Binding: Harding’s binding style 17½: Publisher's brown morocco with large working clasp. That's the clasp (and its shadow) that you can see at the right of the book, in our image of the leaf presenting the Adoration of the Magi, above — not some odd-appearing flaw! Covers elaborately gilt-stamped with frames consisting of fillets, foliation, and corner roundels, the center of the covers showing Abraham and Isaac ascending the mountain to offer sacrifice; edges with gilt rolls. Spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and compartments otherwise elaborately gilt within. All edges gilt.

•  Hills 1671. Binding as above, a bit rubbed. Light to moderate foxing with offsetting from plates. Endpapers moderately soiled. Main frontispiece, engraved title, and title-leaf detached from binding. Occasional shallow tears or shallowly bumped page edges. Simply, a magnificent production.