S, these letters alternately facing right and left. It might also be called a border of )jj, as the curves are united at the bottom in a sort of fleur*de-lis. In the central space is a knotwork ornament resembling a vertical combination of crosses. The panels on the back are scored with transverse diagonal lines. This is a Venetian binding of about 1475. 320 BRUNETTO LATINO. El tesoeo . . Oohphon : A Triuiso . . M.cccc.lxxiiii. Small folio, First Edition ; in the original binding Treviso, 1474 24 Wooden boards, covered with light brown morocco (i.e. goat's skin), on which there are impressed two broad rectangular borders of intersecting knotwork, in blind tooling. There are three heavy double bands on the back, with four panels, these Sknels being diagonally crossed with rows of triple lines, which form lozanges. amaged at the comers, and at top and bottom. On the edges, the title is painted in red letters in this form ** Tsxoao db Sek Bbuneto." This binding and lettering were done before 1480. 321 SENECA. FoL 1 : Incipit Lucij Annei SenecsB cordnbensis liber de moribus . . At end: . . Liber epistolaram moralissimi Senecas finit foBliciter . . Impressam Tamisij per Bemardam de Golonia Anno domini . M.cccc.lxxyiij. Small folio, fine copy in the original binding 1478 5 Wooden boards, covered with a reddish grained leather which seems to be morocco. The centrepiece on the sides is a combination of knotwork forming a little lozan^ at top and bottom and three larger lozanges in a vertical row between them. This IS framed within a rectangular row of thorny branches, intertwining in the form of continuous circles which enclose flowers. Next two sets of fillet, then a border resembling ornamental metal-work forming wreathy shapes like vases with a rose between each. Venetian binding aboat 1480. An inscription on the last 1^ records the ownership of Francesco Barbaro, son of the Magnifico Daniel, and states that he bought it with his father's money (about 1500). Perugia, 1489: 322 [CAVALCA] Specchio db Croce . . 94 leaves, the last a blank, Roman characters, thirty-three lines per page. 3. n. [Florence, 1480 ?] — ^VlTA ET TJ4AN8ITO BT LI MIRACOLI DEL BBATISSIMO HiBRONlMO . . 120 leaves, tlie first a blank, Roman characters, 30 lines to the page, 8. n. [Venet. 1478 ?] — ^Antoninus. Incipit confessionale in vnlgari sermone . . P. dnm. Anthoniu arcliiepni Floren. 50 leaves, the first a blank, (Boti)iC letter, in double columns, 41 lirhes per column. 8, I. [ Venice f ] M.cocc.lxxxiii (1483) — 3 vols, in 1, small 4to. in the original binding 14[78-]83 5 5 Bound (probably in Perugia) in 1489 for the owner (a jurist named Ptolomeo 64 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. £ f. d. Dante del Vantaggio) in calf over paper boards. The ornamentation, in blind-tooling, oonaists of fillets forming compartments ; one space, as a border, filled with arabesqne, the centre stamped with a pattern of cnnred lozanges within circles. The black is plain except for the diagonal -cro^s hatching in the four panels. The owner's note on the flyleaf is ** + 1489 || Spechio di croce Tranaito dSan girolamo Confessione dlnescbo antonino noxliij. A ptolomeo dant* delaantaggio.*' Venice, 1492 : 323 BIBLIA VULGARE HISTORIATA (THE MAL- LERm BIBLE). Small folio, with beautiful woodcuts in contemporary colouring ; in the original binding^ a very fine and large copy Veneiia per Giouanne Ragazo di monteferato A instantia de Luchantonio di Giunta . . M.CCCC.LXXXXII . . (1492) 250 Bound in reddish yellow calf or goat's skin, the back and edges repaired at an early date. The ornamentation on the sides was originally gilt, but the gold has only remained in places, so that the work now seems to be chiefly in blind-tooling. There are four com- partments of rectangular borders : a running line of crescents or half- moons, a line of Florentine fleurs-de-lis, a line of lozangy interlace- ments, and a row of interlaced circles through which runs a line of oblong links. In the centre there are three compartments, the middle portion being a composite decoration of circles and curvilinear lozanges. The mending and the brass pieces which are added at the centre and corners are very early, not later than 1510-20.' Florence, 1494-1503 : 324 [ANTHOLOGIA GRiECA] . . [A]N0OLOriA AIA*'OPON EEITPAM- M'ATON . . Golophon: Impressvm Florentiae per Lavrentivm Francisci de Alopa . . M.CCCCLXXXX1111. Small 4to. First Edition ; fine copy in the original binding 1494 25 The sides are decorated in bliDd-tooling. The ontmost space between the fillets coDtains a row of conventional roses (septfenilles) ; the next space is filled with a border of metal-work pattern. The centnd space is in three compartments tooled to raggest a lozange flattened at the sides. The lozange is formed of knotwork, as is also the rectangular three- panelled figare that lies across it. These three panels are latticed, like windows, with roses on the panes. The back is a modem addition. This binding was probably done in Florence before the end of 1494. 325 VALERIVS FLACCVS . . Colophon: Impressum FlorentiaB opera & impensa Philippi bibliopolaa . . M.CCCCCIII . . 12mo, hound inhlack or dark hroum goatskin^ tooled on the sides with blind fillets, gilt in the spaces with a border and a centrepiece^ the edges goffered and gilt, the hack plain except for the figure of an X in each of the four panels formed by blind-stamping 1503 4 10 The gold border is of metal-work pattern, the motif of which is a constant sncces- sion and interlacement of circle and losange in modified shape. The centrepiece is an upright line formed bf lozanges of gilt knotwork. — If this be Florentine binding of 1503, it resembles perfectly the Venetian work of 1508 (which follows below), bo£ in leather and in decoration. Venice, 1508-25 : 326 PLUTARCHI Apophthegmata . . Small 4to. a beautiful copy of the various Apophthegmata selected from Rapliael Reggis^s Latin translation of the Opuscula, bound together specially for presentation to the Doge Leonardo Loredano, to whom they were dedicated {unth his arms emblazoned on the first page, and the initials of the pieces illuminated) ; in dark brovm smooth-grained m/OTOCco, gilt and goffered edges (Fentce, 1508) 15 Within a gilt border of metal-work pattern, there is a middle compartment having gilt knotwork suggesting a cross within a circle as the centrepiece, knotwork lozanges above and below, and fienrs-de-lis as cornerpieces. The fleurs-de-lis in the panels on the back are of later addition. ITALIAN BINDINGS, 1510-1525. 65 Venice, 1508''25— continued. £ «. d. 327 TBBALDEO. Fol 1 blank. Fol. 2: Illustris: March. Mantue . . Fol. 3: Antonii Thebaldei Ferrariensis ad inclytam Isabellam Ustensem March : Mantvae : Foh 175 : . . Finis. Impresso in Modena per . M . Dominioo Rocociolo ne lanno . M.cccc.lxxxxviii . . Foh 174 : Francisci Rocociolo . . Epigrama . . 174 reverse : printer's woodcut tnarh. Small 4to. very fine copy in the original binding 1498 30 A beautiful and well preserved example in smooth olive morocco gilt over thick paper boards. The sides are decorated with blind JilletSf and broad gilt rcctangalar borders of metal-work pattern ; gold stars in the space between the two borders. Within the inner border there are three gilt lozanges of knotwork and at the comers little gold leaves. The back is flat, and has four panels, scored in blind tooling with diagonal lines forming lattices, with little roundels in the spaces. The edges are plainly gilt. — This seems to be a Venetian binding done about 1510-15. [See ilhuiration in L. P, issue. ) The text is entirely in Italian verse. 328 ERASMUS. Pacis Querela . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense Avgvsto. M.D.XV. 12ino. in the original binding 1515 10 10 Black calf, stamped on the sides in the German or Dutch style, in blind tooling. The outer compartments is a broad rectangular border filled with architectonic decora- tion of vases and arabesques forming a column. Inside there are double lines of intertwining spirals, with roses in the enclosed spaces. The back, which is damaged, was gilt late in the seventeenth century. The edges were gilt for their French owner about 1670 with some ornamentation which includes a monogram of the letters F R A N G £, which seems to mean Franquin de Saint Ange. On the blank page at the end of the dedication the same monogram is repeated under the arms of the owner which are there emblazoned (gules, a chevron or, three trefoils argent) with angels winged as peacocks for supporters. With the bookplate of B. H. de Fourcy. 329 STEPHANUS BYZANTIUS. ST€<^avos ^cpl HoXtW . . Colophon : Yenetiis apnd Aldum . . M.D.II . . Small folio, ^ne copy in the original binding 1502 7 7 Black calf, stamped on the sides in blind tooling. There is a broad architectonic border like that on the Erasmus, then an inner border of intertwining spirals broken at intervals by roundels, and finally a lozange formed of arabesque decoration, with a lozan^v iron-work ornament at each corner. The back is modem, but the decoration on the sides is striking and handsome. — >The name of .Tacques Vintimille of Rhodes, appointed counsellor in the parliament of Burgundy, with the date of 1550, is written in Greek on the Ust blank page. Notes by Maurice David and others are written on the margins throughout the book. 330 CORONA DELA VIRGINB MARIA . sive Sate Alegeze . . Small 4to. Roman letter, double columns^ with woodcuts; in the original binding 8, n. [Venice about 1510] 10 10 Wooden boards, covered with brown calf, decorated in blind-tooling. On the sides, there is a border of a metal-work pattern, with two squares in the middle space, each square having a metal-work lozange as the centre, with a star or rose at each comer. Three thick bands on the back ; a large asterisk or eight-pointed star in each of the four panels. 331 C.£SAR. Aldus, 1513. 12mo. fine copy in the original binding (Venice, 1513) 7 10 Smooth red morocco over wooden boards, the sides decorated in gold with single fillets, each side of the inner frame-line curving out into a semi-circle in the middle ; with a lozange of knotwork for centrepiece, and corner ornaments of roses. The edges are gilt and goffered, and the back is crossed in each of its four panels with diagonal lines in blind-tooling, points or rings in the interstices. 332 lOANNIS GRAMMATICI in Posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis Commentaria . . ( Greece) Colophon : Venetiis apud Aldum mense Martio . M.DIIIL Small folio, very fine copy in the original binding 1504 100 Citron morooco gilt, with a cameo ornament in relief, in the centre on each side. This is a remarkably fine example of its kind. In addition to blind-tooled fillets on the sides, there is a broad rectangular border in gold, of metal- work pattern with ornaments at the oater angles, and gold fleurs-de-lis ranged in the outer margin. 5 66 QgARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Venice, 1508-25— conhVittcrf. £ i. d. Within the border there is a blind- tooled lozange enclosing the centre- piece, which is, as said above, a cameo in relief. On the npper cover it is a representation of Castor and Pollnx riding down their foemen ; on the lower, it is Orphens charming the bmtes with his fiddle. The angle ornament is varied on each cover. The edges are painted with the Grecian fret ; and the four panels on the back (with three heavj bands) were original scored with blind*tooled diagonal lines of lattice* work. A later owner has filled them with French flenrs-de-lis in gold. '^ The cameo on the npper cover is similar to a bronze plaqne attributed to Modemo . . it bears the legend Dvbia Fortvna. It occurs as the reverse of a medal bearing the legend Diva Ivlia primvm feliz, and also on one of Francesco Sforza." — Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of Boolchindings, 333 C^SAR . . . commentariorum de bello Gallico libri. viii . . Dedxca- ' tion : Aldus Lectori . . M.D.XIII. Colophon : Venetijs in sadibus Aldi & AndresB Soceri. I2mo. in the original binding (1513) 5 5 The bindiDe ia black goatskin (morocco) upon wooden boards, and is decorated in blind-tooling. The onter border is rectangalar with metal- work pattern ; the inner compartment has a lozange also formed of a metal*work design. Within the lozinge is the gilt lettering Com Cjbs with two leaves above and two below. There are fonr roses in the space between the lozange and the rectsngnlar figure. There are three bands on the back ; diagonal cross-lines in the fonr panels. This binding was done between 1513 and 1516. 334 BOCCACCIO, il decamerone di m. oiovikni boccaccio. Colophon: Impresso in Vinegia per Gregorio de Gregori . . M.D.XVI. . Small 4to. in the original bindifig 1516 20 Smooth black morocco (goatskin) decorated in blind-tooling. There is an onter and an inner rectangle, and an inmost lozange all formed of metid-work pattern. Within the lozange is for centrepiece a pot-an-fen (a vase with flames issuing from it), and a design of the flames (withoot the vase) occupies each of the fonr corners ontside the lozange. Three bands on the back ; diagonal cross hatching in three of the panels, lines forming a star in one. This binding is considered by Engine Piot to indicate the ownership of Francesco Maria della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, who died in 1538. 335 BEMBO. Gliasolani di Messeb Pietro Bembo. Colophon : Vinegia nelle Case d*Aldo Romano & d*Andrea Asolano . . M.D.XV. . 12mo. fine large copy in the original binding 1515 2 10 Smooth black morocco, over wooden boards; gilt on the sides with single fillets, each curving ont semi-circnlarly in the middle ; with a rose at each comer. The centrepiece is a lozange of knotwork ; the edges are plainly gilt, and the back is modem. 336 AVLII GELLII Noctivm Atticabvm libri vndeviginti . . Coloplion : Yenetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV. 12mo. unth a few MS. notes ; fine copy in the original binding 1515 3 3 l^ Smooth black morocco on very thick paper boards, gilt with a doable row of fillets which progress in straight parallel lines, intersecting at top and bottom and in the middle. At the juncture in the middle on the obverse is the word Gbllii, on the reverse Noctes. The back has three bands, and fonr panels, these being blind-tooled with diagonal lines which advance, stop short in the middle and retnrn, interlacing where they meet. 337 PoMPONivs Mela. Ivlivs Solinvs. Itinerarivm Antonini Avg. Vibivs Seqvester . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV III. l2mo. in the original binding 1518 2 16 Smooth brown morocco, decorated in blind-tooling. Within two rows of fillets (double and quadruple) there is a thick border of interlaced knotwork ; inside that, a border of running chain-twist, then a plain centre with a lozsnge of knotwork. There are three bands on the back ; the four panels are covered with doable lines of lattice- work. The anchor on title and the anchor at end are illuminated in gold. 338 ASTRONOMICI VETERES. lulii firmici Astronomicornm libri . . Colophon: Venetiis cara, & diligentia Aldi Ro. . . M.ID. . Small folio, woodcuts; wormed in the margins; in the original binding ^ 1499 9 9 Smooth black morocco, gilt on back and sides. There are two rectangular borders ITALIAN WORK, 1520-1526. 67 Venice, IS08''25— continued. £ «. d, on the sides, the outer one of knotwork, the inner of a metal-work pattern. The centre is. stamped with an npright combination of rofes and metal-work in a figure which resembles a croes, a lozange, and a cross. At the inner angles there arc genuine flenrs-de-lis ; and between the two borders there is a lettering **Iy. Fir. M. Man. Ara.", i.e. FirmicQS, Manilins, Aratus. The edges are gilt and goffered ; there are fonr thick bands on the back, making fiTe panels over each of which is a gilt band of metal- work pattern. 339 PLAUTUS. Ex Plavti Comoediis . xx . . Colophon : Venetiie in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani soceri . . M.D.XXII. 8vo. with some MS, corrections on the margins by a contemporary hand ; fine copy in the original binding 1522 6 6 Dark smooth-grained morocco, fall-gilt on the sides with arabesque ornamenta- tion of metal-work pattern. The border compartment is stamped with finer and smaller tooling; the inner design is large and bold with an escutcheon in the centre. There are gilt leaves at the corners ; and the edges are gilt and goffered. The back is modern, lettered and overlaid on the old bands (three large and four small ones). The escutcheon is the ragged staff (or tree-trunk) with two fleurs-de-lis above, and two below, all three pieces arranged as bends. 340 SENECAE (L. Annaei) Natvralivm Qvaestionvm libri yii . . Colophon : Yenetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae Asvlani soceri . . M.D.XXII. 8vo. in the original binding, from the Auchinleck library 1522 9 Smooth black morocco, gilt ob the sides with the same pattern as fiUed the inner compartment of the Plautns, but without the border compartment. In the central space, instead of an escutcheon, are the initials 6. A. C. Tlie back is flat with three iMinda and four panels, bearing the original lettering *^ Sen. Nat Qvaest." 341 CICERONIS (M. T.) de Philosophia volvmen primvm [et secandnm] Colophon of the second volume : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae, Asvlani soceri . . M.D.XXllI. 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. toith the initials illuminated; fine copy in the original binding 1523 14 Smooth black morocco, partly gilt on the sides, and having the edges gilt. The decoration on the sides consists of two outer rectangular fillets, in blind-tooling, and an inner one curving out at the middle into segments of circles. The sides bear, in gold, the lettering M.T.C. Phi., and, horizontally across the centre, the motto '*£t toa scriberis in albo." Above and below this motto there is a fleur-de-lis (of Italian form) in gold on each side. The back is original, with five bands and six panels, but a lettering has been added on labels by a modern binder. This book belonged formerly to Henouard. Inside the cover are the labels of two later owners : £. V. Utterson, and Horace Earl of Orford. It is in excellent condition. 342 AVLI GELLII Noctivm Atticarvm libri vndeviginti. Aldvs Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV. 12mo.^ne copy in the oriainal binding 1515 3 3 Smooth olive morocco, gilt with fillets and leafiet cornerpieces in gold, as well as an intitulation on the upper side. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork ; the back is plain (three thick bands and four panels) with a little zigzag ornament in a small compartment at top and bottom. Florence, 1525-6: 343 CICERONIS (M. T.) Orationes a Nicolao Angelio . . excvsas. Colophon : Impressnm Florentiee Suraptu Philippi Inntae Anno. D.XV . . snpra mille . . 12mo. very fine copy in the original binding 1515 515 Smooth citron morocco ; richly gilt on the sides with a broad border of interlaced knotwork, the inner space bearing an oblong ornament of metal- work style flanked by six roses, and having iour Florentine fleurs-de-lis at the angles. The edges are gilt and goffered with a knotwork pattern. The back (slightly mended at top and bottom) has four panels, each of them scored with black lines to imitate a conventional star. This is a beantiful example of Florentine binding. 344 LUGAN. Annei Lvcani Poema nvperrime impressvm . . 1522 . . Colophon: Finem sortitns est Lucanns iste Lngdnn . . in ofl&cina Gnillelmi huyon calchograpki. Anno domini. M.dzzi . . 12mo. in the original (or perhaps second) binding 1521 4 4 Smooth olive morocco, ornamented on the sides with a broad blind -tooled border of interlaced knotwork. The inner compartment encloses foar gold lozanges (metal- work style) arranged in pale, and flanked by two lines of cinqfenille«i also in gold. The four panels on the back are scored with black lines in the form of an X. — This binding is not Lyonnese, but Italian (probably Florentine); and shows how soon the b(X>k made its way into Italy to justify the complaints of Aldus ngain^t tlio Lyonnese pirates. 5 * 68 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Venice, 1525-35: £ i. d, 346 CATVLLVS. TIBVLLVS. PROPETIVS («c). Colophon: Veneiiis in aedibvs Aldi . . M.D.II . . On the back of the last leaf: CatvUvs. Tibvllvs. Propertivs. 12mo. with MS, notes ; a very large copy in the original binding 1502 The book remained evidently stitched or in sheets until it was bound about 1525. It is in smooth olive morocco bearing on the sides a lozange within a rectangular figure, the lines of the latter curving out into semi-circles at their middles. This ornamentation is done by single gold lines accompanied by parallels in blind-tooling. In the centre of the lozange is a dragon in gold ; and gold trefoils are stamped at the onter comers of the rectangle. There is no gold on the back ; simple X figures are scored upon the two middle panels ; while upon the upper and lower panels there is close diagonal cross-hatching. The book-label of Horatio Earl of Orford (Sec. XIX) is pasted within the cover. 346 LIVIUS. (Vols. I, II, lU :) Ex xiiii. T. Livii Decadibvs. Prima, Tertia, Qvarta . . Colophon: YenetiisiiiaedibvB Aldi, et Andreae soceri M.D.XVIII[.XIX-XX]— (Vol. IV :) Titi Livii . . Epitomae . Lvciva PlorvB [Polybii Historianrm libri qvinqve in Latiam converai lingaam . . ] Colophon: Veneiiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XXI. 4t Yols. 12vciO. fine copies in the original binding 1518-21 10 Smooth morocco, Vols. I, II, and IV being in olive, Vol. in in brown. Vols. I, II are gilt on the sides with a double fillet, trefoil corner ornaments, a central circlet with the lettering, and, above and below the circlet, a boards or dragon's head. Vol. IV varies slightly in the comerpieces and the dragon's head is put within the circlet, instead of outside it Ail three volumes bear, within the circlet on the lower side, the owner's initials : F: G: £Q. The third volnme has no gilding except the lettering on the upper cover, and the figure (a back view) of a naked boy upholding a swelling sail, upon the lower ; the rest of the ornament being blind-tooled. It is of the same style and period as the others, perhaps two or three years later. The backs of all the volumes are plain and uniform, with three thick bands and four panels ; cross-hatched at the extreme top and bottom only. 347 Q. HORATII PLACCI Poemata omnia . . Colophon : Veneiiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XIX. 12mo. in the original binding, rebacTced 1519 2 16 Smooth black morocco, blind>tooled on the sides with a peculiar style of ornament. Diagonal lines divide the surface into sixteen narrow compartments, alternately stamped two and two, with rows of interlacing zigzags forming lozanges, and with sparse leaflets. The sides are a little worn and the back is new. 348 LIVIUS. Decas Qvarta . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XX. 12mo. in the original binding^ a fine example 1520 6 6 Smooth citron (or olive) morocco on very thick paper boards ; gilt on the sides with an inner and an outer set of parallel fillets, the inner lines curving out at the middle so as to intertwine with the outer row. There are floral comerpieces like fleurs-de-lis ; the centrepiece is a circle enclosing four intersected triangles, with roses and floral lozanges above and below. The back is mended, but it has still its original four panels with a gilt rose witliin a blind-tooled lozange upon each. 349 GAZA. Theodori Orammatices libri , iiii [Greece'] . . Colophon: Florentiaa per hsaredes Philippi Innt® . . M.I).XXVI . . 12mo. fine copy in the original binding 1526 4 4 Smooth black morocco, probably Venetian, rather than Florentine binding ; a fine example. On the sides, there is a double fillet, rectangular, except that it curves outward at the middle on each side into a semi-circle. There is a circular centrepiece outlined in gold and enclosing on the upper cover a gilt lettering " Theodori Gra," on the lower a gilt escutcheon. There are roses in blind-tooling at the angles. The back is plain, three bands with four panels ; the edges are gilt and goffered. The escutcheon is sable (?) two f esses or ; with a chief or, bearing a double-headed eagle, sable (?). 350 OVID. P. O. Nasonis Metamorpboseos libri xv . . Colophon: FlorentiBS per haaredes Philippi Inntfe . . M.D.XXII . . 12mo. some toriting on the title ; fine copy in the original binding 1522 2 16 Smooth black morocco (or calf) decorated on the sides in blind -tooling with an onter rectang^ular border of arabesques in metal-work style. On the inner space a central bust of some Koman emperor, flanked by fonr roses, is impressed on the upper cover ; on the lower it is the favorite figure of a naked boy upholding a swelling sail. A dolphin is placed under his feet On both covers there is a quadrant ornament at each angle. There are three heavy bands on the bsck ; the first and the fourth of the panels are scored with diagonal lines like an X. This binding is not Florentine but Venetian, and must have been done abont 1630. ITALIAN WORK, 1530-1540. 69 Venice, 1525^5" continued, £ «. d. 351 DANTE. Gomedia di Danthb Alighibbi . . cd Tespositione di Ghristophoro ladino . . MDXXIX Golophon : . . Venetia . . M.D.XXIX . . Small folio, with a portrait of Dante on the hack of the title, a/nd a small woodcut at the beginning of each canto ; in the original binding of white leather, tooled in black 1529 24 An arabesque border between two fillets, then a blank border, another fillet which has a leaf outside the comers, and a flenron inside, and a boar's head stmng upon the middle of each line. In the space between this and centrepiece the boards head is repeated four times. The interior ornament is rectangular, framed with a double fillet having a leaf and a flenron at the comers. 0?er it falls a geometrical figure composed of twelve united curves, filled inside with arabesques of metal-work style, except in the eight-sided centrepiece, in which we see a little winged Cupid holding the bow from his shaft has just been sped. 352 MARTIALIS. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, mense Decembri . M.DI. . . 12mo. a beautiful copy on Thick Paper, in Aldine Unding 1501 18 Smooth olive morocco, gilt on the sides, back, and edges. On the sides there is a dnqnefoil at each corner, a broad ornamental border of metal-work pattern, and, for centrepiece, an oblong ornament within an almond-shaped figure of similar kind, the intitulation MAR above it, and leaflets at the inner angles. In each of the four panels on the back a gilt cinquefoil at the intersection of blind lines that form an X. The edges are gilt and goffered. This is a fine specimen of Venetian orna- mental binding. 3o3CANTUS MONASTICI FORMULA . . Colophon: Cantorinus « proceBsionarias . . in officina Lnceantonij Jnnte floretini Yenetiis excnsns . . M.D.xxxy . . 12mo. in the original binding 1535 6 6 Bound in smooth red morocco over wooden boards, for Elena Zibramonte, whoso name is stamped on the sides. The back is fnll-gilt in eleven compartments on the three panels it consists of, with a ranniog branch or tendril ornament ; the sides have broad borders of metal-work pattern, an oblong centrepiece of similar stvle with comers. The edges gilt and goffered with a wavy cord. The original clasps are perfect. The fnll-gilt back is a remarkable innovation here. 354 MUSuSil opnscnlnm de Herone & Leandro. [grcece et lat,"] Orpbei argonautica . . [grcece^. Colophon: Yenetiis in aedibvB Aldi et Andreae . . M.D.XYII . . \2mo. with the initials illuminated ; fine large copy in its original binding 1517 6 6 From its size, this copy must have remained in sheets till it was boand, about 1535. The leather is dark brown calf, gilt on the sides with an outer rectangular border of ranning branches, flowers, and tendrils ; an inner rectangular border formed of a chain of annulets or daisies, having one of these annalets at each comer, and a sin^rle one in the centre. The back is a modern reparation. 355 SENECA. Scenecab (sic) Tbagobdiae. Aldvs. Colophon : Yenetiis in aedibrs Aldi et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XYII. 12mo. in the original binding 1517 6 10 Smooth red morocco, the edges gilt and goffered, the sides geometrically gilt, in single lines, with three fillets of which the inner two intersect at various angles. The middle space is filled with an upright chain of four linked rings, a gold star of six points in the centre of each ring. The back has three thick bands and four alternate narrow ones all gilt, each of the former with a horizonal line, each of the latter with diagonal lines running downwards from right to left. The second, third, and fourth panels contain a gilt lettering ** sb nb tsa.*' Although stated above to be the original binding, this may have been a second covering put on about 1535. Florence, 1540: 356 MACHIAYELLI. Libro della Arte della Gverra di Niccolo Macbiavegli . . Colophon : Impresso in Flrenze per li Heredi di Philippo di Giunta. M.D.XYYIIII («c). 12mo. i» the original Florentine binding 1529 2 10 Smooth black morocco ; with a broad gold border on the sides, composed of a chain of Florentine flenrs-de-lis alternately placed upright and reversed. The centre- ?iece i9 a round chain of twisted gold links enclosing, on the upper side a lettering I Ma I cbiavelli | D.li.M ; a lozangy ornament above and below the roundel, a little leaflet at each angle. On the lower cover the space within the roundel is divided into compartments with four leaflets in the central lozange. The four panels on the back are gilt with diagonal lines, left to right and right to left, which meet but do not intersect This binding is not earlier than 1540, bat was probably the first covering of the book, liord Carteret's bookplate is found inside. 70 QtJARITCfi'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. „ - - - — - Florence, 1540— continued. £ $. d, 357 EVRIPIDIS TragoedisB octodecim (GrcBcs) , . Basile® apnd loan. Hemaginm anno, M.D.XXXVII . . divided into 2 vols, small 8vo. very fine copy in its original binding 1537 6 6 Brown calf, folly gilt on the sides, with gilt edges. A broad border of metal- work pattern, with Florentine flenrii-de-lis at the angles, encloses a lozange formed of a chain of gold twist within gilt and blind lines. There are French fleurs-de-lis at the corners of the lozange, and, in the middle, a gold wreath encircling a stamped escntcheoiL The back is plain, with eight bands, cross-hatched in the first and ninth panels. The escntcheon is that of the Marchioni of Genoa, or of the German Lichteostein, but whoever the owner was, the binding was done in Italy about 1540, most probably at Florence. Venice, 1540-45 : 358 STATU Sjlvarvm libii qvinqve Thebaidos libri dvodecim Acbilleidos dno. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibrs Aldi . . M,DII. 12mo. fine copy in Venetian binding 1502 6 6 Smooth red morocco, richly gilt on the sides. There is a doable broad border, the onter part being knotwork interlacements of square pattern, the inner metal-work arabesqne.' The inmost space contains a round centrepiece and floral comerpieoea. The round is formed by a kind of wreath enclosing two crosses of fleurs-de-lis, and hag projections at top and bottom. The edgeis are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The back has three thick bands with a single horizontal stripe, and four slender ones with diagonal strokes left to right down. Metal-work patterns in blind-tooling fill the panels. 359 SCENECAE (sic) Tragoediae . Aldvs. Colophon: Venetiis . . M.D.XVII . . 12mo. large copy^ with a stamp of ancient otonership on the first two leaves ; Venetian binding 1517 8 8 A fine ornamental binding of smooth black morocco, fully gilt on the sides, with a rectangular border and large centre and comer decorations, all in metal- work pattern. The title seke tba goe is stamped in the centrepieces. The back has alternating bands, thick with straight, and thin with oblique strokes. The edges are gilt and gofl^cred. The binding is probably the first covering of the book, notwithstantung that It was done about twenty years later than the printer's work. 360 IL PETRARCHAconl'espositioned'AessandroVellvtello . . M.D.XXXII. Colophon: . . Stampate in Vinegia per Maestro Bernardino de Vidali . . Mille cinquecento trentadne. 12mo. in the original binding 1532 12 Smooth black morocco, fully gilt on the sides. The outmost rectan^lar border represents a gold chain consisting of oblong links and tiny rings. Within it is a frame of geometrical character, two sets of double lines forming a border with angular inter* sections and comers. Inside, a rectangular figure formed by plain double lines intersecting at the comers ; and within it a set of double -lined lozanges interlaced and intersecting. Comerpieccs of long slender Icayes, and a line of the same leaves running down the middle of the lozanges. Little trefoils are arranged in lozange wise at all the intersections. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The back has ten panels, with four thick bands and five alternate narrow bands, these last being gilt with diagonal lines running downwards from left to right. This ornamentation of Uie back was a new fashion which only began after 1630. It is apparently not of Aldine origin, as the simpler style continued to prevail in the great printer's workshop for some time. {See iUustration in L. P. issue.) 361 CASTIGLIONE. il libro del cortegiano del conte baldesar castig- LiONE. Aldvs . . Colophon : In Venetia nelle case delli heredi d'Aldo Bomano, et d' Andrea d'Asola . . M.D. XXXIII . . 12mo, fine copy in the original binding 1533 4 10 Smooth olive morocco, gilt on the sides with two single parallel fillets, having a leaved flower at each angle. The back has seven alternately thm and thick bands, the thick ones gilt with a horizontal line, the narrow ones with diagonal strokes running downwards from left to right The edges are simply gilt. — There is, on the sides, an escnteheon in gold with a lettering : Cortegiano. These seem to have been added about 1550. The escutcheon is divided by a pale vavr; the first half is fessy of six with a bendlet ; the other half is traversed by a fess vatr, with a crowned lion rampant above and below. 362 CICERONIS (M. TvUii) de Philosopbia, prima 'pars [cui sequuntur volvmen secvndvm et Scholia Pavli Manvtii] . Final Colophon : Apvd Aldi filios. Venetiis, M.D.XXXXI. 3 vols, in 2, 12mo. in the original binding 1541 6 6 Smooth olive morocco, gilt on the sides with two sets of parallel fillets, having a trefoil at each of the eight angles, with a stamped oblong omament of metal- work st^le, in the centre. The back has seven alternate thin and thick bands, all of them gilt with diagonal lines ranning downwards from right to left. M^ALIAN WORK, 1540-1545. . 71 £ 8. d. Venice, 1540-45 — continued, 363 CICERONIS (M. Tvllii) de Philosophia . . M.D.XLI. GolopJwn : Venetiis, apvd Aldi filios, M.D.XLI. . 2 vols. 12mo. in the original binding 1?^1 ^ ^ Smooth black morocco, gilt on the side, with a border formed of two single Iraes which run parallel, then intersect, run parallel, and cross again, with the title " M. T. C. PHI." in the compartments on the upper cover. A centrepiece in gold on both sides is a stamped head ofa Roman Emperor, or of Cicero himself. The back is perfect, with a gold leaflet in each of its two broad panels, a star in each of the four small ones ; a horizontal gold line on the three large bands, a line combined of horizontal and diagonal strokes on the two small bands. 364 TITI LIVII Patavini Librorvm Epitomae. LvciysElorvs [et Polybius Latine'], Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae . . M.D.XXI. 12mo. fine copy in the original binding . 1^21 3 3 Smooth black (or very dark brown) morocco, gilt on the sides with a plain fillet having at each of its angles, a rose outside and a leaf inside. In the inner space is the lettering *' L. Florvs . et . Polybivs." and below it the initials of the owner G. S. On the back, three thick bands plain, and four alternate thin bands gilt with diagonal strokes, left to right. The identical character of this binding with that of the Dioscorides of 1618, leads to a supposition that G S was a member of the Sanuto family. 365 DIOSCORIDES. (Orcece). Aldvs. Colophon : Venetus in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae Asvlani . . M.D.XVIII.— Nicandri Theriaca . . (Orcece). Colophon: . . in aedibvs Aldi . . M.D.XXIII— 2 vols, m 1, ^yo, in the original binding .^^^^'^f 6 6 U Smooth dark morocco (reddish brown) exactly resembling the Livius, with its gilt fillet, rose and leaf, and alternating bands, and general style. There is no lettering or initials on the sides, but inside on the flyleaf the ownership appears in a Grolieresque inscription " Petri Sanuti, et amicorum gracis musis philosophantium. This was written by Pietro Sanuto, a distinguished chief of the Augustinian order at Venice, about 1645. At the end he records that he had paid 184 solidos for the book. 366 IL PETRAECHA con TespoBitione d'Alessandro Vellvtello . . In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari MDXXXXV. Small 4to. fine copy in the original binding^ with Lord Orford's bookplate 1^^^ 21 Smooth red morocco, covered with gilt tooling. There is an outer border, composed of curve-lines, trefoils, arabesque centres, and comer leaflets ; an inner border of a metal-work pattern ; then an inmost space filled up with comerpieces, a double frame of curve and arabesque, a two-rimmed circle, and within it on the front cover the name il petrarciia. On the back iostead of the name there is a blank escutcheon. The back is gilt with straight and diagonal lines on the alternating thick and thm bands, and there is blind-tooling on the panels. The edges are gilt and goflfered with a metal-work pattern. (See illusUnMon in L. P. «si*e.) This is a fine and well-preserved example of Venetian decorative bindmg. 367 BOCCACCIO, il decimerone di m. Giovanni boccaccio . . MD.XXVII. Colophon : Impresso in Firenze per li beredi di Philippo di Qiunta • • .M.D.XXVII . . 8vo. in Venetian binding 1527 84 The famous Ventisettana, with the sides of a beautiful decorative binding which was put upon it about 1645. It was in olive morocco, and bound by the same man who bound the Petrarcha of 1646 above described. The ornamentation was however much more simple and elegant, and at the same time far more ornate. There are two double-lined rectangular borders, of which the outer one breaks into inwardangles at the middle of each line, while the inner one breaks into outward angles. The space between the outer double lines is painted red, of the inner lines white. Thus we see a white and a red line run parallel and interlace angularly in mid-course. In the rectangular space between the white frame there are gold comerpieces outlmed with silver, a double framework of curved gold lines, and arabesques partly silvered ; finally a ring or circlet of red lined with gold, enclosing the words il decam. On the lower side the name is replaced by an escutcheon which seems to be the bearing of Manolesso or Ziani of Venice. . -j *• i The comerpieces and the arabesque framework of the centrepiece are identical with the corresponding parts of the Petrarca of 1 646 . The back is new, as well as the edges of the sides. 368 LYCAN VS. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV. Umo. in a fine Venetian binding 1^15 15 Veau fauve gilt. The sides are impressed with a lozange cut by a rectangular figure, each formed of double gold lines. The figure enclosed is a treble lozange framed within an oblong geometrical pattern. At the heart of the inmost line-lozange 72 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. •w Venice, 1540-45 — continued. £ t, d. is a lozange of knotwork. At tbe angles there are arabesque floarishes of metal-work style, and in the onter compartments there are little flowers and bnncbes of knotwork. The back has five thick bands and two thin ones, the large ones stroked horizontally, the slender ones obliquely. The panels are filled with ^«nch flenrs-de-Iis, which are tmdoabtedly additions of about the year 1600. The edges are plain-gilt. The book was presented about 1670 by Pere Lalonette of Sedan to the Cbeyalier de Chagny. — The bookplate of the Earl of Orford is pasted within the cover. 369 MANILinS. Title : Marci Manilii Astronomicon ad Gaesarem AvgYstTm noviter ac diligentissipie emeDdatvm. Colophon : . . Im- preessnm Borne per magistrnm lacobnm Mazocbiu . . M. d. x. . Small 4to. in an early Venetian binding of olive morocco gilt 1510 12 12 A beautiful example of Venetian work in the finest preservation. The sides are g^lt with a broad border of interlaid knotwork, outside of which there is a blind-tooliog of fillets and roses. There are gilt fleurs-de-lis (Florentine) at the angles. Within the border there is a treble gold fillet on each side of the central space, the lines not meeting at the comers, but joined by an arabesque ornament and lily. In tbe central space is an ornament composed of the same arabesque figure and lily multiplied into a circular form ; and above it, on the upper cover . £N . RI . P . , on the lower . M . MANIL. The back has three bands ; and upon it there are parallel gold lines, as well as similar blind <mes, drawn horizontally at intervals from top to bottom. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. — This is a remarkably fresh and fine specimen. £n. Bi. P. was probably the owner for whom tbe book was bound about 1540-45. 370 [HiSTORiJB AuGUST-« scRiPTORBs] In lioc volvmine haec continentvr. Nera89 & Traiani, atq ; Adriani Gassarom uitsB ex Dione, Georgio Memla interprete . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreac . . M. D. XIX. 12mo. Venetian binding 1519 7 7 Smooth black morocco, blind-tooled with a metal-work pattern as a border on the sides ; a lily in the angles, and a centrepiece enclosing the bust of a Koman emperor. This, although a blind impression, is identical with the buft on the C'icero of 1541 described above. The back has three thick and four thin bands alternately. The lowest compartment on the back is scored with oblique lines, blind-tooled. On the upper cover, the book is lettered in gold Vitjb bx Dione. Cardinal Morone, about 1645-48 : 371 ARON. Foh 1 : Virga Aron reflorvit. A portrait of Aron within an oval, and beneath it ; Nicolai Comitis Arcitenentis Ecasticlion . . FoL 2 : LvciDAKio IN MvsiCA . . Composto dair eccellente, & consumato Mnsico Pietro Aron . . Colophon: In Yinegia appresso Girolamo Scotto. Nel M.D.XLY. Small 4to. with printed Music ; fine copy having the first figured initial beautifully illuminated^ and^ on the margin below, the emblazoned escutcheon of Cardinal Giovanni Morone; in the original binding 1545 14 14 Smooth -grained chocolate-brown morocco. The sides are gilt with a rectangular border, in which a running arabesque is stamped upon a ground of gold. At the angles there are leaf-ornaments ; within the border a rose stands above and below the lettering which runs across the middle — LVCIDARIO on the upper cover and IN . MVSICA. on the lower. The back is plain, with three bands ; the edges are gilt. — This is a fine early example of the stamped Venetian bindings which were just begin- ning to supplement or replace the geometrical hand-work of the more pretentious volumes. Cardinal Morone was one of the most distinguished men of his order, and was a friend of Cardinal Pole's. Venice, 1547 : 372 DEMOSTHENIS Orationvm . . pars prima [secvnda et tertia] Orcece, Venetiis . M. D. XLIII. Final Colophon : Venetiis apvd Franciscvm Brveiolvm et fratres eivs. M. D. XLIII. 3 vols. 12mo. ^tnc copy in the original binding 1543 14 14 Smooth morocco of a reddish brown colour. The sides are gilt with a plain fillet, having at each of iis angles a leaf outside and a rose inside. On the upper part of the inner space is the lettering *< Demos . I . Pars . " (^ . Pars and T . Pars) ; in the centre the gold figure (front view) of a naked boy upholding a swelling sail. Beneath his feet is a rose, by his side the owner's initials : . A. P., and, below, the date of binding M. D. XLVII. — The back has three high bauds which are not gilt, and, alternately, four slender bands with diagonal gold lines, right to left. This is a fine example of Venetian binding, and valuable for its date. ITALIAN WORK, 1547-1550. 73 ~~-^^ — *-■ — -~ ------,-..- Cardinal Madruccio, 1547: £ ». d. 373 LIVIUS. Le decbe di .T. Livio Padovano . . Tradotte . . da lacopo Nardi . . In Venetia MDXLVIL Folio, in the original decorative binding executed for Cardinal Madmcdo to whom it was ^presented by the author {in an autograph letter prefixed) heredi di Lucantonio Criuntiy 1547 25 Smooth black morocco. The sides are fully gilt, with an outer fillet connected by a corner ornament with a doable row of lines that run parallel and intersect by turns, forming compartments which enclose gold Icares and metal-work decoration. The inner 8pac« is framed by a curving line which suggests a lozangc, and encloses an oval formed by twists and trefoils extended above and below into a lozangy figure of inter- laced squares and angles. Within the oval the Cardinars arms are painted. The edges are plain gilt ; the back has the favorite alternation of thick and slender bands, with diagonal strokes on the slender ones, and the panels blind-tooled with the running branch flower and tendrU omament.--This is a fine book. Venice, 1550: 374 Mabsilio Ficino . . de le tre Vite . . In Venetia per Michel Tramezzino MDXLVIII — Di Galeno delli mezzi . . per consernare la sanita . . ib. id. MDXLIX — Di Galeno a che gvisa . . curare le infermita dell* animo . . ib, id. MDXLIX — Villanuoua (Arnaldo di) Opera vtilissima . . di consernare la sanita . . ib. id. MDXLIX — 4 vols, in 1, 12mo. in the original binding 1548-49 12 12 Smooth olive morocco gilt ; a fine example. The sides are gilt with two double fillets as borders, the space between them filled with a pattern representing a chain of jewels. ^ In the middle, a double-lined lozango touching each side of the inner fillet ; within it an armorial bearing of flames, with two rampant lions as supporters, and the initials M £ (altered by a later owner into L P). The empty comers have arabesque ornaments of which the disguised motif is a semi-rhombus. The edges arc gilt and goffered with a knotwork pattern ; the bands on the back bear a single g^ld line, and in the panels is an oblong lettering MARS | FICI | NO £T | GAL | £N0. The book IS in admirably fresh condition. Canevari Bindings (1550) : 375 CASTIGLOINE. il libro del cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione. Colophon : Stampato in Yinegia per Vettor de Babani o compagni . . M.D. XXXVIII. . 12mo. in a beautiful Venetian binding on which a Canevari stamp has been impressed (in a red morocco case) 1538 20 Smooth black morocco, richly decorated. The sides are ruled with rectangular fillets which form multiple borders. Between the two outmost gold lines is a chain of oblong jewels, pearls and rabies, silver and red, united by horizontal links of gold. Nexty within, is a silver border (framed in gold) and a similar border and framework to the centrepiece. Between the two silver rectangles there is a broad gold pattern of inter- laced knotwork. The central space has arabesques of metal*work pattern accompanied by a figure of two interlaced deltas above and below the medallion. This is more nearly circular than oval and contains a differently engraved design from the Strabo and the Aeneas Sylvius. There are several heavy clouds in the sky, the green cliff on which Pegasus star ds is not so roughly rocky, the horse which is looking back has turned his head three-quarters round, and the little cross-stroke in the thcta (of Orthos) is omitted. There are three bands on the back ; in the four panels, some of the knotwork ornament is introduced, gilt between silver horizontal lines. It ia a beautiful old Venetian binding ; even if we disregard its apparent claim to be a Canevari. 376 STRAJBONIS Geographicorvm lib. xvii . . Latinitate donati . . Basileae apad loan . Vnalder . M.D.XXXIX . . Small folio, in a beautiful Canevari binding rebacked, with gilt edges (enclosed in a red morocco case) 1539 63 Smooth dark olive morocco upon thick paper boards. The gilt ornamentation is simple ontside but grandly effective. There are two borders of double fillets, a French fleur-de-lis outside each comer of the exterior border. In the spaces between the two borders are bracket-shaped ornaments flowered and curved, and a similar one within each comer of the interior border. On the upper side, in the rectangular centre there is a double- lined upright oval frame enclosing the stamped medallion which is so famous. The rocky steep and the shore are green, lighted with gold. Pegasus, as well as the three slight cloud-forms above him, is silver. The horses, the chariot- wheels, the charioteer, and his whip-lash are of the eround-colour, but the reins, and trappings, the body of the chariot, the charioteer*8 nllet and scarf, and the handle of the whip, are gold. The 74 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE Of BINDilfGS. - — ^ — __ _ ^ _^ _^ fc Canevari Bindings (1550) — continued, £ «. d, motto OPeOZ KAI . MH AOAIQS occnpies only the upper half of the band ontdde the oval rim, the lower half is filled in with an ornament representing a chain of alternating round and oval links. Above the medallion is the lettering btbabo . db . 8ITT . oRBis. This description applies eqnally to both of the covers. This is an admirable example of the '* Canevari " library ; the sides being in an nnnsnally excellent state of preservation. 377 MACROBIUS. Fol 1 : Somnirm Scipionis . . Colophon : Macrobii . . libri impressi Venetiis opera et impensa Nicolai lenson Grallici . M.CCCC.liXXlI. Small folio, hound up in a covering which did not originally belong to it 1472 25 The principal ornamentation on the cover (which is of smooth brown or olive leather) is a large silver pattern of geometrical interlacement, bordered by a doable row of silver lines which begin and end parallel, but which curve and interlace at intervals. In the centre is a stamped medallion with the figures of Pegasus on the green rock, Phoebus driving his horses up against it, etc. — the same subject as the Canevari stamp, but difllering from it The horse which is looking back, has his head almost entirely reverted. l%e motto seems to be an addition of no great antiquity, and the cross-stroke of the theta has been omitted.— The available spaces all over the side, have been filled with axnr6 arabesques. The volume is a striking and cnnous example of binding, but cannot be called beautiful. 378 AENEAS SYLVIUS. La Discrittione de TAsia, et Evropa di Papa Pio II . . Vinegia . Appresso Vincenzo Vaugris . . M.D.XLIIII. 12mo. in a charming Canevari binding 1544 36 Smooth red morocco, gilt on the sides with an outer and an inner double fillet border. The space between them has the same kind of arabesque as mentioned in the description of the Strabo. The corner ornament is like a sceptre, springing from within the inner rectangle, crossing the double fillets and the space between, and ending, at the outmost comer of the leather, in a Florentine lily. The intitulation and the medallion (with a leafy arabesque below) occupy each side of the binding ; but the medallion is from a stamp diflferent from and smaller than that of the Strabo, and lies here oblong across the inner space. In this design (evidently intended for books of small size) the cloudlets are left out, and instead of the long green sloping shore a level stretch of ground below the cliff is trampled on by the horses. The chariot, fillet, scarf, and reins are gold, the gold lights on the green cliff are hardly visible, and there is no suggestion of silver upon Pegasus. The band encircling the oblong oval is broken at each side by the bordering fillet and ends there. The motto occupies the whole of the band. The edges are plain gilt ; the back has three thick and two thin bands, with a lettering in the panels. Of the original lettering, there is di papa | pio ii | in the second and third panels. The top and bottom panel have been repaired with new leather. (^€0 illustration in L. P. iesue ) The universal belief that the Canevari books were bound for Demetrio Canevari, the celebrated physician, must have had some kind of fonndation. lie was probably the possessor by inheritance of a library of books bound in the characteristic style to which we attach the name of Canevari, and he may (about 1590-1600) have had a few bound for him to match the rest There can however be no doubt that the man for whom most of the volumes were bound was living in Venice between 1540 and 1550, and that the books he collected were chiefly those that had been printed in the fifteen- thirties and fifteen-forties. Very few of them can be said to have passed through the binder's hands later than 1550 ; and all were done in Venice. Demetrio Canevari was bom at Genoa in 1559, and lived in Rome from about 1585 to 1625. Venice, 1550-60: 379 BOCCACCIO, il decamerone di m. giovanne boccaccio . . In Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari MDXLVIII. Small 4to. in the original Maiolesque binding 1 548 60 Smooth oKve morocco, gilt and painted on the sides with geometrical and arabesque ornament. The outmost rectangular border is black within gold fillets. The second border is red within gold fillets ; its rectangular form is modified by an inward curve or semi-circle at the middle of each line, aod by the projection of the lines at each comer so as to change the pointed angle into a lozange. The third or inmost border is white within gold fillets ; its rectangular character is modified by outward curves or semi-circles which intersect the corresponding inward curves of the second border. The centrepiece is a quaterfoil yellow and green, within which on the upper cover is the title IL DECAMERONE. On the lower cover, instead of a lettering, there is a red lozange flowered blue and white into the form of a cross. Green and yellow leaves Dprout from the quaterfoil ; above and below are arabesque scrolls, green, gold, red, and white in harmonised combinations. The spaces between the outer figures are ITALIAN WORK, 1548-1660. ^5 Venice, 1550-60— con^wmcd. £ «. d. occapied by gold ornaments of metal-work pattern ending in painted leaves. On the back there are fiye bands bearing a single horizontal gold line, and two (at top and bottom) charged with obliqne gold lines. A little spray of three leaflets is the ornament in each panel. The edges are goffered with decoration in faded gold.— The hinges of the cover seem to have been repaired or strengthened. 380 Vice (Enea) le imagini con tvtti i riversi trovati et le vite db gli IMPKRATORI libro primo; Enea Vico Parm. F. Tanno MDXLVIII. Small 4to. 55 leaves ; in its first binding (Vetiet, 1548) 50 First Edition of this celebrated set of engravings, which comprises the coins of the twelve CsBsars. It was boand in black smooth-drained morocco, richly gilt on the sides with a beautiful Grolieresque pattern of decoration. There are the usnal triple borders, the first being a simple rectangular figure of double fillets : the second a combination of two sets of double fillets, the one curved inwardly, the other outwardly at the corners, and intersecting each other at the middle of each of the four sides. The inmost is in mirrtr-shape, rectangular except at the middle of each side where it rounds into demi- lunes. ' The centrepiece is a quaterfoil enclosing the solid Aldine flenroo. In the spaces and at the angles the Aldine fleuron is stamped in arabesque style, with little groups of leaflets. There is nothing amongst all the Grolier books more beautiful or in purer taste than these decorative sides. The back is perfect, stamped in each of the eight panels with a little branch of leaflets. There are three high bands, each bearing a horizontal gold line, and four small ooes gilt with obliqne strokes. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; the edges of the cover gilt with sets of little curling tendrils divided by simple lines. There are two bookplates of the Jobert library engraved in the seventeenth century. The first one is an escutcheon, below it the wonis Joberti insignia; the second is a head of Janus with a long inscription from which we glean that Janus Jobertns, Paris advocate, was the founder of the library, and that his grandson was then (about 1620) the possessor of it. The book was therefore in the possession of Jan Jobert about 1560. (Perhaps ho had had it bound for him.) The learned Jesuit, Louis Jobert (bom 1637), was perhaps a member of the same family. Hadrian Beverland's signature is on the title. Some MS. verses on the flyleaf are probably written by the hand of the first Jobert, making a New Year's gift of the book itself. They begin ** Ce premier Jour de la nouuelle annee." This must have been about 1580. 381 PTOLEMEO. la Geograpia . . Con le tauole . . altre nuoue agginnteui di Messer lacopo Gastaldo . . In Venetia, per Gioa . Baptista Pedrezano . . M.D.XLVIII. Small 8vo. with all the maps ; a fine copy in the original binding^ the bookplate of the Earl of Lisbume within the cover 1548 21 Smooth olive morocco over very thick paper boards. The sides are gilt with an interlaced geometrical pattern having the smaller spaces filled in with innumerable gold dots. The little leaflets scattered about in the spaces, arcacvr^s. There is much complexity in the design, which, although distinctly Italian, is less elegant than the simpler work of the French school. The edges are plain-gilt ; the back has Are thick bands, and two slenderer ones, each of these bearing diagonal strokes, left to right. There is a gold leaflet in each of the panels. The lettering is a modem addition upon crimson labels. In the centre on the upper cover is the name Ptolomso. This is an important Americannm ; the book being one of the most notable issues of the New Ptolemy. 382 THEODORETO Vescovo di Giro, Sermoni dieci della Providenza di Dio. tradotti . . Vinegia apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli. MDLII. 12mo. with 9 pretty woodcuts, full-page size; contemporary MS* notes on the margins ; fine copy in the original binding 1552 (at end Ibh}) 4 4 Brown calf, the sides full-gilt with an ornamental metal-work pattern. Within a treble fillet, having small leaflets at the angles, the arabesque figures are composed into two large lozanges with minor lozanges inside ; the lateral spaces filled with the halves of other lozanges, and the corners with quarter lozanges broken off by tho fillets. There are three bands on the back, gilt with diagonal strokes ; in the panels there are triple horizontal lines of gold. The edges are gilt and goffered with knot- work. This is a pretty example of Venetian binding, 383 PROCOPIO Cesariense de la longa & aspra guerra de Gothi libri tre de Latino in volgare tradotte (sic) per Benedetto Egio da Spoleti. In Vinegia . M.D.XLIIII . 12mo. in the original binding 1 544 3 10 Smooth olive morocco, decorated in blind-tooling only (or rather in silver which has become oxydised). On the side there is a combination of bracket-forms taking an oblong shape which has pieces of metal-work pattern growing out at top and bottom. 76 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Venice, ISBOSO— continued. £ 8, d. The corners are of the same style. In a ronndel in the centre, there is the figure of the boy upholding a Rwelling sail. There are three thick bands on the back, and foar thin ones, these last bearing diagonal strokes so as to look like twisted cord. On the front edges, the title is painted, in gold or jrellow, dbllb oubrrr db Gothi. The book was formerly in Cardinal de Granville's library (after 1560), his arms being stamped on the back of the title. 384 ARIOSTO. Orlando Fvbioso . . In Venetia, per Qio. Andrea Valuassori, detto Guadagnino M.D.LIX. Small 4to. toith 47 excellent woodcuts ; fine copy in the original binding 1559 10 Smooth dark brown morocco, tnll-gilt on the sides with a double border, the outer one of interlaced kuotwork, the inner of a running pattern of flowered branches or tendrils ( — a favorite ornament of the last century, which occasionally appeared on Italian books from about 1536-40). Dotted gold lines frame these borders. Within them is a figure rectangular except at the middle of each side, where it breaks out into a curve or semi-circle. It has lilies at its outer angles and within them oblong semk- rhomboid ornaments of metal-work pattern. An oblong decoration, also of metal-work kind, occupies the inmost space. The back has three prominent bands, and four lower ones; these latter being gilt with diagonal strokes left to right downward. The panels have blind-tooling of interlacements. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. This is a fine example, in fresh and beautiful condition. Tommaso Maioli (1560) : 385 PSALMI Proverbia Salomonis . Ecclesiastes . Canticvm Canticorvm . . Parisiis . ex officina Roberti Stephani . M.D.XXVIII. Small 4to. hound for Maioli 1528 84 This is a remarkable and beautiful binding in smooth black morocco. The sides are richly gilt with an interlaced geometrical pattern. There are outside borders of double fillets, within which is the design, produced by the parallelism of three sets of fillets broken at their centres by interlacing angles and curves. The inmost space is framed within a figure of twenty sides (the result of angles and curves) — a cross between a rectangle and a lozange ; and is filled with innumerable gold dots. Upon them, in the centre, on both sides, is the well-known monogram composed of T M A 1 L I with £ and F, surrounded by arabesques of metal-work pattern, azures, which extend into the spaces within the second line of fillets ; and which are balanced by similar figures (all of them azures) in the ouiermost spaces. The effect is beautifully decorative and grand. The back is flat and covered with diogoual gold lines forming lattice work. — The condition of the book inside is not go^ and the margins are covered with MS. notes ; proving that the volume had already been much used before it reached Maioli's hands. He probably valued the MS. notes, which are quite evidently, from their character, the writing of a learned scholar. When Maioli's collection was dispersed, we do not know ; but this book passed again into France after his death, and was in 1597 the property of Pierre de Pince, SSeigneur du Boys, gentilhomme ordinaire de la Charobre du Hoy, whose inscription appears twice upon the title-page. Its histoiy is therefore a curious one ; but there is absolutely no doubt that it was in Maioli's possession at Venice about 1560, and that the binding was executed for him. {Bee iUtLsiration in L. P. itsue.) 386 IL PETRARCHA con la spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesvaldo . . Colophon : In Venetia per Domenico Giglio. MDLIII. Small 4to. woodcuts; in the original calfi painted in compartments with a florid geometrical pattern in red^ white^ and green^ intertwining with gold curve lines which hear azured Jwurons ; lettered in the centre on the upper cover il petrarcha, and on the lower th. maioli . et . AMicoR . 1553 125 The back is gilt at the top and bottom with a lattice work of obliqae transverse lines, and simple obliqae strokes on the bands, a rose in each of the panels. The sides are in excellent preservation, the colours having deteriorated only a little by abrasion. The engraved bookplate of Denis Godefroy, the historian (about 1 650), is pasted on the flyleaf, as well as a slip bearing a library shelf -mark, " Lxxxvii. h." ITALIAN WORK, 1560-1561. 77 Tommaso Maioli (1560) — contintied, £ «. d, 387 SENECA. l*£P1ST0le dt senega . ridotte nella lingua toscana, per il Doui . . In Vinegia MDXLIX. 12mo. in the original binding 1549 55 Smooth reddish-brown morocco ; with a flat back which (beins; broader than usual) is gilt with an elaborate arabesque pattern of leafy scrolls, which form three ornamental fieureSf united each to each in their longitudinal succession, by a little group of metal-work pattern. Within each of the three scroll figures is a sort of flower- losange. The lateral spaces between each of the three main groups, and adjoining the two minor groups, are fllled up with leafy scroU-work which is azurif i.e. rendered solid by fine gold lines. The edges are plain-gilt. The sides have no other decoration than a eold fillet almost at the extreme edge of the cover ; bat there is the gilt lettering of tiUe and ownership, which gives high value to the simple-looking little volume. On the front cover we have L'EPISTOLB . | DI . SENECA . | THO. MAIOLI . ET . | AMICOBVM. On the lower cover, the motto: . INIMICI . MEI . | MEA . MICHI . I NON . ME . I MICHI. We GO not know when Maioli died, and cannot therefore say precisely when this volume was bound. The broad gold ornamentation on the back (which is entirely original) precludes any date before 1560. Even before 1570, examples of such a kind are very rare. It suggests that a period had come in the history of Maioli's library when he was accustomed to range his books on shelves with their backs only exposed to view. [See illustration in L. P. istue.) Paolo Giordano degli Orsini (1560) : 388 Pkocopio Cesariense de la Gverra di Giastiniano imperatore contra i Persian! . . contra i YaHdali . . in volgare tradotti per Benedetto Bgio . . Colophon : Vinegia per Michel Tramezino. MDXLVII. 12mo. in the original binding 1647 12 12 Smooth brown morocco gilt. The sides are decorated with an elegant pattern of interlacements in the Grolier style, havins a geometrical basis worked out in arabesques. The effect is striking and graceful. The edges are gilt and goffered with an arabesque design, and the back, in each of its eight panels, has a lozangy eight-leaved ornament in gold. Stamped as a centrepiece on the sides, is the escutcheon of Paolo Giordano degli Orsini, Duke of Bracciano ; and around the rim of the oblong frame which encloses the escutcheon and crest, runs the ioscription : FAYL lOBDAN VRS d'araoon. The book was probably bound for him whea,in 1560, he married a daughter of ttie Medici, whose arms are impaled with his. 389 LA BIBLIA . . in lingua Toscana . . In Yineggia appresso Girolamo Scotto . 1547. Small 4to. having the title in facsimile, nevertheless a fine ruled copy in the original binding 1547 21 In a beautiml binding of smooth -grained brown morocco. The sides are decorated with a Grolieresque pattern of interlacements, geometrical and arabesque. The design resembles carved wood-work, the figures of which are outlined in gold, filled in with black paint, and (in the chief portions) shewing a silver lining. Parts of the design are painted in blue, and here and there in central places there are roundels of white looking like pearls. The edges are gilt and goffered in arabesque ; the back has five thick bands and two small ones, all of them gilt. In the panels are rows of the same eight- leaved fiower (green and gold) which was used in the Procopio. — The escutcheon of Paul Giordano degli Orsini Is stamped in gold as a centrepiece on the sides, with the same inscription as on the Procopio. This binding is in admirable preservation. Venice, 1560-61 : 390 DONI. Inpbbni del Doni . . Vinegia . . Francesco Marcolini. MDLIll. 7 parts in 1 vol. small 4to. woodcuts ; fine copy in the original binding 1553 8 8 Smooth red morocco, gilt on the sides, back and edges. On the side there are two sets of fillets, one gold line and two blind ones for the outer frame ; two gold and three blind ones for the inner border. There is an Aldine lily in full gold outside each comer of the interior border, and inside each angle an azuri fienron. The centrepiece is an oval escutcheon surrounded by a circular wreath, from which at top and bottom the strings fioat away in curves. The back has no bands, and is gilt with architectonic ornaments in outline connected by curving branches of azur^ foliage. Along the edges of the cover there runs a gold line, broken at intervals by a curling ornament. Diagonal parallel lines on the rim above and below the back. — The escutcheon is quarterly, three natural lilies (2 and 1) in 1 and 4, a helmet with the vizor up in 2 and 3. It is alleged to be the armorial bearing of the Strozzi of Ferrara. — On the title-page is written *< fiibliotheca Colbertina," and on the flyleaf the name of S. W. Singer. 391 ARISTOTELES. la phisica di aristotilb, Tradotta di Greco . . por Antonio Braccioli. Impresso in Yenetia, per Bartholomeo Imperatore. Nel 1552 . . 12nio. fine copy in the original binding 1552 10 Smooth olive morocco, richly gilt on the sides and back. A highly decorative 78 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Venice, lB60''6l— continued. £ s, d, piece of work. The pattern ia produced by leaTing blank the inner spaces of parallel lines which roll in delightful curves (like the bodies of vases) over a surface covered with innumerable gold dots. The whole side looks like a beautiful piece of orna- mental goldsmith's work. In the centre is a lettering pbisica di abistotilb on the upper cover, and dbl ciblo dxlla oener et cobb on the lower. The back has five bands, is fullj gilt in six panels with ornamental arabesque, and has at top and bottom knotwork and oblique lines. The edges are plain-gilt The binding is a fine and perfect piece of work. 392 SIGONII (Garoli) de antiqyo iybe italub libri tres, ad Senafcvm Popylymq. Romanvm. Yenetiis, apnd lordannm Ziletum, M.D.LX. Small 4to. the dedication copy^ a very fine one in the original binding 1560 14 Smooth olive morocco, fall-gilt on the sides with a broad border of arabesqoe metal-work pattern, having leaflets at the outer angles. The central space has at its inner angles the same oblong semi-rhomboid as appeared in the Ariosto of 1559, in the middle a free and graceful design (something between a lozange and an oval) composed of scrolls of metal- work pattern. Within it is painted the escutcheon of the Roman senate : argent, a bend gules, charged with the letters S P Q R in gold. A flowered cross stands above and below the ornamental shield. The edges are plain gilt (dotted at the borders). In the five panels on the back (divided by four bands bearing a horiiontal gold line) there is a floral figure resembling a lotus or a lily. 393 CAVALCANTI (Bartolomeo) la Retoeica . . Vinegia . . MDLX. 4to. (or small folio), in the original binding of red morocco, inlaid with sunken panels, in which, upon azure gold ground, are painted the Lion of St, Mark (which occupies the centre) and arabesque flower-work 1560 9 9 The back was probably plain originally ; but some French binder (about the beginning of the last century) has gilt it with a title and fleurs-de-lis. 394 PANVINII (Onvphrii) Reipvblicae . Romanae . Commentariorvm libri . tres . . Venetiifl . . MDLVIII. 12mo. in the original binding 1558 2 2 Smooth olive morocco, with the medallion of a Roman head on the sides, stampetl in relief on an oval gold ground. A gilt double fillet is the only framework ; and in the panels on the back a gold rose is the ornament. The edges are gilt and gofitered with a combination of circles and lozanges in dotted gold. Rome, Annibal Altems, 1562 : 395 ARIOSTO. Orlando Fvrioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto . . In Venetia . Appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi MDLXII. 4to, woodcuts ; in the original binding 1562 36 In smooth red morocco gilt, bound (probably at Rome) for Annibale Altems, Greneral of the Holy Roman Church. The broad gold border on the sides, between double fillets, is exactly identical with that on the Breviarium of Pius V. An arabesque metal- work pattern occupies the middle space, surrounding the painted escutcheon of the owner, which is enclosed within an ornamental frieze having supporters, and sur- mounted by a painted coronet Beneath tlie escutcheon are stamped in gold the words Anibal . C. DE Altems. s. r. e. Genbraus. The back, which has lour bands, is full-gilt with an ornamental metal-work pattern. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. Rome, Cardinal Altems, 1561-62 : 396 QVINTILIANI MANDOSII . . Signatvrae Gratiae Praxis . . Rome apnd Antonium Bladum .. . M.D.LXI. 8vo. in the original binding 1561 6 6 Smooth red morocco (rebacked) richly gilt on the sides in compartments with fleurons and curves in the style of metal-work. Under a Cardinal's hat in the centre is a shield bearing Medici and Orsini (?) quarterly, with an escntcheon of pretence bearing a figure which is apparently the goat of Altems. The Cardinal was a nephew of Pope Pius IV (Giovan Angelo de Medici). Parma, 1565 : 397 MABMITTA. Rime di M. G-iacomo Marmitta Parmegiano. In Parma, Appresso di Seth Viotto. MDLXIIII. Small 4to. fine copy in the original binding 1564 10 Smooth brown morocco, in fine preservation, fully gilt upon the sides. There are two double-fillet borders which at their middle course deflect and bisect one another, forming an agreeable mass of interlacement on each of the four sides. The inner space is gilt with fleurs-de-lis, crescents (or axe-heads) and roundels which form a loscange flattened at the sides. Inside the comers are gilt brandies. The edges are gilt, and ITALIAN WORK, 1565-1570. 79 £ 8, d, the back (which has three bands) is gilt with eleven single horieoDtal strokes. Within the losange on the aides an inscription is stamped which continues from the npper to the lower cover. It is Ore ha vera virtv sno albergo fido | Ben che basso et humil venir m'affido. This is probably the original Parmesan binding. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, 1565: 398 IL PETBARCA con la spositione di M. Gio. Andrea Gosvaldo. Colophon : In Yinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e f ratelli MDLUI. Small* 4to. woodcuts; fine copy in a binding executed for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese 1553 45 Smooth reddish morocco over wooden boards. Gilt with four gold fillets, having a lily inside and a wheel ontside each angle. Next inside a framework of silver rectangular, but receding and forming interlacements at the mid-lines, and leaving inside a round figure oompoeed of several curves, which encloses on the npper co?er the Cardinal's escutcheon (six fleurs-de-lis in a field of gold, which lies upon a frieze of green and yellow and is surmounted by the Cardinal's iiat). On the lower cover we have, instead of an escutcheon, the motto : Domvs Famesiana semper florida erit. The spaces outside the inner frame and within the silver borderline are filled with arabesque leaves and branches in gold and green. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The bands on the back are scarcely prominent enough to be noted, and the back is nearly fiat. It is full-gilt, with graceful arabesque branches and leaves, and these are fringed with narrow spaces of gold dots. The original title was not considered nice enough by the Cardinal. He had it therefore cnt out, and substituted the beautifully engraved title of Vico's Imag^ni, over the intitnlation of which he caused a piece of paper to be glned and the title as given above written on in delicate calligraphy. Venice, 1565: 399 PLUTARCH. Delle Vite de gli Hvomini illvstri Greci, efc Romani, di Plvtarcho Cheroneo, Tradotte da M. Francesco Sansonino, Parte seconda . . Venetia, appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi. MDLXIII. Small 4to. in the original binding, a very fine example 1563 16 16 Smooth brown morocco, full-gilt on the back and sides. On the sides, within three gold fillets (the space between the first two blackened) there are four arabesque corner- pieces, azures in gold, the result of a stamp. The centrepiece consists of an escutcheon painted in the heart of a frieze of which the basis is 07al but which has its periphery enlarged into ornamental pieces like carved wood-work. An ornament of metal-work pattern, like the top of a sceptre, projects upwards and downwards from the angles. All the remaining space on the sides is filled with triple dots in gold. The ^k, nearly flat, and without bands, is divided by lines into nine compartments, five of them filled with scroll-work, and four with triple gold dots. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The escutcheon is a silver lion ^rampant) on a red ground. Pope Pius Y (1566) : 4U0 BREVIARIVM PRAEDICATORVM Inxta Decreta Capituli Generalis . . Salman tice . . Coloplwn: Venetije apnd horedes Lnceantonij Innte Anno . MDLII . . Small folio, fine copij in the original binding, with the artns of Pope Pius V on t lie sides 1552 50 Smooth red morocco, richly gilt There is on the sides a broad border (between triple fillets) of metal-work pattern ; the middle space has the arms and tiara of Fins V, enclosed within ornaments of bracket shape and arabesque scrolls arranged in easy elegance over a ground covered with innumerable groups of triple dots. The inner comers are filled with quarter lozanges of arabesque. At foot is the inscription FiYs. ▼. r. M. The back, which has seven thick and eight thin bands, is covered with arabesque gilding. The edges are gilt and painted with arabesques. — This splendid binding, which is in a superbly fresh and brilliant state of preservation, must have been executed (probably at Rome) in or soon after 1666, when Pius V came to the Papal throne. Venice, 1570: 401 OVID. L£ METAMORVOSi DI 07IDI0 ridotte da Giouanni Andrea dell' Angnillara in ottana rima . . Venetia . . MDLXIX. Small 4to. in the ariginal beautiful binding 1569 8 8 Limp olive morocco with overlapping edges ; richly gilt. The sides are framed with a gold bonier of interlaced knotwork, the units in which resemble the numeral 8 repeated in endless involutions. The centrepiece is a stamped arabesque on gold, circular in form except at the top and bottom, where it juts out into a point A scollop shell is stamped at each of these points. In each comer there is a broad-leafed flower outlined in gold. A running line of brauchlets and tendrils is gilt upon the 80 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. ^ ^ * £ t. d. overlapping SDrfnceR ; the flat and bandless back is divided into eleven compartments, five large ones gilt with a roAe and flowerets, six narrow ones with a line of scroll-work. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The binding is remarkable for its freshness and perfect preservation. King John III of Sweden, 1580: 402 LESLIE. De origine moribvs, et rebvs testis Scotorvm libri decern . . avthore loanne Leslfleo . . BomaB . . MDLXXVIII. Small 4to. with an engraved map of Scotland; in the original binding executed for presentation to King John of Sweden 1578 30 Smooth olive morocco full-gilt. A doable fillet and a single fillet form narrow borders on the sides, with fienrs-de-lis at the outer angles. Between the two rows of fillets, there is a rannine ornament of carved branchlets in metal-work style, and at the comers within the single fillet there are leafy arabesques, azwr^t. These two sets of decoration form a broi^ gold border with a large blank middle space in the shape of a lozange. In the centre a frieze is stamped to receive the escutcheon. The royal crown sarmounting it, and the armorial beanngs (of Scandinavia) within it, are painted by hand in liquid gold. There are four panels on the back ; the panels are gilt with diagonal and straight lines having a rose at the intersection of the diagonals. The edges are gilt and goffered with knotwork. Bound in Rome to send to the King, on his secret adoption of the Catholic religion in 1680. The work is not equal to that of Venice. The Emperor Rudolf II, 1585-88 : 403 BOTTONNI (Albertini) . . db mobibvs mvliebribvs , . Patavii . . M.D.LXXXV. Small 4to. the dedication-copt to the Emperor Rudolph II, in its original binding 1585 9 9 Smooth red morocco full-gilt. The sides are stamped all over with an arabesque pattern of twining branches ending in asur^ leafy ornament. There is a small centre- piece bearing (on the upper cover) the inscription Ro. Im. II, i.e. Rodolphns Iroperator Secundns. Some of the spaces immediately surrounding the centre are filled with gold dots. The outmost border consists of two fillets and a chain representing gold and jewels (used mach in later days by Derome le jeune). Portions of similar chain- work adjoin the bands on the back, in the panels of which there are ornaments representing doable lilies am/ris. The edges of the cover are gilt with lines of the same chainwork, and the edges of the book are plain-gilt. 404 CLAVIUS. Novi Calendarii Romani Apologia . . avctore Christo- pboro Clavio . . Romas . . M.D.LXXXVIII . . 4to. the dedication COPY OF THE Emperor Rudolph II, in the original binding 1588 20 Smooth red morocoo, richly gilt all over the sides with an elegant geometrical pattern of interlacing parallels. The spaces are full of leaves, fanfares, and gold dots m the style of French Eve bindings, and scattered here and there are little figures of boys, classical termini, vases, etc. in Italian taste. On the centrepiece, the imperial arms and crown are painted. An arabesque ornament of a rose in the centre of twining leafage fills each of the six panels on the back. The edges are gilt and goffered with a similar design of roses and leaves. (Bologna?) 1590: 405 PONTIFICALE ROMANVM . . Venetiis apvd Ivntas, MDLXXXII. Folio, with woodciUs and Music ; in the original fine binding^ in beautiful condition 1582 28 Smooth olive morocco richly gilt The sides have a very broad border consisting of roses within rings which are connected by little fiowers with other rings and roses on each side ; the Jozangy spaces between esch adjoining circlet gilt with a qaaterfoil. Inside this fine border there is a geometrical pattern of the Eve style, with fanfares and large sprays of foliage ; but decorated also in the Italian manner with classical termini and figures of winged boys, etc. The centre is oval ; within it a wreath, and within the wreath the arms and mitre of a Bishop. The bearing is a greyhound rampant, collared ; and seems to be the symbol of the Sampieri of Bologna. The back is decorated like the Emperor Rudolph's book (Clavius) mentioned above; and the general style of the two books is very much the same. The edges are gilt and goffered with scroll-work. (Rome?) 1603: 406 Stephonii Sabini {Bemardini) Crispvs tragoedia . . Mvssiponti . . 1602 12mo. brown morocco^ edges gilt and gauffered 1602 2 2 Printed at Pont-a-Mousson, this little book must have been sent to Italy by its Jesuit author. The binding is decidedly Italian, the sides covered all over with heavy ornamental figures in gold, comprising classical termini, devils aspiring and falling, a vase in the oval centrepiece, above and below it grotesque eagles' hends from which project straight horns composed of heavy gold dots diminishing as they approach the topmost point. ITALIAN WORK, 1626-1680. 81 Venice, 1626: £ $. d. m MISSALB ROMANVM . . Venetiis, apvd Ivntas . MDCXXVI. Folio, in the original brilliant binding 162G 21 Smooth olive morocco, richly and elaborately gilt in compartments. A ranning line of small fleurs-de-lis in the outmost border ; then a line of large azurd leaves flanked by small dots and roses. The middle surface is decorated like the portico of a temple, the columns formed by a succession of squares and horizontal ovals, each of them filled with floral arabesques. The central space between the columns has a floreated oval at top and bottom, then a straight stem with palm-branches above and below a central circle. Within this circle is a stamped figure x>f St Francis. Above and below the palm -branches, there is some lettering : D.M. s. francisci DONNAuyu D.F. The panels on the back are ornamented with flowers within fleur-de-lis frames ; the edges were gilt and gofiered, but the goffered pattern has nearly disappeared. (Rome?) 1640: 408 PONTIFICALE ROMANVM . . Antverpi© . . M.DC.XXVIII. Folio, hound for an Italian Archbishop in Italy 1628 14 14 Smooth brown morocco, richly gilt in compartments, and bearing the escutcheon and hat of tJie Archbishop as a centrepiece. The ornamental borders are rectangular, with curves at the middies and corners ; there is a dentelle edging, an inner row of azur6 lozanges on a lace ground. Thick black lines, gold-edged, frame the middle space which is g^lt in geometrical compartments with leaves and other decorative details. At the inner angles there are fan-ornaments. The back is divided by arabesque roulettes into panels which bear quaterfoils of metal-work pattern. The edges are plain-gilt. The escutcheon is gules, a fess charged with a dart or ; a chief, with three fleurs-de-lis in fess. Padua, 1650: 4f)9 DOTTORI. Canzoni del Signor do' Dottori . Al . . Card. D'Este. In Padoa . . CIOIOCL. Smallest 4to, frontispiece and two woodcuts; fine copy in the original binding 1650 Limp vellnm, richly gilt. The centrepiece is a circle decorated in the style of a lace fan, with fanfare flgures, like the ornamental endings of spokes, projecting from the periphery of the circle, and at its top and bottom, a more prominent ornament of the same kind. The comerpleces look like real fans with lacework fringes. The whole design is enclosed within borders of metal-work pattern, which are also used on the back of the cover. The author's own copy, bound for presentation to some one, with the additional pieces added by him in beautiful MS. at the end (one on the death of Charles 1). Don Pedro de Aragon (1660) : 410 MARLIANUS. Theatrvm Politiovm . . avctore Ambrosio Marliano ' . . Romae . . MDCXXXl . . Small 4to. bour^d for Don Pedro de Aragon 1631 2 2 Smooth red morocco, gilt with a double border, with oomerpieces, and the name and arms of Pedro de Aragon. The outmost border is a repetition of a rose and u sun united by a double bracket, and constantly repeated. The inner is a double fillet, having at its outer angles the tower, the lion, the lion, the tower (Castile-Leon) ; at its inner corners an arabesque flower. The edges plain-gilt. Pope Clement X, 1673 : 411 CoRSAL Terbalavoro (MatthaBi) Metaphisica vniversalissima . . dated at end of text 1672 . Die 15 Mensis Martij. Folio, with engraved title ^ and portrait; Pope Clement X*s dedication copy, bowndfor him (1672-3) C G Red morocco, elaborately gilt in compartments, and bearing the Pope's arms and crown in the centre. The ornamentation includes some fine gilt tooling in pointille. With the bookplate of Lord Orford, who was a keen connoisseur of fine bindings. Rome, 1680 : 412 Ckvll (Tiberio) l*oriente conqvistato . . Roma . . MDCLXXII. 12mo. in the original binding 1672 20 Kcd morocco, so amply inlaid with olive that the red ground makes no appearance except in the geometrical pattern on the sides, which seems to stand out in relief. The olive inlays are covered with fine pointilld gold tooling in Le Gascon's style, and the leafy portions of the design formed by the pointil]6 are silvered, but the silver has become oxidised. The panels on the back are also inlaid with olive morocco, and ornamented with fine pointille. The edges of the covers, inside and out, bear dentelle ornamentation, and the end-leaves are of gold- paper. This came from the library of William Beckford, who had bought it not as an Italian poem, but as a choice example of Italian decorative and inlaid binding. 6 82 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. (Bologna?) 1770: £ *. d. 413 HORE BE ATE MARIE VIRGINIS scdm vsnm ecclesio romane . . Colophon : iprimees a paris par Gilles hardoujn . . Small 8vo. printed ON YELLUMj/tiZZ of woodcut tllttstrations and horders^ all the initials and all the large designs illuminated ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt, with arms on the sides first year in the almanac 1521 27 The binding is a fine Italian imitation of Prench work« done about 1770. On the gidefl the border is a lace pattern consisting of a row of semi-circles or half -wheels with spiked rims, supporting flowers. On the back the bands are represented hy short obliqne parallel lines, in the panels a lily with oomerpieces. — The escntcheon, under a Count's coronet, consists of two shields of alliance. In the first, un iavtoir ond^^ or, eanUmn^ de quaire hescmU du mime ; in the second| une dexUroeh^ tenant une flgwr^ au chefehargi de Urois HoUes en fasce. Rome, 1770: 414 MASSIMI (Carlo) Vitb di Santb Donne . . Roma MDCCLXIX. 4to. in the original ornamental binding 1769 2 10 Ked morocco, richly gilt, with the arms of an archbishop or Cardinal in the centre. The Emperor Joseph II, 1772 : 415 Rafpbi (Stefano) Ricerche sopra tm ApolHne della Villa , . Albani . Roma MDGCLXXII. Folio, toith engravings; hound for the Emperor Joseph II 1772 3 10 Red morocco, richly gilt in the Franco-Italian style, and having the imperial arms, mantle, and crown as a centrepiece. Pope Pius VI, 1780 : 416 VETUS TESTAMENTVM . . Latine redditvm . . Rom», M.D.LXXXVIIL Small folio, fcotttkZ /or Pit«FI 1588 7 7 Blue morocco, richly gilt in imitation of the French style, with tools which were perhaps supplied by Dubuisson. The arms of the Pope form a centrepiece. The book was the first edition of the Vetus Itala Bible. Cardinal Braschi-Onesti, 1786 : 417 Statvti della sac. Rblioione di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano . . Borgo Nvovo nel Marchesato di Roccaforte MD OCX VIII . . on printed title MDCCXIX . . Small folio, engraved and printed titles, and fine portrait; in ornamental binding 1718-19 4 Brown calf, richly gilt and silvered. The arms of Cardinal Braschi-Onesti form the centrepiece, on an inlay of red morocco. He became Cardinal, and Roman Grand* prior of Malta, in 1786, to which year this binding may be referred. VI. French Binders and Book-owners. Andr6 Boule, binder, 1510: 418 Philelphtjs (Franciscus) De liberomm ednc atione anrei libri sex . . Colophon: . . parrhisiis apnd gonrmontios . M.d.viij — Ouidius de FASTIS . . with the woodcut mark of Qilles de Ooumumt on the title — 2 vols, in 1, sm. 4to. the second piece interleaved with MS. notes by the hand of Mathias Mussachius of Antwerp for whom the volume was bound Pam, 1508(-10?) 12 12 In the original calf (rebacked), blind-tooled on the npper cover with a design of St. Sebastian and his slayers, within an arabesque border ; on the lower, with a Cradiixion. On both covers, fleurs-de-lis are stamped between a douMe row of fillets; and at the bottom of the central design on both sides we find the name Andri Boule, which represents nndonbtedly the binder or the binder's designer. The fieurs-de-lis on the sides render it probable that Missacbius or Mnssachius, although an Antwerp scholar, was residing in Paris and had the book bound there. There might be some doubt whether this binding is French or Flemish, but I incline to believe tliat Andri (»ic) Boule was one of the earliest French binders whom we know by name. He is mentioned as a Paris binder by Thoinan (Relieurs Fran^ais), and supposed to have flourished between 1479 and the end of the fifteenth century. This date is, however, too early. FRENCH BINDINGS, 1530^1535. GROLIER. 83 Paris, 1530 : £ s, d. 419 LUDOLF OF SAXONY. Vita IESU Christi . . per Ludolphum de Saxonia CarthnBiannm . . 1529 . Yenudatnr Parisiis in edibns Fran- ciBci Regnanlt . . Stout 12jno. printed in double columns, with numerous small woodcuts ; in the original stamped calf binding 1529 4 4 Bound in Paris about 1530. The rectang^ar centre-space on the sides has two medallions of Roman soldiers, the npper one laurelled, the lower one helmeted, and both of them remarkable for the projecting beard ; and also a sort of columned arch which serves to frame them. Outside there is a border of architectonical Renaissance kind, the lowest compartment containing two crouching unicorns face to face, with a vase between their horns. — The MS. initial R on the title-page represents a sixteenth* century owner. Jean Grolier (1520-50) : 420 CATVLLVS . TIBVLLVS . PROPERTIVS . . Colophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV . . 12mcf. the initials illuminated; Grolier*s copy, with title, name, ar^ device 1515 50 Bound undoubtedly in Venice before 1520, but brought to France as part of the Grolier library about 1530. Smooth citron morocco, gilt on the sides with an arabesque and geometrical design executed in simple gold lines. It is bordered by three gold fillets, and consists of an outer pattern formed by eight curving lines, of which the topmost and lowest portions are three-quarter ovals, united by two semi-circles at each side. Within, there is a rectangular figure of twelve sides resembling a cross, from the top and bottom of which springs the so-called Aldine fleuron, the foliated parts of which are in solid (not in sxnr6) gold. At the junction of the semi-circles there are similar fleurons, and comer- pieces are produced by a run of the same sort of ornament attached to curves. In the centre, on the npper cover, Catvllys. | Tibyllts. | Propbbtiys. ; and below, lo. OROLiBRii BT AMicoRVM. Ou the lower cover in the centre : portio mba | dominb BIT I IN TERRA | YiYBNTi | YM. — Thecdges are plsiu-gilt ; the back is repaired and new. A valuable example, shewing that Grolier was still in the Aldine stage at which the ornamentation was done by simple gold lines, before the enormous advance in decorative effect was made by substituting, for the single lines, parallel lines with colour between them to form bands. The manner of lettering the device was altered on later books. Grolier had two copies of this book. One was in the Libri-Hebbelinck-Ligne- rolle collections ; this one, formerly Flechier's, and afterwards in the possession of Sir Robert Darcy Uildyard (whose bookplate it bears) may now be called the Quaritch copy. 421 AVLI GELLII Noctivm Atticarvm libri vndeviginti. Colophon: Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XV. 12mo. having the anchors and all the initials illuminated ; Orolier^s copy, with the title and his device (his name being scratched out) 1515 45 Bound in Venice about 1625-6. Dark brown morocco, looking black on the lower cover, reddish-brown on the back and the upper cover. Le Roux de Lincy says " Le mot Grolierii a k\Jk gratt^, mais non efiPac6," but in truth it is difiicult to trace any more of the inscription thun lo. o and the last letter of amicorym.— The ornamentation is still of the Aldine style ; only the central compartment being framed by parallel -gold lines into the form of a dode- cahedron. Within this figure, on the upper cover is the title aylvs | oelliyb ; on the lower PORTio mba do | minb sit in | terra yi | ybnti I ym. Outside of it, is a set of five fillets, the inmost one being curved inward at tne comers to admit of the insertion of an Aldine fleuron which ends at the angle of the third fillet. Above and below the dodecahedron is another Aldine fieuron attached by curve lines to the inmost fillet. The back is in perfect original condition, with five high bands, and two low bands. Each band bears a gold line above, upon, and below it ,* and in each of six panels there is a gold ornament of a little spray witJi three leaves. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; and a simple gold line runs along the edge of each cover. This book, the only Grolier copy recorded, was formerly in the Sunderland library, afterwards in that of Crawford of Lakelands. It is among the rarest of the Grolier books by reason of its entirely sound original back. The arrangement of the lettering of the device is remarkable, as it shews that the book was not bound till about 1526. A volume in the Paris Biblioth^ue, which was printed in 1526, bears the motto arranged in the same way as the Catullus above. 422 OVIDII Opera, 3 vols, Tom. I: Qvae hoc volvmine continentvr . Annotationes . . ovidii metamorphoseon LIBRI XV . . M.D.xxxiiii. Tom. Ill P. Ouidij Nasonis uita . . HEROIDVM EPISTOLAE . AMORVM . . DB ARTE AMANDI . . 6 • 84 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Jean Grolier — continued. £ «. d. Colophon : Venetiis. . MDXXXIII. Tom. Ill: Cla. Ptolemaei . . p, ovidii nasonis fastorvm lib. vi. tristivm Colophon: Venetiis. . M.D.XXXIIL 3 vols, narrow 8vo. LARGE PAPER; with the anchors and all the initials illuminated; Grolier^ s copy^ with the title, name J and device^ in marvellottsly fine condition^ perfect and unsophisticated 1533-34 525 Unknown to Leroux de Lincy. Citron morocco, gilt on the sides with a beautiful design composed of an interlaced geometrical border, formed by parallel gold lines, and an inner compartment of solid gold Aldine fleurons, of metal-work style. The parallel double-fillets which constitute the border are rectangular in character, but at top and bottom they deflect in mid- course and intersect, changing sides, and, at their intersection, are embraced by a lozange. In their course up and down each side, they deflect three times, interlacing as semi-circles, as lozange, and as semi- circles. On the upper cover of each volume we have the title in the centrepiece, and at foot lo. obolibrh et amicobvm. On the lower cover of each portio mea do | mike sit in | terra vi | venti | vm. The backs have to be mentioned with special observance. They are perfect (notwithstanding a slight breakage at the top of one of the volumes) and in their genuine original condition. A title has been added in three of the panels, but this is all that any modern hand has done to interfere with the sound original backs which give to the Large Paper Ovid of 1533-34 a right to be regarded as the most precious and remarkable set of books from Grolier's library now existing. Almost every Grolier has undergone either modem reback- ing, or a complete regilding of the back in the seventeenth century, so that few have had the luck to see a Grrolier book as it looked when Grolier owned it. It is true that the Aulus Gellius previously described has its genuine back in fine condition; but that unfortunately has lost the ^eat collector's name. Lord Lisbume was the last owner of this superb Ovid, which had previously belonged to R. G. apparently Sir Richard Graham. The engraved bookplates of Wilmot Viscount Lisbume (about 1770) and of B G (about 1728) are found inside the covers. We may readily assume, from the beauty of this . binding, that it was done for Grolier in Paris in 1534 or 1535. It displays a clear advance in decorative taste beyond the Aldine or Venetian type ; the lines of ornament being sharper, finer, and more precise than those to which we are accustomed in Italian work. No other such Grolier is likely ever to be seen in the market again. {See illtistration in L. P. is8ue.) 423 BARLETIUS (Marinus). de vita moribvs ac rebvs PRJECIPVE ADVERSVS TvRCAS, GESTIS, GeORGII CaSTRIOTI . . qui . . Scanderbegus . . cognominatus fuit . . Argentorati . . M.D.XXXVIL Small folio, hound for Grolier^ with title^ nam£, and device 1537 185 A warm brown calf decorated on the sides with a simple and beautiful geometrical design in gold. A set of three gold fillets is the exterior framework. Within it there is, first, a border of treble gold fillets, the lines of which curve inward as they appix)ach the comers, and thus form three-quarter circles. Next, a perfectly rectangular border, also of treble fillets, which at its angles intersects FRENCH BINDINGS: GROLIBR, 1538-1541. 85 Jean Grolier — continued. ^ »• ^• the curve of the outer border ; and then, a lozange of treble fillets -which cuts the second border and touches the first. Within this lozange is a circular centrepiece with a triple-periphery. Above it and below, is the so-called Aldine ornament or fieuron, each united with the other bj a line of arabesque, and presenting the appearance of solid metal- work. The fleuron is also found at the corners within the curves. The spaces between the two outer fillets of each of the three geometrical figures are darkened, so as to assume the appearance of black bands'. The edges are plain-gilt. There is a slight amount of reparation at the extreme outer comers of the leather and at the joints. The back, which has been in this instance carefully preserved, is (with the exception of a very small space at top and bottom) exactly as it was in 1650 when it formed part of Dominic de Vic's library, in which nearly the whole of Grolier s collection had been incorporated. That is to say, the back is full-gilt in all its panels with the ornamentation which the De Vies (father and son) seem to have thought necessary in most cases to conceal the nudity of the original panels. It is in a condition like this that most of the extant Groliers of the better kind are usually found ; it is still more usual to find them with wholly modem backs. However, to get a Grolier in the state in which Mery and Dominic de Vic had it is the next best thing to finding it in such a condition as the Ovid above described. The De Vic collection, with all its three thousand Grolier volumes, was dispersed at Paris in 1676. This volume was probably bound in Paris between 1537 and 1540. On the upper cover, the title of the book, in four lines, is stamped in gold on the centrepiece ; and at the bottom, lo. qroliebii et amicorvm. On the lower cover, in the centrepiece, we find the device in exactly the same arrangement as on the Ovid. The book is not mentioned by Leroux de Lincy, 424 SERLIO. il terzo libro di sabastiano serlio BOLOGNESE, nel qval si figvrano, e descrivono le antiqvita di Eoma . . Colophon : Impresso in Venetia per Francesco Marcolino . . MDXXXX . . Folio, with architectural woodcuts ; hound for Grolier^ with title J name^ and device; in a case 1540 150 Black calf, very elegantly gilt in the favorite style. An outer border of two interlacing bands formed of gold fillets, which i-un parallel, cross over, change places and show at their comers the same figure of an angle piercing a three-quarter circle as on the Barletius. At each intersection a lozange clasps the two bands. Next within is a treble line frame, rectangular except at the middle sides, where it is curved inwardly. A lozange falls over and just outside this second border ; and within the lozange is a quaterfoil centrepiece which inter- laces with the inward curve of the second border. An ornament of metal-work style appears above and below the qaaterfoil, and the so-called Aldine fienron is embraced within the arms of the curves at the outer comers of the design. The back is new, but appropriately done. The front centrepiece bears a title in three lines. The name of Grolier and the motto appear exactly as on the Barletius. Grolier had two copies of this Libro terzo. His second one was of the blue-paper issue, and is now in the Paris Bibliothequc. This one was evidently bound in Paris, probably in 1541. 86 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Jean Grolier— continued. £ *. d. 425 ELLVSTRATIONE BELLA ECCELENZA BELLA BONNE con . . interpretationi raccolte dalla Sacra Scrittvra per BSCCFG. nel stato di Milano. Colophon : M.D.XLIin. Small 4to. bound for Qroliety with title, name, and motto 1544 48 Dark calf, gilt on the sides with a geometrical design, in which are interspersed thoee arabesques of metal- work pattern which are called Aldine fleurons. Only the sides are preserved, the back joints, and oater framework being reoonstractions of the early part of this century. The Grolier decoration is a treble border produced by interlacing bands edged with gold. An outer rectangular border with inward curres at the comers, interlacing angles at the top, bottom, and sides ; and an inner figure of mirror-shape, the broadest lines of which break into curves and join in the interlace- ment of the other two borders at the middle sides. At all the angles, and in the spaces, are Aldine fleurons in gold outlines. In the upper centrepiece is the title LBCCSLBNZA | D£LLE | DON | NE ; at bottOm the USUal lO. OROLIERII XT AMICORVM. ; and in the centre on the lower cover, the device in five lines, as it was on the Aulas Gellius, Ovid, Barletius, and Serlio. This little book is an extremely curious one, and must be excessively rare. It is undescribed. The author, who conceals himself under the initials given abo?e, dedicates it to a lady whom he calls La S. Vablispemcof. He was well advised, and so was the anonymous printer, who gives no place of impression or name, so as to escape the action of the authorities. The praise of women, fortified by citations from the Bible, is really an obscene treatise on Woman written by some cleric in high position at Milan. We may consider that it was bound for Grolier at Paris about 1545. It was unknown to Leroux de Lincy. — The bookplate of Wilmot Earl of Lisbume (about 1780) is posted within the cover. 426 MAGBOBII db Somno Scipionis : nec non de Satdbkalibus libbi . . Colophon : . . Briziffi per Asgelum Britanicum MGGCGGI . . Small folio, with illuminated and painted initials ; bound for Grolier, with title, name, and motto I50I 9G Only the sides represent the original Grolier binding. They are in brown calf, decorated with an elaborate geometrical pattern of interlacing block bands, edged with gold. The outer border is composed of two sets of black Uinds, which are in tarns parallel, interlacing at curves, and intersecting at angles ; with inward curves at the comers, into which fit Aldine fiearons. The middle space is given to an oblong figure rounded at the ends, and having a circle centrepiece, overlain by a losange, the points of which touch the outer border. There are Aldine fleurons above and below the centrepiece ; and various little spaces in the ornamentation are filled with gold dots. The pattern is a fine one, but less simple and more elaborately pretentious than any of the preceding examples. The title, name, and motto are given in exactly the same manner as upon the Serlio. Grolier had two copies of the Aldine Macrobius of 1528, but it must hare been nearly twenty years later that he obtained this old book and caused it to be bound. It possesses a special value in the circumstance that the whole text of the Saturnalia is annotated with emendations by Grolier in a clear bold hand on the margins. This writing and the binding may be ascribed to the period about 1545-48. This volume belonged to R. S. Turner, whose ex-libris is inside. It was by his order that the book was repaired by Bedford, to whom we have to attribute the Grolierosque back and the goffered edges. Mentioned by Leroux de Lincy. 427 IVVENALIS. PEBSIVS. Aldvs M.D.XXXV. 12mo. in the original binding, Grolier s copy, but not bound in a special way (rehacked) 1535 20 Calf, gilt with several parallel fillets, and an Aldine fleuron in the centre. The initials throughout the book are illuminated ; under the colophon, Grolier has written ** lo. Grolierii Lngdnnensis et amicornm," and on the vellum end-leaf his motto with the inscription repeated. Grolier gave the book away before his death, probably on account of its binding ; for we find at the beginning a memorandum that Fctrus Hebert or Gebert presented the volume to F. Gannus, in March, 15G5. 428 PATRICIUS (Franciscus). Fbacisci vatricii senensia pontificis caietani Enneas de regno . . Colophon : Parrliisiis . . milesimi quingentesimi vndevicesimi . . Small folio, bound in Italy, but not for Grolier, whose inscription, however, appears on the end-leaf 1519 36 Black calf or smooth morocco, gilt on the sides with a border of metal-work pattern, inside which is a rectangular figure enclosing two circles (one above the other), over which falls a pair of double slanting bands in the style of lattice-work. It is a little mended and partly rebackcd. The book must have been sent to Italy after 1520, and it was in Venice (or Milan ?) that it received its binding (about 1525). FRENCH BINDINGS: GROLIER, FRANCIS I. 87 Jean Grolier (1520-50)— continmd, £ $, d. Whether the biniling was done for Grolier or not, we cannot say ; but it has none o£ his characteristics. The book was, however, in his possession about 1530, when he wrote the MS. inscription above alluded to : portio [mea] dominb sit | m terba TiYENTi I YM, and under it : Jo. Grolierij Lugdunensis | & Amicornm. 429 [FOLENGO (Theofilo)] opvs m'eblini cocaii . . Colophon : Tusculani Apud Lacum Benaccnsem . Alexander PaganinDs . M.D.XXI . . 12mo. printed in a peculiar semi'Italic type, tvith woodcuts; hound probably by Derome le jeune^ citron morocco, gilt edges, but containing Qrolier*8 MS. note of ownership 1521 30 Under the colophon we find the inscription, in Grolier's hand (written about 1528-30) : "Grolienj et amioorum.'* 430 SACEBDOTALE ad consuetndine . s. Romane Ecclesie . . Colophon : Venetijfl . . 1564 . . Small 4to. in the oHginal Venetian binding, bearing the name of Qrolier ; in green morocco case 1564 21 Small red morocco gilt with a Grolieresquo interlacing pattern, which includes a rectangle with indented comers, and in-cnrves at the middle sides, an inner rectangle with out-cnrved comers, and an inner figure combining circles and a lozange ; as well as an exterior border of intertwining knotwork. The inscription '*lo. Grolierii et amicorrm," stamped at the bottom of the upper cover, seems to be an addition of later date. Francis I, 1530-40: 431 GUEVARA (Antonio de) Libuo llamado rblox de PRINCIPBS . . Colophon : . . Valladolid : por maestre Nicolas tierri . . mill y quinientos y veynte y nueue AftoB. Small folio, bound foi^ Francis I 1529 105 Dark brown leather, over heavy wooden boards ; in superb preservation. The ornamental tooling on the sides is of identical pattern with that which is given by Thoinan in his plate III, from a volume in the Biblioth^que Nationale. The only difference seems to be that here, on the Guevara, there is some employment of silver as well as gold on the sides. An outer and an inner band of silver edged with' gold form a rectangular framework to the pattern in the middle. Between those two bands is a running arabesque of metal - work style. The design in the middle is a beautiful arabesque of black bands, edged with gold, intertwined and convolving in a figure somewhat resembling an hour-glass. At the endings, or at the points of intersection, or return, the work is silvered. In the narrowest part of the hour-glass the crown and royal arms and the Salamander are impressed, accompanied by the crowned F, which is also repeated in several places over the whole design. In the panels on the back, the fleur-de-lis appears in the centre, accompanied by repetitions of tbe crowned F; except in the topmost and lowest compartments, which are latticed with gold diagonal lines. The edges are gilt and goffered. (See illustration in L, P. issue.) The arms of some modern Spanish family have been painted on the title. 432 CICERONIS (M. T.) de Philosophia volvmen primvm . . ColopJwn : Yenetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae . . M.D. XXIII . . 12mo. original Venetian binding stamped with the insignia of Francis I (enclosed in a red mxyrocco case) 1523 55 Smooth black morocco gilt. On the sides a single fillet close to the edge. T^fi>n a double inner border formed of two sets of fillets which intersect at the top and bottom and in the middle. In each of the middle compartments tliere are stamped in gold, the arms, crown, and collar of Francis I, with the Salamander beneath them ; the shield flanked by crowned F. Fleurons at the inner angle of each of these compartments ; and in the outmost space between the fillets, the crowned F is repeated, with the fleur- de-lis and a spray of foliage. The back has been slightly mended ; and the gold a little refreshed in a few places. An inscription on the title, *' Alex. Pnliotini ot amicorum," is by a later owner of the book (towards 1590), who has filled the pages of the Qnsstiones Tusculansc with manuscript notes. 88 QUARITCH'S CATALOGDB OP BINDINGS. Francis I, ISSO-AO— continued. £ ». d. 433 ALBUMASAB de magnis oianctiombns : annor' reuolntioibos . . Colophon: Impressum Venetijs . . 1515 . . 8vo. tvith numerous woodcuts; in the original binding {repaired) of wooden hoards covered with black morocco gilt, with the arms and^ symbol of Francis I {enclosed in a brown morocco co«c) 1515 CO On the eides a geometrical pattern of Grolieresqne stjle prodoced by simple parallel gold lines. In the centre the crown, escntcbeon, collar, and salamander snrroand^ by alternate repetitions of a fleur-de-lis and a crowned IT. In a small compartment of the pattern, above the centrepiece, there is a title Albvmabas db . MAO. CONI. Paris, 1538-40: 434 TUNSTAL. De Arte Svpptitandi libri qnatuor, Cntheberti Tonstalli . . Parisiis , . M.D.XXXVIII. Small 4to. in the original binding {rebacked) 1538 7 10 Dark brown calf. The fillets on the sides are blind-tooled. The comer-ornament (a lily) is in gold, as well as the centrepiece which on the upper cover is a medallion of Man, on Sie lower, of Lncreda. 435 Fychsii (Leonharti) de medendi methodo libri qvatvor . . Parisiis . . M.D.XXXIX . . 12mo. in the original binding 1539 3 16 Wooden boards covered with black calf, which is stamped with medallions of Soman beads, and some architectonic ornament ; the back mended at top, bat in excel- lent preservation. — There are* some notes on the flyleaves written by an English physician about 1560-70 ; the book belonged to Arthur Taylor in 1654, to John Lang m 1738, and lately to Lord Orford. — The initials T. G are stamped within some of the roundels on the sides ; they probably represent the Elizabethan doctor. 436 OFFICIIJM BEATE MARIE VGINIS AD VSUM SARC . . Expensis honesti viri Symonis vostre . comorantis Parisins . . (^Almanach 1512-30). Small 8vo. printed on vellum, with many large illustra^ tions, and having every page bordered with smaMer engravings; in a stamped vellum binding (reba^cked) About 1512 70 This is perhaps not the original binding : it is probably the second covering of the book. The sides are stamped with renaissance ornament and small heads of Romans ; the central panel on the upper cover contains a figure of Ivstitia, and on the lower cover Lncretia. On each appear the initials S.R. which we must read as Stephanus Roffetus or Etienne Roffet who was one of Francis 1*8 royal binders in 1539-40. — This Samm Primer (Officium) is a book of extreme rarity and value. Lyons, 1542: 437 Botardo-Bebni. Orlando Innamorato composto gia dal Signer Matteo Maria Boiardo . . rifatto . . da M. Francesco Berni . . Milano . . M.D.XXXXII. Small 4to. fine ruled copy in the original limp vellum gilt 1542 3 10 The back is gilt with so-called Aldine fleurons so composed as to form a line of decoration in the style of metal-work. The sides are gilt with two fillets forming a single frame, and an oval ornament in the centre which is one of the earliest examples of Vencto-Lyonnese stamping. A parchment slip used by the binder is portion of a French legal document written in or near Limoges in December, 1540. This may be regarded as evidence to show that the book was bound, not in Milan, but at Lyonn. The letters I L are added in black by the side of this centrepiece, and represent John Lyon who afterwards became Earl of Strathmore. The bookplate of John Earl of Strathmore, engraved about 1760, is pasted inside the cover. Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, 1547-59: 438 ALEXANDRI AB ALEXANDRO . . Genialivm Diervm libri sex . . Vaeneunt Parisiis apud loanne Eoigny . . 1539. Small folio, bound for Diane de Poitiers^ library ; enclosed in a green morocco case 1539 100 Smooth red morocco over limp paper boards. The decoration of the sides is Grolieresquo mosaic. There aro two rectangular borders, the outer one a blue band, the inner a white or silver one (most of the FRENCH BINDINGS: DIANE DE POITIERS. 89 Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, 1547-59 — continued. £ ». d. colour of which has now disappeared). They are both edged with gold. Next a double rectangular frame formed of two red bands (most of the colour gone) which run in a double parallel at each side, the outer line taking an inward curve at the corners and in the middle ; with transverse bands at top and bottom from the base of the comer- curves. Where the bands cross, they are embraced by square clasps, blue edged with gold. Over this double rectangular frame, there falls a lozange blue, edged with gold, modified in form by in -curves near the top and bottom, so that the angles look like spear-heads. Within the lozange is a quaterf oil with a circular extension at top and bottom ; these circles grasping the narrow base of the spear-head. The quaterf oil was also coloured (blue at top, red at bottom), but the colour between the gold edges has faded on the upper cover. Within it is a double fleuron plein or of the so-called Aldine kind. Between the two rectangular borders first mentioned there is stamped in f^old a succession of the special symbols, thus : three crescents interlaced, D and H interlaced, and so on with a fleuron between each ; so that the symbols recur six times and the fleurons eight times. In each of the side spaces where the lozange cuts the double rectangular frame, there is a gold bow longitudinally disposed, and facing outwards, with the triple crescent at one end and the D H at the other ; a fleur-de-lis falling near each extremity of each bow. Beside the neck of the spear- head, at each side, top and bottom there is a quiver (blue body with red base) from the mouth of which issue red and gold flames. — There are three heavy bands, alternating with four thin and low ones, on the back. The heavy bands are stroked with a single transverse gold line ; the thin ones with parallel oblique lines. The panels are scored in blind-tooling with two diagonal cross-lines and one transverse. — The binding is somewhat worn and the colouring has lost its brilliancy, the back is slightly repaired at the extreme top and bottom ; but this is nevertheless a remarkable and attractive example of the earlier period of the Henri-Diane bindings. It is apparently the work of an Italian hand, done in Paris about 1548-50. {See illustration in L. P. issue.) 439 THEMISTIUS. Omnia Themistii opera . . (Grsece) Colophon : Venetiis in aedibus haredum Aldi Manutii, & Andreas Asulani . . M.D.XXXIIII. Small folio, hound for Hmri II and Diane deFoitiers J repaired by Bcdfoi'd 15M 100 Smooth olive brown morocco, gilt on the sides with a simple but elegant decoration. The whole of the back, and the extreme rim of the covers, are Bedford's reparation ; but the sides and the goffered edges are entirely original. Inside the outmost fillet, there is, between a combination of blind and gilt fillets, a border consisting of a succes- sion of ficurons springing from stems that curl right and left — ^just the sort of ornament that might be seen crowning the ironwork of a handsome gate or railing. Within the border, a large centrepiece, oval or oblong in its movement, is composed of four bows touching one another at the middle top and sides. Within them is the crowned escutcheon of France surrounded by the chain of the Order of St. Michael from which its medal hangs. The medal is partly enclosed by the arms of a large crescent ; and on its right and left is a crowned H. Above the centrepiece, but still within the border, is the title 0EMI2TIO2 . A. Under it, in a horizontal line, the interlaced D H, a crowned H, and the interlaced crescents. Below them a fleur-de-lis at each side, and under them the crescents and the D H ; the same arrangement being repeated in the lower half of the centrepiece. The edges arc gilt and goifered with an arabesque pattern, in the middle of which stands a large letter H. 90 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, 1547-59— conhn«ei. ^ «• ^' 440 ISOC BATES. Isocratis scripta qvae nvnc extant, omnia . . (OrcBce et Latine) Basileao per loannem Oporinnm. Small 8vo. in the original binding {Date in the preliminaries : 1552) 3 10 Altboagh printed at Basel, the book was bound at Paris in black calf, and bears on the side, stamped in gold, a medallion portrait of Hek . II . B . The back has a title in gold on the second panel — an early instance of the practice. It is Isocrates | Gas . Lat . There is a flower with a leafy stem gilt on each of the other panels, and at the extreme top and bottom there is a rnnning flearon ornament. 441 CAMERARII (Bartholoma^i) Beneventani de pb^des- TiNATiONE DiALOGi TBES . . Parisiis, Ex typographia Mattliaji Dauidis . . 1556. 4to. Jine ruled copy in the original binding executed for Henri II and Diane de Poitiers ; wrapped in a chemise and enclosed in a red viorocco case 1556 210 A beautiful and unnsnal example of decorative work in blind- tooling, or rather in simple black on simple wbite. The leather is white kid. There is on the sides a treble rectangular border of black fillets, very narrow. The entire surface within it is given up to the elegant ornamentation which is unquestionably due to a French, not an Italian, hand. The main figure is composed of two very large semi-circular palm -branches, their extremities turned to the sides, which lie one over the other so as to form an oval centre framed by the sharp-pointed edges of the palm-leaves that turn inwards. Within this oval space, there is an oval figure framed by double black lines, like a medallion, and upon it we read the words conseqvitvr | qvod- CVNQVE I PETIT, with a crescent above and a crescent below. On the lower cover this motto is replaced by nihil amplius optat. Outside the palm-leaves, there is at right and left an upright buudle of three feathered arrows, clasped at the middle by a crescent. The middle arrow in each group is taller than the others ; these having their pointed heads broken and falling sidewise. Two other perfect arrows, turned downwards, form a sautoir behind the palm -branches. A large crescent clasps the palm- branches at their point of intersection, above and below the medallion ; and outside the points of this crescent there lies horizontally, at top and bottom, an unstrung bow which fills up the space between the palms and the rectangular border. An oval ring clutches the straight middle part of the bow : and on either side of this ring there is stamped in plain black the three interlacing crescents and the crowned H. At the angles and in various places • throughout the design, the interlaced D and H are impressed.— The back has no bands, but is decorated with a pattern resembling a longi- tudinal succession of lozanges with their outer angles continued into curves and the spaces within the curves filled with little tendril- branches. This design is framed within a double-fillet, and at top and bottom by a small compartment stroked with oblique lines. The book is dedicated to Marguerite de Valois (sister to Henn IT, niece of the Marguerite of the Heptameron, and aunt of the Marguerite of the bindings). This binding is not only a beautiful, but a very special one, and seems to mark some particular incident of Diane's intercourse with the King. It is unlike all the other examples of her library, and the mottos are significant : She gets whatever she asks for ; she wants no more than this. The late history of the book is told in a letter from Sir James Lacaita to Mr. Gibson Craig (inserted in the volume). It belonged in the seventeenth century to a member of the family of Gondi de Retz who bequeathed his library to the Annunziata at Florence. When the Italian government seized the books of the Monastery in 1860, this one was so completely covered with dust and dirt that the decora- i^RENCH BINDINGS, 1650-1555. 91 £ «. d. tive design was invisible, and it was turned out with many others as worthless. They were publicly sold by the crown officials in lots according to weight ; the stall-keepers who bought the lots retailed the books at less than a penny a volume. A bookseller who bought this volume for a halfpenny or a penny, took it to his shop, and began to clean it. As the dust was gradually rubbed away, the design began to appear, and while he was looking at so much of the decoration as he could see, Dr. Foresi entered the shop, caught sight of the book, asked its price, and took it away half cleansed at the cost of lOQ francs. He had the cleansing process completed, and by-and-by sold the volume at a very high price to Gibson Craig, then as always an eager book- hunter. At Gibson Craig's sale it became my property. Paris, 1550: 442 PsALTERiVM Davidis carmine redditvm per Eobanum Hessum . . Parisiis, Ex officina Petri Gualteri . . 1549. 12mo. in the original binding, Melanchthon's copy 1550 21 In smooth yellow calf or citron morocco ; with a geometrical pattern in black and white compartments, on the sides, each band edged with gold ; with a couple of azar6 fleurons ; the central space hetween the arms of the main design gilt with oblique parallel lines. On the back (without bands and panels) there is a perfect arabesque design of branch- and- leaf pattern, in black, silver, and gold. The edges of the book are gilt and goffered with arabesques, and the edges of the covers have the running tendril ornament in little groups divided by simple lines. A note of presentation on the leaf within the upper cover shews that Albertus k Schemitz or Scheinitz gave the book (bound as it is) in 1650 to Georg Rodth. ; and four pages of Latin verse in Melanchthon's handwriting on the flyleaves, *' De dicto : Non potest sibi homo sumere quidqnam nisi datum sit et k Deo *\ signed *' Philippus Melathon '% proves that it must have been lent to or owned by the great Reformer before 1560. It belonged in 1658 to Carpzovius, whose name is written on the title. A MOST INTERESTING LITTLE VOLUME. Pasted insidc the lower cover is an impression (coloured) of Hans Sebald Beham's engraving of Patience, dated 1510. This was probably inserted at the time of binding. Lyons, 1550-55: 443 IL DANTE, Con argomenti . . Lione, per Giovan di Tovmes. MDXXXXVII. 12mo. a fine ruled copy in the original binding^ sound and well 'preserved 1547 8 8 Olive morocco, gilt on the sides with fillets and arabcsqne ornament. There are two rectangular borders formed of double fillets, a flower as a cornerpiece in the space between them. The centrepiece is a combination of two interlaced clasps lying, like a St. Andrew's cross, upon a lozange with curving sides. A fieuron above and a fleuron below the centrepiece, and from the heart of each a curved line that branches outwards on each side throwing its leaves into the space between the two borders. On the back there are horizontal gold lines on the four thick bands, oblique lines on the two thin ones ; a fieuron in each panel. The edges are gilt and goffered with an arabescine design. This is a pretty Lyonnese binding done about 1555. The bookplate of Wilmot Earl of Lisbume inside the cover. 444 MEDINA. l*art de navigver de maistbe pierre de medine, Espaignol . . traduict de Castillan en Fran^oys . . par Nicolas de Nicolai, du Dauphine, Geographe du tres-Chrestien Roy Henri II . . A Lyon, chez Gvillavme Roville . . 1554. Small folio, with woodcut diagrams y and large engraved folding map of the New World {with part of Europe and Africa); in tlie original binding 1554 25 In warm brown calf, decorated on the sides with a mosaic border of gold and black, and an oval arabesque centrepiece also in black and gold, the spaces of which are filled in with numberless little gold dots. The border is a sort of broad metal-work arabesque in which three colours appear, namely, the blackened ground, the gold of the outlines, and the body of the design formed of compartments of the natural brown leather. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; those of the covers are gilt with rows of oblique lines, divided by simple gold lines. The back has no bands and is nearly flat. It has been repaired at its top and bottom, but the whole of the original ornament is there, consisting of a base of gold dots, on which is a set of running arabesques outlined in gold, but formed simply of the blank surface of the brown calf. This book has a special interest for the American collector, since the map of the New World is not a reproduction of Medina's (as Nordcnskjold seems to have imagined), but is a much larger and more elaborate work, done by Nicolay himself. 92 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. (Fran90is II ?) 1550-55 : £ «. d, 445 BOCCACCIO (Giovanni) il decamerone . . In Venetia per Gabriel iolito di ferrarij MDXLII. Small 4to. tcith woodcuts ; in the original binding 1542 8 8 Warm brown calf. The sides are impressed with two triple borders of fillets in blind-tooling. Ootside each corner of the inner border is a lilj or Aldine flenron plein or ; in the centre on each side is the crowned double-headed eai^le, also in gold. The back has five bands. The first and sixth panels are scored with blind-mlings ; in the second and fonrth panel there is a fleur-de-us in gold ; on the third and fifth panels, a dolphin uncrowned, also in gold. 446 DiviTio (Bernardo) Calandra comedia . . Colophon: . . Vinegia per Nicolo . . Zoppino. MDXXX . . — Trissino. Comedia del Trissino intitulata i Simillimi . . Colophon : . . Venezia . . MDXLVIII . . — Taisniee. Opera nvova molto vtile, et necessaria k tutti archi- tettori . . woodcuts. Colophon: In Ferrara . . 1548 — 3 vols, in 1, 12mo. bound by the same hand as the Boccaccio of 1542 1530-48 4 The ssme warm brown calf, and the same treatment of the back and sides as on the Boccaccio. The only difference is that the comer ornament is here a lion rampant instead of a lily. This book and the Boccaccio were bonnd by the one craftsman, and for the one library. The dauphin and the fieur-de-lis on both indicate a royal fVench provenance, while the double-headed esgle can only represent the Emperor. There seems to be no way of explaining such a concurrence of symbols, but by assuming that they indicate presents from the Emperor Charles Y, between 1550 and 1555, to the little boy who afterwards became Eran9ois II of France, and that Catherina de Medici caused the binding to be done at Lyons. Peter Ernst, Count of Mansfelt, 1555 : 447 VEGETIUS AND VALTURIUS. Flaue Vegece Eene . . du fait de guerre : et fleur de cheualerie . . Paris par Chrestian Wechel . . M.D.XXXVI. (gothic ^ttitx . . With fine woodcuts, 1536 — Les dovze livres de Robert Valtvrin touchant la discipline militaire . . A Paris, chez Charles Perier . . 1555 . . Roman Letter^ with fine tooodcuts^ 1555 2 vols, in 1, small folio, fine ruled copies; hound for Count Peter Ernest Mansfelt in Paris in 1555, enclosed in a red morocco case 1536-55 180 Brown calf, decorated on the sides with a grand design of inter- lacing curves, resembling the style of carved woodwork. The design comes oat in black bands (edged with gold) on a field of innumerable gold dots which seem to be the ground of all, except of the centrepiece. In this, there are no dots ; upon the plain calf surface are stamped (in silver) the Mansfelt arms ; around the shield, the chain of the Golden Fleece, in gold ; above it, the motto M force mkst trop, and under it MAKSFELT. The edges are gilt and goffered with a fine arabesque design. The back is a reparation by Bedford. Count Maijsfelt was still in Paris, a prisoner of war, when the Valturius was published there. He probably caused it immediately to be bound up with his Vegetius, in Paris, rather than wait to have the work done in Antwerp as soon as he should regain his freedom. Paris, 1555-60: 448 HORAE, in lande beatiss . virginis Mariae, Ad vsum Romanum . . Parrhisijs, apud Gotofredum Torinum . . Colophon: Parrhisijs, Ex OflBcina Gotofredi Torini Biturigici . . Anno . . M.D.XXXI . . small 4to. Geoffroy Tory's Booh of Hours, with exquisite woodcut borders to every page, and 17 pictorial designs in outline (which are all slightly illuminated in gold and colou/r-wash) as well as the device of the Pot cass6 at beginning and end ; in a fine binding 1531 72 ^ A beantifal lKX)k which is excessively rare. The binding might be Lyonnese hot is probably Parisian, and was done aboat 1555 in the Veneto-Lyonocse style, with ovU FRENCH BINDINGS, 1556-1660. 93 Paris, 1555-60 — continued, £ «. d, centrepiece and oearly triaagalar oornerpieces stamped on azured gold. The back is perfect and has a lozangy fleuron in each panel. The colouring, which was probably done in Tory's own shop for some special ^tron, is elegant and light, bnt is confined to the title-page and the miniatnres. The beautifnl Renaissance borders thronghoat the book are antoached by colour, except where they face a miniature. Didot's copy of this charming volume was not quite perfect, there being one facsimile leaf m it NcTertheless it fetched 2500 francs (plus expenses) at his sale. Didot's " Essai " states " Sons lo rapport de I'anciennet^, de la puret6 du style dn dessin, et de Tex^ution typographique, oes Henres ^ Vantique sont le plus bean specimen de I'art frangais de la Benaissance." 449 NOUUM TESTAMENTUM . . Paxisiis . Apud Simonem Cob'naeum, & Oaleotnm k Prato . 1543 . . Small 8vo. hound for Jean Faulcard Paris. 164^3 10 Smooth black morocco, richly gilt on the sides with a stamped Grolieresqne and arabesque design. The Grolieresqne pattern is the outer rectangnlar figure, cut away in inward curves at the comers, the inner rectangular figure with projecting curves at the comers ; and over them a lozange. The outmost border is a line of architectonic arabesques looking like a design by Geoffroy Tory. There are roses at the corners outside the intersecting curves, and the whole face of the design within the arabesque border is covered with gold dots. On a centrepiece we read the name of the original owner for whom the b(^k was bound : m. iehan faulcard pere. Hoses in the panels on the back, except the top and bottom compartments which are scored with oblique lines. This is a sound and fine example of the new phase of bookbinding as practised in Paris about 1555. 450 CICERO . M. T. Cice . de Philosophia volvmen secvndvm . . Parisiis Apud Simonem Colinesum . 1545. 16mo. in the original binding 1545 4 10 Brown calf, gilt on the sides with a pretty interlacement-pattern resembling): the style of carved wood- work. The combination of curves and angles gives to the top and bottom the appearance of vases, united in the middle by a nearly oval figure with a rectangular centre. Over the greater part of the design lies a figure like a double cross, in the four outer angles of which a little azwrS leaf is set. A spray of leaflets is impressed in each of the panels on the back. The joints are repaired, and the back is mended at bottom. The edges are plain -gilt. A pretty example of Paris work about 1555-60. 451 ALAMANNI. la coltivatione di Lvigi Alamanni al Christianissimo Re Francesco prime . . Stampato in Parigi da Roberto Sfcephano . . MDXLVI . . Small 4to. very fins ruled copy in a splendid mosaic binding 1546 55 Probably bound in Paris and decorated in the Italian style with tools procured from Venice. Smooth-grained brown leather, apparently calf, gilt and painted on the sides with a superb Maiolesque pattern. The mam design is like an intricate piece of woodwork ornament, suggestive of a rectangnlar basis, but actually formed in curves, convolutions, and parallel interlacements of very beautiful kind. The lines are broad bands of white and blue, framed within gold edges, and an oval or O fomied of white lines occupies the centre. The oomerpieces, and the decoration that fills the spaces within and around the oval centre, are graceful wreathy curves of gold ending in conventional leaves, red or green. The borders outside the design are fillets of gold filled in the spaces with green and white. The edges are plain-gilt. (On the lower cover there is a commutation of the colours, but the design is the same.) The back has no bands bnt is flat, and divided by lines into panels gilt with a lattice -work of diagonal lines, white dots in the spaces. The edges of the cover are gilt with ranning tendrils divided or united by simple gold lines. The binding was painted in the Italian manner, probably to please one of the followers of Caterina de Medici. A document quoted by Thoinan, in his article on Etiennes Roffet, shows that " Loys AUeman fleurantin " was allowed to import from Venice certain tools for use in producing Italian books at Paris. He died in France in 1566. Lyons, 1565-60: 452 MACROBII . . in Somnium Scipionis, Lib, ii. Saturnaliomm, Lib. Yii . . Lvgdvni, apvd Seb. Gryphivm, 1556. Small 8vo. in the original biTiding 1556 2 Brown calf, stamped on the sides with Homeric figures (Pallas, Venus, Juno, Paris) in border compartments, and a running floral ornament in the centre. — This is a fine Lyonncso example in perfect preservation, and bears the date 1655. 94 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Lyons, 1555-60 — continued. £ ». d. 463 LUCANUS. M. Annei Lvcani de Bello Civili libri decern. Apvd Seb. Gryphivm Lvgdvni, 1647. 16mo. in the original binding 1647 4 4 Smooth olive morocco, gilt on the sides with a geometrical design in compartments in the style of carved woodwork. It is formed by blackened bands lined with gold, is rectilinear in the middle, curved and interlacing at top and bottom. In the centre is an oval enclosing the title : m. av. ltcani. All the spaces between this oval and the main lines of the design, are filled with tiny gold dots. There is an azure flenron at each comer, and also at the angle where the rectilinear parts of the design retreat into curves. There is a gold rose in each of the four panels on the back ; and oblique gold lines on the top and bottom bands. The edges plain-gilt. 454 BOCCACCIO, il decamerone di m. Giovanni boccaccio . . In Lione, appresso Gnlielmo Rovillio. 1666. 12mo. in the original fine Lyonnese binding. (See illustration in L. P. issue) 1566 16 IG Polished calf of a warm brown tint, decorated with an arabesque mosaic on the sides. There are wreathing branches of gold lines, forming unfinishea circles and ending in tendrils and leaves plein or. On the upper cover the leafage is painted green wiSiin the gold, as well as the flowered sprays that seem to spring from the branches. FleuroDS in green and gold are stamped down the centre, wiUi other little circular ornaments in gold. The space between the branches at top and bottom is painted blue. On the lower cover, the wreathing lines are so arranged that the result of their contact at the middle is a row of lozanges from top to bottom, and the gold lines which form these lozanges is edged with black or dark blue bands. A transverse space is ruled off in the middle on each cover to receive a lettering ; on the obverse i . a . as . dd . , on the reverse gram. 1557. The back is perfect with five high bands and two low ones; six of the panels stamped alternately with a blue, white and gold flower, and a green and gold spray of leaflets. The top and bottom panels with their low ban£ are scored with oblique parallel lines, blue and gold. The edges are gilt and beautifully goffered with reddish-brown arabesques. From the inscription on the title we see that the owner's initials were J. A. & S. ; from another on the flyleaf we conjecture that he was a native or inhabitant of Berry. This binding is a very pretty example of Lyonnese decorative handwork. 465 HOR-^ . . ad vstim Romanum . . Lvgd. apvd Gvllel. Ro villi vm . 1660 . . Small 8vo. printed within borders, with woodcuts; in the original binding 1650 20 Smooth red morocco ; gilt on the sides with a handsome and elaborate geometrical pattern of interlacements, with oaure fleurons in some of the spaces. A small rose iu each of the panels on the back ; the topmost and the lowest band gilt with oblique strokes, the others with a plain transverse line. The edges gilt and gofiered with chainwork. The edges of the covers gilt, with running lines of tendrils, each group divided from tlie other by a single gold line. This binding is almost too good to be Lyonnese work, but there can be little doubt that it was done at Lyons, and by hand. 45G CICERONIS Opeba : Epistola?, 2 vols.; Orationee, 3 vols.; do Philosophia, 2 vols. ; de OflBciis, 1 vol. ; Rhetorica, 1 vol. — together 9 vols. IGmo. in the original binding Lugduni, 1668-60 4 10 Calf, stamped from a plate with a geometrical Grolieresque design, outlined in gold and standing out in high dark relief from a surface covered with dotted gold. The bands on the back are low and so covered with the flat calf surface as to be nearly invisible. The back is gilt in three divisions ; at top and bottom a semis of triple dots in gold ; in the middle, an interlacing design, black and gold, done by handwork. Some of the volumes have the corners and the extremities of the back damaged. 467 SVIDA. SOVrAA . to filv irapov . . pi&Xiav . . [Greece']. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri . . M.V.XUII, Small iolio, bound in France about 11)60 1514 12 Rich olive morocco, gilt on the sides partly by hand and partly by means of engraved plates. The centrepiece, oval and interlaced ; the comerpieces, geometrical and interlaced on a ground of assure and picked-ont gold, are stamped. The border is by band and consists of double fillets, parallel except where they aeflect inwardly into interlacing lozanges, and intertwining circlets, at mid-sides. Azure fleurons flank the points of involution, and occupy the centrepiece. The back is flat, divided into panels by transverse bands of arabesque. Five of the panels are decorated with various semis: little trefoils, roacles, stars, gold dots in triples, and tiny lozanges. The first and the seventh panel have roulettes of knotwork. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; those of the cover bear a succession of running tendrils divided by simple lines. This is a grand-looking book, and was bound either in Lyons or Paris, not at Venice. FRENCH WORK, 1555-1560. 95 Lyons, 1555-60 — continued, £ s. d. 458 LUCANUS. M. Annei Lvcani de Bello Civili libri decern . . Lvgdvni, 1547. 12mo. in the original binduig 1547 5 Smooth-grained olive-brown morocco, gilt on the Rides with an interlaced pattern, of which the most prominent feature is an oval fignre, formed by the complex lamiflcation of parallel gilt lines ending at top and bottom in azwr6 rolls. The centre- piece is a combination of fonr Aldine fleorons, aznr^, which form a ilowered lozange. The back is flat, without panels or bands, and gilt with twining arabesques ending in asure leaves. The edges of the book are plaiu-gilt ; the edges of the binding have the asoal French ornament of running tendrils divided by gold lines. This binding is plainly all handwork, with the exception of the fleuron and the edge-decoration. It was done at the same time (and perhaps in the same atelier) as the Asolani of Bembo described below, but the latter is a finer piece of work. Catherine de Medicis (1560) : 459 DANTE, l* amoroso convivio di dante . . Colophon : . . Vinegia per Marchio Sessa . . MDXXXl. 12mo. hound apparently for Oatlierina de Medici 1531 40 An elegant binding in smooth olive-brown morocco, decorated with arabesques in the style of metal-wonc, which were formerly silvered, bat now appear like blind- tooling. The border on the sides is a line of fleurs-de-Us pointed outwards. The main ornament is a set of interwining arabesques, jplein argent^ so arranged as to snggest the form of a lozange. At each comer, internally, there is a monogram com- pomd of two K*8 back to back which may also be read as an 1 lying over an X. It was a symbol used both by Ks^rina and by her son Karolus IX. The mode of decoration is Italian, but the workmanship evidently French, and it seems to represent a presenta- tion from Catherine to Charles before his coronation in 1560. There is a rose or quaterfoil in the panels on the back, and the edges are plain-gilt. Charles IX, 1560: 460 LA LBGENDE DBS FLAMENS, croniqve abregee . . On les vend a Paris . . par Galliot dn Pr6 . . 1558. 12mo. 1558 6 In a beautiful modem calf binding, bearing on the sides an intitulation, an inter- laced pattern in black compartments, and a centrepiece on which are stamped the monogram TCC interlaced, back to back) and the royal arms of Charles IX. It is evidently a close imitation of one of the artistic bindings done for that monarch, so close indeed that it has deceived many eyes. The edges are gilt and goffered and bear a crown over three fleurs-de-lis. Paris 1560-70: 461 HEURES DE BAIEUX. Small 4to. illuminated MS. on vellum, WITH 12 Miniatures and 12 handsome floral borders^ besides numerous smaller borders and a great quantity of illuminated initials ; bound at Paris about 1560-65 About 1465 52 10 Brown calf over wooden boards ; the sides gilt with a beautiful arabesque pattern. The centrepiece is an oval within which we see a fleuron at top and bottom, twining with leafage at the sides. Above and below the centrepiece there is a large fleuron the stem of which divides into a double curve, right and left, ending at each side in a roll. At the sides are decorative scrolls tipped with asBwr4 foliation, and azure leaves are scattered over the whole surface. The outside border is a treble gold flllet. The back has five high bands, ruled with gold ; and in the panels there are azure fleurons and leaves. The edges of the book plain-gilt ; of the cover gilt with compart- ments of oblique strokes divided by simple long lines. This binding is in wonderfully sound and fresh condition ; only the extremities of the back having been slightly mended. The design and the workmanship are too good to have been executed elsewhere than at Paris, about 1560. 462 BEMBO. Oliasolani di Messer Pietro Bembo . . Colophon : Impressa in Vinegia nelle Case d'Aldo Romano & d'Andrea Asolano . . M.D.XV . . 12mo. in a fine binding^ admirably preserved 1515 21 Smooth olive morocco, the sides covered with a gilt pattern of geometrical inter- lacement too complex and crowded to be called exactly beautiful, with a few little azures ornaments m the centre. The edges are plain-gilt. The remarkable part of the decoration is the gilt tooling which covers the back. A quantity of scrollwork and parallel curves ending in leaves, runs down the flat and bandiess surface of the back and two horizontal lines at top and bottom shut off a little compartment in which there is a small line of curves from a metal-work pattern. This was a new departure in ornamental binding, and we may regard this book as one of the earliest examples of full-gilt backs. The artist had not however yet attained to the idea of treating the back in the same way as the side, that is as a frame for a balancing and distribution of the decorative plan. The lines run gracef ally enough, but in order to see anything 96 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Paris, ISeO'-yO— continued, £ $. d, like a plan, one mast look at the back when the volame lies flat on its side. There are also little bits of scrollwork in gold, on the edges of the leather ; and this likewise was an early phase of what has since come a reiralar custom among binders. Hero we have modern notions at their first inception, and a book which is a charming example of binding, fresh and in well-preserved condition. It is probably a fine specimen of French binding executed by some artist of the great school which preceded the Eves, and not (as might be imagined) the work of Venetian hands. 403 BIBLIA [Latine ex duplici tralatione, veteri nempe Hieronymi, iiov£U][ne Sanctis Pagnini] . . LvtetisB . Ex officina Robert! Stephani . . M.D.XLV. Small 8vo. divided into two vols,; in the original binding Paris, 1545 18 18 Smooth olive morocco, richly gilt on the sides with an oval centrepiece stamped' on gold and shewing up an interlacing geometrical figure in black. There are also stamped cornerpieces white and gold. Fleurons, white and gold, project upwards and downwards from the central oval, and reach almost to the border fillets. All the space within the oval and the borders is filled with triple dots of gold. The borders are a white compartment and a black compartment, each of them edged witli gold. The edges of the leaves are gilt and goffered with knotwork. The backs, flat and without panels, contain the best M'ork of all : gract^f nl progressions of fine gold lines curving, twining, and interlacing ; locked at the intersections with azwrds fleurons. This was all done by hand, and the great skill and taste of the artist are shewn by the circum' stance that the details of the design are worked out differently upon each of the two bocks, yet with such a perfect similitude in the style that we see jao lack of uniformity. 46i PLAUTI (Marci Actii) . . comoediae vioIti . . Colophon: . . Venetiis per Melchiore sessam & Petru de rananis . . M.D.XVIII . . Small folio, in a beautiful Paris bifiding 1518 40 Smooth olive morocco, in fine condition. The sides are broadly and boldly gilt with a noble design. The outer fillets are rectangular. Immediately within them begins a bold combination of straight and curved lines in continual extension and inter- lacement. We get the impression of a square border rounded at the corners, and receding into various curves at the sides, with a row of intertwisted qnaterfoils down the middle, aud at the heart of the large one in the centre a lozange from the points of which proceed graceful arabesque leafage and blossoms. But all the lines are in happy connexion and the whole pattern is a triumph of decorative work. We can see in It, however, the first signs of tendency towards) the Eve style of geometrical adornment. The back is flat and nnpanelled. Its whole surface is covered by a beautiful arabesque pattern of curving lines or branches, intertwining and festooned with aznred leaves and fleurons. The edges are plain-gilt. — This binding was no doubt executed in Paris about 1560-70. Brittany, 1565-70: 465 HEURES. J ehan de brie. Ges presentes henres a lasaige de Paris . . imprime a Paris par Nicholas hjgmna pour Jcha de brie . . 8vo. PRINTED ON VELLUM, and having a woodcut border to every page, with several full-page illustrations coloured as miniatures ; fine copy in a gilt calf binding of about the year IhQh'lO No date. Almanac begins \h\^ 36 This is a binding executed in Brittany and is in a rude Grolieresque style heavily gilt. The compartments are painted black between the gold outlines of the main design which is : a lozange cutting the inner rectangle, and cut where it approaches the outer rectangle by a semi-circular incurvation from the outer figure. In the centre is a circle edged with flames (Italian style) and traversed by an inscription *' N. Vicar, a Quane." In all the other spaces on both covers we find dots and other ornaments in gold, including little birds, and, on a larger scale, dolphins and ermine, twelve times each. The edges are gilt and goffered. — In the inscription Vicar, stands probably for X^e Voyer or Lo Vayer, and A Quane is perhaps some Breton local name. Lyons, 1561-63: 466 PARADIN (Claude) Alliances Genealogiqves des Rois et Princes do Gavle . . Lion . . M.D.LXI . . Small folio, in a fine mosaic binding of the time 1561 30 Brown calf. The outmost rectangular border is blue outlined in gold. Next is a motto, Dclivrcz moi de ccvx qvi s'elevent contre moi ;" then two gold fillets, and within then the ornamental pattern, which is a geometrical frame of blue, rectangular in design but curving inward at the middle and end of each line. Next we find another geometrical pattern in blue, interlacing with curves of aznred gold which carry and end in fieurons. In the centre, which is framed in red interlacements, we have an escutcheon within the collar of the order of St. Michel in gold. At the FRENCH WORK, 1561-1575. 97 Lyons, 1561-63— conhnt*c<^. £ ,. a, corners and in tho middle the monogram of D'C interlaced back to back. The escatcheon is azuTy ou chef de . . Whatever symbols may have been placed in the field are no longer traceable. — On the lower cover, the design is repeated, bat the centre changed. On an oval shield of bine framed in gold, we have a monogram composed of the letters M A. 467 LUCRETIUS. Tin Lvcbetii Caei de Rebvm Natvra libbi sex . . Parisiis, Et Lagdnni habentnr . . 1563. Small 4to. in the original binding 1563 5 Black calf, ruled on the sides with several blind fillets, and with three rows of doable fillets gilt. There is a large gold flearon at each internal angle, and a stamped oval in the centre. This centrepiece consists of a shield supported by two angels and sarraonnted by a winged cherab's head. The bearing is a rampant lion traver^ by a fess. On the npper cover there is a lettering, . lycreticivs . lambini. The back has three high bands and fonr low ones, rnled with horizontal gold lines. A gold rose is stamped in the panels. The edges are not gilt. This is a coarse bat characteristic binding, evidently done at Lyons. " Eve » Bindings, 1569-72 : 468 BOCCACCIO. IL CORBACCIO . . In Parigi, Per Federigo Morello. 1569. Small 8vo. fine ruled copy in the original binding 1569 18 Dark olive morocco ; the sides, edges, and back gilt in the early and simplest style of the so-called Eve bindings. There are three diminishing fillets on the sides independent of the main decoration. Then a fourth, fifth, and sixth fillet, which in their conrse deflect and become parts of the geometrical interlaced pattern which, on this book, seems to be executed with a better notion of unity and completeness than can be recognised in most of the *' £vc '* books. There is a distinct main design, of which the groundwork is an oval centre ascending and descending into a kind of cross. The intertwined curves which help to fill up the design do not spoil the unity of the plan ; and the fanfare details which take part in we scheme of decoration only serve to enrich the ornamental features. The back (mirabile dictu) remains sach as it was, and is divided by bands into panels. The panels are framed with double fillets, and four of them are gilt with fanfares and dots (which, at a little distance, look like figures of bees). In the topmost and the lowest panel there are only parallel transverse lines, small fanfares, and a section gilt with diagonal parallel strokes falling from left to right. The rims of the cover are gilt with a single straight line, broken now and then by little groups of similar diagonal strokes. This binding was executed about 1570 ; bat for whom, there is nothing to show. (See ilkutration in Large Paper issue of Catalogue.) About 1630, the book came into the possession of Ballesdens whose signature appears on the title. In modern times its successive owners have been the Marquis de Morante, Firmin-Didot, and Sir Thomas Dick-Lander. The binding was done about the same time and by the same hand as the book facsimiled in Plate XII of Thoinan's " Relieurs Frani^ais,"— from which it varies hot slightly. He describes his original as " de 1580 environ.*' 469 MISSALE ROMANVM . . Parisiis, Apud lacobum Kerver . . 1571 . Square small folio, in a beautiful " Eve " binding 1571 90 In the contemporary binding of brown morocco, bearing on the sides and back a geometrical design in compartments of green, red, and silver, with gold fillets and outlets ; branches of foliage here and there. The original ownership is indicated by the letters G. C. on the npper cover, and a tree (nearly invisible now) as an armorial bearing on the lower cover. Giovan Matteo Toscano, 1575 : 471 VETUSTISSIMORUM AUTHORUM Geobgica, Bucolica, & Gnomica poemata qusD Bupersnnt . . {Greece et Latine) wapa Kpunriyt^ • ^ ^' o (i.e. 1570 — elsewhere Apud Crispinnm MDLXIX). 16mo. a remarkably pretty book in the original fancy binding, splendidly preserved 1569-70 15 15 Smooth red morocco richly gilt on the upper cover with flowing palm-branches, and having pieces of olive morocco inlaid in the centre and in the spaces, between the curves of the palm-branchef . These inlays are gilt with arabesque, except in the central oval which bears the nameof lo mat thakts tosca-nys (the owner, whoso name is also written on the title-page as I. M. Toscanus). On the lower cover, a sort of carved woodwork pattern is produced by inlays of dark morocco, with an oval space in the centre, which is gilt with a palm-branch wreath and in the middle the arms of the owner. The spaces at the top and bottom are also decorated with palm-branches. The back is ornamented with parallel curves ending in foliage and dots, and resembling at a little distance fonr sets of concentric circles arranged vertically. The edges of the leather covers are gilt with running branchlets or tendrils divided (or united) by simple lines ; and the ^ges of the leaves are plainly gilt. This is a charming little 7 98 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. - _ . ** Eve " binding, 1575 : £ s. d. book, and is either an Italian imitation of the Eve bindings already fashionable in Paris, or else an actual Eve binding modified slightlj to snit an Italian owner's desire. Giovan-Matteo Toscano was a learned Milanese scholar, who died in 1624 at a great age. He lived and wrote in Paris in the fifteen-serentieSi and it was there no donbt t£at he acquired his taste for the Etc bindings. Henri III, 1581-88 : 472 GIRALDI CINTHIO (Giovanbattisfca) Hecatommithi onero Cento Nonelle . . Venetia . . MDLXXX. 2 vols, in 1, 4to. hound in limp vellum, gilt edges 1580 6 6 The arms of France and Poland nnited, with the small crowns, and the large crown and Holy Ghost collar, within a wreath, form the centrepiece on the sides ; in the comers, we find the monogram composed of HHA^, which he adopted after having instituted the order, and which may be thonght to represent H. L. P. for Henri, Looise, Prance. There is a fleur-de-lis over this monogram, in each comer, and the fieur- de-lis reappears in the panels on the flat back. This binding was done about 1580-81. 473 LB BREVIAIRE NOSTRE DAME . . A Paris, chez lamet Mettayer . . M.D.LXXXyil. Small 8vo. plates ; fine ruled copy in the original binding 1587 30 Dark olive morocco ; bound for Henri III whose arms and motto appear upon the back ; his emblems upon the sides. The back is flat and bandless, but is divided by fillets into three compartments. The topmost compartment is gilt with a skull between two fleurs-de-lis. The bottom compartment has spes | xbaJ devs between two fleurs-de- lis. The long space between them is gilt with a semis of fleurs-de-lis, and, as a centre- piece within an oval, the royal escutcheon with the crovm and the collar of an order. The sides are gilt with two double fillets, having a fleur-de-lis at eadi external comer of the inner frame ; and an oval centrepiece representing the Cracifizion. The edges are plain-gilt, and the book is in splendid preservation. The ex-libris of Hri Hordes is pasted within the cover. The 'book belonged to Ballesdens about 1 660-70 ; it was presented in 1696 by B. Germont to Loais Jobert, and bears, on its title, a MS. note of the presentation. The binding must have been done in 1587 or 1588. 474 HEVRES DE NOSTRE DAME . . Colophon : A Paris. De rimprimerie d'Adrien le Roy & Robert Ballard, Imprimenrs dn Roy, en Musiqne. M.D.LXXXIII. 4to. Henry IIVs copy, stained and wanting title, in an exquisite " Eve " binding of olive morocco covered all over with the geometrical compartments, branches of foliage, palm-branches, and curved fleurons, which are generally regarded as the work of Nicolas Eve; the King^s symhoU, a skull and cross-bones, within a semi-circle in each corner, and an oval centrepiece enclosing on the upper cover a design of the Annunciation, on the lower the arms and crowns, the collars and large crown of Henri III King of France and Poland 1583 36 The back is flat and bandless, and entirely covered with a semis of fleurs-de-lis. This is at once the finest specimen of Henri III binding, and one of the best examples of the unknown binder's art. 476 HOR-^ B. V. M. etc. [ad usum Galloromannm). Small 4to. illumin- ATKD MS. ON VELLUM, with 7 large and 31 small Miniatures ; every page painted with a flowered border ; bound in Henri IIVs style About 1460 42 Bed morocco with plain-gilt edges. The sides are gilt with a treble fillet, and with a centrepiece which includes the symbols of the Passion : Gracifix, crown of thorns, the ladder, the lance, the scourge, the Cock, the sponge, etc on a little hill which bears also the death's head and cross-bones. The back is framed with a treble fillet, and has for its centrepiece a reduced copy of the same gathering of Passion-symbols. If this binding was not done for Henri III, it was at least done in his time (before 1689) and for one of his friends. The lav of St. Margaret is added (about 1480-90) on two of the blank pages. It is in French verse, and begins " Une vierge, lit on, Qui Marguerite ot nom." 476 BREVIARIUM secnndum ustim Deo-dicatarum virgimim sacri cenobii beate Marie Suessionesis. Pars hy em alls. Parisiis . . miliesimo . . qningentesimo . xxxiij . . Small 8vo. bound in Henri IIVs tims 1533 18 Blade morocco with plain-gilt edges. The sides are gilt with the emblems of the Passion, in a design very similar to that on the Horse, and a skull and cross-bones appears at each comer. There is only one double fillet on the sides. The flat and bandless back is similarly treated, with a skull and cross-bones for its centrepiece. The book has two brazen clasps. It was bound either for Henri III or for one of bis immediate followers (before 1589). FRENCH WORK : DE THOU, 1678-1584. 99 Louise de Lorraine, Queen of Henri III, 1588 : £ s. d. 477 CODE DV ROY HENRY III . Roy de France at de Pologne. A Paris, M.D.LXXXVIL Yolio, in the original binding 1587 40 Smooth dark morocco ; the nides and back covered with a semig of gold flenrs-de- Hs. The centrepiece in a shield, France and Lorraine impaled, snrmonnted by a royal crown, and embraced by two palm-branches knotted below. At the comers there is a stamped ornament of bow-shape, and within it the emblem of the Holy Ghost with rays of ^lory. The back is flat and unpanelled $ the edges plain-gilt. This binding is probably the work of a member of the Eve family, with whose name we find nsnally associated a decorative binding of quite different character. It may have been by Clovis Eve, but more probably by Nicolas. Cardinal de JBourbon, 1590 : 478 CASTIGLIONE (Baldassare) il cortegiano . . Venetia, Appresso Bernardo Basa MDLXXXIIII. Sm. 8vo. in the original binding 1584 6 Bed morocco ; gilt on the sides with a treble fillet ; the back also framed with a treble gold fillet ; a simple gold line along the edges of the coven ; the edges of the book plain-gilt The Cardinal, who died in 1594, was the first of the Bourbons who took to this plain binding of modem style, which De Thou had already begun to affect. On the fiat and bandless back there is first the title, the Cardinal's hat surmonnting the Bourbon arms (the lilies with a bendlet), and further down, within an oval, a natural lily surrounded by a motto, '< Snperat candore et odore." It is curious that this motto (the Cardinal's usual one) was not the original lettering, but is so stamped over the first inscription as to make it illegible. We can only trace *' deploror *' as the last word of the original motto. On the fiyleaf at the end, we find *' Mad«. la Marquise de Flamarens " in a hand- writing of about 1720. Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1579-1615. First style : 479 VETERINARI^ MEDICINE LIBRI DVO . . sua, hoc est Grajca linprna primnm in Incem sediti . BasilefiB, apvd Joan. Valdervm . M.D.XXXVII. Sm. 4to. (8vo. size), bound for De Thou 1537 21 Smooth olive morocco ; gilt on the sides with a fillet of three lines and a wreath in the centre, which encloses his family escutcheon surmounted by a winf^ed cherub, and resting upon a scroll which bears the name iac avotst. thvanvs. The back is panelled : two small ones, four large, and two small. Each panel bears his monogram (composed of iadt), except the one which has the title. The band between each of the two small panels is gilt with three perpendicular lines in the middle and four or five oblique ones on each side of the perpendiculars. All the other bands bear a single horizontal line. Every panel is framed within a double-lined fillet. The edges of the book are plain-gilt, and there is no ornamentation on the edges of the covers. De Thou had returned from his studies in Italy and elsewhere in 1574-75, and obtained a definite position at Paris in 1576. He then began to collect books, and from the later date to 1587, he caused them to be marked like the one above described. We may consider that this volume was bound in 1578 or 1579. 480 SEDER TEPHILLOTH . . (Order of Prayers according to the Ashkoazi rite, in Hebrew) . . Small 8 vo. bound for De Thou Basilia, 338 (1578-79) 6 6 Olive green morocco ; gilt precisely like the Vet. Med. except that the top and bottom edges of the back are gilt with oblique lines. This is a change we may refer to about 1579 or 1590. 481 MENGUS (Hieronymns). Flagellvm Daemon vm . . Accessit postremp Pars secanda, qn&3 Fastis Daemonnm inscribitnr . . Bononias . . 1584. 2 vols, in 1, small 8vo. (square 12mo.), bound for Be Thou 1584 8 8 Yellow or citron morocco ; gilt precisely like the Tephilloth, except that the edges of the book are not gilt. This was done evidently in 1584. 482 CARDANI (Hieronymi) . . Opvs novvm de Proportionibvs Nvmerorvm . . Basileffi . . {At end: M.D.LXX). Small folio, bound for Be Thou 1570 12 12 Citron or yellow morocco; gilt like the two preceding volumes, with a slight modification. — A blind line is drawn along the edges of the covers, except at the top and bottom of the back where it is replaced by oblique gold lines. The cherub's head is redesigned and a fieuron thrown out on each side of it. In the scroll the T of Tb nanus is separated from the rest of the word by the breadth of the transverse ribbon. These changes imply that the volume must have bcciji ^und after 1594— say 1685, . . - : 7 r : 100 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1579-1615. Second style : £ «. d. 483 CRISPIN. Actiones et Monimenta Martymin, qvi a WiclefFo et HvsBo ad nostram banc eetate . . veritatem . . obsignavenmt. Joannes Crispinvs, M.D.LX. Small folio, hound for Be Thou 1560 16 Smooth olive morocco. The sides are plain except for the oral centrepiece which is new. It combines the escntcbeons of De Thon and Braban9on (he married Marie de Brabaii9on in 1587) and has a monogram composed of I A and M (Jacqnes Angnste and Marie). Above the two shields is a vase with flowers springing frona it, flanked on each side by a dolphin's head ending in an ornamental cnrve. The chemb's head as redrawn in 1585 occupies the bottom space of theoTal. The back is identical with the back of the Cardanus save that the monogram of I A D T is replaced by the I A M. The book was bound aboat 1690-95. Note the absence of fillets on the sides. 484 [MANUTIO (Panlo)] dr oli elementi e di molti loro notabili effeti . Aldvs. In Venetia, M.D.LVII . . — Odoni (Rinaldo) Discoreo . . per nia Peripatetica . . M.D.LVII — Roslin (HelissBQs) De opere Dei Creationis sen de Mvndo . . Francofvrti . . M.D.XCVII — 3 vols, in 1, small 4to. hound for Be Thou 1557-97 4 4 Citron morocco. Identical in ornamentation with the Actiones Martyram above described. Bonnd about 1600. Note the absence of fillets on the sides. 485 BUCHANAN. Georgii Bvcbanani Scoti Franciscanvs . . Elegiarvm liber . . de Spbeera . . MDXCIV — Openrm Poeticorvm pars altera : in qna Tragoediae . . M.D.XCVII. — 2 vols, in 1, sm. 8vo. a heautiful copy in red morocco extra, gilt edgeSf with fillets and arms on the sides^ monogram in the panels on the hack 1594-97 9 9 The ornamentation differs only from that of the Crispin and the Manntio, in hftTing a triple-fillet border added on the sides. The binding was done probably in 1600 or 1601. Third style: 486 CERVANTES, el inoenioso hidaloo don qyixotb de la mancha. Compnesto por Miguel de Ceraantes Saanedra. {Here a woodcut) Em Lisboa . Impresso com lisen^ do Santo Officio por lorge Rodriguez. Anno de 1605. Small 4to. very fine large copy with numerous uncut leaves : hound for Be Thou 1605 70 Dark oliye-green morocco, bonnd in exactly the same stvle and with the same decoration as the preceding ; except in the important matter of the escutcheon and the monogram. The escutcheon is the united De Thou and La Chastre bearings, for he had married his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre in 1602. The monogram is now composed of I, A, and G, G. The edges are plain, and the fillets on the sides are still omitted. This volume was bound no doubt in 1605 or 1606. It is a precious book to the Spanish bibliophiles, being as it is one of the two editions of Part I of Don Quixote, which may claim to be the Princeps. This Lisbon issue and the first Madrid issue of the same date are the only two that contain the curious passage about the Don making a rosary of beads to pray with, out of strips from the tail of his shirt Here it is on leaf 93. — In all other editions the passage was suppressed. With the engraved bookplate (about 1780) of Wilmot Earl of Lisbumc. 487 CARIO. Chronicon Cabionis expositvm et avctvm . . a Philippo Melantbone & Casparo Pencero . Genevas . . M.D.LXXVI. 3 parts in 2 vols. sm. 8vo. hound for Be Thou 1576 15 Citron morocco stamped with fiower- patterns in colour. The flat and bandless back is divided into six panels by quadruple gold lines bearing the monogram of I A G (as before) on each of the panels except the one that has the title. There is a treble gold fillet on the sides, with the arms (as on the Don Quixote) in the centre. The edges are plain-gilt ; the edge of the cover at the back scored at top and bottom with oblique gold lines. The flowered morocco is seldom seen on De Thou*s books. This was bound about 1606. 488 C^REMONIALB EPISCOPORVM . . Venetiis . . MDC . . 4to. with Music : hound for Be Thou 1600 6 10 ;• Ql{v»>green morocco ; bound and decorated (about 1606) in the same way as the Dq^IQuJi^te, except that the treble gold fillet on the sides is additional. FRENCH WORK : DB THOU, MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. 101 Jacques Auguste de Thou, 1579-1615. Third siyle— continued. £ «. d. 489 B. BASILII . . Orationes . . Greece [Heidelberg] CIOIOCIV— B. Basilii . . Concio in Oljmpicos Lndos . . Gr. et Lat. Parisiis . . MDCII—B. Basilii de Innidia . . Concio . . Lvtetiae CIOIOCIV— etc. 4 vols, in 1, sm. 8vo. hound for De Thou 1602-04 6 Red morocco ; bound and decorated in precisely the same mode and style aJs the Cseremoniale. 490 BUR6KLEHNER. thesavrvs historiarvm avctore Matfchia Bvrgk- lehner . . Oeniponti . . M.DCII [and M.DC.IV] 2 vols, small folio, bound for De Thou 1602-04 5 15 Dark olive-green morocco gilt like the Caaremoniale and the S. Basil in all respects, except Siat the arms on the sides are impressed from a new and larger plate. The Tase and the dolphins' heads above the shield are replaced by a fleuron and a scroll bearing the name Iac. Ayoyst. Thyanvs. (This scroll is different from that of his first books which used to have its place under the shield.) The cherub's head below the shield is omitted and replaced by an arabesque fleuron. Instead of a simple line to form the oral of the centrepiece, there is a double wreath. Bound about 1608-9. 491 BRANCACCIO. i cabichi militari di pra lelio brancaccio . . In Anversa . . MDCX. 4to. engraved title and 4 plates of military operations; bound for De Thou 1610 12 12 Bark olive-green morocco, in fine condition ; bonnd in precisely the same style and manner as the Burgklehner. 492 HEINSIUS. daniblis heinsii orationes . . Lvgd. Batavorvm, Apud Ludouicum Elzeuirinm . Anno CIOIOCXV . . Small 8vo. printed on Thick Paper and bound for De Thou 1615 60 Red morocco. The centrepiece on the sides is of the old style once more, so that the book looks almost exactly like the Basilins described above. There is, however, a variation. Instead of the combination of perpendicular and oblique lines cutting off the top and bottom panels on the back, which had prevailed for over twenty years, we find substituted in its place five horizontal parallel lines of which the first, second, fourth, and fifth are plain gold, while the third consists of gold dots. This binding dates from about 1616. Presentation copy from Heinsius to De Thou with his autograph inscription (partly defaced) on the title. It fetched £66 at the Beckford sale. Marguerite de Valois, 1585-88: 493 LINOCIER (Geofroy) l'histoirb des plantes, tradvicte de Latin en Francois : avec levrs povrtraicts . . A Paris, Chez Charles Mace . . M.D.LXXXIIII . . 16ino, vnth numerous fine woodcuts ; in the original binding, enclosed in a red morocco case 1584 90 Citron morocco, richly gilt with that pattern of decoration which has always hitherto been considered as marking the ownership of Queen Mareuerite|(de Valois), the most remarkable lady of her line, who, by marrying Henry of Navarre, became the link between the Valois and the Bourbon dynasties. Mr. Guigard, puzzled like so many others, by the heraldic peculiarity of the centre- piece on the sides, nas invented a theory that the real owner of the little volumes which are decorated like this one, was Marie Marguerite de Valois de Saint Remy, daughter of Henri Ill's bastard. But as this lady could not have been born before 1600, stie is certainly not the princess for whom the little '* Marguerite '* volumes were bonnd. They will assuredly be found to have all been produced between 1530 and 1600; — a collateral testimony being furnished by the fact that the books arrayed in this style were all printed before 1600 ; none after that date, and most of them during the years 1580 to 1595. They are all decorated in identical style, differing only in the colour of the morocco. In the case now before us, the leather is citron morocco (it is some- times red, sometimes blue). The space between Uie two rows of fillets on the sides is filled with a succession of cnrving palm-branches and sprays of foliage in alternation. Within the inner double fillet is the specially characteristic decoration in which we see five horizontal rows of three oval compartments each. The ovals are produced by thin wreaths of foliage, within which are enclosed flowers (the wild rose, marigold, narcissus, lily, and daffodil). The inmost oval (i.e. the eighth) is the centrepiece and is larger than the rest. On the lower cover, it encloses a natural lily surrounded by the motto ExpECTATA iroN ELT7DET. On the upper cover it encloses a curved fess or bend (it may be either) charged with three fleurs-de-lis. The edges of the book are .plain-gilt ; the edges of the covers are gilt with a single continuous line. This is the freshest and most beautiful example of the " Valois '* binding that I have seen. The engraved bookplate (about 1 780) of Wilmot Earl of Lisburne is pasted inside the cover. 102 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Nicolas de Villars, Bishop of Agen, 1590-95 : £ 9. d. 494 M. TERENTII VABRONIS opera quas supersunt . . [Genev©] anno M.D.LXXXI. Small 8vo. in the original binding 1581 20 Bound in olive morocco by the man who produced the " Marguerite *' bindingSt and decorated in precisely the same way as those, but not identically. Instead however of the bend or fess charged with three fleurs-de-lis, we have as the centrepiece on the sides the arms of Nicolas db Villabs Episcop. bt Com. Agbnken. widi coronet, mitre, and crook, surmounted by a bishop's hat. He occupied the bishopric from 1588 to 1608, and the binding seems to have been done for him abont 1590-95. On the sides a triple row of double fillets forms two borders, the outer filled with palm-branches and sprays of foliage, the inner with roses and other flowers. The whole iuner surface, except where the escutcheon falls, is gilt with seven horizontal rows of four ovals each. The ovals are filled with flowers nearly resembling those of the Marguerite bindings, but not absolutely the same. They seem to be roees, marigolds, lilies, pinks, aconis. Thero is a sort of dentelle edging to this design. The back is flat and is decorated like the sides. The book belonged afterwards to Rend Moreau, having been given to him (accord- ing to a note in his own handwritiug) by the Bishop of Agen in 1607. Marquis de Grontien, 1595-1600: 495 RONDELET (Guilaume) . . Histoiee entiere des Poissons . . main- tenant tradnites [«tc,] en Fran(;ois . . A Lion par Mace Bonhome . . M.D.LYIJI. . . 2 vols, in 1, small folio, numerous exceUetit woodcuts ; fine copy, bound by the man who did the Marguerite bindings, enclosed in a green morocco case 1558 50 Olive morocco. The double border formed by the spaces between the three rows of double fillets is composed in precisely the same way as those of the Terentius Varro. In the inner field, the comers are occupied by flowing branches of foliage, the centre is a kind of lozange similarly constructed of branches, and enclosing the arms of the Marquis de Gentien. All the rest of the field is covered by a semis of fleurs- de-lis. The flat back has also a semis of fleurs-de-lis within a border identical with the inner border of the sides. The edges are plain-gilt. This ifl a splendid binding in marvellously fresh condition, and was executed about 1595-1600. — It has the engraved bookplate of the celebrated physician Hyancinthe Theodore Baron, who died 1758. Paul Petau, 1600: 496 HOR^ B.V.M. etc. (ad usum Feancije) small 4to. (square 12mo.). ILLUMINATEB MS. ON VELLUM, with 10 large and 28 small Miniatures ; boufid by the man who worked for Marguerite de Valois About 1475 30 Olive morocco, richly gilt. In this volume we notice a point of connexion between the " Marguerite *' bindings and those to which the name .of Eve is usually applied. The centrepiece on the sides is formed of intertwining parallel lines which are so drawn as to produce an oval centre with a little circle on each side. This is one of the most usual features of " Eve " decoration. Each of the circlets encloses a rose. All around thifl central figure, thin twining branches of foliage are so arranged as to convert the whole into a sort of lozange in the midst of which little rows of gold dota appear here and there. The comers of the inner firame (there are two frames of double fillets) are filled with similar branches and dots, so composed that the space between the qaasi- lozange and the corners takes also a sort of lozange-shapc. The compartment between the two rows of fillets is occupied by fleurons aaures and plein or, and little detached ornaments. The book is flat and resembles the sides in its gilding. On the blank page facing the last leaf of the Calendar, we read in Paul Petau*s handwriting, Non est mortaU quod opto, that is, his own motto, signed with his mono- gram. The book was bound about 1600, probably not for him, but it came into his possession soon after. Marguerite's binder, 1610 : 497 LE NOVVEAV TESTAMENT [tradait en Fi«an9ais par Olivetan et Calvin] . . A la Rocbelle . . 1590. 12mo. slightly wonned in the lower Tnargin ; in its original binding 1590 3 3 Olive morocco, gilt on the flat and bandless back with a longitudinal row of six ovals formed by the stems of wreaths of foliage, the leaflets themselves falling regularly inwards, ramifying freely outwards, and accompanied by little rows of gold dots. Within each oval is set a large fleur-de-lis. On the sides, otherwise plain, there are two rows of large fillets, with a fleur-do-lis outside each angle of the inner frame ; FRENCH WORK : " EVE " BINDINGS, 1585-1620. 103 £ «. d. and a centrepiece consisting simply of two wreaths of foliage combined to form an o?al. The edges are plain-giit. The bindmg was executed evidently by the man who decorated the little <' Marguerite '' books, but there was already a change in his style. We may set this work down to 1610, and the fleurs-de-lis tempt us to assign the ownership to some Huguenot personage in Henri IV's household. "Eve" Bindings, 1585-1620: 498 AVLI GELLII . . Noctes Atticae. Lvgdvni, apvd Antonivm Gryphivm . 1566. 16mo. a pretty little hooh, fresh and well preserved in its original binding executed for an Archbishop 1566 27 Olive morocco richly gilt with a " fanfare " or " Eve " pattern of geometrical figures in compartments. Fleurons and branches of foliage fill in the spaces, and the OYol centrepiece is occupied by an Archbishop's hat surmounting an escutcheon : a beod (or cotice) charged with three stars (or mullets), an eagle in chief. The back is band* less and bears a similar design of interlacements and branches with a title aylyb . | OBLLiYs in the topmost geometrical compartment. From ^e tips of the leaflets iu which the accessory cuirea end their course a few little gold dots are carried onward. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; the edges of the binding are gilt with little groups of oblique gold lines, each divided from the other by a long straight line. It is a very fine example of '* Ere " work at its best time, midway between the period when the geometrical pattern was unaccompanied by branches of foliage, and that in which the surface was too luxuriously crowded with them. The date is probably 1585-1690. The Hopetoun bookplate is pasted inside the cover. 499 COMMINES. les mbhoires de messibb philippe de commines . . sur les principanx faicts, & gestes de Louis onzieme & de Charles haictieme . . Renene . . par Denis Savvage . . Lyon par Ian de Tovmes, M.D.LIX. Small tolio, fine ruled copy bound in the branch and interlacement style 1559 25 Dark olive morocco, richly g^t in the finest style of *'£ve" decoration. The sides are not too crowded with gold ; there is room to look with pleasure at the geometrical pattern, and the free and graceful twining of the branches of foliage that fill the principal spaces left open by the interlacements. The back is ornamented in the same fashion, and the title fhilip : db | commines . | & dv bellat fills the first rectang^hur space in the design. The edges of the book and of the covers are treated similarly to the Aulus Gellius. The joints have been repaired and strengthened, but the book is one of the best examples which could be had of the so-called Eve style. The date of the binding is probably 1585-90. 500 Q. HORATII FLACCI Poemata . . Parisiis . Ex officina Robert! Stephani . M.D.XLIIII. — M. Anneii Lvcani de Bello Civili libri decern . . LvtetieD . . Rob. Stephani . . M.D.XLV. — Ivn. Iwb Satyr© . . xvi . A. Pebsii SatyreD vi . . ib. id, M.D.XLIIII. 3 vols, in 1, sm. 8vo.^ne rvled copies^ bound about 1600 1544-45 10 10 Bed morocco, gilt on the bandless back with foliage spreading upwards and out- wards from a gracefully twining stem with many branches. Near the top a space of octofoil shape, ruled in with treble gold outlines, is left to receive the title : horat. | LVCAN. I ITYEN. On the sides we have an oval centrepiece foilned of two wreathy branches united at the stem and intertwining at top. Within the oval is a heraldic bearing : three scallop shells fesswise, a crescent in chief, a rose at base. The date of the binding is about 1600-1610. 501 ACHILLIS TATII de Clitophontis & Lencippes amoribus lib. viil. LoNOi SOPHIST £ De Daphnidis & Chloes amoribus lib. iy . . GrsBce ac Latine . . [Heidelberg'] MDC VI. 12nib. eniboite in a beautiful " Eve " binding 1606 10 This red morocco volume is a fine example of its kind ; remarkable especially for the way in which both back and sides are doubly framed with triple fillets, so as to leave in each case a considerable plain red border surrounding Uie gut ornamentation. The date of the binding is probably 1618-20. Marie de Medicis, 1605-10 : 502 LE PSEAVTIER DE DAVID . . avec les cantiqves (Latine). A Paris . . M.D.LXXXVI. 4to. bound for the Queen Marie de Medicis 1586 55 Bed morocco, gilt with extreme richness on the sides and back, and bearing as a 104 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Marie de Medicis, 1605-10— conhnwed. £ «. d. centrepiece, within an oval, the anns of Maria dei Medici (France and Medici- Anstria impaled) surmoonted by the royal crown. The amoont of labonr which mnst have been necessary for producing the elaborate interlaced patterns npon the sides of this book, represent sorely a cost in money which only a very great personage could pay. Palm-branches and sprays of foliage till in all the available spaces ; and in each of the four comers an oval wreath of similar composition encloses the royal crown and the monogram composed of M M. Outside the interlacement- design, there is an arabesque border with a dentelle edging. On the flat back one of the longitudinal divisions of the interlacement-pattern is repeated with its branches and leaves, and in its course the monogram and crown are inserted three times. This is a splendid example of Marie de Medicis, and of the binder, whoever he was, to whom the so-called £ve work ought to be attributed. We may set it down to some date between 1600 and 1610. 503 PLASSARD (Philibert) Lyonnois: Secreti eccellentissimi esperi- MENTATi DA MOLTi VOMINI . . Small foIio, MS, OH paper, beautifully written^ with illuminated initials^ painted decorations with little figures on every page {hirdSf beasts, men, flowers^ plants, etc.) ; the royal arms of France and Navarre with the crovmed H painted on the leaf inside the upper cover, and the Medici arms crowned, and encircled by a cordeliere on the end-leaf inside the lower cover ; bound for Marie de Medici About 1610 42 Eed morocco, gilt with two floral borders framed within fillets, the outer one full of twining leafy branches, the inner and narrower one being a simple line of flower- forms. Inside the two borders, the surface of each is covered with a semis of fleurs-de-lis, the royal arms of Henri IV stamped in the centre on each cover, and the comers filled with an ornament of branching foliage with a cherub's head in its midst. The back has a semis of fleurs-de-lis within a repetition of the narrower border from the sides. Bound in or after 1610 by the man who did the little Marguerite bindings. As the Queen waa a widow at the time (witness the oordclidre) we cannot put the binding earlier, but it is hardly mnch later. The text consists of toilet and medical receipts collected by the Qoeen's medical adviser from the experiments of himself and of thirteen doctors whose names are given at the beginning. One of them is *' Claudio Inglese medico de la Regina." — Philibert Plassard, whose name appears at the end, may have been the actual collector, or he may have only been the calligrapher. Mery de Vic, 1615-20 : 604 STRABONIS rervm qeographicartm libri xvii . . (QroRce et Latine) . . [Genevae] excvdebat Evstathivs Vignon Atrebat. M.D.LXXXVII. Small folio, with a large folding m^p of theWorld by Mercator ; bound for Mery de Vic 1687 12 Red morocco; the back splendidly gilt with a beautiful "Eve" pattern of interlacements, ** fanfares," wreaths and branches, and the lettering strabo | cvm. COHH. I Casavboni. The sides would be plain but for an outer and inner double fillet, with a fleuron qaadrapled into the form of a cross outside each interior angle ; and the centrepiece, which contains the arms of Vic stamped within an oval wreath. The edges of the covers ar^ plain ; the edges of the book plain-gilt. Mery de Vic was Garde des Sceaux, and died in 1622, after having formed a magnificent library, including three thousand which had belonged to G roller. This book ^as bound for him about 1616-20. After the death of Dominique de Vic (Mary's son) Arohbishop of Anch in 1662, the whole collection came into the market and was sold in 1676. The Strabo then fell into the possession of Henry YeWerton Viscount Longueville (about 1690), whose coronet and initials are blind-stamped on the sides under the Vic arms. In the last century, by the marriage of the last Longueville with a Vaughan, it came into the hands of the first Earl of Lisbume, whose engraved bookplate (about 1780) is pasted inside the cover. Louis XIII, 1619: 505 DVPLEIX (Scipion) memoires des gavles . . A Paris, 1619. 4to. the king's dedication copy, ruled and hound far Mm 1619 200 Olive morocco, splendidly gilt with a semifi of flenrs-de-lis, a crowned L at each comer, and a centrepiece consisting of the royal crown, arms, and collars. On the back there are five crowned Ls and a semis of flenrs-de-lis ; these, both on back and sides, being framed FRENCH WORK, 1620-1625. 105 £ t. d. within a triple fillet. The edges of the book are plain-gilt. A line of gold dots runs along the edges of the covers. This is one of the handsomest bindings ever executed for Loais XIII. It was done undoubtedly in 1619, and is, almost certain] J, a genuine work of Clovis Eve, the rojal binder. It belonged about 1720-30 to B. H. de Fourcj, Abbe de St. Wandrille, and has his engraved bookplate. At a later time it came into Beck- ford's possession, and fetched at his sale in 1882 £190. Fabry de Peiresc, 1620 : 506 AGRICOLAE (Georgii) De mensuris & ponderibus Romanorum atque GraBcorum . . Basileae MDL — Lvcae Pabti ivrisconsvl. De Mensvris et ponderibvs Romanis et Graecis . . libri qvinqve . . Yenetiis MDLXXIII, toith woodcuts, 2 vols, in 1, small folio, red morocco gilt, hound for Fabry de Pbibesc, whose monogram is stamped on the sides 1559-73 2 5 There are valaable critical notes in the handwriting of Peiresc, on the margin of the poem bj Rhemnias Fannius, which is printed at the end of Paetus. Gaspard de Coligny, 1620 : 507 AVILA. Clarissimi viri D. Lvdovici ab Avila et Zvnniga . . Com- mentariorum de bello Germanico . . libri duo . . latine redditi . . AntverpisB . . M.D.L. 12mo. with folding maps ; fine copy, well preserved in an early French binding 1550 6 6 Olive morocco, gilt all over the sides with a semis of a monogram composed of C and C interlaced back to back, with A upright and A reyers^ lying over them. The same monogram in a larger form occupies the centre and the comers. The sides are framed within a donble fillet. The back is flat and gilt lengthwise with nine parallel fillets, the inner five closed at top and bottom with a flearon, the other four uniting by transverse lines at top and bottom. The edges are gilt and goffered with arabesque ornament. This binding dates from about 1620, and seems, from the monogram, to have been done for Charles de Coligny, Marquis d'Andelot (1665-1632), a son of the famous Hngnenot Amiral. However, his brother Francis de Coligny, who died in 1591, had a similar monogram (figured in Guigard), and Graspard the Marechal, son of Fran9oifl, may have been the person for whom this book was bound. PLHMIS, 1620: 508 lAMBLICHVS de Mysteriis -^gyptiorvm, Chaldoeorum, Assyriorum . . Lvgdvni . . M.D.LXXVII. 16mo. vellum, gilt edges 1677 3 16 Bound about 1620. The sides and back are gilt with a ssmis of fleurs-de-lis. On the sides, within a three-line fillet, each corner is shnt off from the semis by two branches of foliage, and an oval centrepiece produced by the union of two wreaths of similar kind. The spaces thus made vacant are filled with a monogram composed of PLHMIS. Charles de Nevers, 1620-25 : 509 DIONIS CASSII Cocceiani Historise RomansB libri xlvi . . 1592. Francofvrti . . Small 8vo. bound for Charles Due de Nevers and Duke of Mantua 1592 10 Smooth black morocco, gilt on the sides with a rectangular border containing a succession of arabesque curves and little square or lozange figures — representing a chain of gems. Within this border the sides are'covered with a semis of fleurs-de-lis, except in the centre, in which within the oval formed by two entwining wreaths, we see the letters vi \ tern | d. The back is gilt in similar fashion but without any lettering. The edges plain-gilt. This volume has been exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club as an example of binding done for Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. and younger son of the Duke o f Mantua^ who married Henriette de Cleves, and died in 1695. But this binding cannot be earlier than 1620-25, to judge from the style of the rectangular border on the sides, and must therefore have been done for Charles Due de Nevers and afterwards Duke of Mantua (son of Louis). If this is the workmanship of Clovis Kre (as it well may have been) it shews by the wreath on the sides a sort of connexion with the Marguerite books. Theodorine Buisson, 1623-4 : 610 HEVRES DE NOSTRE DAME . . mises en Fran9ois par M. Rene Benoist . . A Paris . . M.DC.XXI1I. Small 8vo. with plutes ; in the original binding 1623 10 Smooth olive morocco, in fine preservation. There are on the sides two double 106 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. £ 9. d. fillets gilt with dentelle-edging ; and the whole space within the inner fillet is covered with a semis of flames eDciosed within the intersections of dotted lines which run diagonally from right and left downward. A little space is left in the centre for a name within an oral : tubodobimb on the upper corer, and btissor on the lower. The back, which is flat and bandless, is decorated in precisdj similar fashion, bnt without any lettering. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; a line of gold dots mns along, the edges of the covers. This is a pretty example of the taste of the time, and was bound for the lady whose name it bears, about 1623-24. It is probably the work of Clovis Eve (difltering entirely from the so-called ** Eve " style), and may have been one of the earliest attempts to introduce the decorative ideas of Le Gascon. GB, 1625-30 : 611 PARABOSCO (Girolamo) Comedie . . Vinegia . . MDLX. 12mo. hound about 1620-30 1660 1 10 Red morocco ; a three-line gold fillet on the sides, the edges plain-gilt The back is flat, ruled with fillets, bears a title, and is gilt with alternate rows of 77. 77., and BB. Each group is interlaced, the two B's standing back to back, like the mark of Bouthillier as given in Guigard. Dominique Seguier, Bishop of Meaux, 1630 : 612 ERASMI ROT. Paraphrases in Nouum Testamentum . . Parisiis Apnd Galeotnm k Prato . . 1640. 2 tomes or 6 vols, bound in 4, Rmallest 8vo. (square 16mo.), vrith nwnerous woodcuts; hound for Dominique Seguier^ Bishop of Meaux 1540 30 Red morocco. A charming little book gilt in simple bnt ezqnuite taste. The back is ruled off at top and bottom with horisontal fillets between which runs a tiny chain of squares, ovals, and losanges. The panels (except those whidi are lettered with the intitnlation) bear alternately the Bishop^s monogram : D D interlaced, back to back, with s fermS in the middle, — and two intersecting triangles or deltas with the same device. On the sides is the usual treble fillet as a frame, and in the centre, within an oval, the Bishop's arms : a chevron, two stars in chief and a lamb below, surmounted by the mitre, the crosier, and the hat Beneath the shield is a palm- wreath. The edges of the book are plain-gilt. The edges of the covers, and the portion of the letter that turns inside are gilt with a pretty dentelle ornament, which afterwards came into use to a great extent. Plain as it seems, and like as it is to most of the De Thou bindings, there is absolute perfection in the style and workmanship of this binding, which was probably done about 1630 by the famous Le Gascon. It was formerly in Mr. Bcckford s collection. Claude Enoch Virey, 1630 : 613 ERRARD (I.) la fortification demonstrek et redvicte en art par fev I. Errard de Bar le Dvc . . augmentee par A. Errard . . A Paris . 1620 .. YoWo^ until fine engravings ; in the original binding 1620 36 Ked morocco, richly gilt on the sides with a florid example of the ** Eve '' style of decoration *, and exhibiting in all the spaces tlie bees and roses which indicate the ownership of Claude Enoch Virey, Counsellor of France, who died in 1636 and left a large library to his son. The back, which is flat (and mended at top and bottom), is divided by gold lines into panels ; and each of the panels contains four b«e5, with a centre arabesque lozange. The binding was done probably about 1630. Pointing. Florimont Badier, binder, 1650-60 : 614 NOUUM TESTAMENTUM {Grmce) . Ex Bibliotheca Regia . . Lvtetioo . Ex officina Roberti Stephani . . M.D.XLIX . . The celebrated Stephanus Testament known by the catchword of mirificam, IGmo. divided into 2 vols, bound by Florimont Badier 1549 12 12 Bound about 165C. Dark olive morocco, gilt on the sides with an " Etc " pattern of geometrical interlacements, framed within a double fillet lace-edged with triple gold dots. The empty spaces between the interlacements are fiiled with pointill^ fleurons and single dots. The geometrical design resolves itself in the centre into a qnaterfoil figure with diamond projections between the petals. At each comer inside the fillet-angle, there is a circlet enclosing the head of a man entirely produced by pointill6 — which is the undeniable mark of Florimont Badier. On the back, portions of the geometrical ornament are repeated in the panels, and at the extreme top and bottom we notice that floral roulette edging which afterwards became a favorite ornament with Boyer and Padeloop. It also appears on the edges of the cover. Inside the edge of the cover, there is another roulette ornament (also a favorite of Padeloup*s) : a line of roses within arches, with a fleuron rising between each. Within the quater- FRENCH WORK: POlNTlLLfi DECORATION, 1035-50. 107 Poiatille. Florimont Badier, binder, 1650-60— cow^mwed ^ «. d- foil on the sides there is stamped in gold the escntcheon of Caumartin Bishop of Blois (died 1733). bnt this was a late addition. The bookplate of the Bibliotheca I Caumartin, with the arms of Caamartin Bishop of Amiens (died 1652), is pasted Inside I the cover. {See illiuW(Uion in L. P. issue,) Some iliostrative engravings by Wierix were inserted by the binder in the book. 515 OFFICIVM BEAT^ MARI^ VIRGINIS . . Antverpi© . . M.DC.XXIL 4to. with plates; in a magnificent binding^ dLecoraied with pointille work upon red jnorocco inlaid with pieces of olive and citron morocco ; enclosed in a brown morocco case 1622 84 The sides are mainly divided into lozange-shaped compartments. The inmost one is an inlay of dark olive over which an exquisitely fine decoration in gold pointille of rolling and twining curves which end in little spirals and are laden with silver leafage. This pattern is fnuged upon red morocco with the beautiful lace roulette in which suns or wheels are the special feature. Outside this is a lozange-shaped border of gold pointilld curves with silver leafage, and, ontside that, the lace-pattern again, turned inwardly. The four comers are again gold pointiU^ and silver leafage worked upon dark olive morocco. Ontside all. two parallel sets of rectangular fillets fringed with dcntelle edging. — ^The back is fiat and has three inlays : a triangnlar piece at top and bottom, a lozange in the middle. These inlays are of citron morocco and are covered with pointille, as also are portions of the red morocco surface. Inside the cover is a roulette of lace-edging ; on the rims of the cover, a running line of triple dots. — The silver has as usual become oxidised. This binding has always been attributed to Le Gascon, bnt only for the rea&ou that no other hand was known which could have achieved so great a triumph in pointille decoration. It was probably executed by ITlorimont Badier, the only man whose work could be mistaken for that of I^ Gascon. In that case we must date it at about 1 650. It is far too fine to have been performed by Magnus of Amsterdam. [Breviary of the Uniato Small 8 vo. botmd for Guillaume Marescot, 1635 : 516 NEON ANeOAOnON . . iy Ffa/xy (1598) Greek Church, edited by Antonius Arcudius], Guillaume Marescot Borne, 1598 8 8 Olive morocco, finely gilt on the sides with two rectangular borders composed of fillets and dentelle ornament, with comerpieces between the two borders. The arms of Marescot are stamped in the middle. On the back, the six panels are filleted, the fillets lined with dentelle edging, cnrling tendrils and gold dots in each comer, the lozangy space in the centre occupied by an ornament in the shape of an oblong cross. Upon each of the five bands is the chain of oblong, lozange, square links which was a favorite ornament in Paris work about 1630-40. The edges of the book are plain-gilt ; the edges of the covers gilt with a line of gold dots. The dcntelle ornament is continued inside the edge of the cover. The larger of the two dentelle patterns on the sides, is identical with the favorite ornament of Boyer's books, and in this volume, bound in Paris before 1640 (about 1635) we may recognize one of the earliest types of that class of French bindings which predominated between 1670 and 1720. Marescot died about 1640, having been a collector of books for fifty years previously. Semi-pointill6, 1635-40 : 517 SALES (Francois de) Introdnction a la Vie devote . . A Lyon . . M.DCXI . . 12mo. a fine ruled copy in the early binding 1611 3 3 Olive morocco ; richly gilt on the sides with two full dentelle borders edged with double fillets and lines of gold dots. Within the inner border there are arabesque comerpieces and a blank oval centrepiece with arabesque decoration which give it the appearance of a lozange. The flat back is similarly gilt with a double dentelle border (bnt of different pattern) and a line of ornaments down the middle. The eilgcs are plain -gilt. This is evidently Paris work of about 1635-40. 518 SENECA'S Works. L. Annaji Senecoo Philosophi Tom. I [II, III] . . Paxisiis . . MDCXXXVII. 3 vols. 12mo. frontispieces ; fine copy in the original binding 1637 2 16 Red morocco ; bound in Paris about 1637-40. The back is fnll-gilt in all the panels which are framed with fillets and lines of gold dots, with central fienrons and wreathing comerpieces. On the sides, the usual double rectangular border of triple fillets, with a flenron (resembling at first sight a vase of flowers) at each of the inner corners. The edges of the book gilt ; the edges of the covers bearing dentelle orna- mentation in gold ; and the part of the leather tnrned over inside the cover also gilt with dentelle work. 108 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Semi-pointill6, 1635-40— cowhnuei. £ i. d. 619 BVSBEQVII (A. Gislenii) omnia quae extant . . Lvgd. Batavorvm Ex officina Elzeyiriana . Anno 1633. 16mo. (109 mm.), a fine ruled copy in the original binding 1633 1 16 Red morocco, gilt on the sides with two sets of triple fillets, with an omameot at the comers between the two rows. The panels on the back are framed within fillets and gold dots, curling tendrils inside the angles, and a losange space produced occupied by an ornament like an oblong cross or lozange composed of a tiny roundel, or rose, centre from whicli pnjects little flenrons and lines of gold dots. The edges of the cover bear the dentcUe ornament referred to in the description of the Neon Anthologion. The back is decorated in a similar fashion to the back of that book, except that for the chain on the bands, dentelle work is substituted. 520 PLINII SECVNDI (C.) Historiee Natnralis Libri xxxvii. Lvgdvni Batavorrm, Ex officina Elzeviriana Ao. 1635. 3 vols. 16mo. (124 mm.), in the original binding^ a pretty hook 1635 5 5 Red morocco. On the sides there is an outer row of double fillets, and an inner triple one. By a narrow edging of gold dots outside, and a broad dentelle edging inside, the outer row is converted into an ample border. The inner triple-row is lined with an edging of triple gold dots, has a flenron outside each comer, an arabesque pattem within each angle, and a centrepiece formed of an oval space with fleurons and dots issuing f roni it in such n way as to give the whole a somewhat lozangy appearance. The back is decorated exactly like that of the Bnsbequius. 521 ^'AATHPION . . Davidifl Regis ac PropheteB Psalmorvm liber . . (Greece et Latine). AntverpiaaM.D.LXXXIIII. 16mo. bound in Paris about 16:^5-39 1584 1 16 Red morocco, full-gilt on the back in the same style as the Bnsbeq and the Pliny. The sides are framed within two rows of treble fillets with a flenron projecting from each corner of the inner row. A dentelle border on the edges of the covers ; the edges of the book gilt. This is a very pretty example of its kind, and in fine condition. The bookplate of John J ebb, Bishop uf Limerick, is pasted within the cover. HD, 1635-40 : 522 TASSO. LA 6EBVSALEHME LiBEBATA di Torqnato Tasso . . Genova L'anno MDCXYII. Small folio, with plates ; bound in Paris about 1635-40 1617 10 10 Crimson morocco. The back is gilt with lozaagy arabesques in the panels, and with the regular dentelle ornament on the bands. The sides have the usual double row of triple fillets with a monogram composed of H D accompanied by four s-ferm^ in the centre. The comer ornament outside each angle of the inner row of fillets is a lozangy flenron suggestive of a mirror. The edges of the book are plain-gilt, the edges of the cover bear the dentelle ornament. Guigard's theory is that the H D bindings represent Henri IV and Gabrielle d'Estr^es. Anne of Austria, Queen of Louis XIII, 1644: 523 CATHERINE DE SIENNE (Saincte) Les Epistres . . Traduictes . . en Francois . Dediees a la B.eyne Regente . A Paris . . M.DC.XXXXIY . . 4rto. the Queen's dedication covy, ruled, and bound in 1644 1644 15 15 Red morocco. Gilt on the sides with a semis of ilenrs-de-lis, within a border composed of a triple-fillet edged on each side with a row of triple gold dots. The centrepiece is the royal escutcheon ; per pale, France and Spain, surmounted by the royal crown, and encircled by the cordeli^re of widowhood. The back is in panels, each bearing a semis of fleurs-de-lis, ruled all round with gold dots ; and has a lace border at the bottom of the lowest panel. The same lace-ornament (afterwards a favorite one with Boyer and Padelonp) appears on the edges of the cover. The edges of the book are plain-gilt The end-leaves are of marbled paper. Louis Bizeau, 1645-50: 524 MARTIALIS (M. Val.) Epigraramaton libri xii . . Antverpi© . . MDLXVIII. 16mo. bound in Paris about 1645 1568 2 16 Ked morocco ; a pretty little book bound by the same hand as worked for Dominique Siguier. The sides are gilt with two double-line fillets, with the monogram of LB outside each corner of the inner frame. The back is without panels. It bears the title, lengthwise, and is framed by a double fillet all round, with an inner dentelle edging fVom the same tool as was used in Seguier^s book. In the centre on the sides is an escutcheon : a f ess, two stars (or mullets) in chief, a crescent in point ; surmounted by a plain vizored helmet. A line of gold dots along the edges of the cover. The edges of the book are marbled, not gilt. FRENCH WORK: SEMI-POINTILLE, 1650-1670. 109 Louis Bizeau, IGASSO—^ontimied. £ $, d. 525 ARTEMIDORI de somniorum interpretatione Libri Qninq; . De Insomniis . . Aldvs. Colophon : M.D.XYIII. Small 8vo. (12mo.), a ruled copy, hound in Paris about 1650 15183160 Red morocco. The fillets on the sides are triple, and a plume of feathers stands op from the helmet in the escatcheon. Otherwise the sides are identical with those ot the Martial. On the back there are six panels, one of which bears the lettering, and five contain the LB monogram surrounded by gold dots and tinj cnrves. Lines of gold dots form a frame to each panel. At the top and bottom of the back there is a handsome dentelle-omament, Uie chief feature of which represents a wheel or a rose. 526 MARTIALIS (M, V.) Epigrammata . . Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi . . M.DI . . — DivEBSORVM vetebvm poetarvm in Pbupvm lvsvs . . Aldvs M.D.XXXIIII 2 vols, in 1, sm. Svo. (12mo.), ruled and hound in Paris about 1650 1501-34 6 6 Citron morocco ; bound and gilt exactly like the Artemidorus. This copy fetcheid £S. 10s at the Sunderland sale. — The Martial, before it was acquired by Bizean, had been turned out from the Royal Library, as we see by a stamp on the title. Lyons, 1649 : 527 RECVEIL DBS PRIVILEGES, Avthoritez, Povvoirs, Franchises, & Exemptions des Preaost des Marcliands, Eschenins, Sd Habitans de la ville de Lyon . . Lyon . . M.DC.XLIX. Small 4to. in the original binding 1649 1 12 Red morocco ; one of the dedication copies, bound at Lyons in 1649. The back is fall-gilt in the exact style of the Paris books of the time, with arabesque ornament, every panel framed within fillets and lines of gold dots, a dentelle edging at the bottom of all. The sides have two rows of double fillets, a vase of flowers at each inner comer. In the centre, within an oval, are stamped the arms of the city of Lyons. The edges of the book are gilt ; the edges of the covers quite plain. It looks precisely like a Paris binding. Seml-pointill€, 1660-70 : 528 SUCKLING. Fraomenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incom- parable Pieces, written by Sir John Svckling . . London . . MDCXLYI. Small Svo, with portrait by Marshall ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1646 16 16 The splendid binding in which we find this English poet can only be accounted for by oonjectaring that some exiled Cavaliers caused the book to be bound in Paris by one of the followers of Le Gascon's school. The panels on the back have the low broad cross (composed of little fleurons or fanfares) in the middle with the usual curls at the comer so as to leave a lozangy space clear. The roulette at the top and bottom of the back, and also on the edges of the cover, is one which Thoinan represents as castomary in 1640 (but which we know was not extinct seventy years later. It is the second row, to begin from the outside, in the border that appears on his plate XV). On the sides two sets of fillets, each set consisting of two solid and four dotted lines. In the inner space we have a quaterfoil enclosing four roses and a central dot of gold. From each side and comer of the quaterfoil, fleurons which are partly pointille spring outwards to the frame, and the visible obloog octagon of red leather is stamped with sixteen heavy gold dots. Next, the space between the two sets of fillets is filled with a crowded mass of gold branches bearing fruits at which here and there birds are pecking. This last portion of the ornament must be singularly rare in examples of the period (1658-60), as we usually find such work in books of the end of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century. There is no gilding inside the edge of the cover. 529 MARINO (il Cavalier) Works, in 2 vols. 12mo. crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1619-46-52 2 2 Bound in Paris about 1670. Not quite uniform in the tooling, but evidently intended to form a set of two volumes. The backs are full -gilt, every panel having a central lozange-shaped flenron with small oomerpieces ; a dentelle ornament at top and bottom. On the sides, two rows of triple equidistant fillets, a fieuron chiefly in gold dots at the inner comers. The edges and the inside lap of the cover gilt with dentelle work. CoNTBKTS : La Murtoleide. Norinbergh, 1619 ; il Padre Naso, Parigi, 1646 ; il Camerone prigione, 1646 ; Prigiooia, 1646 ; la Sampogna, Venetia, 1652. One of the two volumes is marked as having been part of Floncel's collection, and has his bookplate. 110 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Semi-pointill6, 1660-70— con/inuec^. £ t. a. 530 BENARD. le voyage de Hiebvsalem et aytrea lievx de la Terre Ste faict par le Sr Benard Parisien . . Ensemble son retoor . . A Paris Chez Denis Morean in 1621. Small 8yo. engraved title; red morocco^ from the Bechford library 1621 18 Bound in Paris about 1670. The back in flat and fnll-gilt with nnmeroos wreaths formed of palm-branches floating abore and below and aroond a ooaple of oraU within each of which is a flenr-de-lis and scraps of palm. The sides hare two triple fillets, with flenrons (slightly pointille) springing from the inner. The edges cf the book and the cover are richi/ gilt.— To look at tbe sides and edges, one wonld call this a binding of the fiojet type ; the back is of quite a different character and suggests an earlier time. This is a fine copy of a reiy rare book. 531 SENECA. L. Anneei SenecaB pliilosophi Opera omnia . . et M. Annoi SenecsB rhetoris qns9 ezstant. Amstelodami, apud Elzevirios. 1659. 3 vols. — JoH. Fred. Gronovii ad L & M. AnnaBos Senecas Notae . . M.DC.LVIII — together 4 vols. 16mo. red moroeeo extra^ gilt edges, in brilliant condition 1659-58 4 4 Bound in Psris about 1670. Tbe back is fnll-gilt, the panels being wholly covered with wreatby curve lines ending in little twists, and decorated with out-springing bits of pointing, — such as we usually find more sparingly used as comer and sidepieces in panels. Idirge lozangy flenrons' fill the angles on the sides, formed by the single border of three fillets (two and one). Tbe edges and inner lap of the covers bear tbe <*Boyet " dentelle ornament. In each of the four volumes, there is tbe engraved bookplate of " Louis Bachelier de S. Romain Chanoine de Reims," and his autograph signature. He was probably of the same family as the saintly Pierre Bachelier who died at Reims in 1672. 532 [MARTIAL D'AUVERGNE] Aresta Amorvm lii . accuratiseimis Benedict! Cartij Sjmphoriani commentariis . . accomodata . Parisiis . Apud lacobum Keruer . . 1555. 16mo. red morocco, gilt edges 1555 2 2 Bound about 1670 at Pari<i. The back is flat and has no bands, but is divided into artificial panels by gilt rulings and lines of gilt dots. In each panel there is a fleuron, with comerpieces and a framework of gold dots. On the sides there are two sets of double fillets ; within the outer one a border of curves and fanfares ; the inner one has ornaments outside and inside the angles, and a centrepiece like an oval-bodied mirror. The rim and inside of the cover are not gilt. On tbe flyleaf is a memorandum of presentation to Latour-Gnion, Rome, 1699, from '^Philippns Albinus, Episcopus S. Agatha; Gothornm." Within the cover is pasted the engraved bookplate of Wilmot, first Earl of Lisburne. Vase-ornaments, 1635-55 : 533 [Vico (Enea)] Portraits and Medallions of Roman Empresses from Plotina, Trajan's wife, to Cornelia, wife of Gallienns, 52 plates; Portraits and Medallions of Roman Emperors from Nerva to Vems, 64 plates; 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Largb paper, separate inipressiofis, with a considerable number of variations, of the plates used in the supplements to Vico*s dated books ; morocco gilt (About 1560-65) Olive morocco, gilt with two double fillets on the sides, a vase with flowers being the ornament outside each angle of the inner fillet. The centrepiece is an escutcheon: A chevron accompanied by three trefoils, with a star in chief; a swan for crest The panels on the back are gilt with a monogram consisting of the initials EHO AB. This binding was done in Paris. 534 Francois Victor. Vie admirable dv glorievx pere et thavmatvrge S. Fran(;:ois de Paulb . . Paris . . M.DC.XXXVIII. Small 8vo. (12mo.), with an engraved as well as a letterpress title ; in the original binding 1638 110 Red morocco ; having a flat back framed within a row of triple fillets in gold. On the sides, the two rows of fillets are double, not triple; and outside each comer of the inner row there is an ornament representing a vase with flowers. The edges of the book gilt ; a line of gold dots runs along the edges of the covers. Bound in Paris about 1638-40 The bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce, dated 1712, is pasted on the back of tbe engraved title. 535 M. VELLEIVS PATERCVLVS Cnm Notis Gerardi Vossii . . Lvgd. Batavorvm. Ex Officina Elzeyiriana. Ao. 1639. 16mo. (128 mm.), fine ruled copy in the original binding, from Talleyrand* s library 1639 4 4 Ked morocco ; full-gilt on the back in a manner similar to that of the Seneca of FRENCH WORK : VASE ORNAMENTS, 1640-1655. Ill Vase-ornaments, ISSS-'SB— continued, £ «. a. 1637 (No. 518). The sides haye the usual doable rectangular framework of triple fillets, with a vase of flowers at each inner comer. The edges of the book are plain- gilt ; there is no gilding on the edges or inside of the CQTers. This is a pretty little book in fine condition, l^nnd at Paris in 1639-40. 536 TASSO. LA GBRVSALEMME Di ToRQVATO Tasso . . Genova . . MDCXVII. — Small folio, vrith plates; fine ruled copy hound at Paris about 1640 1617 10 10 Red morocco ; gilt on the sides with fonr equidistant diminishing sets of triple fillets, the inmost one being no more than a small centrepiece. At the comers of the inmost row is the oinal vase ; at the corners of the next a spray of flowers ; at the comers of the third an arabesque fleuron with gold dots. At those of the fourth there is only the usual little fleuron lying over the intersection of the fillets. The back is gilt like the Busbeqaias, Flitiy, and Psalter above described (Nos. 519-521), with the luzange-shaped fleuron in the panels. The edges and the inside lap of the covers are gilt with dentelle work exactly like the H. D. Tasso above describ^ (522). The book came into the possession of Lonoepierre about 169G; his engraved bookplate (arms and crest within an oval) is pasted on the flyleaf, and his autograph signature written above it: '* H. B. de Roqueleyne de Longepierre.*' 537 NOUITM TESTAMENTUM {Greece) ex Bibliotheca Regia . . LvtetioB . Ex officina Roberti Stephani . . M.D.XLVI. 16rao. the mirificam Greek Testament divided into 2 vols, and hound at Paris a&oiin640 1546 4 4 Red morocco; bound and gilt like the Yelleius Patercnlus, but having the edges and inside lap of the cover gilt with dentelle ornament. The bookplate of Wilmot Earl of Lisburne (about 1775) is pasted inside the cover. 538 XIV PANEGYRIOI VETERES . . Parisiia . . M.DO.XLIII. 2 vols. 12mo. engraved and printed titles; fine ruled copy in the original hinding 1643 2 10 Red morocco ; bound and gilt like the mirificam Testament, but not gilt on the inside lap of the cover. With the engraved bookplate of Viscount (Sir Rowland) Hill, bearing the motto Avaneez. 539 PERSIUS. AvLi Pbesii Flacci SATTBiE sex . . Parisiia . . M.DC.XLIV. Small 8vo. (12ino.), fine copy in the original hinding 1644 3 16 Citron morocco. A charming book bound and gilt exactly like the Mirificam Testament above described, but not gilt on the inside Tap of the cover. This is one of the prettiest examples of the so-called Duseuil type of ornamental bindings, and was protiuced in Paris about 1645. 540 GUARINI. il pastor fido . . Venetia . . M.D.OII. Small 4to. fine copy, hound at Paris ahotU 1645-50 1602 4 4 lied morocco, bound and gilt in similar style to the Velleius Paterculus above. 541 ARETINO (Pietro) i sette salmi della penitbntia di david . . S.n. (Venice ahout 1550). 12mo. hound in Paris ahout 1648 (1550 ?) 14 14 Red morocco ; bound and gilt exactly like the Velleius Paterculus. Twenty- three fine small engravings, in b^ntifiil impressions, by Herman Weyen, Balthasar Monoomet, Jean Messager, and Callot, were inserted by the binder. Girardot de Pr^fond's bookplate is pasted on the flyleaf, shewing that the book was in his library about 1760. 542 Gbonovii (Joh. Fred.) ad T. Livii Patavini libros svperstitea Notae . . Lvgd. Batav. Ex Officina Elzeviriorum. M.D.C.XLV. 16mo. hound at Paris ahout 1655 1645 18 Red morocco ; with a rose (having a stem and a couple of leaves) in the lozange spaces of the panels on the back ; triple line fillets on the sides with a vase at each inner corner. Otherwise it is bound and gilt like the Marino below, but has a different dentelle. — With the engraved bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisburne (aboat 1760). Louis XIY, 1650-1707 : 543 VIRGILII MARONIS (Pvblii) Opera . Parisiia e Typographia Regia anno MDCXLI. Folio, engraved title; hound for Louis XIV 1641 3 3 Bound for the yonng King in gilt red morocco, and bearing the royal arms, crown, and collars within an oval wreath on the sides, a simple fleur-de-lis in the panels on the 112 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Louis XIV, leSO-nOl— continued. £ ». d. back. The wreath is entirely worked in gold ; there are no open spaces in it. This binding was done abont 1650. The ornament at the top and bottom of the back (a sort of chain in which square gems are interposed between circular garlands enclosing roses) was a favorite one 'in Paris at the time. The end-paper is marbled with a minute pattern. 544 MODENE (Esprit de Raymond de Mormoiron, Gomte de) Ode sur LE POBTRAIT DU ROT. 4to. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM of a poem in 28 stanzas y ten lines to each, addressed to King Louis XIV, and suggested by ValcJc's engraved equestrian portrait of the King, which is pasted dovm in front of the first page of the Ode; bound for Louis XIV About leei 18 18 Oliye morocco ; two sets of triple gold fillets on the sides, a flear-de-lis outside the comers of the inner set. The centrepiece is like that of Henri III as facsimiled in Gnigard I, p. 19, except in three respects : the arms of Navarre are substituted for tboae of Poland ; the inner chain is omitted, and there is a crowned L instead of H. It would be similar to the bearing of Henri IV (Guigard, I p. 20, No. 2), except that the inner chain is omitted, the small medallion above the cross omitted, and instead of the jewels on the rim of the crown, we find an inscription vankt yltima cmlo (n«). This is perhaps a unique type of Louis XIV*s insignia. The back has a fleur-de-lis in each panel ; the edges of the covers are gilt with the arabesque dentelle, which came into frequent use afterwards with Boyer. The poem is an unpublished one, and is beautifully written within gold borders. It begins with an illuminated and fioreated D in the line I)octes boeurs de qui le Pincean . . The final stanza on page 28 ends thus : • . le but de mon Ouurage Est qoe ma Plume & mon amour Luy fassent voir mon coeur plustost que mon visage. FIN Le Comte de Modene. The portiuit is not dated, but bears this inscription : Ludoticus xiiii. d.o. Gallijb bbx. G. Valck £x : It represents the King as about twenty years of age. 545 RAMSAY (Ghi Aes AL) Tacheographie on TArt d'Eacrire aassi viste qa'on parle . . Paris . . M.DC.LXXXI. 12mo. with two engraved folding tables; red morocco, Louis XIV's dedication copy 1681 4 4 On the sides are the royal arms, collars, and crown within an oval wreath, with fleurs-de-lis a« comer-ornaments ; flenrons occupy the panels on the back. 546 ROHAVLT (lacqves) Traite de Physiqve . . Paris . . M.DC.LXXI . . 2 vols, in 1, small 4to. with two engraved folding tables, and a heautiful frontispiece by B/igaud which contains a portrait of the King ; bound for Louis XIV 1671 5 Blue morocco extra, by L. A. Bojet ; on the sides a border of fleurs-de-lis and dentelle, with the royal arms, collars, and crown, within an oval wreath in the centre. The panels on the back full-gilt with lozanges and fleurons. 547 LOBINEAU (Qui Alexis) Histoire de Bretagne . . Paris . . MDOCVII. 2 vols, folio, with numerous beautiful plates ; very fine copy, bound for Louis XIV 1707 45 Red morocco, by L. A. Boyet ; full-gilt back ; double fillets on the sides, the royal monogpram and crown at the inner angles, the arms, collars, and crown within a wreath in the centre. One of the best and finest of the provincial histories of France. Claude Mold, 1660: 548 BACONI (Franc.) Historia regni Henrici Septimi Anglisa Regis . . Lvg. Batavor . . 1642. 12mo. in the original binding 1642 2 Bound at Troyes in veau fauve gilt, for Claude Mole, one of a family celebrated for book-collecting. His arms and his monogram are stamped on the sides and back. The latter is composed of two M's and four C'b. Colbert (Jean Baptiste), 1660-80: 549 AQYILA (Antonivs ab). Arabicae lingyae novae, et metbodicae institvtiones . . Romae . . 1650. 12mo. red morocco gilt 1650 2 16 Bound for Colbert about 1660. The back is full-gilt, the coroneted monogram of JBC with comer fleurons in each panel ; the coroneted escutcheon with the collars of the two orders within a simple oval on the sides. There is no gilding inside the cover. A running ornament on one of the spaces of the back (a chain of ronndels, lozanges, and squares) shews that this ia an early Colbert. FRENCH WOEK, 1660-1688. 113 Colbert (Jean Baptiste), 1660-80 — continued. £ ». d. 550 TACITUS, Editio Princeps. Colophon: . . Cesareos mores scribit CorDelias . . pressit Spira premens : artis gloria prima sue. Small folio, wormed and having contemporary notes on the margins; red morocco [Venet Vindelin, 1470] 40 Boand for Colbert about 1660. The book is gilt in the same way as the preceding, and has the same chain-ornament in one of the spaces on the back. There is, howeyer, a difference. The portion of the morocco which tarns inside the cover is gilt with a roll of arches and fleuroDS— a most unusual thing in Colbert's books ; and the gilding along the edges of the cover is a chain-pattern which had been much in fashion al^ut 1640. The edges of the book, moreover, are j^ilt. This Tacitus is one of the earliest products of the Venetian press and is very rare. 651 APOLLODORI . . Bibliotheces . . Libri iii. Benedicto ^gio Spoletino interprete . . Ex officina Commeliniana. CIO.IO.XCIX. 12mo. red morocco 1599 2 2 Bound for Colbert about 1670, in a style similar to that of the Aquila. There is no gilding inside the cover. 552 GusTMEiEB (Fabian) Fecialis Germanicas . . Amstelodami . . CIOIOLXII. 16mo. with engraved and printed titles ; red morocco 1662 2 16 Bound for Colbert about 1670. The sides are gilt like those of the volumes already described, but the back differs. There is no monogram or coronet, their place in the panels being taken by a lozange-shaped fleuron. 553 MORE (Sir Thomas) The wobkes . . Printed at London . . Anno. 1557. Thick small folio, the title slightly mended ; bound in smooth red morocco, with Colbert's arms on the sides, and coroneted monogram on the hack 1557 45 Bound for Colbert about 1675-80. The book had previously belonged to two English owners, whose names are nearly washed out, only the later of the two being still distinguishable as Tho. Fortescu of Sutten. Charles Le Goulx de la Berchere (afterwards Archbp. of Nar- bonne), 1680-85: 554 ISOCRATIS Orationes et EpistoleB [OroBce et Latine] . . cura I. T. B. A. (Jean Tarin d'Anjou) . . Parisiis . . MDCXXI. Small 8vo. red marocco extra, gilt edges 1621 3 3 Bound for Cb. Le Goolx between 1678 and 1685 when he was Bishop of Layaur; as we may infer from the episcopal insignia on the sides. Between 1686 and 1719 he was successively Archbishop of Aix, Albi, and Narbonne ; and the volume fell into the hands of his successor at Narbonne, as a note on the title shows. — The back is f nil-gilt with fleurons and oornerpieces in the panels, and the minute dentelle ornament of the seventeenth c«ntury is obsen'able at top and bottom. On the sides, there is a double fillet as a border, with fleurons pointing inwards from the angles ; and the Bishop's arms, coronet, and hat, within an oval, form the centrepiece. The edges of the cover bear minute dentelle lines, but there is no gilding inside. Michel Le Tellier (Le Chancelier), 1680: 555 VANDER NOOT (I. Ian) Verscheyden Poeticsche Werken . . Divers Oevvres Poetiqves . . Anvers . . M.CCCCC.LXXXII. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. numerous fine woodcuts and copper-engravings ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1579-80-82 20 Bonnd for Michel Le Tellier, Chancelier de France (the father of Lonvois) about 1680. On the sides the escutcheon and cap, draped with an ermined mantle, form an ample centrepiece ; a single fillet of three lines is the border. On the back, a lozange- shaped fieuron, with comerpieoes, fills each panel; on the edge and inside of the cover is the dentelle ornamentation so often used afterwards by Boyet and Fadeloup. — As the Chancelier died in 1685, the age of the binding is easily fixed. Bound- in, at the end, is a copy of the following : — Graphbus (Comille) La tresadmirable . . entree dn . . Prince Philipes . . en . . Anuers . Anno 1549 . with numerous fine woodciAs by Pierre Coeek d^Alost, Anvers, 1550. With the engraved bookplate of the Comtesse dTve (Anne Th. Phil. dTve) about 1770. Ch. M. Le Tellier, Archbishop of Rheims : 556 CORPUS JURIS CANONICI . . a Petro Pitboeo, & Francisco fratre . . illustratum . . Parisiis . . M.DC.LXXXV.[.MDCLXXXVII] 2 vols, ivith superb impressions of the two portraits — Codex Canon um 8 114 QUARITOH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Vetus EcclesisB BomansB a Francisco Pithoeo . . illiiBtratns . . M.DC.LXXXVII, 1 vol. — together 3 vols, folio, large paper; red morocco extra^ gilt edges 1685-87 8 8 Boand at the time of impression (probably by Bojet) for Charles Manrice Le TelHer. Archbishop of Rheims, to whom the Corpus is dedicated ; while the Canon was dedicated to his kinsman the Chancellor. The two books form virtually one work in three volames (Codex Yetns ; Corpus Juris ; Decretales Gregorii IX — mis last being the title of Tom. II of the Corpus). The sides have two sets of triple fillets, with a lozangy flenron outside each interior angle ; while the escutcheon, coronet, hat, cross, and mantle, within an oval, form the centrepiece. On the backs, in each panel there is a flenron with comerpieces, partly in pointilld, and lace-ornamentation at top and bottom. Francois, Due de la Rochefoucauld, 1690 : 557 CICERO. Le Lettere familiari Latine di M. TvUio Cicerone e d'altri avtori commentate in lingva volgare Toscana, da Giovanni Fabrini . . Venetia . . MDLXXXII. Sm&U. iolio, red rnorocco extra, gilt edges lbS2 3 3 Bound for Francois (VII) Due de la Rouchefoucanld about 1690. He was the son of the author of the Meurimea^ and married the heiress of the Due de Liancourt in 1659. — On the sides a simple three-line fillet, with the arms within an oval as the centrepiece. In the panels on the back, a nearly losange-shaped fieuron with comer- pieces. On the edge and the inside lap of the cover, is the nsual Boyet ornament. Le Chancelier Boucherat: 558 [DANIEL (Gabriel)] Voiaob du Monde de Descabtes . A Paris . . M.DC.LXXXX. Small 8vo. maps and diagrams; bound in red m4)rocco extra, gilt edges 1690 5 15 The arms, coronet, and judge's hat with the insignia form the centrepiece on the sides, which is framed within a dentelle border, consisting of fillets and a row of fanfwreSf with a cock in each comer. The cock is repeated in each panel on the back, with comerpieces. In the lowest panel at the bottom there are three rows of roulette work from tools that were afterwards used by A. M. Fadeloup. On the edges of the coven, the little dentelle ornaments, acute angles and rings, of the seventeenth century. As Boucherat died in 1698, the date of this binding is easily fixed. With the bookplate of Wilmot first Earl of Lisbume. Adrien de la Yieuville, 1695 : 669 HAYTON. l'htstore meeueilleusb platsahte et bbcbeatiub du grad Emperenr de Tartarie seignenr des Tartres nome le grad Can . . paris . . pour Jeha. s. denys. FoL 5 : Cy commence vng traicte . . par . . Aytone seignr de Courcy cHeualier z nepneu du roy Darmenie . . translate . . par frere Jehan de longdit . . Colophon : . . Paris En Ian mil cinq cens vigt z .ix. . Small folio, toith 3 coloured woodcuts, including one on the title-page; citron mxyrocco extra, gilt edges, vert RARE 1529 60 Bound for Adrian de la Yienrille, Comte de Yignaeonrt, between 1692 and 1700. The sides are gilt with a broad border of dentelle pattern, with the Vieuville-Malta arms, surmounted by a ducal coronet, and encircled by the collar of Malta, with the points of the cross emerging on all sides from behind the escutcheon. There is a yaae ornament in the panels on Uie back. The end and fiyleares are of maroon-coloured paper bearing a floral pattern in gold. The style of Uie binding belongs entirely to the seventeenth century. Adrien de la Vieuyille, besides holding a distinguished rank in the Maltese order, was noted as a French litterateur. He surviyed till 1774 when he must hate been almost a centenarian. Paris, 1675-80: 660 LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT . . Tradait en Fran9oi8 . . A Mons, chez Gaspard Migeot . . MDCLXVIL 2 vols. 12mo. a fine ruled copy, WITH A SET OF WiEEX'S ILLUSTRATIONS INSERTED; hlue WOTOCCO extra, gilt edges 1667 7 10 Not by Boyet, although the morocco, the thick boards, and the roulette on the bands look like his work. The smaller and finer Boyet roulette is on the edge inside the coyer, but with a row of fanfares and annulets in the hollows and on the heights. The lining and flyleayes are of that close small grained marbled paper which was used in 1670. But the chief peculiarity is the use, as a double fillet on the sides, of the ornament sometimes seen on the cover-edges of De Thou's and other French books (about 1580-90). It resembles wire, which at short intervals is twisted into parallel curves like a spring. And this same ornament is used to frame the panels on the back* FRENCH WORK: BOYET, I680-I690. 315 Boyet Bindings, 1680-95: £ ,. d. 561 BASIL (St.) LIS ASCETiQUES on Tltkitez spiritnels de St. Basile le Grand . . Tradaits . . Par M. Godefroy Hermant . . Paris . . M.DO.LXXIX. 8vo. plate; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt * edges 1679 2 A beautiful bindinj^ Tdone in 1680) in fregb. and fine condition. The back is brilliantly fall-gilt, Avith a lozangy flenroa in the panels, and curling branchwork for the comerpieoes ; a fine Boyet roulette on the banas, and, above and below each band, a row of annulets. The usual two sets of triple fillets on the sides, with the lozangy flenron at each of the inner comers; on the rim and inside of the coyer, a fine seventeenth-century roulette. 562 HETJRES A LUSAIGE DB PARIS . . Paris pour Symo Vostre . . (Almanac 1515-30). Small 8vo. printed on vellum, with numerous illuminated initials, and a great number of engraved illustrations, large and small, uncoloured ; hound in red morocco, gilt edges (1515) 40 Bound about 1680-85 by Boyet for some nobleman whose arms are impressed on the sides and back ; an escutcheon bearing a double-headed eagle, surmounted by the coronet of a Marquis, and supported by two grifilns. — The bookiSate of John Towneley, and the book-label of Edward Hailstone ara preseryed inside the coyers. 563 BLANC (Thomas) Hisfcoire de Baviere . . A Paris . . M.DC.LXXX . . 4 vols. 12mo. with frontispieces ; fine copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1680 5 5 Bound by Boyet about 1680-90, in the usual style ; two sets of triple fillets on the sides, with a fleuron outside each angle of the interior fillets ; a similar fleuron in the panels on the back combining with cornerpieces to leave a lozangy space on the surface of the leather ; the Boyet roulette on the bands and inside the cover, as well as on the edges of the cover. This is a bright and finely preserved specimen of the Boyet type, the so-called Busenil of former days. 564 LITYRGIA Svecanse EcclesieB catholic89 & ortbodoxee conformis . 1576. (LaL et Suec.) Colophon : StocholmiaB excudebat Torbemns Tidemanni, Anno 1576. Small folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges 1576 8 8 Bound at Paris towards 1690. The back is fnll-gilt. the panels being crowded with the same curves, having little bits of pointilM in Sieir spaces, as were used in the Seneca of 1659-58. The lowest panel has at the bottom the same pattern as was noticed in the Seneca of 1 672. A single three-line fillet on the sides ; the " Boyet *' ornament on the edge and inner lap of the cover. This is a rare semi-Catholic book, which was disapproved by the Pope on the one hand, and destroyed by the Swedish Reformers on the other. — The oval book-label of Girardot de Prefond, and the bookplate of the Onke of Sussex are fastened inside the cover. 565 STUARTS. Charta autbentica Roberti Senescballi Scotia) ex Arcbivo Collegii Scotoram Parisiensis edita, cnm observationibns bistoricis, qnibns regisB Stnartoram stirpis natales . . vindicantur. At end: Parisiis . . MDCXCV. 'RojBl4ito. fine ruled copy in red mxrrocco extra, gilt edges 1695 2 2 A vase ornament in the panels on the back ; two sets of triple fillets on the side, with a lozangy fieuron outside each interior angle. It seems to be good Boyet work done about 1695 ; but the same horribly violent-coloured end- and flyleaves are here as are mentioned below in regard to the Velleius Paterculus of 1675. Boyet Doublures, 1685-95 : 566 SENECA (M. & L. Annsei) Opera. Amstelodami apnd Danielem Elsevirinm A^. 1672. 8 vols, divided into 5, small 8vo. red mjorocco extra, gilt edges, vrith red morocco doublitbe 1672 5 5 Bound about 1680. The back has four panels containing the usual fieuron and side and cornerpieces ; the other two panels enclosing the title and tome-number are square-framed with a sort of gate- work ornament which is repeated at the bottom of the lowest panel. The doublure is framed within a broad '' Boyet " border. 5G7 M. MINUCII FELICIS Octavius . . et liber lulii Firmici Materni de errore profanaram religionum. Lngdnni Batavomm . . 1672. Small 8vo. a fine ruled copy in red morocco, gilt edges, with red morocco doublure ' 1672 10 10 A much finer example than the Seneca ; bound about the same time but slightly modified in the tooling on the back. 8 • 116 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Boyet Doublures, 1685-95— con^mifeJ. £ *. d. 668 CATVLLVS TIBVLLVS & PROPERTIVS . . Trajecti ad Rhenvm . . 1680. 3 parts in 2 vols, small 8vo. frontispiece ; a very fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges, with a red morocco doublure 1680 20 Bound in Paris about 1680. This is a beautifni example of double binding, and «. resembles the Seneca above described in its ornamentation, bnt is a brilliant and splen- didly preserved example of its kind. There is only a single border of triple fillets on the sides, each point of juncture stamped with a figure like a rose. 669 THO]M^ A KEMPIS Canonici Regvlaris ord. S. Avgvstini DB IMI- TATIONE CHRISTI Libri Qaatuor. Lvgdvni Apud Joh : et Dan: Elseviiios. 16mo. fine ruled copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges, lined WITH BED MOROCCO GILT (129 millimetres) (1653) 18 Bound about 1685 at Paris. The back is full-gilt, with a lozangy flenron and curling comcrpieces in each panel ; and at top and bottom, the " Boyet " ornament which may be called a dentelle roll. On the sides there is a single border of three fillets (two and one) ; there is a simple line along the edges of the cover ; and the " Boyet " ornament forms a broad border to the doublure. A very scarce book in a rare and beautiful binding. This copy fetched, at the Syston sale, £28, and Benzon's sold for over £40. La Roche la Carelle's copy, bound like the present one, but only 128 mm. in height, fetched 1760 fr. ** Cette jolie Edition est une des plus retierch^es et des moins communes qn'aient donnees les Elsevier." — Brunet. 570 C. VELLEII PATERCULI Historiee Roman8B . . libri duo . . in Tumm serenissimi Delphini. Parisiis . . M.DC.LXXY. 4to. frontis- piece ; red morocco extra, double toith red, gilt edges 1675 3 10 Bound about 1685. The sides are gilt with the two sets of triple fillets having a large fleur-de-lis outside each interior angle. On the back there is a similar fleur-de-lis in each panel, with smaller ones at the comers. The edges of the cbver, and the frame of the red morocco doublure are gilt with the usual ** Boyet " ornament. An ugly looking paper of violent green, red and yellow tints (supposed to be marbled) faces each doublure. 571 NESTOR (Jean) Histoire des Hommes illvstres de la maison de Medici . . Paris, chez Charles Perier . . 1564 . . Small 4to. toith engraved foldin(f table ; olive green morocco, lined with red morocco 1564 12 12 Bound in Fans about 1690. — ^The doublure is gilt with a broad border of which the most striking feature is a mnniog line of crowned suns. The outer cover is gilt on the sides with a single three-line fillet, having lozangy fleurons at the inner angles. In the centre is a lozangy ornament of fleurons having a crowned sun at top and bottom, a crowned lion at right and left. The back is full-gilt, alternately on the olive ground and on red labels, with fleurons and centrepieces in the panels ; and at bottom and top, a row of the fine dentelle of the seventeenth century. The details of the ornamentation lead to a suspicion that this vclome may have been destined for presentation to Louis XIV. 572 HOMERl Ilias, sev potivs omnia eins quad quidem extant opera . . Argentorati Excndebat Theodosius Rihelius {Greece et Latine). 2 vols, small 8 70. fine ruled copy hound in red morocco extra, gilt edges; lined with red morocco (1572) 6 6 Bound about 1695 in a style similar to that of the Seneca and other books already described. There is a sort of chain-link ornament at the bottom of the lowest panel on the back. The doublure is brightly gilt with the broad ^' Boyet " border. 573 MACROBII (Aar. Theodosii) . . Opera . . Lngdnni Batavorum . . 1670. Small 8vo. a beautiful ruled copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges; vouBhi with red morocco gilt 1670 36 One ot the most beautiful examples of its kind that could be met with. It fetched £39 at the Beckford sale. — ^The gilding of the volume resembles that of the Homer already described and was done about the same time ; bnt as a specimen of Boyet*8 choicest work there can be no comparison between the two books. H. B. de Roqueleyne Baron de Longepierre, 1700 : 574. XENOPHONTIS . . qvee exstant Opera . . (Greece et Latine) hvtetim Parisiorvm . . M.DC.XXV. Folio, bound in red morocco extra, gilt edges, with Longepierre*s emblem on the sides 1625 7 10 Bound probably by Boyet about 1700. On the sides there is no gilding except a fillet of tiro lines, and the mark of the Golden Fleece which is stamped in the centre and also at each of the four angles. The back is richly gilt, arabesque and branch decoration in each panel accompany the figure of the banging sheep, which is framed within a lozangy figure formed of stars, roses, and dots. The ornamentation on the bands, and inside the edge of the cover, is the usual '* Boyet" roulette. With the bookplate of Wilmot first Earl of Lisbome. FRENCH WORK: LONGEPIERRE AND PRINCE EUGENE. 117 H. B. de Roqueleyne Baron de Longepierre, 1700— continued. £ «. d. 575 HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS secundum vsum Romanum . . Cu multis BufEragiis . . Nouiter impressis Parisius : per Germanum Hardouyn . . Small 8vo. printed on vellum ; all the engravings^ large and smally richly illuminated by Hardouyn himself; hound in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, with the mark of the Golden Fleece stamped in gold in the centre and at each comer on the sides, and also in each panel on the hack No date (the first year in the Almanac is 1526) 48 Boond probably by Padelonp about 1720. Tbere is a sobriety and simplicity in this binding which are rarely seen in the work of the time. On the sides a triple fillet, the panels on Uie back ruled in precisely the same way. Besides this, and the Golden Fleece, Uiere is no other ornamentation. J. J. Charron, Marquis de Menars, 1705-10 : 576 VANINI (Ivlii Caasaris) Amphitheatrvm BBtemflB ProvidentiflB divino- magicvm . . Lvgdvni . . M.DC.XV — ^Vanini . . de Admirandis Natune . . Arcanis . . LvtetioB . . M.DC.XVI — 2 vols. sm. Bvo. citron morocco extra, gilt edges 1615-16 5 5 Bonnd abont 170IS-10, probably by Doseuil, for Jean Jacqoes Charron, Marquis de Menars (who had acquired the De Thou library in 1679). There is a heavy lozangy flenron as the centrepiece in the panels on the back, and the panel which bears the tome-nnmeration is fringed with a roulette consisting of concentric circlets enclosing an annulet or besant and supporting little fanfares. This same roulette is used elsewhere on the back. The Boyet roulette appears as the edging inside the cover. The escutcheon of the collector is stamped in gold on the sides which are framed within the favorite triple fillet (one and two). L'Abb6 Jean Paul Bignon, 1720 : 577 NOUVBAU DENOMBREMENT DU ROYAUME par G6n6ralitez, Elections, Paroisses et Feux.. . Paris . . Chez Saugrain raine . . M.DCC.XX. 4to. maps; dedication copy of the Abbe Bignon, with his arms on the sides and back 1720 2 Probably bound by Boyet. The back bears, at bottom, the same large flenr-de-lis roulette as is seen on Louis XIV's copy of Lobineau, Hist de Bretagne. Prince Eugene of Savoy: 578 BLOND US. Page 1 : Ad sanctissimvm patrem efc dominvm Pivm secvndvm . . Page 4 : Blondi Flavii Forliviensis Trivmphantis Romae liber primvs incipit . . Small folio, Editio Princeps ; line copy in red morocco, gilt edges 8. n, [^Mantua, 1472] 9 9 With the full escutcheon on the sides, encircled by the collar of the Golden Fleece, and surmounted by a ducal crown. In the panels on the back are stamped alternately the escutcheon of pretence (Savoy-Bourbon) and the monogram composed of E £. — In the upper part of the topmost panel, there is a transverse line or cham of a few groups of twisted links united by plain lines. In the same place in the bottom panel there is a fleuron forming a sort of cross, low and broad. 579 ARGOTE DE MOLINA (Gon9alo) Noblbza del Andalvzu . . En Seuilla por Fernando Diaz. Aj5o. 1588. Small folio, with numerous woodcut escutcheons ; the first five leaves mended in the bottom margin ; in a fine fresh red- morocco binding, gilt edges 1588 22 10 Bound for Prince Eugene precisely like the Blondus, but in better preservation. The book itself is of great intrinsic value, although we can hardly suppose that the great warrior ever looked into it. 580 ARISTOTLE. Poetica d'Aristotele vvlgarizzata et sposta per Lodouico Casteluetro . . Vienna d' Austria . . M.D.LXX. Small 4to. red mxyrocco, gilt edges 1570 3 10 Bound like the Blondus and the Argote in all respects except that Prince Eugene's escutcheon on the sides is the simpler one of Savoy- Bourbon. 581 PHILOPATRIS CHARITINUS. Wabhapfte Relation . . vberdess Durchleuchtigen . . Heiren Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Wur- temberg . . jungen Sobns Printz Friderichen . . Kind Tauff: Sampt darbey begangnem . . Frewden-Fest zu Stuttgardten . . Anno 1616 . . ' M.DC.XVI. 55 leaves of letterpress, and 15 leaves of engraved Pageantry, — REPRiESBNTATio der Fvrstlioben Avfzvg vnd Ritterspil . so . . Herr Joban Fridericb Hertzog zu Wiirttemberg . . bey Ihr H. Ge. Neuwge- 118 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Prince Eugene of Sslyoy— continued. £ «. d. bomem Sobn . . Eandtanffen . . gehalten . . in track verf ertiget Duxch. Esaiam van Hnlsen . consisting of 21 plates ivusluding the title — Avfzyo des . . Herren Georg Fridericben Marggrafen zn Baden . . consisting of 3 plates including the title — Merian (M.) Avfzvo des . . • Herren Friderichen Pf altzgraf en bey Bbein . . consisting of 35 plates, including the title (4 unnumheredf 1, 2, ttoo unnumheredf 4, b, two unnumberedy 15, 16, 17, 2, four unnumheredy 5, 7, one unnumheredy 6, three unnumbered, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 4, 1) — hound in 1 vol. oblong small folio, red morocco, gilt edges 1616 12 12 Bound for Prince Engene in predselj the same waj as the Aristotle except that the large escutcheon replaces the small one on the sides. Several pictorial books on these Pageantries at Stnttgart appeared in 1616-18; and this Tolnme seems to be a collection and selection made from them for Prince Eugene. 682 GIRALDI CINTHIO (Giovambattista) Discorsi . . intomo al com- porre de i Bomanzi, delle Gomedie, e delle Tragedie . . In Vinegia . . MDLIIII . Small 4to. red morocco^ gilt edges, hound for Prince Eugene, and in fine preservation 1554 8 8 The gilt ornamentation differs from that of the Aristotle only in having no arabesque comerpieces in the panels on the back : a flenr-de-Us in each angle is sub- stituted for them. The cruciform fleuron in the lowest panel is omitted. 583 RBRUM AMORFORTIARUM SCRIPTORES dno inediti . . edidit . . Antonins MattbsDns . . Lugduni Batavorum . . 1693. Small 4to. red morocco, gilt edges, bound for Prince Eugene 1693 3 10 The gilding differs only from that of the Giraldi in having at the top of the back a new ornament in a double row pointing upwards and downwards so as to leave a zigzag or W-formed space on the leather. At the bottom of the back there is a lozangj fleuron, with comerpieces. — Amersfort is in the Low Countries. Prince Eugene probably got this book between 1710 and 1718, a period during which he was, at least nominally, Governor of the Netherlands. 584 PAULINI (Cbrist. Franc.) Geographia Gnriosa, sen de Pagis antiqneB praBsertim Germanise . . Francofurti . . MDCXCIX — [Bjnsdem] His- toiia . . Virginnm CoUegii Visbecensis . . M.DC.XCIX. — [Ejusdem] Antiqnitates Pagornm et Oomitatuom Principatas Anhaltini . . MDCXCIX — 3 works in 1 vol. small 4to. bound in red morocco, gilt edges, for Prince Eugene 1699 3 10 Bound and gilt identically with the Bemm Amorf. Script but in fresher condition. 685 BONATUS. TitU : Guido Bonatus de Forliuio. Decern contmens tractatns Astronomie. Colophon : Yenetijs . . 1506 . . Small folio, numerous woodcuts throughout the text, with a fine large illustration on the title^ and the cat-and-mouse device of M, Sessa at the end ; red morocco, gilt edges, bound for Prince Eugene 1506 12 Gilt exactly like the Paulinus, save that the larger escutcheon is on the sides. 586 SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS cvm Pbilippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici Commentariis. Oolophon : Feliciter Venetiis exacta . per Simonem cognomento Benilaqna . . MCCCCLXXXXVI . . Small folio, red morocco, gilt edges, bound for Prince Eugene 1496 20 The gilding is in precisely identical manner with that of the Bonatus. This binding is in very fine and fresh condition. 587 MANTTJANTJS (Baptista) Primus [et secnndus] opemra B. Mantnani Tomns . . Colophon at end of Vol, II: In ffidibns Ascensianis [Parisiis] . . M.D.XIII . . 2 vols, small folio, woodcut borders to the titles, with the mark of Jehan Petit; slightly wormed; red morocco extra, gilt edges, hound for Prince Eugene Paris, 1513 10 At the bottom of the lowest panel on the back there is a section bearing two roses fess-wise. Otherwise the gilt ornamentation is identical with that of the Suetonius. 588 AUGUSTINTJS. Liber Epistolarum bbati Augustini episcopi bipponensis ecclesie. Colophon: . . opa magistri lobanis de Amer- bacli cinis Basilien. pfectar: Anno dni &c. xciij . . Small folio. FRENCH WORK, 1720-24: PRINCE EUGENE, LOMENIE. 119 Prince Eugene of SsYoy— continued, £ $. d. title mounted and hook slightly wormed at beginning and end; blue morocco, ^It edges, bound for Prince Eugene 1493 15 The binding is precisely similar to that of the Mantnanus (see above) except that the morocco is bine instead of red, and the nnmber of roses in the bottom panel on the back three instead of two. 589 WOLFII (Jo. Chrisfcophoii) Bibliotheca Hebwea . . accedit . . Gaffarelli Index Codicum Cabbalistic. MSS. quibos Jo. Picus . . nsnB est . . Hamburgi & LipsieB . . MDCCXV. Small 4to. red morocco, gilt edges, bound for Prince Eugene 1715 2 16 On the back, there is nothing in the topmost panel but a double fillet ; and the ornament in the bottom panel is a single fleur-de-lis. Otherwise this is gilt precisely like the Aristotle (No. 6S0.) 590 SCHONLEBEN (Joan. Ludovici) Dissertatio polemica de prima origine angustissimaa Domns Habspyrgo-AvstriacaB . . Labaci . . M.DC.LXXX . . 2 parts in 1 vol. small folio, ivith a beautiful engraved frontispiece, and sortfie places of seals ; red m^orocco, gilt edges, hound for Prince Eugene 1680 6 6 The ornament on the back, in both the topmost and the lowest panel, is the lace one which produces a W-shaped space on the leather. Otherwise this is bound like the Suetonius. This is a book in which Prince Eugene probably took some personal interest, as it professes to show bj tables that all the princely and royal houses of Europe were descended from Kndolph of Hapsbnrg to whose line he had attached himself. 691 MARTIALIS (M. Valerii) Epigrammata. Londini . . MDCCXVI. Small 8vo. frontispiece; red morocco, gilt edges, hound for Prince Eugene 1716 9 9 The panels on the back have only the escutcheon, omitting the alternate monogram. The lowest part of the bottom panel has a dentelle ornament. Otherwise the volume is g^lt iu the manner of the Wolfius. — ^This book — a Large Paper of one of Maittaire's classics — is perhaps one of a set the Prince may have subscribed for when in London a few years previous to its date. It is in beautifully fresh condition. When and how Prince Eugene collected all his books, is a mystery. They were all bound by Etienne Boyet, who left his father's house in Paris in 1713 and went to Vienna, where he remained for over twenty years, engaged wholly in binding the Prince's books. In the dedication to Prince Eugene, of his Ck>llection of the Latin Poets, printed in 1713, Maittaire says (in Latin) When you were recently amongst us, you mctde us see q^it€ cUarly that you delighted in hooks no less than in arms. Lom^nie books by Diiseuil, 1723-24 : 592 BOYCE (Hector) Scotorvm Historiee . . libri xix. Hectore Boethio Deidonano aactore . . Parisiis . . 1573. Small folio, red morocco extra, giU edges, with the arms of Lomenie de Brienne on the sides 1573 8 8 One of the books sold at the Lomenie auction in London in 1724, all said in the auction catalogue to have been bound in morocco by"The Abb6 Dusseuil." This statement must have arisen from the fact that some or most of them were newly bound by Augustin Dnseuil the Paris binder ( 1715-4C). The famous library of Louis Henri Comte de LomSnic (incorrectly alleged by Gnigard to have been inherited and sold in 1724 by his son Louis Henri II) passed some years before his death (1698) into the possession of his brother CharIes-Fran9ois Bishop of Coutances. Louis Henri I was more of a scholar than a collector, and it is probaole that his books were in various old bindings. It is quite certain that there was no uniformity of pattern in the entire united collection at the time of the Bishop's death in 1720. Then the Chapter of Coutances resolved to convert the library into money; and evidently thought it best to put all the books in the hands of Duseuil for re-covering. In 1723, after some legal opposition, the whole library was placed in the hands of Woodman and Lyon, and sold in 1724 nt London by auction, every book being described in the Latin catalogue as " compactum in corio Turcico per Abbatem Dussenil." At the time it was known, even in London, that Dusseuil, whether Abb6 or not, was a contemporary Paris binder ; but towards the end of the last century a romance arose concerning a supposititious Abb6 Dussenil, who had bound books as a skilful amateur. As the name was associated with Lomenie's library, and as it was well known that Louis Henry I had qollected his books chiefly between 1650 and 1670, the Abb^ was thrown into the middle of the seventeenth century, and all the pretty- bindings having two sets of triple fillets on the sides, with fleurons at the inner angles, were attributed to him. Of Augustin DuBOuil, no signed examples seem to cxiflt. Only the Lomenie books sold in 1724 can be regarded as indisputable specimens of his work. 120 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Lom^nie books by Duseuil, 1723-24 — continued. £ #. d. 693 COLLECTIO CONCILIORVM HISPANIC diligenfcia Garsi© Loaisa elaborata . . Madriti . Excadebat Petrus Madrigal. M.D.XCIII. Small folio, red morocco extra^ gilt edges 1593 6 6 Bound by Dnseuil between 1720 and 1723 for tbe purpose of being sold as part of tbo Lom6nie library in London in 1724. It was probably bought at the sale by the famous I«ord Carteret (afterwards Earl Granyille), as the bcwkplate of the Lord Carteret of 1841 is now in it 694 RERVM A SOCIETATE lESV IN ORIENTE GESTARVM VOLVMEN . . Neapoli . . 1673. Small 4to. red morocco jsxiray gilt edges J with the Lomenie arms on the sides 1673 5 5 Bound by Duseuil between 1720 and 1723. The bookplate of Lord Carteret, 1841, is pasted within the cover, from which we may conclude that the great Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl Granville, bought the volume at the London sale in 1 724. 696 BONNEFONS. Imitations dy Latin de lean Bonnefons avec avtres gayetez amonrenses de Tinnention de TAnthenr [par Gilles Dorand Sieur de la Bergerie]. A Paris . . M.DC.X. 12mo. the date-numeral supplied in facsimile; red morocco extra, gilt edges, the Lomenie arms on the sides 1610 5 5 There is a pointill^ fleuron, somewhat like an artichoke, in the panels on the back ; very like an ornament which Padeloup was fond of using between 1720 and 1730 ; but as all these Lomenie books were bound by Duseuil between 1720 and 1723, the binding must be his. With the engraved bookplate of Charles Viscount Bruce, dated 1712 — a plate which he had in use for many years, as he did not become Earl of Aylesbury till 1741. Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse, 1725-30: 596 JUSTIN, l'histoire vniverselle de Trogve Pomp6eredviteen abrege par Ivstin. Et Traduite en Fran9ois par le Sieur de Collomby Cauuigny . . Roven . . M.DC.LXVL 12rao. calf gilt^ doubliS with BED MOROCCO GILT 1666 4 4 The outside is simple enough ; in each panel on the back a large fleur-de-lis flanked with four small ones, Padeloup's roulette fringe at top and bottom. On the sides a simple three-line fillet, and on tbe cover edges the Boyet roulette. The red morocco lining has a pretty dentelle edging all round, and in the centre two anchors en sautoir. This appears to indicate that the book was bound about 1725 by Padeloup for Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse, Grand- Amiral de France, the son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, who died in 1737. 697 RECUEIL DES EDITS, Ordonnances et Reglemens concemant les Fonctions ordinaires de la CHAMfiRE dgs Comptes de Bretagne . . [avec Preface par J. Artur de la Gibonais]. 2 vols, folio, red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of the Comte dk Toulouse on the sides Nantes, 1721-22 6 5 Guigard points out a distinction between the arrangement of the anchor in tbe escutcheon of the Comte de Toulouse, and in that of his son the Due de Penthievre, both of them having been in succession Grand- Amiral de France. However, he cannot be exactly correct on the point, as this book was' undoubtedly bound by Duseuil between 1722 and 1730, and the Comte de Toulouse surviyed till 1737. Consequently the arms on tbe sides, almost identical as they are with the earliest ofiicial escutcheon of the Due do Penthi^vre, simply prove that the father's latest bearing was adopted by or for the son after his succession. Besides we have here the ovdoid frame (like a piece of carved woodwork) between the lUies and die collars which never appeared in the genuine escutcheon of the son. The ornament on the back at the bottom is identical witb that on the back and inside of the '* Kerum or Soc. lesv . . .'* above described. Augustin Duseuil, binder, 1710-22: 698 MORISON (A.) Relation Historiqne d'un Voyage . . au Mont de Sinai et ^ Jerusalem . . A Toul . . M.DCO.IV. 4to. maps; fine copy in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1704 4 4 Bound in Bojet style ; a lozangy fleuron in each panel on the back, and also inside the angles of the three-line fillet on the sides. The fleuron in the panels is accom- panied by ten stars ; the Boyet roulette on the bands and at the bottom is of Padeloup's kind, and the whole plan of decoration is neater and purer looking than on Boyet books, and even than on those undoubtedly bound by Duseuil. Yet the binding does not seem to be Padeloup's work, and may be assigned, not without hesitation, to Duseuil. The roulette on the edge and inside of the cover is of the large Boyet form. This is a really beautiful binding of its kind, and must have been done not later than 1710. FRENCH WORK, 1710-1725 : DUSEUIL, COUNT HOYM. 121 Augustin Duseuil, binder, 1710-22— conhnwed. £ «. d. 599 Onosakdeb. l'art militaire d'onosendee avthevr orec . . mis en langne Fran9oi8e . . par B. de Vigenere . . Paris . . M.DC.V. Small 4to. engraved title mounted ; fine copy in red morocco 1605 5 6 Apparently bound in Paris about 1710. The back is fall-gilt with the flearons and the semi-pointilld decoration of Boyet books. On the sides there are three inlaid pieces 4>f olive morocco bearing dotted ornament and an escutcheon ; an anchor, flanked by four stars (two and two) surmounted by the coronet of a Marqnis. Within the angles of the three-line flllet, there is in each comer a fleuron partly in pointille. On the back in the lowest panels the arms are repeated. 600 NOUVELLES REGLES POUR LE JEU DE MAIL . . Paris . . MDCCXVII . . 12mo. with 'plates ; a fine ruled copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges 1717 5 Bound at the same time and in the same style as the Bonnefons. A little printed slip with the numeral X is pasted over the V of the date on the title ; from which we learn that this copy at least was not issued till 1722—just the time when Duseuil was at work on the Lom^nie books. The fly and end-leaves are of paper bearing flowers coloured and gilt on a ground of dotted gold — ^just like the paper used by Padeloup about 1730 in the Nouvelle Traduction des Pseaumes. Count Hoym, 1720-31 : 601 HERRERA (Antonio de) Historia general de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas i Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano . . En Ma*^. en la Emplenta {sic) Real 1601. 8 parts in 2 vols. sm. folio, citron morocco extra, gilt edges 1601 28 Bound for Connt Hoym (Ambassador in Franco for Augustus of Saxony, King of Poland) by Boyet about 1720. On the sides we have the single border of three fillets (two and one) and as a centrepiece the escutcheon, coronet, and collar within a wreath. Inside the cover is the large "Boyet" roulette. So far the book belongs to the regular Hoym type ; bnt the back has none of the ordinary decoration. The lettering is on blue morocco labels in two of the panels ; the other five panels are fully gilt witii whirling curves and cnrls having the open places filled in with little gold dots. At the bottom of the lowest panel, there is a section gilt with a rnn of leafage (in which wo see the figure of a bird) and above it and below it a row of the triple annulets alluded to in the Virgilio, below. A printed slip with the words " Mme Albert de Brancas " seems to be the book-label of the owner who succeeded Count Hoym. The book passed afterwards into the Beckford library, and fetched at the sale £42, notwithstanding the absence of the leaves of Tabje to Part I. 602 BOCCACCIO (Giovanni) il Decamerone . . In Venetia M.D.XLV. 12mo. calf extra, gilt edges 154:5 5 5 Bound abont 1724-23 by Girou for Count Hoym ; with his arms on the sides. The back is full-gilt in the style of the Herrera, the lettering on red morocco labels. The second of the two labels has an ornamental fringe, and in the lowest section of the bottom panel, there is a ronlette representing a chain of jewels. The bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbnrne (about 1766) is fastened within the cover. 603 NEW TESTAMENT, Qreeh. 'H KAINH AIA0HKH . "^v XtvKeria Tutv UapTjiruay . . a . ^ • X . 8. Small 8vo. red morocco extra, gilt edges Paris, 1534 5 5 Rarb. Bound probably by Dnsenil, for Connt Hoym abont 1725-6, in the same style as the Boccaccio, save that the lettering is not npon a label. 604 VIRGIL. L'Eneide di Virgilio, del Commendatore Annibal Caro . . Venetia . . M.D.LXXXI. Small 4to. citron morocco extra, gilt edges 1581 18 Bound by Padelonp. On the sides of this volume we see the arms, collar, and coronet, within a wreath, and a single border of three fillets. On the back, there is a lettering on a red label in one panel, while in each of the other five there is a rose for centrepiece with a flenron at each angle. laside the cover, there is the old '* Boyet " roulette, enlarged inwardly by the addition of a small dentelle ornament consisting of a numberless repetition of triple annnlets (one and two) with a short line projecting from the upper ring. The absence of the insignia on the back, and the unusually ornamental character of the binding, lead to a supposition that it was one of the first pieces of work done by Padelonp for Count Hoym, before the usual type was decided on. We may assume that this volnme was bound about 1725-26. It contains the engraved bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbnrne (abont 1766). 122 QUABITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINaS. ^^ Count Hoym, 1720'-31— continued, £ •- d. 605 LA FONTAINE. (Euvres de Monsieur db La Fontaine . . Anvers . . M.DCC.XXVI. 3 vols, large 4to. printed within ornamental borders, with Duflos' fine portrait of La Fontaine as a frontispiece ; blue morocco extra, giU edges 1726 10 10 Bound b}' i'adelonp for Coiint Hoym about 1727, in exactly the aame style and manner m the De Bry, below. The only modification of the well-known type is t^at on the back, at the top and bottom, there is a running dentelle ornament frequently used by Fadeloup. — The book and binding are in fine condition, and the engrayed book- plate of Wilmot Earl of Lisbume (about 1770) is fastened within the coTer. 606 IL PETRARCHA con TEspositione d'AlessandK) VeUvteUo . . Vinegia appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari MDXXXXV. Small 4to. woodcuts ; citron morocco extra, giU edges 1545 16 16 Bound for Count Uoym by Fadeloup about 1728, in the same morocco, with the same interior gilding, and the same marbled end-paper, as the Italian Virgil. The only difference is that the back is of the regular type : a lettering on a blue label in one panel, the other fine panels containing the coronet and crowned eagle within a fleuron. 607 BEY'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES. First Edition of the Grands et Petits Voyages. 25 parts bound into 6 vols, folio and small folio, with an immense number of maps and plates; blue morocco extra^ gilt edges Francofurti, 1590-1634 500 Bound for Connt Hoym by Padelonp in 1729, after he had bought it at the sale of Colbert's library in 1728. The binding is of Count Hoym's regular style. It differs from that of the Petrarca only in the colour of the morocco, and in the circumstance that in the interior ornament of the cover, a triangular edging (consisting of four lines meeting in an obtuse point) takes the place of the row of triple annulets. Moreover, the lettering is upon the blue morocco ground, not on a label. This would be a grand acquisition in any American library^ remarkable as it is in three departments — as an Americanum of the most important kind, as a book of first-class engravings, and as an example of a famous binder and a famous collector. 608 HERODIANI Historiae de Imperio post Marcvm . . e Graeco translatae Angelo Politiano interprete. Parisiis . . M.D.XLIIll. Small 8vo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1544> 15 15 Bound by Padelonp for Coant Hoym about 1729. It differs from the Pascal (No. 61 1) only in the following particalars. — On the back, at top and bottom, there is a small running ornament, and the gilding inside the cover is the roalette of angles and carves with dropping /an/orex, extended outwardly with an edging of triangular dentelle points. This is a fine example of the Hoym library, and fetched £16 at the sale of the Beckford collection. 609 C. VALERII FLACCI Argonavtica . . Aldvs. Colophon : Venetiis in aedibvs Aldi et Andreae soceri . . M.D.XXIII . . Small 8vo. a fine ruled copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1623 16 Bound by Padeloup for Count Hoym about 1730. On the back at the bottom there is a row of fa/njares, and the bancU arc perpendicularly marked with parallel gold lines ; while the roalette inside the cover is of pretty dentelle pattern. The binding differs in these respects only from that of the Herodian. It is an unusually good specimen of its kind. 610 NOVVM TESTAMENTVM [Latine'] . . adiectis scholijs . . Authore Isidoro Clario Brixiano . Antverpisd . In esdibus loannis Steelsij . M.D.XLIIll. Small 8vo. fine ruled copy in bins morocco extra, gilt edges, with Padeloup's ticket 1544 36 O Bound for Count Hoym by Padeloup, about 1730, precisely like the Valerius Flaccus, except that there is no roulette ornamentation at the bottom of the lowest panel on the back. The inside roulette is the same. Notwithstanding its bands, the back is flat (of which there is no other instance in the present list of Hoyms), and it is clear that the book was bound with special care. The ticket is identical with that in the Vitre Bible described below. This is a choice and beautiful example of Count Hoym's library. It contains the bookplate of Sir John Pakington (about 1860). FRENCH WORK, 1730-1740 : HOYM AND LAMOIGNON. 123 Count Hoym, 1720-31— con^wiuei. £ t. d. 611 [PASCAL] LvDOVici Montalti LiTTERiE Pkov[ncialks . . ColoniflB . . MDCLXXIX. Small Svo. a fine ruled copy in blue morocco extra, giU edges 1079 6 Boaod by Padeloap for Count Hoym in the regular and weU*known style, ahoat 1730. With the bookplate of Thomas Gaisford (about 1860). 612 BIBLIA SACRA . . Parisiis, Excndebat Antonins Vitr6 . . M.DC.LXII. Folio, with maps; fine ruled copy in blue Tnorocco extra, gilt edges, with Padkloup's ticket 1662 16 Bound for Count Hoym about 1731, in the regular style of his books. It differs from the De Bry only in the circumstance that the gilding on the inner lap of the cover is the large floral roulette which Padeloup used for bis big volumes. — The ticket, engraved in italics, runs thus : " Reli^ par Padelonp le jeune | place Sorbonne a Paris." It is valuable, And has led to the successive possession of this volume by Boutourlin, Didot, Baron Pichon, etc. From it we learn that the binder was still U jeune, and not yet Relieur de Roy ; therefora this volume was bound before 1733. 613 HORACE. Federici Cervti Veronensis in Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina . . Yeronaa . . MDLXXXV. Small 4to. a ruled copy in blvs morocco extra, giU edges, {.ined with blue morocco richly qilt, with Padeloup's ticket 1685 45 Bound by Padelonp for Count Hoym about 1731. The book must have been very highly prized by its owner, since he departed so far from his usual course as to have it arrayed in this splendid and sumptuous binding. Outside it is precisely like the Novum Testamentum (save that the back is not flattened). Inside the blue lining has n very broad dentellc border on all four sides with a row of crowned eagles running through the middle of the pattern. — The ticket is identical with that in the Novum Testamentum. With the bookplate of Wilmot Viscount Lisbume (about 1766). Lamolgnon Library, 1720-50: 614 PITTON DE TOURNEFORT, Relation d'un Voyage du Levant . . Paris, MDCCXVIL 2 vols. 4to. maps and plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1717 2 5 Bound for the Lamoignon library about 1720. The roulette inside is one that Padeloup often used in the large volumes that he bound. 615 P. VIRGILII MARONIS OPERA. Nic. Heins. Dan. F. E mem- branis . . recensuit. Amsterodami. Ex officina Elzeviriana. A^. 1676. Small Svo. largest paper (172 mm.) ; bound in blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1676 57 The back is gilt in the panels with curls and fanfares which fill the sides and corners and leave in the centre a lozangy space untouched. The bands are gilt with the Boyet roulette, which also appears in its Padeloupian form inside the edging of the cover. The sides are enclosed by a single fillet of three equidistant lines. The Lamoignon paper label ^' Bibliotheca Lamoniana Y 152 " is pasted inside the cover. One of 48 very rare large paper copies, containing two leaves of a dedication to Louis XIV, which was not given in the ordinary issue. Bound by Padelonp about 1725-30. 616 BERNARD. Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a Tetablissement & aux progres de la Corapagnie des Indes Orientales form^e dans les Provinces- Unies . . 10 vols. 12mo. maps and plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges Amsterdam, 1725-10-16 4 4 Bound for the Lamoignon library by Padeloup about 1740. The back is flat but ornamented upon imaginary bands with the chain -of -jewels ornament which is one of the binder's tokens. The tooling inside the edge of the cover is the small old dentello roulette of angles and little rings. On the edges of the bacic, there are diagonal parallel strokes in gold. The shelf-mark on the paper label inside is R 499, on the morocco panel outside 3 P 64. 617 KOLBE (Pierre) Description du Cap de Bonne-Esporanco . . Amster- dam . . M.DCC.XLl. 3 vols. 12mo. m^ps and plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1741 3 3 Bound for the Lamoignon library by Padeloup about 1741 inexactly the same style as the Recueil des Voyages. The lowest section on the bock is gilt with parallel perpendicular lines. Inside it is R 314 ; outside 3 Y 12. 124 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Lamoignon Library, 1720-50— cof?iint*6cf. £ s. d. 618 NOVUM TESTAMKNTUM (GrtBce) . . Lvgd. Batavoirm, Ex Officina Elzeviriornm . MDCXXXIII. 12mo. bound in hliick morocco, with a lining of red morocco gilt 1633 9 9 Bound by Padeloap for the Lamoignon library abont 1740-42. The only external g:ilding is in the lettering and the diagonal parallel strokes on the edge of the back. The sham bands on the flat back are blind-tooled with the chain-of -jewels roulette. The red doublure is gilt with filleta and cornerpieces. The flyleaves are of blue watered silk. The best of the three Elzevir editions printed in 1633. This is A 34 according to the hibel inside ; the number outside is de&ioed. 619 SABADINO. Porretane di M. Sabadiko Bolognese dove si narra Nonelle Settantaana . . In Yerona M.D. XL . . 12mo. blue morocco, gilt edges 1540 4 10 Bound by Fadeloup for the Lamoignon library abont 1745. The only external gilding is the lettering, the line along the edges of the binding, and the parallel straight strokes on the rims of the back. The sham bands of the flat back are blind-tooled with a roulette of slight branch work. Inside the end and flyleaves are of bright crimson watered silk, and the overlap of the morocco is brilliantly gilt with the roulette which became a favorite afterwards with the younger Derome, namely a run of roses enclosed in arches over which stand the treble annulets alternating with a thin upright leaf, and beneath which (behind the fiillets) is a row of dentelle points. This is a pratty book. 620 TASSO. LA GERYSALEMME LiBERATA di Torqvato Tasso . . MDCLXXIII . in Venetia . . Small 4to. engraved title and plates; blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1673 2 16 Bound by Fadeloup for the Lamoignon library about 1750. The back is flat bat gilt so as to form false panels and bands. The bands are gilt with branches, the panels are edged with dentelle points. The lettering and the library marks " 2 M 162 " are on labels of crimson leather. The sides have the three-line flUet with roses at the points of junction. The inside edge of the cover is gilt with the same large floral roulette noticed on Padelonp's Agricola (post). The libraiy label inside is marked Y 148. There is a gold line along the edges of the cover except at the top and bottom of the back which bear parallel diagonal strokes. Fleuriau d'Arm^nonville, 1725 : 621 NOVVM IBSV CHRISTI TESTAMENTVM Vnlgatee Editionis . . Parisiis . . M.DC.XLIX . 16mo. divided into 3 vols, black morocco LINED WITH CITRON MOROCCO GILT 1649 6 6 The back and sides are plain except for the lettering on the former, and the gold escutcheon on the latter, indicating that the book was bound for Fleuriau d'Arm^non- ville Comte de Morville, a French statesman who died in 1732. — The edge of the cover bears the roulette ornament consisting of a W-shaped edging with little rings in the spaces. The donblure has a double fillet edged outwardly with dentelle-points, within which is a broad border in which Fadeloup fleurons alternate with flgures like shells topped with fanfares. This seems to be a Fadeloup binding done about 1726. Jeanne Batiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue, 1725-30 : 622 LES AMOURS DE LA BELLE JcNiE . . Par Madame de P . . MDCXCVIII — LA cuRiosiTE DAN6EREUSE . Nouvelle galante . . par Braydore . . MDCXCVIII . with frontispiece and engravings — HiSTOiRB et lea Avantures de Kemiski . . MDCLXXXXVII — 3 vols, in 1, 12mo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1697-98 3 3 Bound by Fadeloup about 1725-28 for the Comtesse de Verrue, whose arms are upon the sides. The yolume is in ezactlj the same style as the Nonyellea toutes Nonrelles. 623 NouvBLLES TOUTES NOUVELLES. Par M. D. L. C. Paris • MDCCVIII . DuRAND (Madame) Les Petits Sonpers de T^te de I'annee 1699 . . Paris . . MDCCII — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of the Comtesse de Verrue 1702-8 7 7 Bound about 1728-30 by Fadeloup for the Countess. Her arms and coronet within an oTal form the centrepiece on the sides which are framed within a triple-line fillet. On the back the lion and the macles of the Luynes escutcheon (which wa.s her paternal bearing) are used alternately as centrepieces in the panels, with palm-branches in the oorner. These palm-branches give the book a resemblance to the Commines and the Lttcian (po«t, under Fadeloup) ; and aU three books were undoubtedly bound about the FRENCH WORK, 1730-1764. 125 Jeanne Batiste d' Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Yerrue, 1725-30 — continued. £ «. d, same time. The gilding inside the cover consists of a row of W-shaped lines with the beginnings and ends of trefoil flenrons in the spaces. The bookplates of Wilmot first Earl of Lisburae (abont 1770) is pasted inside the cover ; the bookplate of the famous John Wilkes is fastened on the flyleaf. 624 [DBNYS DE VAIRASSB] Histoire des Sevarambes, peuples qui habitent ane partie dn troisieme Continent commnn^ment appelle La Terre Australe . . Amsterdam . Chez Pierre Mortier . . 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. with an engraving ; red morocco extra, gilt edges, vnth the arms of tJie Comtesse de Verrue (About 1714) 6 A cnrions narrative, abont the real origin of which there existed formerly consider- able doabt and discussion. The author spent some years in England in Charles II's time. This is bound exactly like the Nourelles toutes Nonrelles, except for the colour of the morocco. Fran90is Fr, Due de Luxembourg Montmorency, 1734 : 625 LA ROQUE (Mr. de) TraitedelaNoblesse . . A Rouen . . MDCCXXXIV. 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges, the dedication copy 1734 7 7 The arms of ^* Francois Frederic, Dnc de Luxembourg Montmorency et de Piney pair, premier baron, et premier Chretien de France . . '' (to whom the book is dedicated) form the centrepiece on the sides ; which bear a bruaid border consisting of arches supporting brandies which alternate with alerions and small Luxemburg escutcheons, and decorated with a wreath at each inner angle. On the back, the Luxemburg crowned lion holds the centre in each panel accompanied by alerions, stars and dots, with the usual branchy and flory cornerpieces. The bands are gilt with diagonal parallels falling from ri^ht to left. Bound in 1734, probably in Paris. Louis XV, 1750-64 : 626 ACTES ET MEMOIRES des Negotiations de la Paix de Nimbgub . . Amsterdam . . MDCLXXX . . 4 vols, in 6, 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1680 7 10 The King's monogram ot XX supporting a crown appears in the panels on the back, the bands are gilt with vertical parallel lines, the roulette at top and bottom is a row of alternate fleurs«de-lis and strawberry leaves. The lettering is on two oil re morocco labels, one of them gilt above and below with the same roulette. On the sides the royal escutcheon has been cancelled, and that of Madame Adelaide is substituted ; which proves that the King gave or left this book to his eldest daughter. It is a charming binding, almost too good for Fonmier, who was however probably the artist (about 1750). The book is an important one, and ranks among the **■ annexes aux filzevirs.'* The division into volumes is I in two vols., II in two vols., Ill, IV. — Willems divides them into seven, but the six and the seven contain exactly the same matter. 627 FENELON (Fran9oi8 de Salignac de la Motte) CEuvres Philosophiqces . . de TEzistence de Dieu . . ; Dialogues sub l*Eloqu£NCB . . 2 vols. small 8vo. red morocco extra, gilt edges Paris, 1764 6 10 On one volume the panel ornament is an acorn, on the other a flower, and the roulettes at top and bottom are different, but the two volumes were bound by one man at the same time and in the same style, and the King's crown and arms on the sides unite them. They are not unlike the work of Derome le jeune, but the stamp of the royal arms is the same as was used by Pierre Vente. Fierre Antoine Lafert^ was perhaps the binder. With the bookplate of Jean Batiste L*£cuy, '' Abbatis Prgemonstratensis." Marie Leczinska, Queen of Louis XV, 1751 : 628 [HARDION] Nouvelle Histoiee PofiriQUB, et deux Trait^s . . de la Poesie . . de I'Eloqnence; composes ponr Tusage de Mesdames . . Paris . . M.DCC.LI. 3 vols. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1751 6 6 This was the special copy bound for the Queen when the work was presented to her three daughters. On the sides the three-line fillet, and the Queen's royal escutcheon. On the back a marguerite in the panels accompanied by four dots, one on each side. The fleur-de-lis and strawberry-lesf roulette at top and bottom ; the large Boyet roulette inside the cover-edges. Vertical parallel lines on the bands. After the Queen*s death, in 1 768, these volumes became the property of Madame Sophie, who presented them to Le Oris, according to a MS. note in the hand of the latter. 126 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Louis le Dauphin, father of Louis XVI, 1737: £ «. d. 629 GAYOT, Nonvelle Grammaire Fran^oise . . Bruxelles, 1737. 2 vols. 12ino. red morocco extra, gilt edges, dedication copy OF the Dauphin Louis 1737 3 3 On the sides, a two-line fillet, externally ed^ed inth dentelle points, and internally with a border composed alternately of flenrR-de-lis and figures like vase-handles. The centrepiece is the escutcheon, France and Danphin^ quarterly , the collars, and a royal crown. The dolphin is the centrepiece on the panels of the back. Marie-Th6rese d'Espagne, Dauphine, 1745: 630 EssAis DE Morale contenvs en divers traites . . A Paris . . MDCCXXXIII. 4 vols. 12mo. olive morocco extra, giU edges, unth the arms of the Dauphine on the sides 1733 8 8 Bound for her during the seventeen months of her marriage with the Dauphin, 1745-46. (She died in childbed in July, 1746, when she was nineteen years of age and her husband not yet seventeen.) The panels on the back are occupied alternately by the fleur-de-lis, the dolphin, and the c&stle (for Castile). The bauds are gilt with parallel diagonal strokes falling from left to right. The roulette on the edge of the cover is that of a line of indentations with little annulets in the angles. The ly and end-leaves are gold paper. Whoever the binder was (Pierre Anguerrand ?) he was a master of his art. La Dauphine Marie Josephe de Saxe (mother of Louis XVI), 1765 : 631 SINGLANDE, Memoires et Voyages . . Paris . . MDCCLXV. 2 vols. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1765 7 7 The arms of the Dauphine (who died in 1765) form the centrepiece on the sides, there being a large fleur-de-lis in each comer of tne triple-fillet. On the backs, the fleur-de-lis is the centre of each paneli having a besant above and below, and two annulets on each side of it. The roulette at top and bottom was a favourite tool with Padeloup ; inside the edge we see the larger Boyet roulette ; and the end and fly- leaves are of paper gilt with gold stars and dots. The bands are stroked with short diagonal parallel lines, left to right This binding is fresh and perfect, and pretty enough to have issued from the atelier of Padeloup's widow. It may however be the work of Pierre Anguerrand. The flrst volume gives an account of the conquest of Corsica, in which Singlandc accompanied the troops as chaplain. Mesdames de France, 1753: G32 NOLLET (VAbb^) Lettres sur rElectricite. Dans lesquelles on examine les demieres D^convertes . . A Paris . . M.DCC.LIII. 12mo. ^ folding plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1753 2 1<3 The escutcheon on the sides is that of Mesdames de France, which is given on p. 103 of Guigard's flrst volume, and which he there describes as unique on a volume of Poesies Sacrdes by the Ahh6 Salmon. That is, the fleurs-de-lis on a lozange- shaped shield, with the princely crown, and two angels as supporters. — The flower in the panels, with its) six stars, and the short vertical parallel lines in gold on tho bands, and the lining of paper gilt with stars, seem to show that Foumier was the binder. Valuable as an early discussion of Franklin's discoveries. Madame Adelaide, 1763-4 : 633 HUME (David) Histoibe de la maison de Tddob . . tradnit de I'Anglois par Madame B . . . Amsterdam, MDCCLXIII. 6 vols. — Hume, Histoibe de la maison de Stuart . . Londres . MDCCLXIII. 6 vols. — together 12 vols. 12mo. beautiful copies in crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1763 12 12 Bound for Madame Adelaide, and gilt on the sides with her escntcheon. The hack is full-gilt; in the panels an acorn flanked by four heavy gold dots (but the additional ornaments convert them into a lozange around the flower), the bands gilt with diagonal parallel strokes left to right, the lettering pieces on olive morocco, one of them fringed with the small fleur-de-lis and strawberry-leai roulette, which appears in . larger size at top and bottom. These two charming sets of volumes, bound in identical style by a single artist, In 1763-64, must be ascribed to Jean Henri Foumier, as he was the special binder to tho royal family, but they are much superior to his usual work. According to Thoinan, Pierre Vente bound for the daughters of Louis XV. Madame Belot was the translator of both books, and they were printed in Paris, notwithstanding the names on tlic imprints. FRENCH WORK, 1750-1760. 12? Madame Yictoire, 1750-52: £ «. d. 634 MONTFAUCON (Bernard de) les mon(7M£NS db la monarghie FBANgOISE, QUI GOMPBENNENT l'hISTOIBB DB FBANOE . . Paris . . M.DCC.XXIX . . [.MDCCXXXIII] 6 vols, folio, toith a great number of beautiful plates ; fine copy in olive morocco extra, gilt [edgeSy WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF THE PrINCESS 1729-33 52 10 This is a splendid set from a royal library. The binding was no doubt execated bj Foumier abont 1750>52, at a time when the young lady was studying her history of France. The usual escutcheon is on the sides ; the dots and other little ornaments in the panels on the back form a perfect lozan^y frame to the floral centrepiece. The bands are stroked vertically. The bookplate inside Uie cover of each volume was engraved by Claude Baron. It was added probably about 1760-70. Heinrich, Count of Calenberg, 1740 : 635 NAUDIN. l'inoenibur franqois . . TAttaqae & la Deffense des Places. Avec la Methode de Monsieur de Yauban . . par M. N . . Ljon . . MDCCXXXVIII. Small 8vo. numerous plates; olive morocco extra, gilt edges 1738 2 16 Within a three-line fillet on the sides the C!ount's arms and coronet (ducal) are impressed as a centrepiece. In the panels on the back there is a flower accompanied by eight gold dots, and having the usual branchy comer and side bits. At the bottom of the lowest panel, two rows of alternating fleurs-de-lis and strawberry- leaves, and a single row of the same at the top of the first panel. This is a handsome binding in fine condition, done about 1740, and is perhaps the work of Jacques Antoine Derome. diaries de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, 1745 : 636 NICERON, Memoires poor servir a I'Histoire des Hommes niustres dans la Republique des Lettres . . Paris . . MDCG.XXIX(-XLV) 43 Tols. in 44, 12mo. fine copy in veau fauve, with the coronet and armorial symbols of Charles de Rohan, Prince de Sonbise, in the panels on the bach 1729-45 5 5 Paul Randon de Bolsset, 1750: 637 FRANCO (Nicolo) Le Pistole vvlgari . . Venetiis . . MDXXXXII.— Marsilio Ficino sopra lo Amore o ver Convito di Platone. In Firenze . . MDXXXXIIII — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. crimson mjorocco extra, gilt edges 1542-44 3 3 A plain binding in beautiful polished morocco. On the sides the usual triple fillet ending in a rose at each angle. On the back, the panels framed with two parallel fillets, and a single straight line on each band. On the edge inside the cover the Boyet roulette. — There is no trace of Randon's ownership except in a half-effaced libiaiy stamp on the flyleaf, which was evidently recognised as his mark by Mr. R. S. Turner who has marked in pencil *' Exemp. de Randon de Boisset." Thus the book belonged to Boisset (and may have been oound by J. A. Derome) about 1750 ; — was sold at the auction in 1777; passed into the hands of Charles Nodier about 1825 (it has his «9-libm and a MS. note upon the volume) ; came into libri's hands after Nodier's death, and was bought by Mr. Turner about 1860. Plain as it seems this is a fine and finished example of morocco binding. 638 RANDON DE BOISSET. Catalogue des livres du cabinet . . Paris MDCCLXX71I — Catalogue des Tableanx & Dessins . . MDCCLXXYII. — 2 toIs. 12mo. vtith the prices of the books added in MS. ; red m^occo extra, gilt edges 1777-78 2 8 Madame de Pompadour, 1751-60 : 639 LE BLANC (I'Abbe) Lettbes . . nouvelle Edition de cellos qni ont para sous le titre de Lettres d'nn Francois . . Amsterdam. M.DCC.LI. 8 vols. 12mo. red morocco extra, gUt edges, with the arms of Madame de Fompadour on the sides 1751 9 9 The back is flat ; the sham bands marked by two parallel lines, the panels bearing a fleuron of Derome or Douceur character, a star above and below it, two dots on each side. The roulette at the bottom is decidedly of Derome style. The sides are gilt with a broad border, composed of lilies and marguerites springing from a line of hearts and heart-shaped fleurons (each of the latter enclosing a fleur-de-lis). The arms (stamped in gold) have two griifios for supporters, the griffin on the (spectator's) left crouching low and looking to the shield ; the one on the right standing up high and looking away from it. There is no mantle. The gilding inside the edge of the covers seems to be part of the larger Boyet roulette. The coronet is that of a Marquis. 128 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. Madame de Pompadour, nsi'-SO— continued, & $, d. 640 DUFRESNOY (Alphonse) l'ecole d'uranib ou l'art de la peintube, tradnit du Latin d'Alph. Dafresnoy efc de M. I'Abbe de Marsj . . Paris . . M.DCC.LIII. Latin et Fraw^ais, 12ino. olive green morocco extra, gilt edges J toith the arms of Madame de Pompadotir 1753 6 6 The flenron in the piuielfl on the back is snironnded by six dote ; the bands are real and are marked with diagonal strokes. On the sides, there is a margnerite on a stem within each angle of the triple fillet. The arms (stamped properlj in silver) are in an o?aI shield without supporters, enclosed within the draped ermine mantle that falls with a rounded ontline irom the dueal coronet. The gilding within the edge of the cover is the double-line of up and down diagonals with annulets in the spaces. 641 [LETI (Gregorio)] il nipotismo di boma . . M.DC.LXVII. 2 vols. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of Mad. de Pompadour on the sides 1667 5 15 The back is flat, the bands being represented by two parallel lines. The flenron in the panels has a dot above and a dot below, and the panel which bears the tome- nnmeral is fringed above and below with a line of| fleurs-de-lis and strawberry -lea vea. Otherwise the back of this book is very like Uie back of Le Blanc. On the sides the coronet is ducal ; there are no supporters to the arms, but there is an ermine mantle which falls not in a round but a graceful, nearly oval, style. 642 ARIOSTO (Lodovico) Oblando Fvbioso . . In Venetia MDLXXXIII . . divided into 2 vols. 4to. with 51 engravings by Porro ; red morocco extra, gilt edges, with the arms of Mad, de Pompadour on the sides 1584 28 The arms are surmounted by the ducal coronet, and have both mantle and sup- porters. The positions of the supporters are reversed, and the design is different from that on the Le Blanc. The higher griflin does not stand so nearly erect as there, and both the animals are looking towurds the shield. There is a branchy border on the sides, each branch divided at its endmg ^m the next branch by a flenron and a figure of parallel lines shaped like — u or n — . The back is flat and gilt like that of the Nipotismo. The inside gilding is the Padelonp form of the Boyet roulette. 643 [FRESCHOT (Casimir)] Histoibe amoubeuse & badine da Centres & de la Ville d'Utrechfc . . A Liege Chez Jacob le Doox . . frontispiece, title, two leaves Au Lecteur, pp, 1-292 ; Vebitable Clef . . de THistoire amonreuse . . A Cologne, Chez Pierre Martean, MDCCXIV. 6 leaves. In 1 vol. 16mo. fine copy, a charming little hook in olive morocco extra, gilt edges (by Do^^ceur), with the arms of Madame de Pompadour on the sides 1714 10 10 One of the prettiest examples of Madame de Fompadonr^s library that I have seen. Paul Girardot de Pr6fond, 1750-75: 6i4 ANT. AVGVSTINI Arcbiep. Tairaconensis de emkndatione GRiTiANi DiALOGORVM libri dvo. Tarracone Apud Philippnm Mey MDXXCVII. Small 4to. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1587 3 3 This specimen of Girardot*s library was bonnd for him, and has his name stamped in gold on an oblong space of the morocco lining just inside the roulette of the edge, a portion of the end-paper being cut away to make room for it The ornament in the panels on the back is a pretty rosace with four dots inside and four dots outside ; two stars above and below, and small comerpieces. The roulette of alternate fleurs-de-lis and strawberry leaves at top and bottom. The gilding inside the edge is Padeloup's floral roulette. — Besides Girardot's name on the leather, we have his engraved book- plate inside the first cover. Bonnd by Padelonp about 1750.— The Marques de Morante*s book-label is in the volume. 645 [F0LEN60] Chaos del tbi peb vno . . Colophon: Stampata in Vinegia per Gionanni Antonio A Fratelli da Sabbio . . M.D.XXVII^ \2mo, with woodcuts ; hound in olive m,orocco extra, gilt edges 1527 4 4 Bound by Padelonp about 1750, in the same style as the Sauromannus (see p09i)\ differing only in the comer and sidepieoes accompanying the flower in the panels. The oval book-label of Girardot de Pr^f ond is pasted within the cover. 646 GONgALEZ DE CLAVIJO (Ruy) Histobia del gban Tamoblan . . y vn breve discurso fecho por Gon9alo Argote de Molina . . Sevilla . . M.D.LXXXII. Small folio, crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1582 8 10 A sumptuously bound volume, gilt on the sides with a broad border of foliage rolling round a central stem, the border being hemmed on each side by a roulette of FRENCH WORK : GIRARDOT DE PREFOND, 1750-1765. 129 Paul Girardot de Prefond, 1750-75— con^mwei. £ ». d. floral arabesque. The back is simpler : a flower in each panel enclosed within six doquc- foiU and small comer-flearons. The roulette inside the coyer is a floral one often used by Fadeloup; but it is to Dubnisson rather than to him that I would ascribe the binding of tnis volome. The name of Ginurdot de Prefond is stamped in oblong wise upon a portion of the leather lining (uncovered for the purpose) just below the roulette. The book most therefore have been bound before 1757. It looks very grand and magnificent. 6i7 ACHS'A (Christoval de) Nvevo Descvbrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazonas . . Small 4to. a fine large copy^ ruled, in red morocco extra, gilt edges, with hath the book-lahels of Oirardot Madrid, 1641 40 Probably bound by Padeloup about 1750. The book passed out of Girardot's possession in 1759 and came back to him again before 1769. 648 DOLET (Etienne) Gommentariorvm lingvaa Latinaa Stephani Doleti, epitome duplex . . Basileae M.D.XXXVII. 12mo. red morocco extra, gUt edges 1537 6 Bound for Girardot de Prefond and haying his name stamped in oblong fashion on the leather lining inside the first cover ; as io the A^kguatiMa Twrraeonensis, The back is brilliantly gilt in its panels with the billowy ornament which is formed by the constant repetition of a curved branch, going from right to left, and having dots inside the spaccF. The bands are gilt with diagonal parallel strokes, falling from left to right. The roulette inside the cover is of the V pattern with a strawberry-leaf rising up between each arm. This is perhaps a binding of J. A. Derome done between 1750 and 1756. 649 CURIONIS (Ccelii Secnndi) de Bello Melitensi historia noua . . Basileae . . (At end) . . M.D.LXYIL 12mo. olive morocco extra, gilt edges, a pretty hook 1567 2 Not U>und for Girardot, but having the oval paper-label of his arms and under it his name also printed on a paper label. The ornament in the panels is a vase containing flowers. The inside roulette is of the V kind with strawberry-leaves rising from below between each V. The book was probably bound before 1769, perhaps by Angnerrand ; and it may have come into Girardot 's possession about 1770. It was sold in London in 1808 as part of Heathcote's library, and came later into the hands of R. S. Turner whose morocco label it bears. 650 [Z WICKER (Daniel)] Ieznicum Irenicobum . . At end: Anno MDCLVm — Irbnicomastix perpetuo convictns . . Amsterodami MDCLXI — Irenicomastix iterate victns . . imo obmntescena . . Amstero- dami MDGLXII — 3 vols, in 1, 12mo. blue morocco extra, gilt edges 1658-62 3 3 With the oval green morocco label of Girardot inside the upper cover. The ornament in the panels is the marguerite, with six dots and two annulets forming a frame around it ; other small floral figures making comer and sidepieces. The gilding inside the edge of the cover is the same as on the Frndentins. This seems to be Fadeloup*s work about 1756-58. Girardotf whom nobody knows, was a first-rate collector of books. There must have been something in him to lead to his ownership of the three rare pieces in this volume, — the least inviting and attractive kind of book that a Frenchman could possibly conceive ; but nevertheless important as being the chief documents of a memorable controversy. 651 JORDANI BRUNI NOLANI de Triplici Minimo . . libri v . . Francofvrti . . MDLXXXXI. 12mo. woodcut diagrams ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1591 3 10 With the oval morocco label, which shews that this volume belonged to Girardot between 1769 and 1769. — Probably bound by Derome le jeune. The back is flat. 652 lORDANi Brvni . . recens et completa Ars Reminiscendi . . — Ezplica- tio triginta Sigilloram . . — 2 vols, in 1, 12mo. woodcut diagrams; red mjorocco extra, gilt edges \London ? about 1584] 3 10 With the oval label of Girardot Bound by the same hand and at the same time as the preceding. 653 BRVQIANTINO (Vincenzo) le Cento Novelle . . dette in ottava rima . . Vinegia MDLIIII . . Small 4to. woodcxds; fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, A l'oiseau 1554 22 10 With the oval red morocco label of Girardot de Frefond, for whom probably the 9 130 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OF BINDINGS. Paul Girardot de Prdfond, nSQ-JS-^ontinued. £ «. d. book was bonnd by Derome le jeane about 1760-65. It is a beantifal specimen of his work and might be easily mistaken for a Padelonp binding. The ornament in the panels is the bird, perohed on a heart, and looking to the right. It has the Derome lozange above and below, and is enclosed within a number of annulets, stars, and dots. At the top of ihe uppermost panel and at the bottom of the lowest there is a roulette consisting of repetitions of a curled branch moving to the left. Inside the edge of the cover is Sie Padeloup form of the Boyer roulette. 654 BREUIARIUM SECUl^DUM REGULA3 BEATI HYSIDORI. Colophon: . . Impssum 1 regali ciuitate Toleti . . Millesimo quingetesjmo secudo . . Small folio. — MISSALE MIXTUM SECUDUM REGULAM BEATI ISIDORI DICTUM UOZ AR ABES. Colophon : . . Toleti . . Millesimo quingentesimo . . Folio. — 2 vols, not quite uniform in height^ but uniform in a richly gilt crimson rnorocco binding 1500-1501 400 Bound for Girardot de Pr^fond (and bearing his oval label) between 1760 and 1768, by Derome le jeune. The ornament on the sides is a broad border formed by a branch of foliage twining round a straight stem from which sprout smaller leaves, just in the style of the Gonzalez de Glavijo and the Romaic Homer, but not from the same tools. On the back, in eacb panel a fleuron and oomerpieces upon a ground of oblique dotted lines. These two excessively rare volumes passed from GKrardot's collection into that of Count MacCartby in 1769. They next belonged to Hibbert, then to Henry Perkins, and lastly to the Earl of Crawford. 655 MAZARINADES. la famine ov les Pvtains a Cvl. Par le sieur do La Valise . . Paris . . M.DC.XLIX. 4 leaves — Paeib debloqv^ . . MDCXLIX. 5 leaves — La Gazette des Halles . . 4 leaves — la Gazette DE LA Place Mavbert . . 6 leaves — Regveil general de toutes les Chansons Mazarinistes . . 14 leaves — la Farce des Covrtisans de Plvton . . 14 leaves— LE Temperament amphibolooiqvb des Testicvles de Mazarin . . A Cologne MDCLI. 4 leaves — ^in 1 vol. small 4to. crimson morocco extra, gilt edgesj by Derome le jeune 1649-1651 9 Bound aboat 1775 for Girardot de Pr^fond whose oval greea leather label is fastened inside the co?er.— All the pieces are dated Paris, 1649, except the last one. A. L. F. Le Febvre de Caumartin, 1750-55 : 656 BBANTOME. Geutres du Seigneur de Brantome . . A La Haye . . M.DCC.XL. 15 vols. \Qvio, frontispieces ; fine copy in hlvs morocco extra, gilt edges 1740 18 18 With the arms of Antoine Lonis Franfois Le F^Tre de Canmartin, Marqnis de Saint Ange, and bonnd for him about 1760-55. The back is flat, with treble gold lines to replace the bands. In each panel there is a marguerite, without anj dots around it, and a fanfare-flenron leaning towards it from each comer. At the bottom a branchy roulette ; on the red label which bears the tome-number, a fringe of fleur-de-lis and strawberry-leaves above and below. Anguerrand may hare been tlie binder of this pretty set of books. Gabriel de Talleyrand, Comte de Perigord, 1755 : 657 ANACREON VENGE, ou Lettres au snjet de la nouvelle Traduction . . annonc^e . . Criticopolis . . MDCCLY. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1755 4 4 Bearing on the sides the arms of Gabriel de Talleyrand, Comte de P&'igord, with the coronet of a Marquis (he was son of tiie Marqols de Talleyrand), under which is the motto *<Reque Dion." A pretty binding (done in 1755), which is probably not by Padelonp although it is very like his work. The acorn in the panels is enclosed within a lozange formed of little stars and gold dots (eighteen in all). The roulette inside is the series of Vs and strawberry -leaves. The end and flyleaves are of paper gilt with stars. FRENCH WORK, 1757-1760. 131 Marie Ang^lique, Duchesse de Brancas, 1757: £ «. d. 658 DUBUISSON, Armorial dbs principales maisons et pamilles du EOTAUME . . Paris . . M.DCC.LVn. 2 vols. 12mo. with about 3000 engraved escutcheons; calf gilt, with the arms of the Duchess on, the sides 1757 7 10 Bound }n 1757 either hj Padelonp or Dabtiiflson himself for the Dachess. The tower from the Brancas escntcheon, and the tree from her own paternal i^eld, are used as ornaments on the sides and back. Louis de Brancas, Comte de Lauraguais, 1757-60 : 659 HOMER'S ILIAD in Bomaic. 'O^iypor IXias, fxerapXtfOtura wdXai €*« KOLvrfy yXiaoxrav . . Colophon : . . Venetia . . M.D.xxvi . . Small 4to. numerous woodcuts ; crimson morocco extra, gilt edges 1526 50 Bound by Dnbnisson or Derome the elder about 1757-60. It is in tbe same style aa the Gronzalez de Clavijo, and has a similar broad border of gold foliage twining round a centre stem, nearly the same in design but a little smaller. The fringe on either side of the border is the roulette of lace-points (a row of triple annulets with a line of dots between each). On the back there is in the panels an acorn surrounded by two annulets and four dots. Inside, the broad V roulette with heads of strawberry- leaves In the spaces. — ^The engraved bookplate of Louis de Bn^ncas Comte de Lauraguais (1733-1824) is pasted inside the cover. He had the volume in his library between 1760 and 1770 ; in the latter year it was bought by the Due de la Vallidre, and after the dispersion of the latter nobleman's library in 1788, the book passed into Beckford's hands. 660 PETRARCA . le Rime . . sposteper Lodoyico Oastelvetro . . Basilea . . MDLXXXII. BmsAl 4tto. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1582 4 4 With the engraved bookplate of Louis de Brancas Comte de Lauraguais. The book (which was therefore in his possession between 1760 and 1770) must have been bound about 1760. The flower in the panels is enclosed within a lozange formed of little stars and gold dots (twenty in number altogether). The bands are gilt with perpen- dicular parallel strokes. At top and bottom there is a branchy roulette with birds in the open spaces. The Duseuil form of the Boyet roulette is used for gilding the inside edge of the cover. — This looks like a Fo'umier binding and is in fine condition. Louis Phelypeaux, Comte de St. Florentin, 1760-70 : 661 NoMENCLATOR CiCERONiANUS . . Parisiis . . MDCCLVII. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt edges 1757 2 2 Boand abont 1760 for Louis Phelypeaax, Comte de St Florentin, Due de U Vrillidre. The back is fiat, foU-gilt, with an acorn surrounded by six gold dots, in the panels. On the sides the triple-fillet, and a pomegranate in each corner ; Phelypeaux's arms and collars in the centre under a ducal coronet. The end and flyleaves are of paper bearing gold stars and dots.— This is perhaps a Foumier buiding. 662 LAF ARGUE, CEdvres vtht^s . . Paris . . MDCCLXV. 2 vols. 12mo. Fine Paper, with 3 plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1765 6 6 Boand for the Comte do St. Florentin by the same binder as the Nomendator, but probably not till 1770. There is a variation in the escutcheon ; the points of a large cross project on all sides from behind the shield, and a small cross is added to the former pendent one. The plate was evidently re-engraved in 1 765, but in all respects save as above mentioned it is identical with the preceding. — ^The back is flat ; wavy lines replace the bands. A part of the book treats on the Histozy of Nova ScoUa, translated from the English. 663 (Yente) Etat actuel de la Mosiqne da Roi et des trois Spectacleo de Paris . A Paris chez Vente . . MDCCLXVIL 12mo. green morocco extra, giU edges 1767 2 16 With the Arms of the 0>mte de St Florentin on the sides. A lily in the panels on the back, the bands gilt with diagonal parallel lines from left lo right. The linings are pink watered-silk.— The binder was probably Vente himself, in 1767. Prince of Salm-Salm, 1760 : 664 M. TVLLII CICERONIS Opera . . Lvgd. Batavor . Ex Officina Else- viriana, MDOXLII. 10 vols. 16mo. Fine and Thick Paper; olive green morocco extra, gilt edges 1642 12 12 The sides are richly gilt with a broad gold border composed of a row of alternating acorns and lilies springing from a line of double circles enclosing fleurs-de-lis, these circles resting upon the feather-like curves and curfs so often used by the young Derome. Behind them a line of dentelle edges, then the fillet, and finally a row of triple annulets (2 and 1). The back is flat ; the flower \n the panels are enclosed within sixteen or 132 QUARITCH'S CATALOGUE OP BINDINGS. £ $. d. eighteen heavy dots and other figures which form a bold lozange in each panel. The gilding inside is the ran of V V with annnlets in the spaces. Probably bonnd about 1760. Inside the cover is the engraved bookplate of a Prince of Salm-Salm who was probably also an Abb^ or Bishop, as the mitre and the crook appear above the shield. It seems to be contemporary with the binding. Madame Dubarry, 1768-69 : 665 [BOISSIERE] Elemens de Qeometrie de Monseignenr le Due de Bonrgogne . . Paris . . MDCCV. 4to. red morocco, gilt edges, with THE ARMS OP THE CoUNTESS Du BaRRY 1705 4 4 A plain nnlovely binding and probably one of the earliest books in the lady's library. She most have thought that it would please Louis XV to see his father's MemenU de QiomeWie taken care of. Mr. Guigard (who certainly did not know that the King was son to the Due de Bonrgogne since he describes him as son of the Grand Dauphin) dwells on the beauty and elegance of the Dubarry bindings. This is perhaps one of the first essays, as we may think even from a variation in the escutcheon. The y«cM is not SMrmtmti d*un 0, the main is not dextre but gcmche, and the coronet is that of a comtesse not that of a duchesse. The motto is above the coronet and there are no supporters. This binding cannot be later than 1768-9. Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Finance-Minister, 1763 : 666 BELLIN, Description g^ographique de la Guyane . . 4to. numerotis maps and plates ; red morocco extra, pit edges Paris, 1763 116 Bound at the time of publication. The coronet is ducal. The flower in the panels of the back is one of Derome's ornaments, but the roulette at the bottom was one of Fadelonp's tools. On the side, the fillet is triple, one thick line between two thin ones. The fly-leaves are dark blue paper, and the gilding inside the edges is a row of diagonal parallel lines falling right to left, every third line being a dotted one. Georges Gougenot de Croissy, 1765 : 667 MAUNDRELL (Hen.) A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem . . 1697 . . sixth edition. Dublin . . MDCCXLIX. Svo. map and plates ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1749 I 10 Bound for Georges Gougenot de Croissy about 1765. His arms are on the sides, and they appear also on his lxK)k plate inside the cover. They vary from those given in Dubnisson's Armorial, in substituting for the burning heart beneath the chevron, a gudgeon swimming in the sea. With the later book-plate of Thomas Maitland Lord Dundrennan. Beatrice, Duchesse de Grammont, 1765-70 : 668 NOUVEAUX CONTES A RIRB ou Recreations Fran9oise8. A Amsterdam . . M.D C C.XXXXT. 12mo. citron morocco extra, gilt edges, the corners a little damaged 1741 2 16 Bound about 1765-70 by Derome le jeune for the Duchesse de Grammont (Beatrix de Choisenl who had married Antoine Dae de Grammont in 1759). The back is flat and gilt all over (except where the lettering occupies a red label), with the oblong curves resembling drawer-handles, dots in the spaces, and azur6 wedges between the figures. The roulette inside the edges of the cover is of the Boyet pattern ; and on the sides of the volume we have the Grammont-Choiseul escutcheon under the coronet of a Marquis. David Pierre Perrinet, Finance Minister, 1766 : 669 VIRGILII Bucolica, Georgica, et -^neis. Birminghamiie typis Joliannis Baskerville MDCCLXVI. Small Svo. frontispiece ; red morocco extra, gilt edges 1766 2 16 Of Perrinet, Guigard knew no more than that he had been Receiver-general of the revenues of French Flanders from 1729 to 1768. — He must have had a handsome library. This book was bonnd in Paris in or soon after 1766. The back is flat, a slender wavy branch between two straight lines supplying the place of the bands. The panels are gilt with a flower surround^ by lozanges and roundels. Perrinet's arms on the sides. Charles Robert Boutin, Finance Minister, 1767 : 670 [DUCHESNE] Code de la Police, ou Analyse des Reglemens . . Paris . . MDCCLXVII. 2 vols. 12mo. red morocco extra, gilt