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Le Grand Costumier de France
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Gruel, Leon
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Le Grand Costumier de France
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Style: Lettered cover, eg intitals, titles|Retrospective, imitations of earlier styles; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Gilt
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Onlaid|Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Goatskin (includes morocco, turkey etc)
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Place of creation Binding: France
Object history Text: 1539; Paris; Unspecified
Notes Macchi states; Signed by Léon Gruel. Binder (1841-1923), son of Pierre-Paul Gruel (d1849), craftsman during the Romantic period. Famous for retrospecitve style bindings. Other bindings (not digitised) by Gruel are on C32d20, c34a48, c47a9, c47a10, c47a11, c47a20, c120c4, cup408w44.
References M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol III, London, 2010
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