Constantini Hugenii Equitis Otiorum Libri Sex
Creator
Date
1641
Identifier
Shoults La 1641 H
Publisher
[Haarlem: Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch]
Abstract
Whether books are large or small, the effort in binding remains the same: collating the sections, sewing the sections together, trimming the edges, rounding and backing the spine, and wrapping the text block with a cover of some sort. Here two plain, functional vellum bindings are contrasted with an ornate red morocco binding on a 1697 Italian edition of the Office of the Church. Only the stubs of the fore-edge ties remain on the Elzevier edition (1634), which has a limp vellum cover. The vellum on the ‘landscape’ Huygens (1641) is rigid, wrapped over pasteboard. Both books have vellum cords stabbed through the outer cover; this practice giving greater strength to the binding.
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Citation
Constantijn Huygens, “Constantini Hugenii Equitis Otiorum Libri Sex,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 23, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7415.