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



39 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE GOLDSMITH QOHN) GOLDSMITH, 1678. AN 

 ALMANACK FOR 1678. Wherein are contained many Observations, etc. With a 

 Description of the Highways, Marts and Fairs in England and Wales. The like 

 not extant in any other, London, A. Clark, 1678, narrow 12010, printed in red and 

 black, Fairs, etc. partly in blHCfe UttCC, IN A VERY CHARMING CONTEM- 

 PORARY ENGLISH BINDING OF BLACK MOROCCO, THE SIDES 



COVERED WITH AN ELABORATE DESIGN IN GOLD HEIGTHENED IN RED, composed 



of a deep outer border of ornamental tooling bordered on either side by a double fillet, 

 enclosing a central panel geometrically tooled to a scroll pattern, the spaces between 

 filled with quatrefoils, trefoils and leaves, partly coloured in red, the leaves wholly so, 

 and bordered by dotted gold lines, accompanied by gold dots, small circles, etc., back 

 delicately line tooled in compartments, gilt roll on edges of boards, gilt edges, with 

 ornamental clasp, 2 



A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ROYAL BINDER, SAMUEL MEARNE'S SKILL, IN A 

 SPLENDID STATE OF PRESERVATION. From the famous Elton coliection of bindings. The 

 Almanack itself is highly interesting and its blank leaves for memoranda at the beginning and 

 end contain curious manuscript notes by the original owner, those at the end being headings, 

 etc., of various sermons heard at Bury St. Edmunds and Oxford. On one page is a curious 

 woodcut diagram of a hand " To know the time of the day by your hand " with a straw. 



[See Illustration.] 



40 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE THE HOLY BIBLE, containing the Old 



Testament and the New, London, Assigns of J. Bill and C. Barker, Printers to 

 the King, 1674 (title to New Testament dated 1673) THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS : 

 collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins and others, Printed for 

 the Company of Stationers, 1674. In i vol., thick narrow 12010, engraved title with 

 the Royal Arms, small rust hole through title and first 6 leaves, injuring a bit of the 

 title and a few letters of text, FINELY BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH OLIVE MOROCCO, 

 richly tooled in gold with an outer triple line border enclosing a geometrical design, its 

 outer corners filled with vine sprays with an ornamental centrepiece composed of 

 elegant vine and floral tooling, the intervening space occupied by the well-known 

 Mcarne tulip and rose in pointille and gold circles, back tooled in compartments with 

 half circles, the insides and corners filled with vine sprays, edges of boards tooled, gilt 

 edges, WITH ORNAMENTAL CHASED SILVER CLASPS, forepart of upper clasp missing, 

 small hole in lower band of back and top corner of front cover a little worn, OTHER- 

 - WISE IN AN EXCELLENT STATE OF PRESERVATION, 6 6s 



A FINE EXAMPLE OF SAMUEL MEARNE'S SKILL. VERY INTERESTING ALSO FOR THE FINELY 

 WORKED SILVER CLASPS, THE LOWER SURVIVING FOREPART ENGRAVED WITH THE NAME OF 

 ANNE KING, EVIDENTLY THE PERSON FOR WHOM THE VOLUME WAS BOUND. 



41 BINDING BY SAMUEL MEARNE POLHILL (Edward, of Burwash in Sussex) 



SPECULUM THEOLOGY IN CHRISTO : or, a view of some Divine Truths, London, 

 for T. Cockerill, 1678, sm. 410, ELABORATELY BOUND IN OLD ENGLISH RED 



MOROCCO, THE SIDES RICHLY TOOLED IN GOLD TO A VERY UNUSUAL DESIGN, 



composed of an outer double fillet with semi-circles filled with floral sprays at the 

 centre of each side, an inner compartment surrounded by a doublt ornamental border, 

 each of them confined by delicate curved pointille lines, with large floral corner 



fleurons, enclosing a central panel, surrounded by a single ornamental border, with 

 corner pointille fleurons, tooled with a geometrical design, the corners filled with vine 

 sprays, the centre with a lozenge sliaped ornament terminating at top and bottom with 

 a tulip design, its interior divided into 2 parts by a twisted pointille line with an 

 elaborate vine ornament on either side, all the spaces, both in compartments and panel, 



filled with the well-known Mearne rose and tulips, back geometrically tooled in semi- 

 circular compartments filled with vine or floral designs, inside borders, edges of boards 

 also tooled, back cracked and slightly defective at bottom, edge of lower cover worn, 

 but the sides, especially the lower one well preserved, j 75 



A RICH DESIGN ENTIRELY OUT OF THE ORDINARY RUN OF SAMUEL MEARNE'S BINDINGS, AND AT 

 THE SAME TIME A THOROUGHLY CHARACTERISTIC EXAMPLE OF HIS SKILL. 



