A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst. Being a Work Very Pleasant & Usefull as Well for Gentlemen as all Sorts of Artificers Engravers Painters Carvers Chacers Embroiderers &c. .

(MONOGRAMS) MARLOW, Jeremiah

Published by Printed for W. Rogers, London, 1683

About this Item

12mo. Engraved title and 68 plates by N. Glascock. Contemporary brown calf, tooled in blind, edges painted; rebacked, tips worn through to boards, occasional light dampstaining, heavier at rear, short closed tear in bottom edge of last plate. First edition of this rare monogram pattern book, featuring over 300 examples of single, double and three letter interlacing monograms following the style of the French engraver Desmarets and intended for the use of engravers and decorative artists. PROVENANCE: Simon Segar of Pembroke College, Oxford (contemporary ownership signatures on title-page and ffep); F. Sellars (contemporary ownership signature on title-page); John Ridgway, 1710 (ownership inscription at head of first plate); Richard Luckett, Pepys Librarian, Magdalene College, Cambridge, (book-plate on front paste-down)REFERENCE: Berlin Kat. 5306; Bonacini 1125; Wing M-698.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst. Being a Work Very Pleasant & Usefull as Well for Gentlemen as all Sorts of Artificers Engravers Painters Carvers Chacers Embroiderers &c. .
• Publisher: Printed for W. Rogers, London
• Publication Date: 1683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
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