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Opera (3 vols)
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Cupids Bow Binder
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Pontanus
Title
Opera (3 vols)
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Style: Lettered cover, eg intitals, titles|Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 16c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: Davis497
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1518-1519; Venice; Laurin, Marc
Notes About 20 known examples of this kind,executed between 1550 and 1555, the decoration of which is generally very simple The Bibliothèque nationale Paris, has a similar example (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Des livres rares, p. 68, n. 47). Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of bookbindings, p. 34, pl. XL on Laurinus, semplice on Cicero, De natura deorum, Venetiis, 1523,owned by J. Toovey - Catalogue of a collection of books formed by James Toovey, p. 19; La bibliothèque de feu Edouard Rahir, Première partie, p. 11, n. 47, on text Guilielmi Budaei parisiensis libri V de asse, Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, 1522. For Laurin see also Davis 352 (not digitised).
References See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol I, London, 1978.
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