Cambridge Bookbindings : A simple blind-tooled binding for the University Library by Charles Wright, 1718

Hoadly, Benjamin 1676-1761

Cambridge Bookbindings

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>The default design for straightforward leather-covered bindings which became established in the 1660s (see <a href='/view/PR-Q-AST-00005-00051-E'>Q*.5.51(E)</a>) continued to be used into the first two decades of the eighteenth century, alongside the so-called “Cambridge panel” pattern (see <a href='/view/PR-REL-F-00001-B-00011'>Rel.f.1b.11</a>). This one was made for the University Library around 1718 by Charles Wright (d.1727?), who is recorded as a binder in the accounts of the University and some of the colleges in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.</p><p>Pasteboards, covered with mid-brown calfskin, blind-tooled. Simply blind-tooled spine; narrow gilt roll round board edges; red sprinkled leaf edges; conjugate plain paper flyleaves and pastedowns.</p><p>Dr David Pearson</p></p>