Yale University — Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Binding Description

Later leather binding with gilt-ruled borders and marbled endpapers. Broad margins surround the printed designs; the original publisher’s binding and rebinding date are unrecorded.

Provenance

The route from Howland’s library into Mellon’s collection is unrecorded.

Provenance Chain

• Unrecorded earlier ownership
• Meredith Howland — armorial bookplate
• Unrecorded intervening ownership
• Paul Mellon — Oak Spring bookplate
• Yale University — Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, by bequest

Copy Notes

• The illuminated title carries “Second Edition.” The Gilpin dedication and a translucent guard over a decorated text leaf survive; complete collation is unrecorded.
• A flyleaf pencil note reads “Large paper copy”; this annotation does not establish a separate paper issue. Another note refers to Randolph Adams’s essay in Bibliographical Essays: A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames.

Evidence and Documentation

Beinecke copy photographs and Yale Library catalog record 9962750353408651