Copy Details for Othello (1687)

SC #: 932.5

Location: Cardiff University

Shelfmark: PR2829.A1 1687 Copy 2

Copy-specific notes: Bookseller's catalogue clipping laid in, identifying this as item/lot 109; price £27 10s.

Provenance: Cardiff Public Libraries

Leaf Height: 22.1 cm

Leaf Width: 16.4 cm

Marginalia: "£27-10s" inscribed in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. Another inscription in pencil on rear free endpaper.

Binding: Sewn on five raised cord supports; with marbled and plain white laid paper endleaves; all edges of bookblock gilt; with sewn endbands in red, grey, and white thread; five pairs of sewing slips laced into paper boards; in full covers of red tanned goatskin, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; turn-ins tooled in gold; in a green cloth-covered slipcase. "Bound by Riviere & Son" stamped on turn-ins inside front cover.

Binder: Riviere & Son

Bookplate: City of Cardiff Libraries

Bookplate location: Front pastedown

Bartlett 1939 #: 894

Bartlett 1939 notes: CARDIFF. 8 11/16 x 6 7/16". Purchased 1923. Bound in russia by Riviere.