Details
ERASMUS. ANOTHER COPY (305 x 213mm). (Marginal staining on A1-2 and a1.)
BINDING: mid-17th-century FRENCH SCHOOLPRIZE BINDING of gold-tooled tan morocco, ecclesiastical arms of Harcourt College in centre of the sides, the field semé with fleurs-de-lys, two roll-tooled foliate borders, fleurs-de-lis in compartments of spine, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Pierre Gilbert, prize awarded him by the headmaster of the Latin school at HARCOURT, department of Eure (inscription); Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park (armorial and monogrammatic bookplates).
FINE CONDITION
BINDING: mid-17th-century FRENCH SCHOOLPRIZE BINDING of gold-tooled tan morocco, ecclesiastical arms of Harcourt College in centre of the sides, the field semé with fleurs-de-lys, two roll-tooled foliate borders, fleurs-de-lis in compartments of spine, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Pierre Gilbert, prize awarded him by the headmaster of the Latin school at HARCOURT, department of Eure (inscription); Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park (armorial and monogrammatic bookplates).
FINE CONDITION