| Binding Note: | Binding: Dublin red morocco gold-tooled to a panel design. The spine has five bands and six gold-tooled, with olive green lettering-piece in the second, date on tan label at the tail. Comb marbled endleaves and gilt edges. Illustrated in McDonnell and Healy, plate XX and identified as the work of Joseph Leathley's binder;; individual tools are identified. According to this source it is one of twenty 'red leather' copies supplied to Trinity College by Leathley. The first book issued by Dublin University Press and dedicated by the Provost and Fellows of Trinity to Bishop Sterne who had established the press. Another copy, also one of the twenty supplied by Leathley; the covers are similarly tooled but their is variation in the spine at XIXC19. |
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