Lot 404
Enamelled Binding - Jerrard, Paul
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
£625
Description
The Book of Exotic Birds. A Series of Richly Colored plates. London: Paul Jerrard, [?1852], 4to, hand-coloured title and 9 chromolithographed plates, black morocco-backed enamelled binding by Henry Noel Humphreys with inset mother-of-pearl, gutta-percha perished and plates loose, head and base of spine worn and upper corner worn
Footnote
Note: Jerrard’s patent application for this type of binding for gift books is dated 1 November 1852, no. 604: ‘Ornamenting japanned and papier-mâché surfaces, as also the surfaces of varnished and polished woods.' http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/books/king.html