File:Comoediae sex - Upper cover (Davis462).jpg

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Comoediae sex
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Comoediae sex
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Style: Armorial; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Red; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 17c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis462
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1651; Leiden; Fresnoy, Helie du
Notes Du Fresnoy founded a library of 100 classical texts bound in red goatskin. Between 1668 and 1671 the style of binding changed. Examples are kept at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, The History of Bookbinding, p.165, n. 402), Assemblée Nationale, Paris (Y. Devaux, Dix siècles, p. 139; La reliure. Du 6e siècle à nos jours, p, 14, n. 91); Wittockiana Library, Bruxelles (Bibliotheca Wittockiana, p, 43), National Brera Library, Milan (shelfmark 8 20 D 49, unpublished). See Bibliothèque Raphaël Esmerian, p. 68-71; G. A. E. Bogeng, Die grossen Bibliophilen, n. 77; M. Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 110, p. 194, n. 111; Catalogue of a collection of books formed by James Toovey, p. 97 on Caesaris opera, Amsterdam, Elz., 1661; La bibliothèque de feu Édouard Rahir, première partie, p. 13, n. 58; Librairie Sourget, Chartres, Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux. Catalogue XIV, p. 136, n. 52 on Le missel romain, Paris, 1661; Librairie Sourget, Chartres, Manuscrits enluminés et livres précieux 1230-1957. Catalogue XXIII, p. 206-207, n. 68 on Suetonius Tranquillus et in eum commentarius exhibente Joanne Schuldio, Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Francisci Hackii, 1656; Livres dans de riches reliures des seizième, dix-septième, dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles, p. 42-43, n. 155, pl. 27 on Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum historiarum, Amstelodami, 1670; One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic book-bindings, p. 92, on Cornelii taciti opera, Amstelodami, apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1672; p. 93 on Lvx evangelica, Amstelodami, apud Jacobum à Moeurs, 1655 too.
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