Pericles and Aspasia (book with fine binding)
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1903
This object is a fine bookbinding covering the volume 'Pericles and Aspasia' by Walter Savage Landor, published in 1903 in New York, where it was privately printed for the Scott-Thaw Co. The binding was designed by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and executed by the Doves Bindery.
The binding consists of a full leather tight-back structure sewn on five raised bands. The front and back boards are decorated with an intricate floral and foliate ornament tooled and stamped in gold. A central rectangular framed compartment on the front board bears the gold-lettered inscription 'PERICLES AND ASPASIA'. The book features gilt page edges, double cord single colour sewn endbands, and zig-zag cream laid endpapers.
When closed, the volume measures 350 mm in height from head to tail, 223 mm in width, and 36 mm in depth.
Evidence at a glance
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Full leather tight-back sewn on five raised bands with zig-zag cream laid endpapers. Double cord single colour sewn endbands, gilt edges.
- Dimensions
- Height (Head to tail of closed book): 350 mm; Width (Width of closed book): 223 mm; Depth (Depth of closed book): 36 mm
Technical characteristics
- Maker recorded
- Landor, Walter Savage; Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James; Doves Bindery
- Place recorded
- New York
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- Pericles and Aspasia (book with fine binding)
- Museum object number
- 38041800778664
Catalogue references
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