16th-century English panel-stamped binding (Bb.6.17)

16th-century English English panel-stamped calf bearing the arms of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon over wooden boards (see Oldham's "Blind panels of English binders", plate 15, HE 3 & 4), with the remains of book-clasps. From Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae (1503).

Bequest of Francis Dee.