A Collection of 18th-Century Decorated Papers and Paper Bindings
Title:
Sacramental Exercises, or, The Christian’s Employment, Before, at, and After the Lord’s Supper.
Author:
Earle, Jabez
Imprint Date:
1813
Publishing Colophon:
Boston: Printed and published by Lincoln & Edmands. For sale at their Theological & Miscellaneous Bookstore, no. 53 Cornhill. 1813. Price 20 cents.
Binding:
Stab-stitched and glued textblock with a marbled printed waste paper wrapper.
Paper:
Stormont marble: red, yellow, blue, black
Collector's Notes:
Infrared reflectography draws the printed text much easier to read through the marbled designs—it apparently comes from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, probably the 1794 New York edition transcribed here, from the section on John Philpot.
Collection ID:
21.090





