?Charity School Binder.- Blake (William, of Highgate) The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or A Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the easie carrying of it on, first edition, drop-head title, 4 engraved plates, lacking final blank leaf, some water-staining and soiling, short tear to P1, original black morocco, covers tooled with an all-over gilt pattern of pointille drawer-handles and stylised flower tools, decorative gilt panelled spine, probably by "The Charity School Binder", a little worn and dulled, repairs to corners, 8vo, [1670].

⁂ The binding is in the style of the Queen's binders, though is probably by a Charity School Binder. There are however no tools in common with the example illustrated by Mirjam Foot in The Book Collector, Spring 1983, nor with the example in Maggs cat. 1075 item 75.

With the 4 plates, entitled "Father Time", "Charity", "Front elevation of the School" and "Butterflies". Copies frequently lack one or more plate since they were used as receipts and "hung up in the School-house". William Blake of Covent Garden, was a woollen draper, the son of Francis Blake of Highgate, and founder and house-keeper of the Ladies Charity School on Highgate Hill. ESTC suggests the date of the book may be 1680.