Browse Items (45 total)

  • Collection: Rare Books and Special Materials

Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson [original]

Binding: good to very good ; brown leather binding, Cambride-style panel ; blind tooling on front and back covers ; some rubbing on back cover ; bumped corners

Spine: very good ; brown leather with red leather onlay ; 5 raised bands with gold…

Traitte Des Bibliotheques [original]

Binding: poor ; boards are covered in marbled paper ; bumped corners ; wear along edges and on front of boards

Spine: poor ; spine covering has been removed ; sewing structure with sewing tapes exposed

Textblock: good ; some discolouration and…

Title Unknown, leather-bound book [original]

Binding: good ; bound in wooden boards covered loosely with brown leather ; leather shows some wear including rubbing and a few holes

Spine: good ; brown leather ; no decoration

Leaves: fair to good ; pages are very fragile ; some are damaged…

The Works of the English Poets [original]

Binding: fair to good ; paper covered boards ; some spotting ; bumped corners ; some wear on edges ; front cover loose

Spine: poor ; covered removed ; exposed sewing

Textblock: good to very good

Contents: The Poems of Edmund Smith ; The…

The St. Albans Psalter [facsimile]

Binding: good to very good ; some staining ; bumped corners ; cracked hinge (back cover) ; three very small areas of damage that appear to be holes

Spine: good to very good ; cloth bound ; some fraying n side of front cover ; "THE ST. ALBANS…

The Silent Sleep [original]

Protected in plastic bag ; leaves very good to near fine ; printed on 1 piece of paper watermarked: "CERTIFICATE Royale [9]6% COTTON [CONTENT]" ; evidence of light bending at bottom corners

Lyrics: "They sleep, they sleep the silent sleep. They…

The Psalter, Old Testament [original]

Fair to very good; parchment (or vellum) folio of manuscript ; partial sewing evident ; rubrication ; illumination with gilt details ; legible script ; some bleeding of ink and rippling of pages most likely due to humidity/moisture damage (possibly…

The History of the Desertion [original]

Binding: good to very good ; leather bound (brown) ; a small hole in back cover (board visible) ; some cracking ; rubbed edges ; some visible wear ; embossed border and designs on front and back cover ; end papers contain print (seem to be discards…

The Historical and Chronological Theatre of Christopher Helvicus [original]

Binding: good to very good ; brown leather ; Cambridge-style panel ; blind tooling ; some wear on edges

Spine: good to very good ; brown leather ; 5 raised bands (some rubbing) ; "THEATRE OF CHRISTOPHE HELVICUS" in gilt in one compartment ; "1687"…

The Gospel of Mark 14.43-47, New Testament [original]

Good ; double-sided calfskin vellum sheet with musical notations ; rubrication ; hand-written