![BINDING -- [HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. The Rules and Regulations of the Magdalen-Charity, with instructions to the women who are admitted ... fourth edition. London: W. Faden for the Charity, sold by H. Parker, 1769.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07399_0201_000(021233).jpg?w=1)
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BINDING -- [HANWAY, Jonas (1712-86)]. The Rules and Regulations of the Magdalen-Charity, with instructions to the women who are admitted ... fourth edition. London: W. Faden for the Charity, sold by H. Parker, 1769.
2 parts, 8° (172 x 102mm). Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary crimson morocco gilt, bound for Jonas Hanway, covers with a border composed of roses and foliage, a winged hourglass in corners, in the centre a woman's head surrounded by the motto 'O Save Me Save Me', and a rhomb of two rows of stars, spine with green morocco lettering-piece and repeated floral tool, yellow edges, cloth case. Provenance: Jonas Hanway (binding) -- Standert, 4 Great James Street (18th-century inscription on fly-leaf) -- John Sparrow (booklabel; his sale, Christie's London, 21 October 1992, lot 164).
A DISTINCTIVE BINDING BY HANWAY'S SECOND BINDER. An indefatigable philanthropist, Hanway helped found the Magdalen Charity for Fallen Women, incorporated in 1769 when it moved into a new building in St George's Fields. A census of 23 such Hanway bindings is given in G.D. Hobson, English Bindings in the Library of J.R. Abbey (1940); this binding is unrecorded.
2 parts, 8° (172 x 102mm). Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary crimson morocco gilt, bound for Jonas Hanway, covers with a border composed of roses and foliage, a winged hourglass in corners, in the centre a woman's head surrounded by the motto 'O Save Me Save Me', and a rhomb of two rows of stars, spine with green morocco lettering-piece and repeated floral tool, yellow edges, cloth case. Provenance: Jonas Hanway (binding) -- Standert, 4 Great James Street (18th-century inscription on fly-leaf) -- John Sparrow (booklabel; his sale, Christie's London, 21 October 1992, lot 164).
A DISTINCTIVE BINDING BY HANWAY'S SECOND BINDER. An indefatigable philanthropist, Hanway helped found the Magdalen Charity for Fallen Women, incorporated in 1769 when it moved into a new building in St George's Fields. A census of 23 such Hanway bindings is given in G.D. Hobson, English Bindings in the Library of J.R. Abbey (1940); this binding is unrecorded.
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