File:-Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.- - Lower cover (c20f15-58).jpg
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| [Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.] | ||||
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[Sir Julius Caesar's travelling library, individual parchment covered books and container, made to resemble a leather bound book. A restricted item.] |
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Style: Centre and cornerpiece made of small tools; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Green; Edge: Gilt, gauffered and painted |
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| Date | Binding: 17c | |||
| Medium | Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc) | |||
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Shelfmark: c20f15-58 |
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| Place of creation | Binding: England | |||
| Object history | Text: 17c; Unspecified; Unspecified | |||
| Notes | Sir Julius Caesar's Travelling Library. The contents of the box (which is made to look like a book) are small gold tooled vellum editions of the classics etc and can be called up to the Rare Books & Music Reading Room. The box which contains them is fragile and cannot be issued. | |||
| References | See H M Nixon and M M Foot, The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England, Oxford, 1992, p. 49. | |||
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