| Binding Note: | Binding: A very fine copy in a superb Irish red morocco gold-tooled binding. Maurice Craig (plate 31) classified it as the finest surviving featherwork binding he had seen and identified it as the work of Parliamentary Binder B, identified by Joseph McDonnell as Edward Beatty. The tools which Craig illustrates as figures 1,4,5, and 8 are used on the covers and figure 6 on the spine. The richly tooled design is worked over a rectilinear blind grid. There is a large leaf stamp in the corners. The spine has five bands and six gold-tooled compartments, blue-green lettering-piece. Double roll on turn-ins, comb-marbled endleaves and gilt edges. Preserved in buckram box. Provenance: Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton and Celia Milnes-Coates. It was exhibited in Paris in 1951. The bookplate on the lower pastedown is probably that of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1743-1805, brother of George III Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin from 1771. It was sold in the Duke of Gloucester's executors' sale, lot 603, July 29, 1835. It was bought by the bookseller Payne, who presumably sold it to Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton, the father of the first Lord Crewe, father of Lady Celia Milnes-Coats. Copy also of third edition, Dublin 1777, two volumes bound by McKenzie. |
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