British, fifteenth century
Blind-stamped calfskin.
| Author: | Pseudo-Boethius |
| Title: | Boeti[us] de disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento. |
| Published: | Deventer, Netherlands: Jacobus Breda, 1496 |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert H. Taylor Collection (RHT) |
| Call number: | 16th-86 |
| Spine height: | 21 cm |
British, sixteenth century
Calf binding with a single panel representing the Annunciation. The panel stamp on the lower board represents the Man of Sorrows. Gold tooling on the spine is a later addition.
| Author: | Horace |
| Title: | Opera Ascensianis asteriscis illustrata. |
| Published: | Paris: In aedibus Ascensianis, 1505. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert Patterson Collection (PTT) |
| Call number: | 2865.1505 |
| Spine height: | 17 cm |
British, seventeenth century
The most common bindings in sixteenth and seventeenth- century England were plain or sprinkled calfskin or sheepskin with only a few decorative blind lines on the boards.
| Author: | Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700? |
| Title: | Archelogia philosophica nova, or, New principles of philosophy. |
| Published: | London: Printed by J.H. for Samuel Thomson, 1663. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 6095.437 |
| Spine height: | 20 cm |
British, seventeenth century
A typical late seventeenth-century goatskin binding with minimal gold tooling.
| Author: | Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626 |
| Title: | Preces privatae Graecè & Latinè. |
| Published: | Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1675. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 5866.124.13 |
| Spine height: | 14 cm |
British, seventeenth century
Corner and centerpiece designs were used across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The royal arms of James I form the centerpiece on this presentation copy of John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, printed in London in 1624.
| Author: | Smith, John, 1580-1631 |
| Title: | The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. |
| Published: | London: Printed by I. D. and I. H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | Oversize 1230.862.6q |
| Spine height: | 30 cm |
The Restoration period in England after 1660 was a golden age in English bookbinding, with an abundance of wonderful work in design and technique. The "cottage roof" is one design associated with this period. Many of the binders remain anonymous, but are referred to as Queen's binders, the Centre-rectangle binder, the Naval binder, the Sombre binder, and the like. Among the binders we can identify by name are Samuel and Charles Mearne and Roger Bartlett.
British, seventeenth century
The Devotional binder.
| Author: | Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681 |
| Title: | The gentleman's calling . |
| Published: | London: Printed by R. Norton for R. Pawlet, 1676. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert H. Taylor Collection (RHT) |
| Call number: | 17th-9 |
| Spine height: | 18 cm |
British, seventeenth century
Binding by Samuel Mearne.
| Author: | Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 |
| Title: | The essays or counsels, civil and moral, of Sir Frances Bacon. |
| Published: | London: Printed by M. Clark, for Samuel Mearne, 1680. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | PR2206 .xA3 1680 |
| Spine height: | 16 cm |
British, seventeenth century
A typical sombre binding.
| Author: | Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644 |
| Title: | Emblemes. |
| Published: | London: Printed for J.W. & F.E., 1663. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | PR3652 .E3 1663s |
| Spine height: | 15 cm |
British, seventeenth century
Black goatskin with a cottage roof.
| Author: | Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649 |
| Title: | Steps to the temple. |
| Published: |
London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley,1648. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert H. Taylor Collection (RHT) |
| Call number: | 17th-133 |
| Spine height: | 15 cm |
British, seventeenth century
Red goatskin binding with a design built up of many gold-tooled impressions.
| Author: | Dryden, John, 1631-1700 |
| Title: | The conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. |
| Published: | [London]: Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1672. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert H. Taylor Collection (RHT) |
| Call number: | 17th-217 |
| Spine height: | 20 cm |
British, seventeenth century
Binding by Roger Bartlett of Oxford.
| Author: | Church of England |
| Title: | The book of common prayer. |
| Published: | London: Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1678. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | BX5145 .A4 1678 |
| Spine height: | 26 cm |
Bindings after the Restoration period.
British, eighteenth century
An Irish binding of the eighteenth century with borders
and centerpiece design created with many impressions of small tools. The
dentelle, or lacelike gold-tooled border design, with or without a centerpiece,
was very common on collectors' bindings in England and France throughout
the eighteenth century.
| Author: | Horace |
| Title: | Q. Horatii Flacci Opera. |
| Published: | Dublin: E Typographia Academiæ., 1745. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Robert Patterson Collection (PTT) |
| Call number: | 2865.1745 |
| Spine height: | 19 cm |
British, eighteenth century
Binding by Charles Hering, late
eighteenth century.
| Author: | Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 |
| Title: | The compleat angler, or, The contemplative mans recreation. |
| Published: | London: Printed by T. Maxey for R. Marriot, 1653. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Otto von Kienbusch Angling Collection (ExKi) |
| Call number: | SH433 .xA2 1653 |
| Spine height: | 15 cm |
British, nineteenth century
Roger Payne was one of the most influential and imitated binders of the late eighteenth century in England. These three nineteenth-century bindings are in the Payne style.
| Author: | Juvenal |
| Title: | Iuuenalis. Persius. |
| Published: | Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1501. |
| Location: | Rare Books (Ex) |
| Call number: | 2873.1501 |
| Spine height: | 16 cm |
British, nineteenth century
| Author: | Savile, Henry, Captain. |
| Title: | A libell of Spanish lies found at the sacke of Cales. |
| Published: | London: Printed by I. Windet, 1596. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Grenville Kane Collection (ExKa) |
| Call number: | Americana 1596 Savile |
| Spine height: | 14 cm |
British, nineteenth century
| Author: | Virgil |
| Title: | Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. |
| Edition: | Editio stereotypa. |
| Published: | Paris: Pierre & Firmin Didot, 1798. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Junius Morgan Collection (VRG) |
| Call number: | 2945.1798.11 |
| Spine height: | 14 cm |
British, eighteenth century
At the end of the eighteenth century, Christian Kalthoeber was considered by many to be the best binder in England.
| Author: | Virgil |
| Title: | Opera. |
| Published: | Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1475. |
| Location: | Rare Books: Junius Morgan Collection (VRG) |
| Call number: | 2945.1475.2 |
| Spine height: | 29 cm |