Roger Payne, English bookbinder of the eighteenth century / by Cyril Davenport.

  • Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941.
Date:
1929
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Credit: Roger Payne, English bookbinder of the eighteenth century / by Cyril Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11. Bettini (Antonio), Bishop of Foligno. Libro del monte santo di Dio. Florence: Nicolo di Lorenzo, 1477. Olive morocco polished smooth. Slightly reduced. See pi. 12. 12. Bettini. Doublure of Libro del monte santo di Dio. 1477. Olive morocco polished smooth and stained paper, showing Rylands bookplate. Slightly reduced. See pi. 11. 13. Homer. Ilias and Odyssea. (Greek and Latin.) Et in eadem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi.... Leyden: F. Hackius, 1655-6. Olive morocco polished smooth. No Doublure but shows one of his joints in a darker (blue) colour of leather. Slightly reduced. PLATES IN COLLOTYPE From British Museum 14. Ides. Travels. London, 1706. Diced russia leather. With Grenville coat-of-arms. 15. Postel. La Loi Salique. Paris, 1780. Smooth citron morocco. Doublure with Fleurs-de-lys. 16. St Augustine. De Arte predicandi. Mainz, c. 1465. Pale green smooth morocco. With arms of King George III. Slightly reduced. From Manchester The John Rylands Library 17. England’s Helicon. (Poems by various authors collected by John Boden- ham.) London: I. R. for J. Flasket, 1600. Olive morocco polished smooth. 18. Homer: Opera omnia. Venice: Aldus, 1504. 2 vols. On vellum. The first or “Ilias” volume, the binding of which was commenced, but was left unfinished, by Roger Payne. The second volume, “Odyssea,” bound by Charles Hering. Compare tools, especially the lyre, with those of Payne, on first volume. Olive morocco polished smooth. Spencer crest. 19. Homer: Opera omnia. Editio Princeps. Florence, 1488. Red straight grained morocco. One-fourth reduction. 20. Juvenal (Decimus Junius) and Persius Flaccus (Aulus). Satyrae. Venice: Aldus, 1501. On vellum. Olive morocco polished smooth. 21. Persius Flaccus (Aulus). Satyrae. Rome: Ulrich Han, 1470. Olive morocco polished smooth. 22. Petrarca (Francesco). Sonnetti e triunfi. Without place, printer’s name or date [c. 1473]. Olive morocco polished smooth. 23. Pindar. Olympia, Pythia, etc. Paris: H. Stephanus, 1560. Olive morocco polished smooth. vm