Keywords: Picciola - Upper cover (c153a2).jpg Style Frame; Caption Upper cover; Colour Purple; Edge Unspecified exhibition history Decorative Technique Tooled in gold; Cover Material Goatskin includes morocco turkey etc Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings In a contemporary gold-tooled purple morocco binding signed by Isidore Deforge Macchi states; first half of the century Paris bound by Isidore Deforge A binder who is famous for his own binding and also from the fact that his daughter married the first of the three successive Gruels He figures in the Almanachs for the long period 1809-1849 His addresses during the long period were Duphot 12 1809 24 1815 Plâtre St Jacques 20 1836 Richepanse 9 1840 St Honoré 23 1843 The firm of Deforge continued to appear in the Almanachs as late as 1849 He sometimes even signed fashionable bindings H Béraldi La reliure II p 27 34 62; J Fléty Dictionnaire p 54; C Ramsden French Bookbinders p 63-64 object history Text 1836; Paris; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding France place of discovery Julien Flety Dictionnaire des relieurs francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours 1988 Paul Culot Reliures et reliures decorees en France a l'epoque romantique Bruxelles 1995 British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000000470 ImageId ImageId 39840 Copyright BL Picciola Uploaded with GWToolset Picciola - Upper cover c153a2 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4733_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |