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Des guerres des Rommains livres xi.
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Wottons Binder C
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Appianus.
Title
Des guerres des Rommains livres xi.
Description
Style: Armorial|Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gauffered|Stained
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold|Painted; Cover Material: Calf
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Shelfmark: Davis404
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1544; Lyon; Guise
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Bound in Paris by Wotton Binder C for the duc de Guise, before 1550. With the painted arms of the duc de Guise in the centre. Edges stained dark and gauffered with an arabesque pattern of lines, leaves and fleurons.

For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte & Fabienne Le Bars, Reliures royales de la Renaissance, Paris, 1999
References See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, Vol. III, London, 2010.
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