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Embroidered Bookbinding

Artist: British

Location: Ipswich Museum

Date: circa 1850

Materials: canvas / coloured silk and silver wire

Dimensions: 14 x 11 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £100 (Total: £100)

Vendor: G Michelmore & Company

Review number: 1630 (1951)

Provenance:
Yates Thompson collection.

Description:
An Embroidered bookbinding, enclosing Samuel Ward's Collection of Sermons, printed at London in 1626-27. Ward was a popular Puritan preacher from Ipswich. The binding, with female figures and floral motifs. Currently unlocated according to 2004 audit.

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