Simple to sumptuous: Bookbindings 1450 to the present
London binding, ca. 1649
Upper cover and spine of John Gauden, ‘Eikon Basilike : The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings’ ([London: s.n.], 1648 [i.e.1649]). RStuart 105.
London binding, ca. 1649
This London binding, which dates to around 1649, is of brown goatskin. It is tooled in gold with a skull and crowned initials CR in the centre; the flat spine is gold tooled with a row of skulls. The initials represent the English king Charles I, who was beheaded in January 1649.
Purchased by the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1974.
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