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SLIS 25th Anniversary Title Page

first page of the SLIS 25th Anniversary Display

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Miniature Leather-Covered Bible [original]

Binding: good ; brown leather ; some rubbing ; bumped corners ; paste-down endpapers have handwriting

Spine: good to very good ; brown leather ; gilded title ("BIBLE") ; gold tooling (rubbed off) ; very light wear

Textblock: fair to good ; some…

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…

Boyle's Fashionable Court and Country Guide for January, 1833 [original]

Binding: poor to fair ; front cover completely separated from material ; spine and back cover are still connected ; red leather with gold tooling [border detail and a crown with the initials "A" and "R" on either side of the top of the crown on the…

Catalogue Des Livres [original]

A French bookseller's catalogue of French, English, Spanish, Italian, and Latin books.

Binding: fair to good ; paper binding (black marbling) ; rubbing on sides, edges, front, back, spine

Spine: fair ; paper binding ; damage at top and bottom…

Collection d'Anciens Evangiles [original]

Binding: very good ; fully bound in red leather ; marbled enpapers (yellow, blue, green, red) ; borders of inside binding (before endpapers) feature gold tooling

Spine: very good ; 5 raised bands ; gilded text in two compartments reads "COLLECTION…

Conference D'Antitvs, Panvrge, et Gveridon [original]

Binding: very good ; navy blue leather ; marbled endpapers ; gold tooling around inside edges of binding and before the leather meets the marbled endpapers ; gilded foreedges ; slip enclosed reads: "THIBARON-ECHAUBARD BINDING"

Spine: good ; 5…

The Conspiracy or the Change of Government [original]

Play: 22 cm ; Solander case: 23 cm ; Protective board: 22 cm

Binding: protective sleeve and folded board

Textblock: good to very good ; at least 2 pages may gave had repair work done ; some discolouration ; one crack on final page ; some…

Cuneiform Clay Tablet [facsimile]

Protected: in a lidded (very worn) cardboard box ; embedded in a soft material that looks like cotton on top of a synthetic material

Sticker on box reads: Oriental Institute Museum

Publishing note: writing on front and back and on parts of one…

Dante's Divina Comedia [original]

Binding: fair to good ; fully bound in paper ; some wear, especially at corners and bottom front board slightly bent in at top ; markings that appear to be red ink are visible on the back board ; plain endpapers

Spine: good ; features hand-printed…