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A New Book of Cyphers

Print
1729 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print from a set including a title-page, advertisement and 100 plates, full-bound in calf, the spine gold tooled, marbled endpapers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA New Book of Cyphers (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Samuel Sympson (after), plate from a set including a title-page, advertisement and 100 plates, full-bound in a volume, comprising a set entitled 'A New Book of Cyphers...' London, 1729.
Physical description
Print from a set including a title-page, advertisement and 100 plates, full-bound in calf, the spine gold tooled, marbled endpapers.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 15.2cm
  • Approx. width: 10.8cm
  • Volume height: 16.5cm
  • Volume width: 14cm
Object history
The advertisement at the front of this volume gives the names of 71 contemporary engravers recommending the work. The Victoria and Albert Museum Library has an undated edition published by J. Bowles & Son; the British Museum Library has three copies, dated 1726, 1736 and [1750?].
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 5321.
Collection
Accession number
E.381-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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