ALLESTREE, Richard (1619-1681)]. The Ladies Calling . Oxford: 1677. 8° (181 x 111mm). Engraved frontispiece and title vignette. LONDON BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY GILT-TOOLED RED TURKEY, the sides with a sun-in-circle roll enclosing a linear design of hexagons with a Latin cross imposed on a saltire cross at centre, the former tooled with four small tulips on a ground of dots with a spangle at each tip, the other hexagons tooled with curlicues and dots which are repeated at borders, spine in six panels with raised bands and alternating diagonals of flowers, the roll repeated on board edges and turn-ins, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt edges (upper joint just slightly split, top spine band wormed, extremities a little rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : 1684 inscription on front blank but with name torn away; Catherine Harmor (signature on front blank); Sir Charles Mordaunt (armorial bookplate). Fifth edition. Madan 3134; Wing A-1145. [Richard ALLESTREE]. The Whole Duty of Man . London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlet, 1682. 8° (191 x 109mm). Engraved frontispiece and additional title. (Burn hole in A3, spotting.) LONDON BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY GILT-TOOLED RED TURKEY by the same binder as the previous volume, with a uniform hexagonal design (joints and corners rubbed, spine damaged at foot). Provenance : 'I leave this book of the Whole Duty of Man & another bound like it being the officium Eucharisticum or preparatory office of the sacrament, to my dear Daughter Mary Harmor, both being a particular gift to mee [sic] by her Excellent mother -- Tempster' (early 18th-century inscription on front free endpaper); Sir Charles Mordaunt (armorial bookplate). Later edition. The second binding differs from the first only in smaller details such as the use of stars instead of spangles on the covers, in the tooling at the angles of the panel, and the substitution of stars and volutes for flowers on the spine. The reference to the former binding as 'the officium Eucharisticum' rather than The Ladies Calling is puzzling, but it is remarkable that, despite changes in ownership, these two bindings have remained together since the time they were made. Wing A-1185B. (2)
ALLESTREE, Richard (1619-1681)]. The Ladies Calling . Oxford: 1677. 8° (181 x 111mm). Engraved frontispiece and title vignette. LONDON BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY GILT-TOOLED RED TURKEY, the sides with a sun-in-circle roll enclosing a linear design of hexagons with a Latin cross imposed on a saltire cross at centre, the former tooled with four small tulips on a ground of dots with a spangle at each tip, the other hexagons tooled with curlicues and dots which are repeated at borders, spine in six panels with raised bands and alternating diagonals of flowers, the roll repeated on board edges and turn-ins, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt edges (upper joint just slightly split, top spine band wormed, extremities a little rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : 1684 inscription on front blank but with name torn away; Catherine Harmor (signature on front blank); Sir Charles Mordaunt (armorial bookplate). Fifth edition. Madan 3134; Wing A-1145. [Richard ALLESTREE]. The Whole Duty of Man . London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlet, 1682. 8° (191 x 109mm). Engraved frontispiece and additional title. (Burn hole in A3, spotting.) LONDON BINDING OF CONTEMPORARY GILT-TOOLED RED TURKEY by the same binder as the previous volume, with a uniform hexagonal design (joints and corners rubbed, spine damaged at foot). Provenance : 'I leave this book of the Whole Duty of Man & another bound like it being the officium Eucharisticum or preparatory office of the sacrament, to my dear Daughter Mary Harmor, both being a particular gift to mee [sic] by her Excellent mother -- Tempster' (early 18th-century inscription on front free endpaper); Sir Charles Mordaunt (armorial bookplate). Later edition. The second binding differs from the first only in smaller details such as the use of stars instead of spangles on the covers, in the tooling at the angles of the panel, and the substitution of stars and volutes for flowers on the spine. The reference to the former binding as 'the officium Eucharisticum' rather than The Ladies Calling is puzzling, but it is remarkable that, despite changes in ownership, these two bindings have remained together since the time they were made. Wing A-1185B. (2)
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