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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries
Document Reference
Pw V 127
Title
Bound volume containing details of English exports and imports; 1698-1762
Date
1698-1762
Extent
84 ff
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Volume bears the title 'English Exports [and] Imports' gold stamped on the spine; concerned with the 'Imports and Exports compared with the excess of each Country'.
Language
English
ReprodnNote
Volumes from Pw V cannot be photographed by readers with their own camera or device, but reprographic copies can be supplied for educational and private study purposes only.
Physical Description
Large folio volume of proforma leaves printed from finely engraved plates, and filled in by professional scribes.
Descriptive Features
Watermark: Strasbourg Lily, i.e. fleur de Lis within crowned ornate, shield with insignia 4V suspended from the shield and flanked by the letters LG, approx. 172 x 76 mm
Countermark: Letters IV, approx. 15 x 27 mm
Professional copy in italic hands (see especially folded sheets 61 and 62)
Light brown calf gold stamped with a roll made up of circular flowers, fruits and shells interlinked by leaves and branches, both sides of the roll edges with a wave and leaf pattern, the hole close to a single fillet line edged with an outer fillet roll of little points; letter P surmounted by a coronet is stamped in the centre of the binding; spine is divided into seven panels which accentuate the six sewing ridges; second panel is covered with brown leather and is gold stamped 'English Exports [and] Imports'; remaining panels are gold stamped with an ornate floral stamp of branches, leaves and flowers; panels are enmarked by gold stamped double and triple fillet lines; pastedowns and flyleaves are covered with marble paper.
Watermark
Strasbourg lily
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