Keywords: De sanitate tuenda - Upper cover (c129d15).jpg Style Interlacing ribbon/strapwork; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Painted Panel stamp in gold; Cover Material Calf The smooth spine is tooled in gold The edges of the boards are tooled in blind Bookplate on front flyleaf John Evelyn Bookplate on front pastedown Sir Fredk Evelyn Bart Ink Ms notes Macchi states; mid century Paris panel strapwork A very similar layout on a French Renaissance cover bound for Marx Fugger can be seen in M Breslauer Inc Catalogue 107 p 48 n 49 as well as in München National Library Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München Thesaurus librorum p 256 n 113 on Francesco Petrarca Sonetti e canzoni Lyons Guillaume Rouillé 1550 shelfmark E -Slg P o it 1157l The model for this architecturally-derived type of ornamentation may well have been the titlepages with scrolled ornaments which occurred chiefly in Paris and Lyons printing from about 1540 This cover could be attributed to the Paris binder C of Thomas Wotton 1521-1587 object history Text 1559; Lyons; 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 020-000007078 ImageId ImageId 43144 Copyright BL De sanitate tuenda Uploaded with GWToolset De sanitate tuenda - Upper cover c129d15 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/7661_4 jpg Bookbinding 16th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings De Sanitate Tuenda |