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



31 BINDING CATONIS DISTICHA MORALIA ET LILII MONITA P^EDAGOGICA, or Cato's 



Moral Dislichs and Lily's Pedagogical Admonitions. For the Use of Schools, by JOHN 

 STIRLING, M.A. AND MASTER OF ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL IN HOLBOURN, London, for 

 the author, 1734, 8vo, IN A REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY 

 ENGLISH BINDING OF RED MOROCCO, THE SIDES TOOLED TO A "COTTAGE 

 ROOK " PATTERN IN GOLD, with outer border of detitelle and pointtllc work, the spaces 

 between it and the "cottage roof" filled with elegant sprays terminating in acorns and 

 studded with stars of 2 sizes, the interior corners of the roof filled with graceful line 

 and poinlille tooling, terminating in spirals, the centre occupied by a charming design 

 with a large star in the middle and surrounded by a belt of alternate stars and dotted 

 annulets, back tooled in compartments with central ornaments, inside borders, edges of 

 boards also tooled, gilt edges, 12 125 



"ONE OK THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OK ENGLISH EARLY XVlIlth CENTURY BINDING IN THE 

 DESIDERATED "COTTAGE ROOK" PATTERN THAT THE MOST KASTIDIOUS COLLECTOR COULD 

 WISH TO POSSESS AND IN A MARVELLOUSLY K1NE KRESH STATE OK PRESERVATION. 



[See Illustration.] 



32 BINDING [FLOURNOIS (G.)] LFS ENTRLTIENS DES VOYAGEURS SUR LA MER : 



Nouvelle Edition, revue et corrigee, a La Haye, chez I. Vander Kloof, 1740, 4 vols, 

 sm. 8vo, vignette on each title and 38 interesting full-page engravings " en taille douce" 

 CHOICE COPY IN RICH OLD FRENCH RED MOROCCO, triple gold fillets oft sides, backs 

 ornamentally gilt in his characteristic style, inside borders, g.e., BY J. A. DEROME, 

 4 4S 



A FINE EXAMPLE OK THE ELDER DEROME'S SKILL IN A BEAUTIFUL STATE OK PRESERVATION. 

 The book itself is curious and rare. The British Museum only possesses Vol. 1 of this edition, 

 accompanied by Vol. 2 of the earlier edition published at Cologne in 1704. The illustrations 

 are interesting for the costume and manners of the period, and include several showing ships, a 

 duelling scene, burning an heretical book, etc., etc. 



A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF BINDING, WITH BLIND TOOLING, BY CHARLES MfiARNE, 



THE ROYAL BINDER. 



33 BINDING FORM OF PRAYER, time of William III. (London, 1690-1700), sm. 4to 



JSlHCfc XCttCl', headings, etc., in rornan, wants title and first j /eaves of signature 

 C., seme leaves soiled, 2 cancel slips pasted over portions of pp. 2 J, and some 

 margins repaired, IN A VERY REMARKABLE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH 

 BLACK MOROCCO BINDING, the sides elaborately blind tooled TO A MOST 

 UNUSUAL MEARNE DESIGN, comprised of nine centre squares, divided from each other 

 by double dotted lines, with a rosette at each angle, the four outer top and bottom 

 squares are cross hatched, the middle square has upright lines only, the centre top and 

 bottom squares have cross lines, the middle square is plain and contains a design in 

 tulips and pomegranates with a tulip at each corner, the 4 outer squares are orna- 

 mented with a graceful design of the Mearne tulip and rose, the 4 intermediate squares 

 with a large sun flower connected with each other by a diamond shaped double inter- 

 laced stem, the spaces between studded with large and small stars and annulets, the 

 top and bottom of each side occupied by a broad band divided by dotted lines so as to 

 form a kind of " cottage-roof" to the squares, whose interior is filled with semi-circles 

 and tulips together with a diamond shaped ornament, its 4 angles terminating in either 

 a trefoil, rose, or rosette, the corner spaces above the " cottage roof" tooled in diagonal 

 lines, with sprays in the angles and large and small stars, back tooled in compartments 

 with centre ornaments, inside borders, edges of borders also tooled, IN A WONDERFUL 



STATE OF PRESERVATION, 21 



A VERY REMARKABLE PIECE OK BINDING AND HIGHLY INTERESTING KOR THE UNCOMMON 

 DESIGN WITH WHICH IT is TOOLED. The book has suffered at the hands of some past owner, 

 but the binding itself is in a wonderfully fine state of preservation, AND is A HIGHLY 

 CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLE OK CHARLES MEARNE'S SKILL. 



