Cambridge Bookbindings : A simpler Edwin Moore binding for the University Library, 1750

Mariette, Pierre-Jean.

Cambridge Bookbindings

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>Although Edwin Moore’s bindery (see <a href='/view/PR-TC-00077-00001'>TC.77.1</a>) is best known for its more elaborate bindings, it also supplied many more everyday bindings; numerous colleges, and the University Library, have records of Moore supplying such bindings in their accounts. This one is part of a two-volume folio set which Moore bound for the University Library in 1750, for nine shillings; stylistically it is more in the tradition of <a href='/view/PR-00004-00007-00032'>4.7.32</a>, with no stamped decoration on the covers, but gilt tooling and labelling on the spine.</p><p>Pasteboards, covered with mid-brown calfskin, with no impressed decoration on the covers; the spine is gilt-tooled, with contemporary red and black goatskin labels. Red sprinkled leaf edges; narrow gilt roll round board edges; conjugate plain paper flyleaves and pastedowns.</p><p>Dr David Pearson</p></p>