File:- Upper cover (Davis454).jpg

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Style: Lozenge or diamond|Repeated motifs; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 17c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
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Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 17c; Unspecified; Unspecified
Notes For other French 17c bindings see Isabelle de Conihout & Pascal Ract-Madoux, Relieures Francaises du 17c, Paris 2002. Macchi states; first half century, Paris(?). This decoration was popular in France and England towards c. 1630-1645. The geometrical model is simple, but requires great technical skill which means that this style is quite rare. F. Macchi has recorded; French bindings: 1) Office de la Vierge Marie, Paris, 1614, M. Breslauer, List XXXVIII, p. 18-19, n. 84, pl. IV; 2) Breviarium Romanum, Paris, apud Societatem Typographicam, 1617, M. Breslauer, List XXXIX, p.49, n. 147, pl. XVI; 3) Office de la Vierge Marie, 1621, Mostra storica, p. 167, n. 651; 4) Office de la Vierge, Paris, 1621-1623, M. Breslauer, Catalogue 87, n. 118, pl. VI; 5) Officium beatae Mariae Virginis, Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana, 1622, M. Breslauer, Catalogue 92, p. 50, n. 107a, pl. VI; 6) Triomphe de la Chasteté, 1621, F. A. Bearman, N. H. Krivatsy J. F. Mowery, Fine and historic bookbindings, p. 199, n: 12:8; 7) Office, Paris, 1624, personal collection; English bindings: 8) Exhibition of Bookbindings, pl. 84; 9) Broxbourne Collection; 10) The Sermons, 1632, London, F. A. Bearman N. H. Krivatsy J. F. Movery, Fine and historic bookbindings, p. 91, 5:7; 11) Acta Apostolorum and the Revelation of St. John the Divine, c. 1635-1640, British Library, C.23.c.3. (Howard M. Nixon, Five centuries, p. 74); 12) Maggs Bros., Bookbinding in the British isles. Sixteenth to Twentieth century, Catalogue 1075, I, p. 46, n. 29 produced by John Bateman on Robert Bolton, Some Generall Directions for a comfortable walking with God, London, 1626; 13) Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of bookbindings, p. 75, pl. LXXXIV on Clerke, Sermons, 1637, owned by Rev. W.E. Buckley. [The azured lozenge was even used on Roman (M. Breslauer Martin Inc., Catalogue 108, p. 34-35, n. 21) 21) and Bolognese (M. von Arnim, Einbandkunst, n. 85) bindings, but mostly in the border.]
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