Cambridge Bookbindings : A gilt-tooled Cambridge binding, ca.1627

Davenant, John approximately 1572-1641

Cambridge Bookbindings

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Numerous copies of this book survive, very similarly bound in a Cambridge workshop which was flourishing in the late 1620s/early 1630s, but for which we do not have a binder’s name. Many of them, like this one, have a note indicating that they were author’s presentation copies.</p><p>Pasteboards, covered with brown calfskin, gilt-tooled. The spine is gilt-tooled using the narrow roll found on the covers, with a later label; red sprinkled leaf edges; narrow gilt roll round board edges; plain paper flyleaves and stubs, with separate plain paper pastedowns.</p><p>Dr David Pearson</p></p>