Keywords: Ph-dri ... Fabularum -sopiarum libri V - Upper cover (c19c21).jpg Style Armorial; Caption Upper cover; Colour Brown; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc XVII th first quarter century Paris painted With the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou impaling those of his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre The Djintamani leather decoration is stamped and provided with painting which represents a stylized leaf and two flower buds noticed on Iznik fayences These bindings form a separate group in J -A de Thou's library They were likely executed between 1602 his wedding's year with Gasparde de la Chastre and 1617 his death year About 30 examples are recorded mostly appeared in celebrated auctions Abbey Esmerian Van der Elst M Laurin-Guilleux-Buffetaud Livres et manuscrits Vente le mercredi 5 juin 2002 salle n 4 Drouot-Richelieu Paris p 20 n 33 Examples are kept in Bruxelles Bibliotheca Wittockiana Bibliotheca Wittockiana p 41 and in the Milanese Trivulziana Library P Rucci Un illustre bibliofilo p 85 fig 3 Further similar examples are to be found in 1 J R Abbey Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings 19-21 June 1967 p 54 lot 1743 pl 106; 2 A catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings p 33 n 117 pl XLIV on Lazari Bayfii annotationes in L II De captivis postliminio reuersis Lutetiae officina Roberti Stephani 1549; 3 Burlington Fine Arts Club Catalogue of Bookbindings pl 68; 4 Catalogue of a collection of books formed by James Toovey p 71 on Anthologia epigrammatum graecorum Florentiae 1494; 5 Quaritch Catalogue of Bookbinding pl 44; F A Schmitt Kostbare Einbände - seltene Drucke aus der Schatzkammer der Badischen Landesbibliothek p 46-47 on Jean Bodin Methodus historica Basel Peter Perna 1576 shelfmark 74 A 313 RE For French XVII th century painted bindings see F Le Bars «Fleurs peinctes» et «escailles» ou de la faintaisie en reliure selon les frères Dupuy p 32-36 C 19 c 24 c 1540 Paris bound for J Grolier Volume described by H M Nixon Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier p 12-13 n 15 object history Text 1617; Paris; Thou Jacques Auguste de 1553-1617 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 020-000006252 ImageId ImageId 42731 Copyright BL Ph dri Fabularum sopiarum libri V Uploaded with GWToolset Ph dri Fabularum sopiarum libri V - Upper cover c19c21 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/7389_4 jpg Bookbinding 17th-century bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |