Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Jubert, Jean-Pierre, engraver.
Salomons, David, Sir, 1851-1925, former owner.
J. & E. Bumpus, binder.
Riviere & Son, binder.
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| Provenance: | Former owner's armorial bookplate: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart. of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells; engraving signed W. P. B. 1908.
Laid in: early 20th century bookseller's description with provenance information: "From the Pichon Library and the de Mongeront Sale, May 1911."
Binding: contemporary red morocco over boards; elaborate gold tooling; red tin inlays; centerpieces of tin illustrated scenes under glass (on front cover a harbor scene of two fishermen clamming, with sailboats and a building in the background, on back cover a different seaside scene with ducks and a port village); mirror on front pastedown; pocket with blue silk sides built into rear pastedown; Dutch gilt paper flyleaves; gold edges; housed in later blue morocco case with gold ruled covers and gold tooled spine signed by Bumpus Ltd., Oxford St. W.; housed with another volume in dark blue, gold tooled morocco case by Riviere & Son.
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| Notes: | Date of publication inferred from 1787 calendar on folded plates.
Main text is ballads with names of tunes given. Contains 13 engraved plates of coiffures and a woodcut calendar consisting of two folded plates.
At head of title: Jubert fecit.
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