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<dl><dd>Binding: sprinkled calfskin. Rebacked, retaining original gilt-tooled backstrip. Edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges red</dd>
<dd>Engraved armorial bookplate of Charles Spooner Esq</dd>
<dd>The 27 copper-plates include 7 unnumbered in-text ill. Each full-page plate includes name and coat of arms of its "contributor." Many are signed by I. Bayly, some after drawings by Noel</dd>
<dd>Plates XI &amp; XII depicting the meeting of Henry VIII with Francis I in 1520, and plates XIIII-XX depicting the Bayeux Tapestry are from Bernard de Monfaucon's Les monumens de la monarchie françoise; see 2[E]1r, a1r. Plates XI, XII &amp; XIIII are numbered in the plate and signed by Bayly, but plates XV-XX are numbered with printed cancel slips and retain indication of their location in "Memoires, Tom VIII." Plate XX signed by Simonneau</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [(A)1] (B)-(C)² (D)1, B-2D² [2E]1, a-q²</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Errata, last p</dd>
<dd>Sloan candidate</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Bayeux tapestry; Architecture, Anglo-Norman</div>
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<dl><dd>Ducarel, Andrew Coltee, 1713-1785</dd>
<dd>Bayly, J</dd>
<dd>Noel</dd>
<dd>Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741. Monumens de la monarchie françoise</dd>
<dd>Spilsbury, Thomas, -1795</dd></dl></div>
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