16mo (152 x 89 mm). Engraved frontispiece. (Front gathering starting, a few leaves repaired at margin, some spotting.) Contemporary black turkey gilt with some faint remnants of the original silver paint, all-over tooling with drawer-handle tools, pointillé and floral designs within including eight-petaled flowers, covers framed with alternating tools, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, more tooling within, all edges gilt, BY THE QUEEN'S BINDER A (spine ends discreetly repaired, a faint cross shape depression on both covers, probably from the binder); full-morocco pull-off case by "19 JPW 47".

An exquisite English Restoration binding by the Queen's Binder A, a contemporary of Samuel Mearne (1624-1683), that has been tentatively identified by the British Museum Librarian Howard Nixon as William Nott (d. ca 1689 or 1690), one of the leading English craftsmen of the second half of the 17th century and described by Samuel Pepys as "the famous bookbinder." See Nixon, English Restoration Bindings 61.