MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 7 



ENGLISH LYONESE BINDING. 



27 BINDING BIFIELD (N., Preacher at Isleworth in Middlesex) The Marrow of the 



Oracles of God, London, Ralph Roouthwaite, 1620, narrow sm. 8vo, finely engraved 

 emblematical title, printed within line borders throughout \ fine copy, IN THE ORIGINAL 

 OLD ENGLISH CALF, the sides elaborately tooled in gold with an outer border of fillets 

 and outside dentelles, an inner border of scroll work divided by dotted lines in 

 compartments, surrounded by a broad fillet, central panel with highly ornamental 

 corner pieces enclosing a beautiful design of scroll and conventional flower work, with 

 the initial M in the middle, back richly tooled with a scroll work design, gilt 

 gauffred edges with a quartre foil pattern in white, remains of silk tie strings and 

 a number of silk markers, lower corner of back cover worn, \2 



A'REM ARKABLY BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN OK ORNAMENTAL ENGLISH BINDING OK THE PERIOD, OK A 

 MOST UNUSUAL DESIGN AND IN A HIGHLY DESIRABLE STATE OF PRESERVATION. On the inside 

 of front cover is pasted an heraldically coloured contemporary trick of arms. 



[See Illustration.] 



28 BINDING THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Cambridge, J. Field, Printer to the 



University, 1666. Title written on, and margins repaired THE HOLY BIBLE 

 containing the Old Testament and the New, ibid, 1668 (separate title to Neiv 

 Testament dated 1666) THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English 

 Metre, by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others, ibid. 1666, 3 vols. in i, 410, with 

 engraved title to the Old Testament, which contains the Apocrypha^ blank Qq. 4 

 wan'ing, few tiny rust holes, OLD DARK GREEN MOROCCO, sides gilt with a triple 

 fillet, narrow outside dentelle, and a broad, rich inner border of scroll and leaf work, 

 with corner flower fleurons, back gilt in compartments with delicate interlaced gold 

 lines, the spaces betiveen filled with minute quartre foils, inside borders, g.e., A FINE 



EXAMPLE OF OLD ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL BINDING IN AN EXCELLENT STATE OF 

 PRESERVATION, 4 48 



29 BINDING THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER according to the use of the Church of 



England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be 

 Sung or said in Churches, Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the 

 University, 1775 THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, Collected into English Metre by 

 T. Sternhold and J. Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrew, London, W. 

 Pearson, 1720. In i vol, 8vo, ruled in red throughout, few leaves slightly soiled, 

 OLD ENGLISH STRAIGHT GRAINED RED : MOROCCO, the side elaborately tooled in gold with 

 an outer key pattern border and a deep inner border composed of a large ornamental 

 vase at each corner with a flower issuing from it, the spaces between occupied by tall 

 vases with pendant wreaths, mirrors within wreaths, stars, and large ornamental 

 ovals, the whole connected by floral sprays and ribbons, back covered ivith gold tooling 

 in compartments of leafy diamonds and foliage sprays, inside borders, g.e., $ 35 



A VERY REMARKABLE AND UNCOMMON EXAMPLE OF XVIIlth CENTURY ENGLISH ORNAMENTAL 

 BINDING, save for a slight crack in the bottom compartment of the back, in a good state of 

 preservation. With gilt leather book label of Daniel Ewing, dated May 26, 1777. 



30 BINDING BRKVIARIUM PARISIENSE, Pars Verna, Estiva, Autumnalis, et Hiemalis, 



Parisiis, 1736, 4 vols, 4to, printed in red and black, the text within line border 

 throughout, WITH FINE FRONTISPIECE TO EACH VOLUME AFTER BOUCHER, ENGRAVED 

 BY LE BAS, containing different emblematic figures, with an interesting view of Notre 

 Dame and other Notable Parisian ecclesiastical buildings beneath each of them, 

 dedicated to C. G. G. de Vintimillt, ArchbisJiop of Paris, with his armorial bearings 

 on each title and at the head of the dedication in each volume, titles stamped " Ad 

 Usum Chori Oratorii Sammagforiani" (scored through in every case in ink), CHOICELY 



BOUND IN RICH CONTEMPORARY FRtNCH RED MOROCCO, the sides tooled in gold With 



a broad ornamental and floral border and a central wreath of entwined thorns, 

 enclosing the words "Jesus Maria," the backs elaborately tooled in compartments, 

 inside borders, gilt edges, WELL PRESERVED AND A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FAMOUS 

 FRENCH BINDER ANTOINE-MICHEL PADELOUP'S SKILL, 5 55 



