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Fables du pere Desbillons.
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Rivage of Paris
Author
Terrasse de Billons, Francois Joseph
Title
Fables du pere Desbillons.
Description
Style: Centrepiece; Caption: Lower cover; Colour: Green; Edge: Marbled
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Blocked in gold|Blocked in blind|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Shelfmark: c154b6
Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 16c; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Part of the Charles Ramsden Collection of Signed Bindings. See Julien Flety, Dictionnaire des reliures francais ayant exerce de 1800 a nos jours, 1988. Macchi states; second quarter century, Paris, bound by Rivage. He is first noticed in 1838 at St. Jacques 104 and then at Sorbonne 4 in 1842-1843. Rivage's bindings are to be found on Curmer's Saints Evangiles printed in 1836. The rocaille binding in the C. Ramsden's collection may by slightly later in date. Two examples are kept in the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Bruxelles. See Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Relieurs et reliures, 1995, p. 545; J. Fléty, Dictionnaire, p. 153; C. Ramsden, French Bookbinders, p. 176.
References Paul Culot, Reliures et reliures decorees en France a l'epoque romantique, Bruxelles, 1995
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