Cambridge Bookbindings : A gilt-tooled binding by Jonathan Pindar for the University Library, 1689

Foy-Vaillant, Jean 1632-1706

Cambridge Bookbindings

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Most of the bindings made for the University Library by the Pindars in the later seventeenth century are blind-tooled, but there are exceptions, like this one which was paid for in 1689. Here, the leather is a darker mottled brown than the more usual mid-brown, and the tooling is gilt-stamped. It may however be noticed that the spacing and impressing of the tooling is quite uneven. The centres of the covers have the blind-tooled Rustat armorial, showing that this was bought with the Rustat Fund (see <a href='PR-QQ-AST-00003-00032-D'>Qq*.3.32(D)</a>).</p><p>Pasteboards, covered with dark brown mottled calfskin, gilt-tooled. Rebacked, with new spine leather; dark green sprinkled leaf edges; plain paper flyleaves, with printed waste stubs wrapped round; separate plain paper pastedowns.</p><p>Dr David Pearson</p></p>