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SILVER BINDING -- Blank book, 38ll., but titled in manuscript Drawings made for Major J.R.Abbey by his friends commenced at Great Yarmouth in wartime 1942, and with two original drawings by Kenneth Hobson (of Ringmer Windmill, Sussex) and Hanslip Fletcher (of Bristol).
Oblong 12° (52 x 90mm). Mid-17th-century Dutch or German silver binding, unmarked, etched with landscapes and figures, modern green silk liners and endleaves, modern cloth box. Provenance: Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel, etc., collection number 2274).
The upper cover is etched with a village scene, the exterior of an inn, with figures (one on horseback), beer tuns and a dog. The lower cover with an italianate landscape with a river, in the foreground Philip baptising the Ethiopian eunuch, his chariot on the road behind. The spine is divided into three panels with flower sprays, one plain clasp of silver. A silver pencil with mounts has been attached to the binding at a later date. The subject on the upper cover has some elements which suggest Joseph and Mary finding no room at the Inn, both subjects evidently derive from a graphic source. The attractively etched flower-sprays recall the designs of the younger de Bry and suggest a date not later than the middle of the 17th century.
Oblong 12° (52 x 90mm). Mid-17th-century Dutch or German silver binding, unmarked, etched with landscapes and figures, modern green silk liners and endleaves, modern cloth box. Provenance: Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel, etc., collection number 2274).
The upper cover is etched with a village scene, the exterior of an inn, with figures (one on horseback), beer tuns and a dog. The lower cover with an italianate landscape with a river, in the foreground Philip baptising the Ethiopian eunuch, his chariot on the road behind. The spine is divided into three panels with flower sprays, one plain clasp of silver. A silver pencil with mounts has been attached to the binding at a later date. The subject on the upper cover has some elements which suggest Joseph and Mary finding no room at the Inn, both subjects evidently derive from a graphic source. The attractively etched flower-sprays recall the designs of the younger de Bry and suggest a date not later than the middle of the 17th century.