Keywords: Iconologie par figures, ou Traité des allégories, emblêmes..... - Upper cover (c152l8).jpg Style Pictorial Frame; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Stencilled; Cover Material Calf Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a contemporary gold-tooled calf binding signed by Courteval Macchi states; first half of century Paris bound by Courteval unusual central picture One of the greatest binders of his day; he worked from about 1796-1836f É Thoinan Biographie p 234 refers to his gaufrages and to his marbled calf His best bindings made before 1815 show much delicate work His first address was Carmes 1 and later 1809 at n 5 to which he often altered his label in ink C Ramsden French bookbinders p 59 Different kinds of his work kept at the Wittockiana Library Brussels show the variery of his work Bibliotheca Wittockiana Bruxelles Relieurs et reliures décorées 2000 n 4 36 43 69 71 111 119 120 158 159 160 Specimens of his work are illustrated in the Schiff collection S de Ricci French signed bindings II 189-200 Descamps-Scrive Bibliothèque I 22 Gumuchian Gumuchian Libraire Paris Catalogue XII p 59 and Sale catalogue Édouard Rahir VI 2018 object history Text 1789 ; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Paul Culot Relieurs et reliures decorees en France au epoques Directoire et Empire Brussells 2000 Julien Flety Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000000566 ImageId ImageId 39888 Copyright BL Iconologie par figures ou Traité des allégories emblêmes Uploaded with GWToolset Iconologie par figures ou Traité des allégories emblêmes - Upper cover c152l8 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4384_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |