Record

RefNoMS/409
LevelSubFonds
TitleAcquisitions Book for the Royal Society Library
CreatorThe Royal Society
Datec. 19th century
DescriptionAppears to be nineteenth century
Extent1 folder
NotesPreviously bound, size 9.25 x 8 inches, brown cloth boards with quarter leather binding. Binding was seriously degraded with front board detached and spine missing and contained no curatorial information, The majority of pages in the volume were unused. Pages with text and loose insertions removed from volume now stored in a folder,.Used pages were from front of the volume and the back, where text had been entered in the opposite orientation. There were also some loose insertions of correspondence. Binding and unused pages diposed of March 2025 as part of binding condition survey, repair was not possible. Reference photographs of binding retained.
AccessStatusOpen
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