Keywords: Tirante il bianco valorosissimo cavaliere ... - Upper cover (c7a12).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf This binder was active between c 1535 - 1550 his bindings regard printed texts from 1497 and 1550 M Foot lists 27 examples The most distinctive tool features the pecking crow known in two sizes; the biggest appear on few bindings first studied by I Schunke in 1953 Another typical tool is a hand holding a flower bunch crowned by a pecking crow Arms of Gulston on spine object history Text 1538; Venice; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery See M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift vol I London 1978 p 129-135; M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 111 p 145 n 168; T de Marinis Appunti Milan 1940 p 122 n 26; P Needham Twelve centuries New York 1979 p 178-180 n 54; I Schunke Der klassische Grolier Buchbinder p 164-171; Walters Art Gallery Baltimore The history of bookbinding Baltimore 1957 p 113-114 n 258-259 pl LII British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000006124 ImageId ImageId 42667 Copyright BL Tirante il bianco valorosissimo cavaliere Uploaded with GWToolset Tirante il bianco valorosissimo cavaliere - Upper cover c7a12 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/7345_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |