Early 17th-century English gold-tooled calfskin (A.3.87)
Early 17th-century English gold-tooled calfskin binding, with a design that continues on the spine and gauffered edges. From an English Psalter (1606).
Given by George Udny Yule.
16th-century gold-tooled calf with date 1585 & initials I.G. (Bb.1.3-4)
16th-century gold-tooled calfskin binding, with a centre and cornerpiece design incorporating the date 1585 at the top, and the initials I.G. at the bottom. From an edition of Cicero's Works (Geneva, 1584).
16th-century English gold-tooled calf (T.10.43)
A 16th-century gold-tooled calfskin binding, probably English, and gauffered edges to the text block. From a volume containing a Latin Psalter (1580).
16th-century French? gold-tooled calf with Jesuit device (Aa/G.28.34)
A 16th-century gold-tooled calfskin binding, probably French, bearing a Jesuit device and gauffered edges to the textblock. From a volume containing the works of Marco Girolamo Vida (1566).
16th-century French gold & black-painted binding (Lyon) (T.9.30)
16th-century French gold-painted calf (cf. Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, 1891, H.12). The style copies the contemporary entrelac or strapwork bindings made popular by the collector Jean Grolier who was treasurer of France.
16th-century French gold-decorated calfskin with strapwork design (Ee.7.39)
16th-century French gold-decorated calfskin binding, with darker onlays, in a strapwork design, probably produced in Paris. The style copies the contemporary entrelac bindings made popular by the collector Jean Grolier who was treasurer of France. From a copy of Antonio de Guevara's L'orloge des princes (1550).
16th-century French? calf with gold-tooled medallion & lettering (Cc.18.8)
16th-century French? gold-tooled calf bearing central cartouches: the one on the front cover bearing the author's name; the one on the rear containing a medallion of Dido. Medallions of this type were popular on both French and English bindings of the period. From an edition of Lucan's Pharsalia (Lyon, 1536).
18th-century English gold-tooled red morocco (Ff.10.26)
18th-century English gold-tooled red morocco binding. From Daniel Newhouse's Art of sailing by the logarithms, or artificial sines and tangents (London, 1701).
18th-century Irish binding, red morocco with gold-tooling and white onlay (T.13.9)
Typical Irish binding of the 18th century, with ornately floral tooling to the field, onlaid with a lozenge of white leather. From a Book of common prayer printed by John Baskerville in 1762.
Gift of Hugh Gatty.
18th-century English (Cambridge) gold-tooled dark blue morocco (Bb.8.30)
Gold-tooled dark blue morocco binding from the Library's copy of the Great Bible of 1539. It was produced in Cambridge, ca. 1750, probably by a binder called Ed. Moore, active in Cambridge in the 18th-century, and who has work listed in the College's account books for 1748-1760. He often tended to copy the style of bindings produced by Thomas Eliot and Christopher Chapman for Robert Harley, the Earl of Oxford, with their distinctive central lozenge, but tended to use better quality leather.