Keywords: - Upper cover (Davis454).jpg Style Lozenge or diamond Repeated motifs; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Calf For other French 17c bindings see Isabelle de Conihout Pascal Ract-Madoux Relieures Francaises du 17c Paris 2002 Macchi states; first half century Paris This decoration was popular in France and England towards c 1630-1645 The geometrical model is simple but requires great technical skill which means that this style is quite rare F Macchi has recorded; French bindings 1 Office de la Vierge Marie Paris 1614 M Breslauer List XXXVIII p 18-19 n 84 pl IV; 2 Breviarium Romanum Paris apud Societatem Typographicam 1617 M Breslauer List XXXIX p 49 n 147 pl XVI; 3 Office de la Vierge Marie 1621 Mostra storica p 167 n 651; 4 Office de la Vierge Paris 1621-1623 M Breslauer Catalogue 87 n 118 pl VI; 5 Officium beatae Mariae Virginis Antwerp ex Officina Plantiniana 1622 M Breslauer Catalogue 92 p 50 n 107a pl VI; 6 Triomphe de la Chasteté 1621 F A Bearman N H Krivatsy J F Mowery Fine and historic bookbindings p 199 n 12 8; 7 Office Paris 1624 personal collection; English bindings 8 Exhibition of Bookbindings pl 84; 9 Broxbourne Collection; 10 The Sermons 1632 London F A Bearman N H Krivatsy J F Movery Fine and historic bookbindings p 91 5 7; 11 Acta Apostolorum and the Revelation of St John the Divine c 1635-1640 British Library C 23 c 3 Howard M Nixon Five centuries p 74 ; 12 Maggs Bros Bookbinding in the British isles Sixteenth to Twentieth century Catalogue 1075 I p 46 n 29 produced by John Bateman on Robert Bolton Some Generall Directions for a comfortable walking with God London 1626; 13 Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of bookbindings p 75 pl LXXXIV on Clerke Sermons 1637 owned by Rev W E Buckley The azured lozenge was even used on Roman M Breslauer Martin Inc Catalogue 108 p 34-35 n 21 21 and Bolognese M von Arnim Einbandkunst n 85 bindings but mostly in the border object history Text 17c; Unspecified; 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 020-000004112 ImageId ImageId 41661 Copyright BL Unspecified Uploaded with GWToolset - Upper cover Davis454 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6176_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |