Restoration Binding.- Patrick (Simon) The Christian Sacrifice, third edition, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and plate, with various ink signatures to front endpapers and contemporary manuscript prayer to rear (part folding and pinned in), contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt, probably by Queens' Binder A, covers with an all-over design of drawer handles, flowers, volutes, stars and dots with many petals infilled with silver paint, spine in compartments with similar decoration, g.e., rather worn, upper cover detached with front free endpaper loose, spine chipped at head, [Wing P762], 12mo, R. Royston], 1675; sold as a binding, not subject to return
⁂ A number of the ornaments used here are very similar to item 61 in Howard Nixon's English Restoration Bookbindings, 1974 (Queens' Binder A, possibly William Nott).
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