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| Keywords: Il Cortegiano del Conte Baltassar Castiglione, nuovamente stampato, ... - Upper cover (c129m11).jpg Style Backless Azured or hatched motifs Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown Black; Edge Gilt and gauffered exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Painted; Cover Material Calf Painted with blue green and white paint Edges of boards gold tooled Turn ins gold tooled Bookplate on front pastedown 'Ex libris Robert Hoe' For other French 16c bindings see Marie-Pierre Laffitte Fabienne Le Bars Reliures royales de la Renaissance Paris 1999 Macchi states; mid century Paris strapwork Backless bindings are uncommon Binding reproduced in M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 104 Part II p 254 n 162 Two other backless Renaissance bindings are known 1 Bibliothèque Ste Genvieve Paris see above M Breslauer Inc Catalogue ; 2 Bodleian Library Oxford as part of the Broxbourne Library H M Nixon Sixteenth-century p 132 Backless bindings represent a rare and curious binding type carried out during the XVI th century in France 3 examples recorded; see Picard Tajan Ader Cat 4 décembre 1987 and in England in the XVII th second half century H M Nixon recorded five specimens attributed to Richard Bailey active in London towards 1680; another backless cover produced in 1552 in England for king Edouard VI is proposed by M Foot M Foot History of bookbinding as a mirror of society fig 56 Very recent 1997 the discovery in the Hague of another Neatherlandish binding of this kind executed by Jan Dan towards 1776 J S van Leeuwen Cent trésors n 70 See H M Nixon English Restoration p 42 n 108 and One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic book-bindings p 21 too object history Text 1541; Venice; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000004928 ImageId ImageId 42069 Copyright BL Il Cortegiano del Conte Baltassar Castiglione nuovamente stampato Uploaded with GWToolset Il Cortegiano del Conte Baltassar Castiglione nuovamente stampato - Upper cover c129m11 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6646_3 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings | ||||
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