London, Printed and are to be sold by W. Freeman, at the Artichoke next St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1688
The Queen's binders. A fine copy in an overall excellent state of preservation of Seneca's Morals. All early editions of this translation by Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) are scarce, with only five copies of this issue of the 1688 edition found in UK institutional collections.
Possibly one of the Queen's binders: 'They all started work in the 1670s, and made frequent use of the recently introduced drawer-handle tools and volutes with pointillé outlines rather than the floral volutes much used by other binders of the period. They all used a conventional pointillé flower tool with four petals and two leaves, and the shape of this is usually the easiest method of distinguishing between them' (Howard Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1974, p.32).
Fourth edition; 8vo (18 x 11.5 cm); text in English, engraved frontispiece, early female ownership inscription in pen to title header, bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper recto, pen trials to front free endpaper verso, old sale description tipped-in to frontis recto, A2 cancel, text continuous despite irregular pagination, offsetting to pastedowns, small tears to bottom margin of frontis not affecting design; contemporary red morocco, elaborately gilt tooled panels in the style of the Queen's binders, with an 'all-over' pattern of drawer-handles, circles, and 4-petalled flowers in pointillé outline, within outer gilt roll border, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, minor wear to extremities, small closed split to spine ends, internally clean, a fine copy; [36], 113, [9], 115-335, [3], 331-408, 209-232, [8], 241-397, [3], 13, [1]pp.
ESTC R21852.
Possibly one of the Queen's binders: 'They all started work in the 1670s, and made frequent use of the recently introduced drawer-handle tools and volutes with pointillé outlines rather than the floral volutes much used by other binders of the period. They all used a conventional pointillé flower tool with four petals and two leaves, and the shape of this is usually the easiest method of distinguishing between them' (Howard Nixon, English Restoration Bindings, 1974, p.32).
Fourth edition; 8vo (18 x 11.5 cm); text in English, engraved frontispiece, early female ownership inscription in pen to title header, bookplates to front pastedown and front free endpaper recto, pen trials to front free endpaper verso, old sale description tipped-in to frontis recto, A2 cancel, text continuous despite irregular pagination, offsetting to pastedowns, small tears to bottom margin of frontis not affecting design; contemporary red morocco, elaborately gilt tooled panels in the style of the Queen's binders, with an 'all-over' pattern of drawer-handles, circles, and 4-petalled flowers in pointillé outline, within outer gilt roll border, gilt spine in 6 compartments, all edges gilt, minor wear to extremities, small closed split to spine ends, internally clean, a fine copy; [36], 113, [9], 115-335, [3], 331-408, 209-232, [8], 241-397, [3], 13, [1]pp.
ESTC R21852.
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