Keywords: El Nudo Gordiano desatado -ms- - Upper cover (c154h6).jpg Style Presentation Frame; Caption Upper cover; Colour Red; 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 An autograph letter from John Joseph Heydeck to John Hookham Frere presenting the work is inserted The binder Pasqual CarsĂ y Vidal who was active in the late eighteenth and earlynineteenth century worked in Madrid under D Carlos III D Carlos IV and D Fernando VII and was among the most noted binders of that period He developed a neoclassical style influenced by his trip to England at D Carlos III ™s expense From 1803 he led an atelier whose students included Manuel Cobo CarsĂ y Vidal was Encuadernador de Cámara from 1799 Librero de Cámara in 1806 and principal binder for Principe D Fernando beginning in 1807 After D Fernando VII returned to Madrid following the Napoleonic invasion CarsĂ was also Jefe del Obrador de Encuadernaciones de la Imprenta Real Richard C Ramer Special list July 7 2015 p 39 object history Text 1805 ; s l ; Unspecified object type Cc-zero place of creation Binding Spain place of discovery Unspecified British Library image http //www bl uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage aspx RecordId 020-000001362 ImageId ImageId 40286 Copyright BL El Nudo Gordiano desatado ms Uploaded with GWToolset El Nudo Gordiano desatado ms - Upper cover c154h6 http //www webarchive org uk/bldatasets/bindings/4873_4 jpg 19th-century bookbinding Bookbinding British Library Bookbindings |