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PwV - Literary Manuscripts in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection, 16th-19th centuries

Document Reference	Pw V 138
Title	Bound volume entitled 'A Description of the City of New Vera Cruz'; 1900-1930
Date	1900-1930
Extent	17 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Volume bears the title 'Descrption of New Vera Cruz' gold stamped on the spine.
Title Of Work	A Description of the City of New Vera Cruz
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	Folio volume Volume is paginated 1 to 33
Condition	Good
Descriptive Features	Watermark: Britannia within crowned double circle, approx. 124 x 75 mm on every folio Italic One of a set of six volumes which share binding characteristics. The binding was probably done around 1910 and consists of Burgundy coloured half leather and buckram on pasteboard. The spine is gold stamped with a summary title of the contents and with two double fillets across the head and tail. The meeting place between leather and buckram is emphasised by a gold stamped line in both upper and lower covers. All pastedown and flyleaves are of one type of deep cream coloured modern paper (perhaps acid free) which shows no paper maker's name, but which has regular chainlines at about 25 mm apart. The binder added 2 front fly leaves and 18 blank leaves at the back of the volume. The volume is gold graphed. See Pw V 82, 84, 87, 89 and 138 for other volumes in the set.
Watermark	Britannia
Related Material	Identified in a set with Pw V 138 both in binding style and subject matter.