Keywords: Rudimenta grammatices - Upper cover (c108g8).jpg Style Medallion or plaquette Mottoes; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in blind Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf Stamped MEMENTO on upper cover and MORI on lower cover Macchi states; mid-century France The central medallion shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man Tarquin wearing a fashionable hat Only three English bindings produced for Thomas Wotton are decorated with a similar medallion M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 111 p 86-89 Such an example is owned by the Cambridge University Library G D Hobson Bindings in Cambridge libraries p 68-69 pl XXIII B on The Lamentation of a Synner London Whitchurch 1547 et alia; shelfmark Syn 8 54 100 Small round medaillon heads were popular on French and English bindings Followings are known to this scholar Lvcretia-Mars; Dido-Plato; Plato-Dido smaller ; Plato-Dido bigger Dido-François I on printings between 1527-1548 in Paris Basle Geneva London Edinburgh object history Text 1540; Paris; 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 020-000005926 ImageId ImageId 42568 Copyright BL Rudimenta grammatices Uploaded with GWToolset Rudimenta grammatices - Upper cover c108g8 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/7168_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |