[Mearne (Samuel). Bookbinder to King Charles II]

[Allestree (Richard)]

The Ladies Calling. In Two Parts,

third impression, engraved frontispiece, full contemporary black morocco, elaborate gilt tooling, with often-used ‘Mearne’ tools of the ‘drawer handles rosettes, etc., with onlays to leaves (slightly faded), a.e.g., spine slightly faded, a little rubbed at extremities, small round ‘collection’ sticker to front paste-down with armorial shield, 8vo., At the Theatre Oxford, 1675.

***Similar to the Maggs binding in their catalogue: Bookbindings of Great Britain Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Catalogue no. 845