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[WOOD, Thomas (1632-1695)]. Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis. Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1674.
2 volumes in one, 2 (429 x 278mm). Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, one double-page map, two illustrations, 23 initials, 23 head-pieces, nine large woodcut initials by George Edwards. (The map shaved with loss and with small tear, small tears to blank lower blank margin of X1-Ff4 in vol.I and 6G3 in vol.II, 3B3 in vol.I with rusthole resulting in loss of a few characters.) CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED MOROCCO BY THE "SPANIEL BINDER", the covers with elaborate panelled overall decoration built up from numerous small tools, including spaniel tool with dotted outline, tulip heads, stars, flower-heads, drawer-handles, with onlaid black morocco shaped corner-pieces with overall tooling, areas of the central panels stained black or with the remains of silvering, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration made up of various small tools, g.e. (joints and head and foot of spine neatly repaired).
First edition. The "Spaniel binder" was so-named after the distinctive dog sometimes found chasing around the covers, the tool on the present work is unusual, in that the other recorded examples are all delineated with a solid rather than a dotted line. Confirmation of the attribution comes from two of the tulip-head tools which are identical with other documented examples. The binder was active from circa 1688 until about 1710 and produced amongst others bindings for both William III and Queen Anne. Wing W-3385; Madan III.2996
2 volumes in one, 2 (429 x 278mm). Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, one double-page map, two illustrations, 23 initials, 23 head-pieces, nine large woodcut initials by George Edwards. (The map shaved with loss and with small tear, small tears to blank lower blank margin of X1-Ff4 in vol.I and 6G3 in vol.II, 3B3 in vol.I with rusthole resulting in loss of a few characters.) CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH RED MOROCCO BY THE "SPANIEL BINDER", the covers with elaborate panelled overall decoration built up from numerous small tools, including spaniel tool with dotted outline, tulip heads, stars, flower-heads, drawer-handles, with onlaid black morocco shaped corner-pieces with overall tooling, areas of the central panels stained black or with the remains of silvering, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration made up of various small tools, g.e. (joints and head and foot of spine neatly repaired).
First edition. The "Spaniel binder" was so-named after the distinctive dog sometimes found chasing around the covers, the tool on the present work is unusual, in that the other recorded examples are all delineated with a solid rather than a dotted line. Confirmation of the attribution comes from two of the tulip-head tools which are identical with other documented examples. The binder was active from circa 1688 until about 1710 and produced amongst others bindings for both William III and Queen Anne. Wing W-3385; Madan III.2996