Apollonius Pergaeus

4to (256 x 200mm.), woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams, errata printed on final verso (but without extra errata slip), contemporary Scottish red morocco gilt with pear-shaped decoration, spine gilt in compartments, black morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, imported Dutch gilt floral endpapers, light foxing in preliminaries and on F2 and M4 (both cancels), extremities slightly rubbed

A.H. Baily & Co., booksellers, London, ticket on verso of flyleaf

ESTC t147862; Gaskell, Foulis 125

Two copies of this book in the British Library have similar red morocco bindings with the same outer roll-tooled floral border (reproduced in Hobson, English Bindings in the Library of J.R. Abbey, p. 112); while it can be surmised that all these bindings were produced in-house, there is no direct evidence to link them to the Foulis workshop. M.J. Sommerlad, in his handlist of Scottish bindings in the Bodleian Library (Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication no.1, 1967), opines that Scottish bindings of this period were all executed in Edinburgh.