SILVER BINDING -- Blank book, 38ll., but titled in manuscript Drawings made for Major J.R.Abbey by his friends commenced at Great Yarmouth in wartime 1942 , and with two original drawings by Kenneth Hobson (of Ringmer Windmill, Sussex) and Hanslip Fletcher (of Bristol). Oblong 12° (52 x 90mm). Mid-17th-century Dutch or German silver binding, unmarked, etched with landscapes and figures, modern green silk liners and endleaves, modern cloth box. Provenance : Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel, etc., collection number 2274). The upper cover is etched with a village scene, the exterior of an inn, with figures (one on horseback), beer tuns and a dog. The lower cover with an italianate landscape with a river, in the foreground Philip baptising the Ethiopian eunuch, his chariot on the road behind. The spine is divided into three panels with flower sprays, one plain clasp of silver. A silver pencil with mounts has been attached to the binding at a later date. The subject on the upper cover has some elements which suggest Joseph and Mary finding no room at the Inn, both subjects evidently derive from a graphic source. The attractively etched flower-sprays recall the designs of the younger de Bry and suggest a date not later than the middle of the 17th century.
SILVER BINDING -- Blank book, 38ll., but titled in manuscript Drawings made for Major J.R.Abbey by his friends commenced at Great Yarmouth in wartime 1942 , and with two original drawings by Kenneth Hobson (of Ringmer Windmill, Sussex) and Hanslip Fletcher (of Bristol). Oblong 12° (52 x 90mm). Mid-17th-century Dutch or German silver binding, unmarked, etched with landscapes and figures, modern green silk liners and endleaves, modern cloth box. Provenance : Major J.R.Abbey (armorial booklabel, etc., collection number 2274). The upper cover is etched with a village scene, the exterior of an inn, with figures (one on horseback), beer tuns and a dog. The lower cover with an italianate landscape with a river, in the foreground Philip baptising the Ethiopian eunuch, his chariot on the road behind. The spine is divided into three panels with flower sprays, one plain clasp of silver. A silver pencil with mounts has been attached to the binding at a later date. The subject on the upper cover has some elements which suggest Joseph and Mary finding no room at the Inn, both subjects evidently derive from a graphic source. The attractively etched flower-sprays recall the designs of the younger de Bry and suggest a date not later than the middle of the 17th century.
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