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

Document Reference	Pw V 68
Title	Bound volume of diplomatic papers relating to the Treaty of Ryswick; 1697
Date	1697
Extent	134 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Volume bears the title 'Diplomatic Papers. Treaty of Ryswick.' and 'Vol II. 1697' gold stamped on the spine.
Language	English
	French
	Latin
	German
	Dutch
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
Descriptive Features	One of a set of eight folio volumes which share binding characteristics. Bound in tan leather; upper and lower covers plain but with four thin fillet lines close to the edges, the outer two gold stamped and the inner blind stamped. A delicate blind tooling is applied to the outer edges of the fold back leather around the pastedowns. Spine is divided into six equal panels from head to tail, gold stamped with double fillet lines dividing the panels. Title is gold stamped on second and third block of the spine. Marble paper is used for paste downs and end papers, and modern wove paper for flyleaves and for interleaving the manuscripts which are tipped in with paste. See Pw V 51-53, 60-62, 67 for other volumes in the set. See also for close similarities Pw V 63-66, Pw V 73.
Related Material	Identified in a set with Pw V 68, both in binding style, provenance (Phillipps MS) and general subject content.
Related Material	Substantial material relating to the Treaty of Ryswick is available in the papers of the 1st Earl of Portland (Pw A)