Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself, with fine binding by The Guild of Women Binders
Book
1898 (published)
1898 (published)
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146 + 193 pages
Format: 12mo.
Brown leather with gold tooling and coloured leather onlays
Blue tooled leather with gold Art Nouveau floral motif decoration with stylised red disc flowers at the top.
Format: 12mo.
Brown leather with gold tooling and coloured leather onlays
Blue tooled leather with gold Art Nouveau floral motif decoration with stylised red disc flowers at the top.
Object details
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| Title | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself, with fine binding by The Guild of Women Binders (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Full leather hollow back sewn on 5 cords. Leather doublures with gold tooling and in-lays? Parchment free endleaf adhered to paper leaf to form stiff leaved endpapers. Double core endbands worked in a single colour silk. Untrimmed fore and tail edges. Head edge gilded with simple gauffering. |
| Brief description | Book, 'Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself', an English translation with introductory study on stoicism and the last of the stoics, translated by Gerald Henry Rendall, London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1898 (2nd ed.). |
| Physical description | 146 + 193 pages Format: 12mo. Brown leather with gold tooling and coloured leather onlays Blue tooled leather with gold Art Nouveau floral motif decoration with stylised red disc flowers at the top. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Library number | L.1769-1958 |
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| Record created | March 24, 2016 |
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