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| Keywords: Histoire des révolutions de Portugal - Upper cover (c153k10).jpg Style Frame; Caption Upper cover; Colour Red; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin half goatskin Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a contemporary gold-tooled red half-morocco binding signed by Mairet of Dijon Mairet's printed advertisement is inserted Macchi states; first half century Dijon bound by François Ambroise Mairet Born December 7 1786 was first employed by the court of Appeal then became a binder and paper-dealer at rue Rameau and subsequently from 1819-21 at rue Condé 38 He probably started to bind about 1806 He left Dijon in 1821 and set up as paper-manufacturer at Fontenoy near Montbard and moved to a paper factory in Brittany c 1830 There is a manuscript biography of him by L B Baudot of Dijon continuing Papillon Bibliothèque des auteurs de Bourgogne Dijon Ms 2063 p 1081-1082 He published among other works an Essai sur la reliure et le blanchissement des livres in 1824 much of which was used by Lenormand and included in the Roret Manuels of Binding His master piece is believed to have been the binding on the 3- volume Didot Racine of 1801 in blue marbled calf imitating lapis-lazuli and veined with gold object history Text 1796; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery E Thoinan Biographie p 345 ; H Beraldi's Reliure plate 3; S de Ricci French signed bindings II 184 185 Maggs Bros Ltd Catalogue 661 27 and 51; C Ramsden French Bookbinders p 133-134 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000000280 ImageId ImageId 39745 Copyright BL Histoire des révolutions de Portugal Uploaded with GWToolset Histoire des révolutions de Portugal - Upper cover c153k10 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4300_4 jpg Bookbinding 18th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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