Accession number
PML 195960.1
Creator
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
Published
Amstelaedami Petrum van den Berge M. DC. LXII [1662]
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2013.
Notes
Edition contains the three works. Each work has its own title-page. The individual title-page of I. Faber and III. Abraham are dated 1661.
Primary title-page printed in black and red.
Primary title-page printed in black and red.
Description
[1] l., 103 p., [6] ll., 106, 69 p., [1] l. 13cm (12mo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: Table of contents on first fly leaf recto.
Provenance
John Gordon, of Kinnaird Head, inscription, 1768 (first fly leaf recto), and presentation inscription to Taylor, 1796 (blank leaf before Abraham Patriarchus), Gordon was the last resident of Kinnaird Castle, Scotland; Alexander Taylor, of Broadsea, inscription (first fly leaf verso); George Osborne, inscription, Sept. 20, 1809 (front pastedown); J. H. Raven, inscription (front pastedown); R. S. Raven, inscription, 1911 (front pastedown); Moirandat Company, Basel, kat. 32, 2013, lot 23; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Moirandat, 2013.
Binding
Seventeenth-century parchment with yapp foredges, on 3 bands. Front board detached from bookblock.
Classification
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