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English Binding of coat of arms of Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon.- Pontanus (Lodovicus), Giovanni Battista Castiglione & others. Singularia utilissima ac admoduz necessaria singularia preclarissima profundissimorum in memoria [et] excellentissimorum iurisconsultorum dominorum..., additions by Jean Thierry, collation: Aa4, a-z, A-H8, I4, Gothic type, title in red and black, woodcut device on title, initials and device on verso of last f., some staining in lower margins, some slight soiling, slightly browned, contemporary ownership inscription on title of Richard Smyth, later ownership inscription "3s 4d... Richardus Stane... 1594" and with his late 16 century notes on 2 fly-leaves at beginning and margins throughout text, contemporary English blind-stamped calf of the coats of arms of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon in two panels on upper and lower covers, covers chipped where clasps removed not affecting panels, rebacked, [Not in Adams; Oldham. Blind panels of English binders, plate 15, HE 3 & 4)], sm. 4to, Lyon, Joannes de Jonvelle [for Simon Vincent], 1517.

⁂ Civil Law.

An extremely scarce example of English binding, contemporaneous with the work of the binder John Reynes. An example of this binding in an identical binding is in St. John's College, Cambridge.

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English Binding of coat of arms of Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon.- Pontanus (Lodovicus), Giovanni Battista Castiglione & others. Singularia utilissima ac admoduz necessaria singularia preclarissima profundissimorum in memoria [et] excellentissimorum iurisconsultorum dominorum..., additions by Jean Thierry, collation: Aa4, a-z, A-H8, I4, Gothic type, title in red and black, woodcut device on title, initials and device on verso of last f., some staining in lower margins, some slight soiling, slightly browned, contemporary ownership inscription on title of Richard Smyth, later ownership inscription "3s 4d... Richardus Stane... 1594" and with his late 16 century notes on 2 fly-leaves at beginning and margins throughout text, contemporary English blind-stamped calf of the coats of arms of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon in two panels on upper and lower covers, covers chipped where clasps removed not affecting panels, rebacked, [Not in Adams; Oldham. Blind panels of English binders, plate 15, HE 3 & 4)], sm. 4to, Lyon, Joannes de Jonvelle [for Simon Vincent], 1517.

⁂ Civil Law.

An extremely scarce example of English binding, contemporaneous with the work of the binder John Reynes. An example of this binding in an identical binding is in St. John's College, Cambridge.

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