MAKE A MEME View Large Image Les Pseaumes en forme de prieres - Upper cover (Davis563).jpg Style Repeated motifs All over design Diaper; Caption Upper cover; Colour Black; Edge Marbled under gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Onlaid; Cover ...
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Keywords: Les Pseaumes en forme de prieres - Upper cover (Davis563).jpg Style Repeated motifs All over design Diaper; Caption Upper cover; Colour Black; Edge Marbled under gilt exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold Onlaid; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Signed with the ticket of le juene Ract Maadoux ticket A Macchi states; last quarter century Born in 1731 Nicolas-Denis le jeune succeeded his father in 1760 He was the most expensive but skilfull craftsman of his time; always in demand so that he had to be helped by other binders which explains the differening quality of his bindings He adopted the à la dentelle decoration He introduced on his covers the celebrated fer à l'oiseau bird motif for which he became famous but which he did not invent He died in 1790 Derome le jeune and his family signed with different tickets R Devauchelle La reliure p 139; P Ract-Madoux Essai de classement chronologique p 382-389 S de Ricci French signed bindings p 91-91 n 45 p 120-121 n 60 p 126-127 n 63 p 128-131 n 64 object history Text 1758; Paris; 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 203 n 57 M M Foot The Henry Davis Gift Vol III London 2010 Pascal Ract-Madoux Essai de classement chronologique des étiquettes de Derome le Jeune 1989; Les Derome Jacques-Antoine Charles Nicolas et Nicolas-Denis 100 reliures dont 9 en mosaïque exhibition Bibliothèque nationale 1990 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000002132 ImageId ImageId 40671 Copyright BL Les Pseaumes en forme de prieres Uploaded with GWToolset Les Pseaumes en forme de prieres - Upper cover Davis563 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/6276_4 jpg Bookbinding 18th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings
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